Pete the Pup

Pete the Pup was the famous dog from Our Gang (later known as The Little Rascals). Pete did not have a ring around his eye. That was added for a part he had as Tige in the Buster Brown series. The director, Hal Roach, liked the ring and decided to leave it on. After the original Pete died, Harry Lucenay used one of his offspring called Lucenay’s Pete to play the part of Pete. Lucenay’s Pete was the most famous of the Petes.

Lucenay was fired from the Our Gang series in 1932 and he took Pete to Atlantic City where he was photographed with children at the Steel Pier. A number of other bulldogs played the part of Pete thereafter. Lucenay’s Pete lived to the ripe old age of 17 even without the help of Organic dog food.