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[[Exactly What It Says
In talking-animal fiction, the Old Dog may be portrayed as a grandfatherly character, or just as a crabby old guy.
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== Films -- Animated ==
* Trusty in Disney's ''[[Lady and
* Chief in Disney's ''[[The Fox and
* Wylie Burp in ''[[An American Tail]]: Fievel Goes West'', the old canine sheriff and a caricature of Wyatt Earp.
== Films -- Live-Action ==
* Shadow in ''[[Homeward Bound:
* In ''Air Buddies'', the local police dog is a bloodhound called Deputy Sniffer.
* The first dog to expire in ''[[Eight Below]]'' is an aging male who is too weak, and/or too loyal, to break loose from their tie-down chains.
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== Literature ==
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: Odysseus' dog Argos (20+ years old) is the first one to recognize his master (even in disguise) when Odysseus returns home at the end of ''[[
* Candy's dog in ''[[Of Mice and Men]]'' is one-half to three-quarters dead from old age.
* In the ''[[Savannah Reid]]'' mysteries, Savannah's grandmother has Colonel Beauregard. Though he spends most of his time sleeping, he did manage to take a bite out of the perpetrator of ''Peaches and Screams''.
* In the ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' graphic novel ''The Rise of Scourge'', a dog named Samwise is sleeping in an alley. He loses a tooth... and that tooth helps Tiny become Scourge.
* In stark contrast to the [[The Fox and
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* The [[Myth Busters]] busted the "old dogs can't learn new tricks" myth. They can, you just have to be more patient with them.
* A staple on the comedy-variety show ''[[Hee Haw]]'' was an old hound dog that mostly slept on a front porch (played by four dogs through the course of the series).
* The dog playing Buck on [[Married...
* Mr Dean's dog Bob in ''[[All Creatures Great and Small]]''.
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** Hank's dog, Ladybird, is also an example. She's a few months older than Bobby, which makes her over 65 in dog years.
* In ''[[Family Guy]]'', there's Herbert's dog, whose hind legs don't work.
* In the very first episode of ''[[
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