Notable Staffordshire Terriers
- Pete the Pup, in several Our Gang films (later known as The Little Rascals) during the 1920s and 1930s.
- Sergeant Stubby was the most decorated dog in military history and the only dog to have been promoted during battle. He fought for 18 months in the trenches for France during World War I for 17 battles. Stubby warned his fellow soldiers of gas attacks, located wounded soldiers in No Man's Land, and listened for incoming artillery rounds. He was also responsible for the capture of a German spy at Argonne. After his time in the war, Stubby met US Presidents Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, and Warren G. Harding. He was awarded life memberships to the American Legion, the Red Cross, and the YMCA. Sergeant Stubby died on March 16, 1926.
- Jack Brutus, the official mascot of Company K, First Connecticut Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish-American War.
- Bud, the first dog in the US to take a cross-country drive in 1903 with his owner Horatio Nelson Jackson and a bicycle mechanic, Sewall Crocker. “Bud soon became an enthusiast for motoring," Jackson bragged, especially after his masters put a pair of their goggles on him to keep the stinging, alkali dust out of his eyes.
- Tret, a parkouring dog from Ukraine.
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