Robot dog
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Robot dogs were robots which were fashioned in the shape of dogs. (TV: School Reunion)
Yappy was a toy robot dog available for sale at Sanderson & Grainger in Colchester in 2011. During the time that he worked there as a sales assistant, the Eleventh Doctor played with Yappy and showed it to Craig Owens. He commented that the robot dog was "not so much fun as [he] remember[ed]." (TV: Closing Time)
In 2059, Roman Groom claimed that a friend had made her domestic robot look like a dog. The Tenth Doctor, who claimed to hate how people "dress[ed]" up robots, regarded this as "different". (TV: The Waters of Mars)