Pete the Pup

Pete, the dog with the ring around his eye, in the Our Gang comedies Pete was never one dog. The first was Pal the Wonder Dog, an American Pit Bull Terrier who had already played Tige in the Buster Brown films and was born with part of his famous eye ring; his trainer and owner, Harry Lucenay, finished the rest. Pal was poisoned in 1930, and his son, Lucenay's Peter, took over with the whole ring painted on. After that the studio used several unrelated dogs, so the Pete you see depends on which short you are watching. Lucenay's Peter lived to 16 years and 4 months, dying of old age in 1946.