The Top 10 Music Videos Starring Dogs

Dogs, the world’s most rock n roll animals. Elvis Presley to the Beatles, they’ve all sung about dogs. And since the advent of the music video some musicians have been smart enough to know what advertisers have known for decades, whack a dog in your vid and it instantly becomes 46.3% better than the competition.

Mariah Carey - All I want for Christmas.

Mariah’s dog Jack has appeared in a number of her music videos. This is probably the most famous of them.

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The Cult - Edie

Extra marks for the rock outfit from Britain for including two fantastic looking dogs in the video which also relate directly to the lyrics of the song - “The dogs lay at your feet Edie”

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Guns n Roses - Sweet Child ‘o’ Mine

The intro to this song is what it’s all about. Slash has said he wrote the now iconic opening for a bit of a joke. So it’s nice to see a beautiful looking Rottweiler staring straight at us in the video even before that memorable intro kicks into action.

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Fall Out Boy, The Take Over, The Break’s Over

Bonus points for the emo originals for not only featuring a dog but also basing the entire song around the dreams of frontman Pete Wentz’ stunning Bulldog named Hemingway. This vid really is heavy on the canine action.

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Soundgarden - Blackhole Sun

An iconic video. Weird on a number of levels but not least for the metamorphising face of the harlequin Great Dane who stars.

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Oasis - Songbird

Liam Gallagher chasing dog. Funny. Enough said.

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Jane’s Addiction - Been Caught Stealing

OK so it’s not so much about dogs in the video but this is probably Jane’s most well known song and opens up with a cracking dog bark mixed into the musical intro. Dogs rule musically.

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Snoop Doggy Dogg - Who am I, What’s my Name?

How could we possibly put together a list of dogs in music videos without including the Snoopy Doggy de Dogg himself. Dogs turning into gangstas all over the place here.

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Blur - Parklife

The album cover featured a racing Greyhound. It was the album that cemented the Britpop era. There’s some dogs in the video - but are they Greyhounds? You’ll have to watch.

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The Baha Men - Who Let the Dogs Out?

Who let the dawgs out, who, who, who, who, who, who? implore the Baha men. They ask us over and over again who let the dogs out. They seem quite determined to quiz us as if we might have been involved somehow. Sadly, the song doesn’t reveal the identity of the dog releasing culprit. The song is a huge steaming pile of stink. Video is pretty doggy though.

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