His trademark is always to appear on screen in the company of his adorable little dog, Uggie, also an offscreen buddy as resourceful and courageous as Lassie.

"Who is the adorable dog in the frame?"

With a charisma characterized in the pages of youth publications as "puppy dog adorable" that could easily have led Gyllenhaal to alpha-teen pinup status, he has always chosen the more difficult, less commercial path.

"Excuse me," our friend says to the woman walking the adorable dog, "but just what kind is that?"

(Ages 5 to 9) Two charming sisters and their adorable dog scour Paris - sometime around the turn of the century, from the look of things - searching for just the right present, and, naturellement, they succeed.

Although absent, Bob was ably represented by the family's adorable but coyote-shy dog, a shepherd mix named Belle.

Lady Lee kept telling me about this adorable little dog the queen had, how when Francis Bryan had given it to her, it cured her grief over her loss.

The adorable dog is the latest addition to Cyrus' growing menagerie - she also owns a 1-year-old white German Shepherd named Mate, and a Maltipoo called Sophie.

Much of the film's business is taken up with Umberto's adorable dog, and, like Chaplin's films, "Umberto D." constantly flirts with sentimentality.

Anya, like Dorothy, is trailed wherever she goes by an adorable little dog (named Pooka).