Dog
Dogs are domesticated canines in the known world similar to the real-life animal. Other canines include direwolves, foxes, and wolves. Dog breeds include elkhound,[1] mastiff,[2] sand dog,[3] shaggy dog,[4] sheepdog,[4] and wolfhound.[4] Hellhounds are mythical canines.[5]
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Roles
A domesticated species, dogs can be kept as pets by humans.[6] Kennelmasters are people appointed to be in charged of the training and care of a castle's hunting hounds.
Men of the Frozen Shore ride sleds pulled by huge white dogs as big as ponies.[7][8][9][10]
The Good Masters of Astapor give puppies to each Unsullied when the slave child is first cut, and the boy is ordered to strangle it after a year. If the boy is unable to, he is then fed to the surviving dogs.[11] Ghiscari feasts often have courses of dog;[12] Hizdahr zo Loraq's favorite meal is dog in honey.[13]
In the Jogos Nhai culture, the young men steal goats, dogs, and zorses from other bands.[14]
No dogs or other animals survive long in Asshai.[15]
Willas Tyrell is said to have the finest hounds in the Seven Kingdoms.[16]
According to Varamyr Sixskins, dogs are the easiest beasts for a skinchanger to slip into.[17]
Culture
Dog's Nose is a war galley in the royal fleet.[18]
The Painted Dogs are one of the Vale mountain clans of the Mountains of the Moon.[19][20]
The device in the coat of arms of House Clegane is three black dogs.[21][22][23] Due to their sigil, the Clegane brothers, Ser Gregor and Sandor, have received dog-based nicknames, such "the great dog" for Gregor[24] and "the Hound",[25] "Dog",[26] and "Joffrey's dog"[27] for Sandor.
Other characters known to have a dog-related nickname include Ser Joffrey Doggett the "Red Dog of the Hills",[28] Harma Dogshead,[29] Rorge the "Mad Dog of Saltpans",[30] and Dogkiller.[31]
Viserys Targaryen refers to Lord Tywin Lannister and Lord Eddard Stark as the "Usurper's dogs".[32]
History
The inhabitants of Mardosh were forced to eat their dogs when their city was besieged by Dothraki khalasars.[33]
The feelings of Targaryen princelings towards dogs varied from fear (Aerea at first)[28] to love (Rhaena,[28] Viserra,[34] and Saera)[34] to indifference (Maegor).[28]
Harren the Red fed the genitals of Lord Gargon Qoherys to a dog before killing him.[28]
After the death of Queen Tyanna of the Tower, rumors spread of King Maegor I Targaryen feeding her heart to his dogs.[28]
The dragon Sheepstealer occasionally ate sheep dogs on Dragonstone.[35]
Prior to the Maiden's Day Ball, rumors spread of Rosamund Darry having six nipples because her mother had supposedly lain with a dog.[36]
During the winter of 134 AC northmen in the winter town ate dogs and horses to avoid starvation.[37]
Ser Duncan the Tall buried his old stot, Chestnut, deep in the sand of Dorne to avoid it being found and eaten by sand dogs.[3]
Some rumors about Brynden Rivers claimed he could use magic to put on the likeness of a one-eyed dog.[3]
Lord Tytos Lannister was saved from a lioness by the first knight of House Clegane, the kennelmaster at Casterly Rock, who lost a leg and three dogs in the effort.[22]
Jaime Lannister was interested in horses, swords, and dogs as a boy.[38]
Lord Jon Arryn took a great interest in the breeding of hunting hounds while investigating the parentage of King Robert I Baratheon's children.[39]
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
Ser Rodrik Cassel's red dog whelps a small litter with two living puppies at Winterfell.[6] Dogs follow serving girls during the feast in honor of King Robert's visit to Winterfell. Ghost is challenged over chicken by a larger black mongrel bitch.[40] The castle dogs all bark when a catspaw sets fire to the Library Tower,[41] and they avoid the Great Hall of Winterfell after Grey Wind, Summer, and Shaggydog occupy the building.[42]
The dogs of Bass, the kennelmaster of Castle Black, fight to get away from the remains of Othor and Jafer Flowers.[43]
A Clash of Kings
Chett handles the hunting hounds which participate in the great ranging.[44]
Amid the War of the Five Kings, a pack of feral dogs tear at a naked corpse sprawled in the gutter near the Street of Looms in King's Landing.[45]
The dogs of Pyke happily greet Asha Greyjoy when she returns to the castle.[46]
Weese is killed at Harrenhal by his spotted dog.[47]
Farlen and his dogs are part of Theon Greyjoy's search for Bran Stark in the wolfswood.[48]
Rattleshirt's band of fourteen free folk in the Skirling Pass have eight dogs.[49]
After the sack of Winterfell, wild dogs worry at corpses.[50]
A Storm of Swords
Chett's hounds refuse to follow the scent of a bear while the Night's Watch is encamped at the Fist of the First Men.[51] In the aftermath of the fight at the Fist, Jon Snow sees the remains of one of Chett's dogs.[7]
The hounds of Riverrun bark and bray when Robb Stark, King in the North, returns with Grey Wind.[52]
The Mad Huntsman and his pack of dogs find Sandor Clegane,[53] and the Hound is brought to the brotherhood without banners at Stoney Sept.[4]
Two dogs fight during the wedding of Lord Edmure Tully and Roslin Frey at the Twins.[54]
Two dwarf jousters (Oppo and Penny) ride a sow (Pretty Pig) and a dog (Crunch) during the wedding of King Joffrey I Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell.[55][56]
Sansa Stark befriends an old blind dog at the "Drearfort".[57] During the wedding of Petyr Baelish and Lysa Arryn, Lysa's cries of passion set Bryen's dogs to barking.[57]
A Feast for Crows
Black Walder Frey leads hounds and hunters into Hag's Mire in search of Lady Stoneheart, but her outlaws disappear into the Neck.[58]
Ser Jaime Lannister sends hounds and hunters in search of Ser Brynden Tully after resolving the siege of Riverrun.[59]
A Dance with Dragons
Ben Bones keeps the Bastard's girls, the hunting hounds of Ramsay Bolton.[60] Ramsay uses his dogs to hunt down Reek and Kyra after allowing them to escape the Dreadfort,[60] and two of them, Maude and Grey Jeyne, kill an old hound of Lord Harwood Stout.[61]
After the siege of Astapor, King Cutthroat is thrown into a fighting pit and torn apart by a pack of starving dogs.[62]
Quotes
Mordane: A noble lady does not feed dogs at her table.
Sansa: She's not a dog, she's a direwolf.[26]—Mordane to Sansa Stark
—thoughts of Tyrion Lannister
Sansa: Why do you let people call you a dog? You won't let anyone call you a knight.
Sandor: I like dogs better than knights. My father's father was kennelmaster at the Rock. One autumn year, Lord Tytos came between a lioness and her prey. The lioness didn't give a shit that she was Lannister's own sigil. Bitch tore into my lord's horse and would have done for my lord too, but my grandfather came up with the hounds. Three of his dogs died running her off. My grandfather lost a leg, so Lannister paid him for it with lands and a towerhouse, and took his son to squire. The three dogs on our banner are the three that died, in the yellow of autumn grass. A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.[22]
Down below, in the square, the dogs were barking, running in circles, growling and howling. There was a pack of them, great black mastiffs and lean wolfhounds and black-and-white sheepdogs and kinds Arya did not know, shaggy brindled beasts with long yellow teeth. Between the inn and the fountain, a dozen riders sat astride their horses, watching the townsmen open the fat man's cage and tug his arm until his swollen corpse spilled out onto the ground. The dogs were at him at once, tearing chunks of flesh off his bones.[4]
—thoughts of Arya Stark
Podrick: I used to have a dog when I was little. I called him Hero.
Meribald: Was he?
Podrick: No. He was a good dog, though.[30]
Podrick: Was he what?
Meribald: A hero.
—Podrick Payne and Meribald
Dogs were the easiest beasts to bond with; they lived so close to men that they were almost human. Slipping into a dog's skin was like putting on an old boot, its leather softened by wear. As a boot was shaped to accept a foot, a dog was shaped to accept a collar, even a collar no human eye could see.[17]
—thoughts of Varamyr Sixskins
A dog takes after its master.[63]
References
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 7, Catelyn I.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 16, Bran II.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 The Sworn Sword.
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- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 56, Bran IV.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 1, Bran I.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 15, Jon II.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 64, Jon VIII.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 58, Jon XII.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Seven Kingdoms: The Wall and Beyond (The Wildlings).
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 23, Daenerys II.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 50, Daenerys VIII.
- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 36, Daenerys VI.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, Beyond the Sunset Kingdom: The Bones and Beyond (The Plains of the Jogos Nhai).
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, Beyond the Sunset Kingdom: The Bones and Beyond (Asshai-by-the-Shadow).
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 19, Tyrion III.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 A Dance with Dragons, Prologue.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 58, Davos III.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 49, Tyrion XI.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, The Seven Kingdoms: The Vale.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 62, Tyrion VIII.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 18, Sansa II.
- ↑ The Citadel: Heraldry - In the Westerlands
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 43, Arya VIII.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 9, Tyrion I.
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 15, Sansa I.
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- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Appendix.
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- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 3, Daenerys I.
- ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, Beyond the Sunset Kingdom: Beyond the Free Cities (The Grasslands).
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 Fire & Blood, The Long Reign - Jaehaerys and Alysanne: Policy, Progeny, and Pain.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, The Dying of the Dragons - The Red Dragon and the Gold.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, Under the Regents - War and Peace and Cattle Shows.
- ↑ Fire & Blood, The Lysene Spring and the End of Regency.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 36, Cersei VIII.
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- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 52, Jon VII.
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- ↑ 45.0 45.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 3, Tyrion I.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 24, Theon II.
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- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 50, Theon IV.
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- ↑ A Dance with Dragons, Epilogue.