Dogs

Dogs appear regularly in Zappa's work:

• On the covers of Cruising With Ruben & The Jets, Just Another Band From L.A. and Ahead Of Their Time Zappa and his band members are depicted with dog noses. Illustrator Cal Schenkel did this as a tribute to the dog characters in Carl Barks' comic strips about Donald Duck.
• A dog with sunglasses can be seen on the covers of Francesco Zappa,Them Or Us and of The Perfect Stranger.
• Evelyn, A Modified Dog
• Stink-Foot: a dog, Fido, is called to fetch some slippers and goes into an argument about the essence of Conceptual Continuity
• Dogs can be heard barking during the intro of Andy
• Nanook Rubs It: while Nanook is rubbing a chorus sings "Here Fido, here Fido...."
• Cheepnis: "'Cause she just might box yer dog/She just might box yer doggie/ An' leave you a dried-up dog biscuit" (...) the people try to catch Frunobulax by calling "Here Fido, here Fido..."
• Dog Breath, even though the term is also American slang for a person with very bad breath
• Zomby Woof: "woof" is a sound associated with dogs
• Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me: "He had an Irish setter"

Specific articles about dogs

• Fido
• Phydeaux III
• Frunobulax, named after Zappa's own dog Fruney.
• Evelyn
• Dogess
• Killer Collie

Specific references to poodles

• The Poodle Lecture
• Dirty Love and Stink-Foot: "The poodle bites, the poodle chews it."
• Hunchentoot and Cheepnis: "The monster which the peasants in this area call Frunobulax and apparently a very large poodle."
• Food Gathering In Post-Industrial America: "as the denizens of New Perfect America dine on rats, poodles,..."

See also

• Arf!