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In 1934, the family of Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz adopted a black and white mutt named Spike. Sixteen years later, Spike was the inspiration for Charlie Brown’s dog, Snoopy. Snoopy and Spike even had similar markings. In 1975, Schulz further memorialized his childhood pet when he introduced a new Peanuts character named after him: Snoopy’s older brother, Spike.

For her role as Toto, Terry earned more than double what some of the film’s human actors were paid. The Munchkins, for instance, earned just $50 per week. Although she appeared in more than 10 feature films — as many as 23, by some counts — The Wizard of Oz is the only movie for which Terry received a screen credit.

Anheuser-Busch introduced Spuds MacKenzie in a 1987 TV commercial that aired during Super Bowl XXI. The ad poked fun at 1980s advertising cliches and featured Spuds, an English bull terrier, as a wealthy jet-setter who was beloved by women and admired by men. The shtick was that nobody in the ads acknowledged that Spuds was a dog; he was treated entirely as if he were a man. Which was ironic, because the dog that played Spuds was actually a female.

A Chihuahua named Moonie played Bruiser in the original Legally Blonde and the 2003 sequel. According to Hollywood animal trainer Sue Chipperton, Moonie made fast friends with another famous Chihuahua, Gidget, the pint-size pooch in the 1990s Taco Bell commercials. “When I first brought Moonie home to prep for ‘Legally Blonde,’ the two of them had the cutest little interaction, jumping around and bowing as they greeted each other,” Chipperton said.

The film Marley & Me was based on the autobiographical book Marley & Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog, by John Grogan. It tells the true story of a young couple who adopt a rambunctious, troublemaking puppy that ends up holding them together over the years as they build a home and grow a family. Because the movie traces his life from puppydom to old age, 22 different dogs were cast to play Marley.