There’s trouble in the world of funny dog puppets.Triumph and Sock Puppet are snarling at each other in a San Francisco courtroom. The happy hands inside them seem to be clenched into fists.Pets ...

The black-and-white spotted dog puppet has just signed on as the mascot for 1-800-Bar None, a Pleasanton-based company that provides car financing for consumers with bad credit. The sock puppet ...

The most famous dog from the Web – the celebrated sock puppet from Pets.com – is going back to work pitching car loans to bad credit customers. The black-and-white sock pup had been the star ...

Every dog has his day. And the Web’s most celebrated canine is getting more than one. The Pets.com sock puppet–perhaps the best-known icon of the dot-com boom and bust–is coming back from ...

Enter the dog puppet. That meant a lot of back-and-forth over ideas and a fair bit of quick work. “They weren’t even sure early on if it was going to be a sock puppet,” Smiley said ...

Pets.com ran ads of a dog sock puppet interviewing people on the street. The mascot appeared in a Super Bowl commercial and even got its own balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in 1999.