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== Film ==
* Stitch from ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'' pretends to be a dog despite looking more like a blue koala.
* Frank the Pug from ''[[Men in Black (Filmfilm)|Men in Black]]''. The [[Animated Series]] revealed that under his dog suit he looks like a green dog. Also he is apparently prone to dog like behavior and it's not part of the disguise.
* In ''[[I Am Number Four]]'', {{spoiler|John/Number Four's dog Bernie Kosar shapeshifts into a more monstrous, distinctly more extraterrestrial creature (that still resembles a dog) known as a Chimera to pull a [[Big Damn Heroes]], engaging another alien monster in combat and eventually killing it.}}
* Subverted in ''[[The Cat From Outer Space (Film)|The Cat Fromfrom Outer Space]]'', in which the alien looks exactly like a cat in his natural state and doesn't do much to pretend to be one except refrain from speaking. If the humans assume he's a cat, it's not his fault.
 
== Literature ==
* In the short story, "Puppet Show", by [[Fredric Brown]], an old prospector brings a very ugly Rubber Forehead Alien out of the wilderness on muleback, and the captive is questioned by the military. After a bit of subterfuge, it turns out that the captive is a robot, and the prospector declares himself to be the real alien. The interrogator expresses relief that the master race of the galaxy looks human after all... at which point, the prospector reveals itself to be a robot as well, and the ''mule'' asks what a "master race" is and why its appearance should matter.
* Trillian's mice from ''[[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy]]'' turn out to be aliens in disguise. So are all other mice, wild ones included, but Trillian's are specifically implied to be albino laboratory rodents, hence domesticated.
* The alien in ''[[The Thing (Filmfilm)|The Thing]]'' masquerades as a dog for a while.
* In [[John Scalzi]]'s ''Agent to the Stars'', the gelatinous Blob-like alien the protagonist meets eventually takes on the form of a dog in order to come off as more appealing to humans.
* Literal in ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'', where the Chee bonded the essence of their Pemalite masters to wolves to create dogs.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* [[ALF (TV)|ALF]] did this from time to time, with varying degrees of success. For instance, on one occaision, he was seen by a hobo who thought he was a kangaroo... and promptly leapt off the train they were riding.
* In ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' there are [[Skin Walker|Skinwalkers]] who can take the form of a dog. One of them becomes attached to the family he lives with.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Conan the Adventurer (Animationanimation)|Conan the Adventurer]]'': While not an alien, Needle, a baby phoenix, would occasionally pretend to be a parrot to avoid drawing attention.
* The cat in ''[[Kid VSvs. Kat]]'' is an alien that looks like one of those hairless cats.
* Princess Celestia's pet phoenix in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' is a prankster and pretends to be a rather sickly parrot, much to Fluttershy's consternation.
* ''[[Invader Zim]]'': GIR disguises himself as Zim's pet dog. ... his disguise being a lame costume with a zipper and a tongue sticking out.
 
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