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Author(s) Dav Pilkey
Publisher Harcourt, Inc.
Publish date September 29, 1993[1]
Genre Children's Picture Book
ISBN ISBN-10: 0152049495
ISBN-13: 978-0152049492
The dreaded Dogzilla is on the loose! Can the residents of Mousopolis get rid of this colossal canine before it's too late?

Dogzilla is a 1993 children's picture book made by Dav Pilkey. The book is a parody of Godzilla.




The inspiration for Dogzilla came one day when I was at a friend's house watching one of my favorite movies, Godzilla vs. Megalon. My friend's son, Nate, was sitting on the floor building a castle out of Lego. Everything was fine until Nate let his dog, Leia, into the house. Leia came charging into the room and smashed right through the Lego castle. With the mass of little Lego blocks and action figures scattered around her, Leia looked like a silly monster who had just rampaged a city. 'I should write a book about that,' I said. So I did.

— Dav Pilkey[2]




It's summer, and the city of Mousopolis is holding its First Annual Barbecue Cook-Off, but the scent of barbecue sauce awakens Dogzilla, who emerges from a volcano. Soldiers, led by the Big Cheese, were dispatched to fight Dogzilla. However, Dogzilla used its doggy breath to repel the mice. Forced to retreat, the mice unknowingly lure Dogzilla to Mousopolis.

Dogzilla terrorizes the city by engaging in normal and stereotypical canine behaviour which has an exaggerated effect. Meanwhile, the Big Cheese meets with Professor Scarlett O'Hairy, who concludes that Dogzilla is a creature with origins millions of years ago. The Professor and the Big Cheese then come up with a plan to drive off Dogzilla.

The mice assembled in the center of Mousopolis and blasted Dogzilla with water. "It's BATHTIME!" Dogzilla ran off into the volcano as it hated baths, and it never returned. In a year's time, Mousopolis was rebuilt in time for the Second Annual Barbecue Cook-Off. All seems peaceful; however, something unexpected happens: Dogzilla's puppies emerge from the volcano.




  • The Big Cheese (Flash)
  • Professor Scarlett O'Hairy (Rabies)
  • Soldier Guy (Dwayne)



  • This book was dedicated to John "The Rapper" Wills, the original creator of[2]
  • Dav went to a farm in Mentor, Ohio called "Kennebec Cardigan Welsh Corgis" and took pictures of Corgi puppies there to use for the final page of Dogzilla.[3]

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This is a list of references for Dogzilla. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

  1. Dogzilla - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  2. 2.0 2.1 Dogzilla
  3. 3.0 3.1 Behind Kat Kong and Dogzilla: Part 1 - Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "behind-kkdz1" defined multiple times with different content

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2 months ago
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Now all we need is dogzilla vs Kat Kong

Keizer Zilla

7 months ago
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That's a big Doggo.


27 months ago
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So this one counts as an obscure incarnation of Godzilla???



36 months ago
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They say he's got to go... go go Dogzilla!


27 months ago
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I actually read this story, within an English textbook, in my 4th grade English class in Puerto Rico. I can't remember if I read it on my own or if the English teacher read it to everyone. I remember seeing that there was a photo of actual kids seeing Godzilla, King of the Monsters! in 1956 in the theater and they were all scared plus posters and the textbook talked about Godzilla being an icon. It was so cool, it might have shaped me a little bit.