The Best Dog Memes, Ranked
Dogs have carried memes since image macros began. Advice Dog was one of the first templates with a fixed character and a fixed joke, and Doge became one of the best known memes of the 2010s.
The list is our editors' ranking by reach and staying power. Each entry links to its full article.
The list
1.Doge
A Shiba Inu with multicoloured Comic Sans captions. Probably the most widely recognised dog on the internet.
Read about Doge →2.Advice Dog
A puppy on a colour-wheel background handing out advice, good and terrible. It set up the advice-animal format that dozens of templates copied.
Read about Advice Dog →4.WeRateDogs
The account that rates people's dogs out of ten and always scores above ten. "13/10" became a compliment in its own right.
Read about WeRateDogs →5.Lawyer Dog
A 2017 Louisiana court case turned on a suspect saying "give me a lawyer dog". The internet pictured a dog with a law degree.
Read about Lawyer Dog →6.What the Dog Doin
The caption for a dog caught doing something baffling, asked in the voice of a confused onlooker.
Read about What the Dog Doin →
