Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

I mean seriously, you can find horses in the Imperial gaurd (rough riders), and the space wolves have wolves, so why not eny dogs.
Where they killed of by diseas or hunted by man.
Where they posesed by chaos and eventualy became flesh hounds.
Or (and probably the more likely answer) are they just not mentioned.


the only reason I'm writting this thread is because I'm bored and if you don't like that then simply don't comment.

The only dogs GW makes are from mordheim and the Men at Arms kit.

And that "cyber-dog" from Inquisitor.

I agree. Dogs need more rep in GW.

Wolves are basically grimdark dogs

Cyber-mastifs are used by the Adeptus Arbities as well as grapplehawks.
Though that's as much as I know about dogs in 40k, I'm sure they are still there and a lot of them too, but no one has written anything about that.

Necromunda has mutated pooches

All sorts of domesticated animals spread out across the stars alongside humanity.

Cats, Dogs, fish, Spehss Gerbils, and so on probly exist.

Cyber Mastiffs (aka cybernetic dogs) are common amoung officers and other forces.

personal army fluff can easily have them.

Cats have been mentioned in a few books. (i can remember "Flesh and Iron" right now)

I would imagine planatary govoners or other richer folks could have aquariums, or personal animals.



Pets are not mentioned often possibly due to being just scenery unless they are attached to a character or play a significant role.

The surest way to find animals in 40k is to look at the names of space marine chapters.

There are Chaos-tainted dogs in both the SW Novels and the Gaunt's Ghosts Novels off the top of my head, so there must be some non-tainted ones hanging around somewhere.

Cyber-Mastiffs have already been mentioned.

Warhammmer 40,000 is a sci-fi tabletop wargame, is it really that surprising that dogs don't appear very frequently? The game has many flaws, but I've never before now encountered anybody who has looked at it and thought "You know what's wrong with this? Not enough dogs, that's what.".

All Felines were sanctioned by the Imperial Inquisition and eliminated forthwith as Xenos spies.

Canines were next, but such action drew protest (distressed howling) from the Space Wolves and the action was limited to "keeping an eye on" them for the forseeable future.

Yep, bored here as well... *snore*

They probably ended up evolving like the cat in red dwarf

Uhlan wrote:All Felines were sanctioned by the Imperial Inquisition and eliminated forthwith as Xenos spies.

Canines were next, but such action drew protest (distressed howling) from the Space Wolves and the action was limited to "keeping an eye on" them for the forseeable future.

Yep, bored here as well... *snore*

Thanks for the info.

the only reason I'm writting this thread is because I'm bored and if you don't like that then simply don't comment.

If youre so bored then why did you comment?

English Assassin wrote:Warhammmer 40,000 is a sci-fi tabletop wargame, is it really that surprising that dogs don't appear very frequently? The game has many flaws, but I've never before now encountered anybody who has looked at it and thought "You know what's wrong with this? Not enough dogs, that's what.".

Considering that you're on the internet, is it really that surprising that there is someone who has thought that?

They were all eaten........ Asians man....... Asians in space....

Somedude593 wrote:They were all eaten........ Asians man....... Asians in space....

LOL.

This is no time for laughter *slaps* this must be resolved now!

I'm hungreeee

Engine of War wrote:Cats, Dogs, fish, Spehss Gerbils, and so on probly exist.

Cyber Mastiffs (aka cybernetic dogs) are common amoung officers and other forces.

personal army fluff can easily have them.

Cats have been mentioned in a few books. (i can remember "Flesh and Iron" right now)

I would imagine planatary govoners or other richer folks could have aquariums, or personal animals.



Pets are not mentioned often possibly due to being just scenery unless they are attached to a character or play a significant role.

Depending on the world, a planetary governor probably has something more akin to a lion than a dog as a pet.

In brothers of the snake a space marine takes a war hound from a lord governor's home to fight dark eldar

Kroot have dogs(sort of)...

maybe GW will do an Emperor's Mastiffs chapter and they will ride giant dogs...

I now want to see a Sphess Gerbil XD


but I'm sure there's various dogs around amongst civilians and military/Arbites alike... tempted to get some of Raging Hero's war wolves to paint just for fun.

Space Gerbils (or Sphess Gerbils, if you must) needs to be a Space Marines chapter, with Gerbil Guard and Thundergerbils

If I was Abbadon the Despoiler I'd run right the hell away from Stormgerbil Cavalry, ever been bit by a gerbil? Herbivores my arse those things have teeth that would do fething miral land sharks proud!

....still that would be an awesome conversion based on the SW codex XD

Slightly related, but Mass Effect allows you to buy a space hamster:

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Space_Hamster

KalashnikovMarine wrote:If I was Abbadon the Despoiler I'd run right the hell away from Stormgerbil Cavalry, ever been bit by a gerbil? Herbivores my arse those things have teeth that would do fething miral land sharks proud!

....still that would be an awesome conversion based on the SW codex XD

Space Gerbils?
>Long Fangs become Long Incisors
>Thunderwolf Cavalry becomes Thundergerbil Cavalry
>Blood Claws becomes Blood Paws

There's a cyber-mastiff in the Necromunda Arbites box. Quite funcky looking at that.

There was also a good one from the Starship Troppers Game

Buttons wrote:Blood Claws becomes Blood Paws

For some reason, I find this devastatingly adorable.

I use wargs as stand ins for ogryns. Treat them like warhounds.