ASCII Art

Dog ASCII Art

A four-line dog in profile, ears back and tail curling behind it.

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Try Dog ASCII Art

Edit it here, then change the font and size.

Font
16px

About this entry

What it is

A four-line dog in profile, ears back and tail curling behind it.

Pet posts, sign-offs and anywhere the cat has had enough attention.

Copy & use

How to copy and use dog ascii art

  1. 01

    Copy the complete value

    Use the copy button above so the value is captured without its label, description or surrounding page text.

  2. 02

    Paste it where you need it

    Pet posts, sign-offs and anywhere the cat has had enough attention.

  3. 03

    Check the final result

    Monospace fonts preserve the intended spacing. Use fenced code blocks or preformatted text in apps that collapse repeated spaces, and check backslashes when pasting into source code.

Read the drawing

How this dog ascii art works

The snout is an apostrophe and two quotation marks, the ear is a closing brace, and the body is carried by underscores at two different heights. The tail is a pair of parentheses, which is what stops the shape reading as a rectangle.

Copy it without breaking the spacing

There are no backslashes here, which makes it unusually safe to paste — nothing in it looks like an escape character to a Markdown parser. Keep the leading space on the first line or the ears sit too far left.

Practical ideas

Where to use dog ascii art

  • 01

    Pet posts and captions

  • 02

    Message sign-offs

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    README decoration

Make your own variation

Swap the closing brace for a different bracket to change the ear shape. Lengthening the underscores on the second line stretches the dog without breaking the head.

Common questions

Using dog ascii art

What is dog ascii art?

A four-line dog in profile, ears back and tail curling behind it. Pet posts, sign-offs and anywhere the cat has had enough attention.

How do I copy dog ascii art without breaking it?

Use the copy button so the whole value is captured, including the spaces, line breaks and less common characters that hold its shape together. Paste it as plain text: editors and chat apps that read Markdown can treat backslashes, underscores and asterisks as formatting and remove them, and auto-correct may replace straight quotes or collapse repeated spaces.

Will dog ascii art work everywhere?

Monospace fonts preserve the intended spacing. Use fenced code blocks or preformatted text in apps that collapse repeated spaces, and check backslashes when pasting into source code.

Can I customise dog ascii art after copying?

You can add a short label, repeat compatible symbols or trim the design to fit. Keep important spaces, line breaks and uncommon Unicode characters intact while editing.

Also known as

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