Magic Dog!

[Squishy]

Post your favortie "Magic Dog!" moment!

Everyone talks about the Spring-Loaded Cat, but no one ever mentions the Magic Dog! that occurs in so many, many movies. Flangepart mentioned in another thread that Magic Dog! appears in both "Volcano" (I don't remember, but...) and "Dante's Peak" (being left behind, only to reappear miles later, outrunning both a vehicle and an awesome fiery cataclysm), and I realized how often I've seen Magic Dog! in horror and disaster movies.

Runner-Up: "Daylight." This MD! gets left behind in a tunnel section that is flooded almost immediately. A short time later, Magic Dog! appears in another tunnel section ABOVE our cast. He must have found a huge crack to slip through. Or maybe the tunnel's like Swiss cheese. (Are the Swiss backing us? Please, I don't wanna call it "Freedom cheese." Irony: "surplus" is a word of French origin.)

Favorite: "The Boogens." This little poodle-runt-thing is one Magic Dog! who is not only smart enough to survive, he's easily smarter than the rest of the cast. He's been to survival school. He pulls every trick in the Magic Dog! book--onscreen, which is unusual for Magic Dog!--to beat the Boogens. Sadly, he lets his guard down for a brief moment and sticks his head into an air duct, and loses his Magic Dog! status permanently.

Magic Dog!

[Goon]

Hey! Your right!
I remember the annoying little poodle survived in Tobe Hooper's "Crocodile" even after jumping between the fake jaws.
(Note:  Annoying little owner did NOT survive.)

-----ooo-'U'-ooo------Kilroy was here.

[Flangepart]

Oh,oh..."Independence day!" Comes flying into the shelter juuuuust in time.
BTW. 8 Legged freaks...did anyone else laugh their keester off at the "Cat impression in plaster" scene as much as i did? I'm sorry, but it was funny!

[The Burgomaster]

* THE BLOB - Steve McQueen and his girlfriend lock themselves in the meat freezer at the supermarket to avoid being eaten by the blob. The girlfriend's dog doesn't make it into the freezer in time. Magically, the dog shows up later, unharmed. (There isn't a dry eye in the theater when the audience finds out that the dog is safe . . . yet no one cared when a bunch of humans got eaten earlier in the movie).

[Andrew]

Darn, Flange beat me out on "Independence Day!"

The other thing is that film makers love to have the monster or rampaging murderer kill the dog first, then the main characters find the mangled pooch and freak out.  It can be effective when played right, but most of the time the "dead dog bit" is just thrown in there.  "Humanoids from the Deep" is one of the better uses.  The fishermen finding their dogs killed was a worthwhile addition to the movie and it added an ominous tone.

Ran across a neat use of this once with cats too.  I think it was a Fredric Brown short story about a robot mother that made little metal mice to scurry around and collect raw materials.  The "mice" did not like cats and they were equipped with little buzzsaws...

[tuck]

yeah a dog dies in one of the 'critters' flicks, dont know which one though, the one easter bunny i think.

talking about dead dogs you cant forget 'the thing'

and true lies when he pulls it's legs apart.poor little fella. (i think)