The Jetsons had Astro.  Doctor Who K-9 and Karvanista.  Boxey adopted robotic Daggit after the first Battlestar Galactica survived the Cylon attack but the poor kid's pet didn't.  The original Enterprise crew ended up with two dogs (one good, one bad and both in unintentionally hilarious costumes) in The Enemy Within.  Science fiction has long been a dog's world, but so was science at one testosterone-fueled time.  In what was not such a Cold War secret, the Soviets used/abused dogs during the Space Race (1955-1975).  The best-known stray was Laika ("Barker"), the first earther to orbit the planet in 1957.  Her dedication to the