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This trope comes in both benign and malevolent variants. The former tends to result in [[A Boy and His X]].
The most common variant of this trope involves a dog that's an alien, however, it can also apply to other types of animals, and "alien" can be substituted for virtually any sentient fictional species.
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== Advertising ==
* A Budweiser commercial opens with a dog coming out of a house. It runs to the middle of nowhere and gets taken on board an alien ship. The ship takes the dog to the alien leader's quarters on another planet, where the dog presses a button on its collar and reveals that it is actually an alien in disguise.
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* [[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.
== [[Music]] ==
* In his song "Midnight Star", one of the articles that [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] sings of seeing in the titular supermarket tabloid is "Your pet may be an extraterrestrial!" (Amusingly, this was inspired by an actual article printed in the ''National Enquirer'' a few years earlier.)
== [[Video Games]] ==
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