The Top 10 Most Famous Dogs (Part 4) From Nipper to Rowdy

I've been compiling a list of famous dogs for my Pet Numerology website for some time now. I know which my favorites are, but I wondered which are the most famous overall. There are so many great famous dogs that I'm doing this in five or six groups, and then I'll do a final round with the top dogs from those groups.

The most famous dogs (based on online chatter) with names starting with the letters N to R are:

10. Rex a Border Collie in the movie "Babe"

9. Pongo the Dalmation from the "101 Dalmations" movies

8. Pluto from classic Walt Disney animation

7. Reno from the movie "Top Dog"

6. Rafa the Doberman from the movie "Beverly Hills Chihuahua"

5. Pete the Pub from the classic TV series "Little Rascals"

4. Rowdy the stuffed Yellow Lab on the TV series "Scrubs"

3. Papi a Chihuahua from the movie "Beverly Hills Chihuahua"

2. Nipper who is the dog shown in the RCA Corporate Logo

...and the most famous dog on this list is...

1. Odie from the "Garfield" comic strip

Dogs not ranking in the top 10 were Nunzio from the TV series "Dharma and Greg", Olive from the animated Christmas special "Olive the Other Reindeer", Otto from the "Beetle Bailey" comic strip, Paul Anka from the TV series "Gilmore Girls", Pchelka who was a Soviet Space dog, Petey from the comic strip "Non Sequitur", Sweet Polly Purebred from the "Underdog" cartoon, Porthos the English Beagle from the TV series "Star Trek Enterprise", Precious Pupp who was a Hanna-Barbera cartoon character, Preston from the animated Wallace and Gromit film "A Close Shave", Queequeg the Pomeranian from the TV series "The X-Files", Raskal who is "Girl Next Door" Kendra Wilkinson's Pembroke Welsh Corgi, Rhapsody In White the Standard Poodle in the movie "Best in Show", Riff Raff from the "Underdog" cartoon, and Rolf from the comic strip "Non Sequitur".

So a nice mix of dogs in this top ten from movies (Papi, Rafa, Reno, Pongo, Rex), television (Rowdy, Pete the Pub), comic strips (Odie), and real life (Nipper). Not surprisingly, nine of the top ten dogs are characters and not real life dogs, with only Nipper having been a real life dog. Too bad those brave Soviet Space dog pioneers aren't better know, so I'll mention Pchelka one more time.

I compiled this list by searching for the dog names listed on a number of search engines and ranking them by the number of web pages, discussion forums, photos, videos, etc that are available online.