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{{quote|'''The Doctor''' ''(addressing the TARDIS)'': What do you think, dear? Where shall we take the kids this time?
'''Amy:''' It's always you and her, isn't it? Long after the rest of us have gone. A boy and his box, off to see the universe.
▲{{quote|'''The Doctor''' ''(addressing the TARDIS)'': What do you think, dear? Where shall we take the kids this time?<br />
'''The Doctor:''' You say that like it's a bad thing. But honestly, it's the best thing there is.
▲'''Amy:''' It's always you and her, isn't it? Long after the rest of us have gone. A boy and his box, off to see the universe.<br />
A heartwarming story told through the ages: Something unique enters a young man's (or woman's) life, and they form a bond that changes them forever, usually starting them down the path to adulthood.
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What that something ''is'', however, varies widely. From the classic [[Canine Companion|"A Boy and His Dog"]], all the way to... well, keep reading, you'll see.
Be warned, however, that whatever X is can easily fall victim to [[Death
See also [[Interspecies Friendship]]. Compare [[Interspecies Romance]] and [[Magical Girlfriend]], if relation with X is romantic and [[Attack Animal]] for less innocent partnerships.
{{examples}}
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[She and Her Cat]]'' : She and, umm, her cat?
* ''[[Asura Cryin]]'': Tomoharu and His Ghost Misao.
* ''[[
** Also Katsura and his man-disguised-as-duck, Elizabeth.
* ''[[
** Admittedly, the Shinigami is promising all along to kill the boy one day, while the boy quite calmly uses the Shinigami's apple addiction to get things from him (not to mention the fact that {{spoiler|the Shinigami ends up fulfilling his promise to murder the boy}}), but still.
** Also played straight with a Girl and Her [[Shinigami]] where the Shinigami not only loves the girl but is willing to die for her.
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* ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'': A (Total Loser) Boy and His Insanely Powerful and Intelligent Ex-Hitman Home Tutor... Who Happens to Look Like a One-Year-Old.
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'': A Boy and His [[Humongous Mecha|Giant Robot]]/{{spoiler|Mother}}.
* ''[[B't X
* ''[[Potemayo]]'': A Boy and His Over-Possessive [[Moe Moe|Moe-Blob]] That He Found in His Fridge. Seriously.
* ''Magic Ban Removal!! Hyde and Closer'': A Boy and His Magical, Talking, Texas Chainsaw-Wielding Teddy Bear.
* ''[[Parasyte]]'': A boy and His Alien Parasite.
* ''[[
** [[Double Entendre|And I always thought those shows were for children]].
* ''[[Gigantor]]'': A Boy and His Giant Robot.
* ''[[Blue Dragon]]: [[Ral Ω Grad]]'': A Boy and His Blue Shadow Dragon.
* ''[[
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'': A Boy and His [[Weasel Mascot|Ermine]].
* ''[[Princess Tutu]]'': The second season really starts looking like A Boy and His Duck.
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* ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'': A Girl and Her [[Our Demons Are Different|Demon]].
* ''[[Sonic X]]'' became [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad|A Boy and His Anthropomorphic Gang]], especially for the first season.
* ''[[
** Similar note: ''[[Bokurano]]''. 14 kids and their [[Humongous Mecha]]. Does [[It Got Worse|it get worse]]? [[Up to Eleven|Yes]].
* ''[[Sankarea]]'': A boy and his [[Squick|zombie]]...[[Crosses the Line Twice|girlfriend]].
** Also similar: ''[[Tasogare Otome
* ''[[Spider Riders]]'': A boy and his giant sized spider.
* ''[[Shaman King]]'': A Boy and His Six-Hundred-Year-Old Samurai Spirit.
* The ADV advertisements for ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'': A girl and her ferret in the first series; A girl and her Wolkenritter in the second. Lolis and their badass combat powers in both.
** More like "[[Person of Mass Destruction|A girl and her world-destroying boom stick]]"
* ''[[Omamori Himari]]'': A boy and his [[Catgirl]] [[Hot Chick
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]!'': A boy and his 3000 year-old Egyptian pharaoh spirit.
* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'': A girl and her bodyguard with [[No Social Skills]].
* ''[[Soul Eater]]'': A girl and her [[Equippable Ally|scythe]].
* ''Daisuki BuBuChaCha'': A boy and his [[Magitek|ride-in toy car that's possessed by the spirit of his now-deceased dog]].
* ''[[Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin]]'' begins as the classic "a boy and his dog" variety, with the pair of them trying to take down a monstrous bear. [[Genre Shift|Then the dog goes feral and the story focuses on the dogs' war against said gigantic bear.]]
* ''[[
* ''Roujin Z'': A bo- old gentleman and his [[Psycho Prototype|bed]].
* ''Chikyuu Misaki'': A girl and her mini-Nessie (which turns into a small boy when kissed).
* ''[[
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (
* ''[[Brigadoon Marin and Melan]]'' is a heartwarming tale of an orphan and the robotic living weapon that protects her. Depending on your tastes, it's either better than or weirder than you would think.
* [[Eureka Seven]]: A boy and his {{spoiler|alien}} girlfriend, and their [[Humongous Mecha|Giant Robot]] {{spoiler|who happens to be the [[Starfish Aliens]] equivalent of a [[Magical Girl]]}}.
* [[Shakugan no Shana]]: A girl and her longevity boyfriend.
* ''[[My Neighbor Totoro]]'': Two girls and their magical forest spirit.
* ''[[
* [[Blood
* ''[[Model Suit Gunpla Builders Beginning G]]'': A boy and his Gunpla. Along with other Model Suit pilots.
* ''[[Blue Exorcist
* Karakuri Zoushi Ayatsuri Sakon: A boy and his puppet.
* [[Chobits]]: a boy and his [[Artificial Human|PC]].
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* DC's ''[[Stanley and His Monster]]''.
* Used in Marvel's [[What If]] series in the story ''"I'll be your best friend!"''. The cover declared that the story starred "Cannonball's little brother Josh... and his pet Sentinel!"
* Yet Another Boy and His Sentinel: Tom Skylark and Rover in the "Here Comes Tomorrow" storyline in ''New [[X
* ''A Boy and his 'Bot'' by Gary Thomas Washington.
* C.O.P.S. #5 centered on Bowser and his cyborg dog Blitz, and Bowser/Rex Pointer's memories of his first dog, Maxie.
* In ''[[The Sandman]]'', Delirium's companion is the German Shepherd (probably) Barnabas, given to her by her brother Destruction.
* Given that ''[[Calvin and Hobbes
▲== Fan Fic ==
▲* Given that ''[[Calvin and Hobbes The Series (Fanfic)|Calvin and Hobbes The Series]]'' is a [[Script Fic]] of [[Calvin and Hobbes]], the premise is [[Captain Obvious|obviously]] still A Boy and His Tiger.
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* ''[[Babe]]'': A Boy and His Pig. Well, An Old Man and not A Boy, but it fits.
* Japanese film ''[[Gamera]] - The Brave'': A Boy and His Baby Turtle Turned [[Kaiju|Daikaiju]].
* ''[[E.T. the
* Roughly half the 2007 ''[[Transformers (
* ''[[Let the Right One In]]'': A Boy and His Vampire.
* ''[[Free Willy]]'': A story about a Boy and His [[Accidental Innuendo|Willy]]. Sorry, a Boy and His Relationship With His Little Whale. No, wait, a story about a Boy Who Likes To Hold On To His Big Fish. [[Overly Long Gag|Uh,]] a story about a Boy and His Killer Whale. No, no, a story about a Boy and His Orca. There we go!
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* While we are on the topic of dogs, ''[[Old Yeller]]''.
* The French film ''The Fox and the Child'': A Girl and Her Fox.
* Played straight in Disney's "[[Homeward Bound:
* [[Flight of the Navigator]]: A Boy and His Sentient Alien Spaceship.
* Subverted in ''[[The Dark Crystal]]''. Fizgig,a dog-like alien belongs to Kira, the -ahem- only FEMALE Gelfling left alive.
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* ''[[A Boy and His Dog]]'', natch.
* ''[[Tank Girl]]''. Technically, A Girl And Her X. But she "calls" the tank to her at one point.
* ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (
* ''The Rescuers Down Under'': A boy and his giant golden eagle
* ''Casper: A Spirited Beginning'': A boy and his ghost.
* ''[[Air Bud]]'' series: A boy and his dog... that plays basketball, football, soccer, baseball, and volleyball.
* ''Born to be Wild'': [[Everything's Better
* ''[[Mighty Joe Young]]'' has a girl and her (giant) gorilla.
* ''The Invisible Boy''. A boy and his playmate, a robot (Robby the Robot).
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* ''[[Mystery Team]]'': A boy and his [[Title Drop|Mystery Team]]
* ''[[The Red Balloon]]'': A boy and his red balloon.
* ''[[
* ''Ted'': A boy and his teddy bear, who comes to life. But what happens when they grow up?
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* ''[[The Bartimaeus Trilogy]]'' has one in Ptolemy and Bartimaeus, they'd have died for each other...{{spoiler|one did}} . Then there's Nathaniel and Bartimaeus that comes after Ptolemy dies (way after, 2000 years plus), though they may not be an example as they both loath each other until the end and continuously argue (hilariously) throughout the whole three books.
* The ''[[Temeraire]]'' series: A Boy and His Dragon. Or, possibly, A Dragon and His British Naval Officer. While not guiding Laurence into manhood, Temeraire does mark a significant shift both in his life and understanding of the world. The series also has several other variants on the trope, such as An [[Action Girl]] and Her Dragon, An [[Action Mom]] and Her Dragon, A Dragon and Her [[Evil Overlord|Conqueror of Continental Europe]], A Dragon and His [[Cool Old Guy|Overweight Middle-Aged]] [[The Captain|Captain]]; etc.
* Interestingly [[Playing
* ''[[Dogsbody]]'' by [[Diana Wynne Jones]] is almost a standard A Girl and Her Dog story. Except that it's told from the perspective of the dog, who is actually a reincarnation of the guardian spirit of the star Sirius.
* The [[Science Fiction]] novel ''[[New Kashubia Series|A Boy and His Tank]]'' is a play off this trope.
* Both ''Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur'' (Mordecai Richler) and ''Henry Hollins the Dinosaur'' were A Boy and His Dinosaur stories.
* The [[Harlan Ellison]] story ''A Boy and His Dog'' twists this trope to hell: {{spoiler|The boy is a serial rapist and the dog helps him find victims. The boy really does seem to love him, and finds his dog . . . food.}}
* The book ''A Kestrel for a Knave'' (adapted for film as ''Kes'') follows A Boy and His... well, you can guess, can't you? {{spoiler|It also falls prey (no pun intended) to [[Death
* ''The City and the Stars'': A Boy and His Noncorporeal Psychic Superintelligence from [[Precursors|Before Civilization Fell]]. But really, Hilvar is an adult with a penchant for strange pets. Nonetheless, his people are psychics, and that allowed him to make contact with Vanamonde.
* [[
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
**
** Another Discworld novel, ''[[The Truth]]'', gives us Gaspode and Foul Ole Ron, who are essentially A Dog and His Insane Hobo.
** Very similarly to ''[[The Horse and His Boy]]'', in Fredric R. Stewart's ''[[
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[The Star Beast]]'': <s>A Boy and His Giant Talking Space Lizard</s> A Giant Talking Space Lizard and Her Boy.
** Similarly, in ''[[Red Planet (novel)|Red Planet]]'': A Martian Larval Form and Her Boy.
** ''[[Have Space
* In one of [[Robert Rankin]]'s ''Brentford'' stories Omally (always spelled without the apostrophe, for some reason) refuses to die without his faithful Marchant. Pooley [[Lampshade Hanging|comments,]] "A boy and his bike! I feel sick!"
* Christopher Paolini's ''[[
* The ''Norby'' books: A Boy and His Little Cute Robot.
* Steinbeck's ''The Red Pony''.
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* Flinx and Pip, of [[Alan Dean Foster]]'s ''[[Humanx Commonwealth]]'' series, is a straight example. Flinx is [[The Empath]], and Pip is an Alaspinian miniature dragon, or minidrag, that forms a [[Bond Creatures|psychic bond]] with him as a child. She amplifies his empathic powers and does a pretty fair job of protecting him.
* Given that it's usually young-ish teens who Impress, the entire premise of [[Anne McCaffrey]]'s ''[[Dragonriders of Pern]]'' is basically a Boy/Girl and their Dragon.
* ''[[
* [[Tamora Pierce]] loves this trope. There are two instances of A Girl and Her Cat (incidentally the same cat), followed by A Girl and her Every Animal In Existence, {{spoiler|Including Skeletal Dinosaurs}} and a Baby Dragon, A Man and His Skeletal Dinosaur, A Girl And Her Horse, Sparrows, Griffin, and Small Children, A Girl And Her Crows, and A Girl and her Pigeons. And that's just in the [[Tortall Universe|Tortall books.]] The [[Circle of Magic]] has A Boy And His Plants, A Girl And Her Starling, and A Girl And Her Magical ''Glass'' Dragon. The last one 'breathes' flame-shaped glass ornaments.
* Walter Farley's ''The Black Stallion'' series is very much A Boy And His Horse. So was his ''Island Stallion'' series.
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* [[Clifford the Big Red Dog]]: A Girl and her [[Canis Major|gargantuan dog]]. One of the songs on the tribute album for the Scholastic animated series is titled "A Girl and Her Dog."
* [[Harold and The Purple Crayon]]: A boy and his magical crayon.
* [[
* [[Shiloh]]: Classic boy and his dog scenario.
* ''[[Old Yeller]]'', another classic "boy and his dog". Both of the above are [[Death
* Mary O'Hara's ''My Friend Flicka'': A Boy and His Horse.
* ''Charlotte's Web'' - A girl and her pig at least at the beginning. Then it becomes "a pig and his spider". Or perhaps, more accurately, "a spider and her pig".
* ''[[Faust]]'': An old man and his (literal) demons.
* [[Edgar Pangborn]], "Tiger Boy". The [[Walking the Earth|wandering]] youth seems kind and gentle but lets his tiger perform euthanasia on the old and sick. This leads to a tragic ending.
* ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' has elements of "A Girl and her [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|killer sentient metalworking badass]] [[Everything's Worse
* Charles Stross: ''[http://www.antipope.org/charlie/fiction/boy3.html A Boy and his God]''
* Marguerite Henry's ''King of the Wind'': a boy and his horse.
* In [[Kate
* ''The Adventures of Electronic'' by E. Veltistov: A boy and his Robot Twin.
* David Weber's "Honor Harrington" series starts out as "a girl and her telepathic alien cat" and follows her career in the space navy.
* Jake and Oy from ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' series: A boy and his billy-bumbler.
* ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (
* ''Where the Red Fern Grows'': A tragic story of a boy and his hound. Dogs.
* ''[[If You Give a Mouse
* [[Ramona Quimby|Henry Huggins]] and his dog Ribsy
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[
* One of the main plotlines in the short-lived [[Speculative Fiction]] series ''[[Surface]]'' was A Boy and His Sea Monster.
* ''Johnny Socko and his Giant Robot''.
* ''[[Flipper]]'': A Boy and his Dolphin.
* ''[[Lassie (TV series)|Lassie]]'': A Boy and his Dog.
* ''[[Skippy the Bush Kangaroo]]'': A Boy (Sunny) and his Kangaroo (Skippy).
* For a lot of fans, [[Doctor Who]] ([[Genre Busting|along with a lot of other things]]) is the story of a Time-Lord and his sentient police box shaped Time-Machine.
** The trope is even called out by name in [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32
{{quote|
* Boxey and his robotic dog Muffit in
== Music ==
* [[Yellow Ostrich]] with the song "Whale"
* Referenced in the title of the epic [[Tear Jerker]], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9kT1xIpZ4E "A Boy and his Frog"], by [[Filk Song|filk singer] Tom Smith. [[The Muppets|The boy is Jim Henson, and the Frog is Kermit]].
== Musical Theater ==
* ''[[Me and My Dick]]'': A boy and his anthropomorphic body parts.
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* ''Cow And Boy''
* ''[[Bloom County]]'': A Boy and His Penguin. (Originally. This angle was swiftly dropped when Opus became the [[Ensemble Darkhorse]].)
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== Video Games ==
* One ''[[
* The ''[[A Boy and His Blob]]'' franchise. Go on, ''guess.''
** The original games, on the NES and the [[Game Boy]], had more of a sillier, irreverent tone than a traditional "boy and his x" work. The Wii [[Revival]], on the other hand, was deliberately designed to milk this trope for every last [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|heartwarming]] drop. How many games can boast a dedicated "hug" button?
* ''[[Super Mario World (
* ''[[Blue Dragon]]'': A Group of Children and Their [[Living Shadow|Sentient Shadows]].
* ''Pokémon'': Children and Their Monsters. The starter Pokémon are meant to be this the most. Especially ''[[Pokémon Red and Blue
** The New ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver
*** Even worse, imagine some of the sharper ones [http://fluffysquirrel.deviantart.com/art/Scyther-Love-157957274?q=boost%3Apopular%20scyther&qo=14 poking you.]
* In ''[[
** "A boy and his dog" fits the Lone Wanderer pretty well though.
** Also, every other ''[[
*** The ''Vault Dweller'' from ''[[
*** In ''[[
*** In the aforementioned ''[[
*** The Courier in ''[[Fallout
*** The Courier may also travel with ED-E, a small robotic sentry acting as a floating R2-D2.
* Playing Warhammer Online as a High Elf White Lion could lead to A Boy And His Small Albino Attack Lion.
* ''[[The Maw]]'' is a Small Blue Alien and His Unstoppable Gelatinous Eating Machine. {{spoiler|Despite the innate potential for it in that premise, it surprisingly ends without a turn for the dark: the game ends with Frank, the small blue alien, finally having to leave Maw as Maw becomes a living planet and then eats the camera.}}
* ''[[Mega Man Star Force]]'': A boy and His [[Energy Being]] Alien [[Fusion Dance]] Partner.
** Before that however, there's [[
*** {{spoiler|Who happens to be his twin brother.}}
** In the original game, Megaman and his red robot Rush.
*** In later games in the original series, Bass and his purple robot wolf Treble.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'', Faris and Syldra are a "Boy and his Dragon" {{spoiler|except later the hero discovers that Faris is actually a girl crossdressing}}.
* [[Team Ico Series]] have this in all of their games (as of yet):
** ''[[
** ''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]'': A man and his faithful horse.
** ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Secret of Evermore]]'': A world-hopping boy and his [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]] dog.
* ''[[
* ''[[Fate/stay
** Also, a girl and {{spoiler|[[Future Badass|her from-the-future]] partner and possible love interest}}, a boy and his stolen-from-his-sister-chance-at-greatness, a girl and her giant, a man and his new love-interest, and a man and his stolen partners. Basically, a Master and his/her Servant.
* Played with in ''[[
* ''[[Spyro the Dragon]]'': A dragon and his dragonfly.
* The Human Noble origin story in ''[[Dragon Age]]'': "A boy/girl and his/her warhound."
* ''[[Dead to Rights]]'' A ruthless [[Cowboy Cop]] and his [[Groin Attack|Crotch-biting]] Throat-tearing Husky.
* ''[[Summon Night]]'' Swordscraft Story: A [[Kid Hero]] and their [[Happiness in Slavery|slave]]-[[
* ''[[
* In ''[[Castlevania
* ''[[
* ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140910034915/http://lolilovesvenom.livejournal.com/ A Girl and Her Venom]. We're not kidding.
* Webcomic ''[[The Wotch]]'' did a story arc called [http://thewotch.com/?epDate=2007-07-18 A Girl and Her Blob].
* ''[[Chasing the Sunset]]'': A(n Elf) Boy and His Dragon.
* ''[[
* Averted in ''[[HERO (Webcomic)|HERO]]''
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' Bob initially adopted the tiny Molly the Monster as a pet. He had no idea she would prove to be intelligent and grow to human size. He now treats her as a daughter. Molly now has her own pet alien tentacle monster, Snookums.
* ''[[A Girl and Her Fed]]''.
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130719183412/http://www.drunkduck.com/Jix/ Jix]: A girl and her alien. (Though Lauren is actually in her late teens when the comic starts and is currently in her early twenties.)
* ''[[The Word Weary]]'': A hipster and his pig.
* ''[[Question Duck]]'': A boy and his duck.
* ''[[
* ''[[Nerf This]]'': A boy and his [https://web.archive.org/web/20131005202500/http://nerf-this.com/what-friends-do/ monster].
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130429125607/http://www.webtoonlive.com/description/3+Level+Combination/ 3 Level Combination]'': A boy and his robot.
* [[Max Overacts]]: A boy and his ventriloquist dummy.
* [[Life Sketch]]: A girl and her magic sketchbook.
* ''[[
== Web Original ==
* In ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'', Cody Jenson, the villain of V1, has this with him and his bike. However, instead of starting him down the path to manhood, it starts him down the [[Ax Crazy|path]] [[Moral Event Horizon|to]] [[Complete Monster|insanity]].
* [[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* [[
* Dreamy Dud: A boy and his dog. First animated example (1915).
* Bobby Bumps: A boy and his very cynical [[Talking Animal|talking dog]]. Second animated example (also 1915), but started earlier as a (slightly differently named) comic strip.
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* Sammy And Sausage: A British boy and his [[Funny Animal|British humanized dog]] (1928), living with the cartoonist that created them. Rather transparent foreign Expy of [[Dinky Doodle]].
* [[Mickey Mouse]] and Pluto: A boy (mouse) and his dog. First [[Funny Animal]] character to regularly own a nonhumanized animal as a pet; ribbed about it to this day.
* ''[[
* ''[[
** [[Sequel Series]] ''[[
* Arguably inverted on ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]''. Mr. Peabody's initial impetus for adopting Sherman was that, as a dog, he needed a boy to feel complete.
** Specifically, the idea is that it's "A Dog and His Boy".
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series
* ''[[
** Let's also not forget about a broody old man and his badass dog, and a whole episode dedicated to a boy and his badass dog.
* ''[[The Iron Giant]]'': A Boy and His Giant Robot.
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** ''[[Scooby-Doo]]'': A Boy and His Cowardly Talking Dog.
** ''[[The Herculoids]]'': A Boy and His Rock Ape.
** ''[[Frankenstein, Jr.]].'': A Boy and His Giant Robot.
** ''Wonder Wheels'': A Boy and His Secretly Sentient Motorcycle.
** ''[[Space Ghost]]'': A Boy, A Girl, and Their Monkey.
** ''[[
* ''[[Jane and
* Marrow and Rover in ''[[Wolverine and
* ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'': A Girl And Her Alien(s). In the original film, Stitch was adopted by her by pretending to be a dog.
* ''[[
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'': A Boy And His Naked Mole Rat.
* ''[[
* ''Rainbow Brite'': A Girl and her Horse (Rainbow Brite/Starlight, Stormy/Skydancer, and later on, Krys/On-X)
* ''[[
* ''[[
** One episode features a sponge and his seahorse.
* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' and Cerbee, his pet monster dog.
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'': Sam directly mentions this trope twice, once with "A boy and his snow beast." and another time saying the more common "A boy and his dog..." before following it up with "... Somehow, it's not supposed to be this weird."
* ''[[
* [[Teen Titans (
* [[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]: A dog and his boy.
* [[Young Justice (
* ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'' has Jimmy and his mechanical canine, Goddard.
* Parodied in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' with ''Soccer Mummy'', a [[Show Within a Show|film within the show]] in which a reanimated Egyptian mummy joins a little league soccer team and teaches a young boy to believe in himself.
* ''[[George of the Jungle]]'', klutzy [[Nature Hero]] George and his ape-friend Nate.
== Real Life ==
* [
* Bradley Nowell of [[Sublime]] and Louie Dog, his dalmatian. Bradley wrote a song Lou Dog Went to the Moon. When Louie was stolen,Bradley was inconsolable. Literally, laid on his couch for about a week and cried. He sand Lou Dog Went to the Moon into his answering machine. There are several songs that mention Louie Dog, including: Doin Time, Garden Grove/Garbage Grove, and What I Got. Bradley missed Louie Dog so much he had flown to the East Coast on the original Warped Tour. When Louie Dog died, several years after Bradley, the family buried a phial of his ashes with Bradley, and scattered the rest at the same surf spot they scattered Bradley's. To this day the band, now dubbed Sublime with Rome sells Louie Dog shirts at concerts.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131203203446/http://www.nylana.org/RRACI/hachiko.htm Hachiko] the dog earned fame in Japan for returning each day to the train station where his master last departed before dying. The Japanese people were so touched that they gave him a statue outside of Shibuya Station, exactly where he would sit.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090907071738/http://www.greyfriarsbobby.co.uk/story.html Greyfriars Bobby] was a constable's watchdog who lived in and around the graveyard where his master was buried for 14 years.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRszilkSVhA A boy and his venomous rat snake.]
* On that note, the perhaps even stranger story of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZwTFWyI4Ho&feature=relmfu Cambodian boy and his 5 meter, 120 kg (16 ft, 260 pounds) python], which has been adopted as a [[Cool Pet|house pet]]. Why the snake [[The Farmer and
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