Odie
Odie is a fictional character in the Jim Davis comic strip Garfield.
He is a lovable but dopey yellow-furred, brown-eared dog constantly panting with his very large tongue, and the only character without a "voice". (However, he was once shown to be thinking "I'm hungry", and in Garfield in the Rough, he "says" "I'm afraid!" over and over, faster and faster, in the "Run, Run!" scene (though this is not confirmed). He also says "I don't know, I'm kinda scared," as a "mistake" in the cartoon episode "Mistakes Will Happen". More recently, he was seen actually speaking in one of Garfield's dream sequences. [1]) One strip shows him enjoying classical music on the TV with a novel, War and Peace, in his lap after Jon and Garfield leave the house. Often kicked off the table by Garfield (Once Odie tried to push Garfield off the table, but Garfield was too heavy. [2]) or the victim of some practical joke. Odie's original owner was Lyman, a friend and roommate to Jon Arbuckle. He first appeared on August 8, 1978. However, Lyman disappeared in 1983 and Odie became a pet to Jon. Odie is, to Garfield, a complete slobbering idiot (though it's not the actual case since Odie did manage to take revenge on Garfield occasionally, and Garfield sometimes cannot notice it. Garfield acknowledges this by saying "He's not as dumb as he looks, but then again who could be?"); however, Garfield has let it be shown on numerous occasions that he actually does care a great deal for Odie. He is rarely seen without his giant tongue and drooling. Recently, Odie seems to be walking on two feet more often (mainly as of 2000). In animation, his barks are provided by Gregg Berger and Frank Welker.
In the book Garfield: His 9 Lives, Odie's origin was changed so Jon purchased him from the same pet shop he purchased Garfield.