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The Dursleys' next door neighbour kept a dog, which Dudley once drove over with a working tank. In the Muggle world, dogs also were kept as companions, being very faithful and, with proper training, could guard valuable objects or people or act as service, rescue and police dogs. It is possible that Agnes failed her dog Animagus transfiguration into a dog, as the description of a failed Animagus transfiguration resembled that of Agnes. She didn't seem to believe him, but was apparently unable to figure out the truth about what had really bitten him. Īfter being bit by Norberta, known at the time as 'Norbert', Ron Weasley told Madam Pomfrey that he had been bitten by a dog. Harry Potter considered his treatment while at 4 Privet Drive to be comparable to that of 'a dog that had rolled in something smelly'. The Crup was a type of wizard-bred dog that resembled a Jack Russell Terrier, but possessed a forked tail and was loyal only to wizards, and was highly aggressive towards Muggles and Squibs.

Also, Ron Weasley's Patronus took the form of a Jack Russell Terrier, a breed of hunting dog common in Great Britain and Ireland. According to W.O.M.B.A.T., a dog acting suspiciously might be magically-trained. There were also magical subtypes of dogs, such as three-headed dogs, Gytrash and Grim. In Beedle the Bard's fairy tale Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump, the Brigade of Witch-Hunters was given a pack of wild hounds. An example of this is Fang, who was born in the mid- 1980s and was still alive by 2010, an impressive age for a dog, especially considering that larger dogs like boarhounds are known to have shorter lifespans than smaller breeds. ĭogs in the wizarding world also seem to have had much longer lifespans than dogs in the Muggle world.

The name didn't suit him well as even Hagrid called him a 'bloody coward'. Rubeus Hagrid, Hogwarts gamekeeper also had a boarhound named Fang.

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Once the stone had been destroyed, Fluffy was set free in the Forbidden Forest, but was later repatriated by Albus Dumbledore to Greece. For example, during the 1991–1992 school year at Hogwarts, the three-headed dog Fluffy guarded the Philosopher's Stone. In the wizarding world, dogs were kept as pets or might sometimes serve as guardians of certain objects. While most normal dogs were generally considered harmless, save those that had been trained or bred for aggressive behaviour, some dogs like the three-headed dog Fluffy were highly dangerous. Dogs were used in both the wizarding and the Muggle world as pets or guardians.

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