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Black dog or blackdog may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Businesses and brands

• Black Dog Books (Australian publisher)
• Black Dog Books (American publisher)
• Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, an American publisher
• Black Dog Publishing, a British publishing company
• Black Dog Institute, an Australian institute for the treatment of mood disorders such as depression
• Black Dog Scotch Whisky, bottled and marketed by United Spirits Limited
• The Black Dog (restaurant), on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, U.S.
• The Black Dog, Dublin, a former prison in Ireland
• Black Dog Salvage, a salvage company in the 2012–2020 American reality TV series Salvage Dawgs

Folklore and mythology

• Black dog (folklore), a spectral black dog from English folklore

Places

• Black Dog, Devon, England
• Black Dog Lake, in Minnesota, U.S.
• Blackdog, Aberdeen, Scotland
• Black Dog Halt railway station, a former halt in Wiltshire, England

Other uses

• a dog with black fur
• Major depressive disorder (the term black dog was coined by Samuel Johnson and popularised by Winston Churchill)
• Black dog (coin), a coin in the Caribbean, starting under the reign of Queen Anne of Great Britain
• Black Dog (Osage chief) (1780–1848), and the name of his son
• Black Dog II, the son of Black Dog, a company commander of the Osage Battalion, an 1863–1865 Native American unit of the Confederate States Army
• BlackDog, a 2005 pocket-sized, self-contained computer

See also

• All pages with titles containing black dog
• All pages with titles containing blackdog
• Black dog syndrome, a tendency for black dogs not to be adopted from animal shelters
• Anubis, an ancient Egyptian god, depicted as a black canine or a man with a black canine head
• Hellhound, a supernatural dog in folklore