I Love Lucy Little Ricky Gets a Dog (1951–1957) watch online HD

When Little Ricky brings home a puppy, his parents try to tell him to take it back, but they can't bring themselves to do it when they see how cute it is.

Lucy catalogs Little Ricky's pets for Ethel as she is feeding them. Their names apparently are mostly show-biz "inside" references. The birds are Alice and Phil (Alice Faye and her husband Phil Harris, singers). The turtles are Tommy and Jimmy (Tommy Dorsey and his brother, Jimmy Dorsey, the bandleaders). (The names for the fish - Mildred and Charles - are not as easy to identify; perhaps they were friends or family members of Lucy or Ricky.) The frog is - of course - Hopalong, a reference to the very popular television character of the time, Hopalong Cassidy. Later, when Little Ricky names his dog, he calls him 'Fred', explaining that "I always name my pets after people I like" (Fred Mertz).

Little Ricky's dog, 'Fred', was played by a Cairn terrier named Danny. Danny was trained by Bob Blair and owned by Frank Inn. Interestingly, Danny also played Mr. Wilson's dog 'Fremont' on "Dennis the Menace".