Black dog

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Black dog or blackdog may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional entities

• Black Dog, a bio-robot in the 1982 Bulgarian animated science fiction film The Treasure Planet
• The Black Dog, an inn in 2015–2016 British drama TV series The Coroner
• Black Dog, a pirate in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island
• Black Dogs, a group of students in the Boarding School Juliet manga series

Film and television

• The Black Dog, a 1987 animated short film by Alison de Vere
• Black Dog (1998 film), an American film
• Black Dog (2024 film), a Chinese film
• Black Dog: Being A Teacher, a 2019 South Korean television series
• "Black Dog", a 2002 episode of the American TV series That '70s Show (season 5)
• "Blackdog", a 2005 two-part episode of the British TV series The Commander season 2

Literature

• Black Dog (novel), by Stephen Booth, 2000
• Black Dogs, by Ian McEwan, 1992
• Black Dog, a children's book by Levi Pinfold, winner of the 2013 Kate Greenaway Medal

Music

• The Black Dog (band), a British band, and their label Black Dog Productions
• "Black Dog", a song by Jesse Winchester, 1970
• "Black Dog" (Led Zeppelin song), by Led Zeppelin, 1971
• "Black Dog" (Arlo Parks song), 2020
• "Black Dog", a song by Poster Children from the 1997 album RTFM
• "Black Dogs!", a song by Genesis Owusu from the 2021 album Smiling with No Teeth
• Black Dog (album), 2023 album by Gazelle Twin
• "The Black Dog", a song by Taylor Swift from the 2024 album The Tortured Poets Department

Businesses and brands

• Black Dog Books (Australian publisher)
• Black Dog Books (American publisher)
• Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, an American publisher
• Black Dog Publishing, a British publishing company
• Black Dog Institute, an Australian institute for the treatment of mood disorders such as depression
• Black Dog Scotch Whisky, bottled and marketed by United Spirits Limited
• The Black Dog (restaurant), on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, U.S.
• The Black Dog, Dublin, a former prison in Ireland
• Black Dog Salvage, a salvage company in the 2012–2020 American reality TV series Salvage Dawgs

Folklore and mythology

• Black dog (folklore), a spectral black dog from English folklore

Places

• Black Dog, Devon, England
• Black Dog Lake, in Minnesota, U.S.
• Blackdog, Aberdeen, Scotland
• Black Dog Halt railway station, a former halt in Wiltshire, England

Other uses

• a dog with black fur
• Major depressive disorder (the term black dog was coined by Samuel Johnson and popularised by Winston Churchill)
• Black dog (coin), a coin in the Caribbean, starting under the reign of Queen Anne of Great Britain
• Black Dog (Osage chief) (1780–1848), and the name of his son
• Black Dog II, the son of Black Dog, a company commander of the Osage Battalion, an 1863–1865 Native American unit of the Confederate States Army
• BlackDog, a 2005 pocket-sized, self-contained computer

See also

• All pages with titles containing black dog
• All pages with titles containing blackdog
• Black dog syndrome, a tendency for black dogs not to be adopted from animal shelters
• Anubis, an ancient Egyptian god, depicted as a black canine or a man with a black canine head
• Hellhound, a supernatural dog in folklore

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