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A dog (Canis lupus familiaris) was a type of mammalian animal found on a number of class M worlds, including Earth and Cardassia.

On Earth the dog is a subspecies of the wolf, and was one of the first animals to be domesticated by Humans. There were a wide variety of breeds of dogs, with different sizes, temperaments, and type of coats. Dogs were often kept as pets by Humans, and were also used for a variety of other tasks.

Jonathan Archer had a male beagle named Porthos that he took with him on board the Enterprise (NX-01). Porthos stayed with Archer for his entire time as captain of the Enterprise. (ENT episode: "Broken Bow", et al.)

As children, James and Sam Kirk owned a Golden Lab named Lady. When she became too old and ill, the boys begged to have her cloned, but their father refused, telling them they needed to respect the pet's life and death. (TOS novel: Prime Directive) Years later, in the 2270s and 2280s, Kirk owned another dog, a male Great Dane named Butler. (TNG movie & novelization: Generations)

As a child, Elias Vaughn had a dog, as did Miles O'Brien. (DS9 novel: Avatar; DS9 episode: "The Forsaken")

During a Starfleet command officer cocktail party aboard Starbase 32 in 2333, Jean-Luc Picard overheard several guests discussing a sobering situation that one of them had found themselves in. Wishing to join the conversation, Picard asked if they were discussing a hostile force or undiscovered phenomenon, to which one of the guests replied that he was talking about putting his dog to sleep. (SGR novel: Gauntlet)

The USS Enterprise-D once carried a litter of puppies that Deanna Troi brought her child Ian to play with. (TNG episode: "The Child")

Lieutenant Aquiel Uhnari kept a large dog which she had named Maura. Maura was killed in 2369 by a coalescent organism, which subsequently assumed the dog's form. (TNG episode: "Aquiel")

The Cardassian High Gul and his wife owned a Cardassian dog. After the High Gul had been put into stasis the dog lived another six years. (DS9 novel: Station Rage)

After having accidentally traveled back in time to 1947 along with Quark, Rom, and Nog on board Quark's ship, the Changeling Odo disguised himself as a German Shepherd dog in order to avoid detection by army officials. (DS9 episode: "Little Green Men")

There was at least one hound dog in the Q Continuum. (New Worlds, New Civilizations short story: "Beyond Horizons")

External linksEdit

• Dog article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• Dog article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.