A Dogged Pursuit

I have written about cats in song in a previous post, but two weeks in Margate dog-sitting an aristocratic Hungarian Vizsla got me thinking about dogs in classical music, without, I have to say, opening any flood-gates. Dogs abound (pardon the pun) in country and western and other pop genres but as far as classical music was concerned I could only come up with Elgar's charming late miniature 'Mina', written in honour of his Cairn terrier and his portrait of Ben, the characterful bulldog belonging to the organist of Hereford Cathedral, from his 'Enigma Variations'. I am grateful to my erudite friend Richard Wigmore for pointing out that Haydn wrote a splendid depiction of a spaniel forcing a hare to break cover in 'The Seasons' and Faure has a portratit of a dog in his 'Dolly Suite': 'Kitty - valse' actually refers to Dolly's pet dog Ketty. After this any scent is lost. If anyone can provide further examples I'd be delighted.