The strip's focus is mostly on the interactions among Garfield, Jon, and Odie, but recurring minor characters appear as well.

Odie is a yellow, long-eared beagle with a large, slobbering tongue, who walks on all four legs, though occasionally he will walk on two like Garfield.

In one strip when Garfield and Jon are out of the house, Odie is seen reading War and Peace and watching a television program, An Evening With Mozart.

A few days after the storyline began, Garfield is lying in his bed with a “ nagging feeling I'm forgetting something ,” with Odie landing on Garfield in the next panel.

Odie is the only animal character who doesn't communicate with any form of dialogue, solely communicating with body language and his enthusiastic barking and other dog sound effects, although Garfield is able to understand what he says.

* Dr. Garbonzo Bean ( Voiced by Frank Welker ): A mad scientist who is responsible for creating robot versions of Odie.

* First Garfield Cartoon: This is a general Garfield episode taking on a more domestic nature mostly involving Jon and Odie.

Odie is a fictional character in the Jim Davis comic strip Garfield.

In the comic of August 26, 2007, Garfield describes Odie's species as " purebred clown " after trying to find out what kind of dog Odie is with the help of a book.

Odie first appeared in the strip on August 8, 1978 ; the date is considered his birthday.

Odie is the only animal character in the Garfield series without a recurring voice bubble, as he is portrayed as a " normal " house dog.

In the CGI Series, The Garfield Show, Odie is usually heard barking, but occasionally audible words are spoken.

On episode Freaky Monday, Odie was seen speaking more frequently and fluently ( because it is, in fact Garfield in Odie's body ) as a result of being struck by an alien ray that swapped their bodies.

In the same episode Garfield ( Odie ) gets kidnapped and boxed in by the local mailman as Odie is in Garfield's body and the mailman hates Garfield, and Odie ( Garfield ) jumps into the Mailman's vehicle to rescue his body.

Because the vehicle is running wild, a box fell onto the road and Odie ( Garfield ) thought it might be the one containing ( Garfield ).

" In another strip, Odie is running around the family room, and Garfield grabs on to his tongue to see how long it is.

It may be that Odie is actually smarter than he appears, and merely uses the idiotic front as a means to gain an advantage over Garfield.

Garfield on numerous occasions actually does care a great deal for Odie, most notably in the first Garfield special Here Comes Garfield, in which Odie is briefly captured by the dogcatcher and a teary-eyed Garfield realizes through flashbacks of him and Odie playing together and how sad his life would be without him ( in these series of flashbacks by Garfield, the song " So Long Old Friend " is played in the background ).

He enjoys destroying things, mauling the mailman, tormenting Odie, kicking Odie off the table ; he also makes snide comments, usually about Jon's inability to get a date ( in one strip, when Jon bemoans the fact that no one will go out with him on New Year's, Garfield replies, " Don't feel bad Jon.

Odie usually has a large tongue and slobbers in his appearances.

* Odie and the scale are not involved in Garfield's torment, and Jon-too deliriously happy about having Liz over for Thanksgiving dinner-is ignorant to the fact that Garfield is in misery.

Released on June 11, 2004, the movie followed Garfield's quest to save the newly adopted Odie from a TV pet-show host.

Many of the gags focus on Garfield's obsessive eating and obesity ; his hate of Mondays, diets, and any form of exertion ; his constant shedding ( which constantly annoys Jon ); and his abuse of Odie and Jon as well as his obsession with mailing Nermal to Abu Dhabi.

The next panel shows Odie right next to Garfield, but with his tongue literally wrapped around all the furniture, going through the hallway, wrapping around Odie himself and Garfield, and with room to spare, much to Garfield's shock.

In addition to getting kicked off the table, Odie is often the victim of Garfield's pranks.

In one strip, while Garfield confesses how good friend Odie was as Odie never minds Garfield playing tricks on him, Odie slyly pastes a note on Garfield's back that reads " KICK ME ".

Jon becomes very angry and concerned about Garfield's behavior after he and Odie mess up his house.

Garfield notices they are drifting downstream and tells Odie to put out the oars, but Odie misunderstands Garfield's command and throws the oars overboard, leaving the boat adrift as the current takes it down the river.

This is a rare glimpse at Garfield's other side, as Garfield learns one of the true meanings of Christmas and gladly thanks Odie for the gift he made.

Garfield notices more houses across the river, so he and Odie take a boat to get to the other side ( because the river ferry doesn't run at night and that is why children on either side can't cross the river for more candy ), but Odie misunderstands Garfield's command to " put out the oars " and throws the oars overboard, leaving the boat adrift as the current takes it down the river.

After it is revealed that Garfield ( and to a lesser extent, Odie ) has eaten all the food for the week, except for the dried fruit, he takes a hike to avoid Jon's ranting and starts to appreciate the beauty of nature, until he meets two forest animals named Dicky Beaver and Billy Bunny who warn Garfield about the escaped panther, claiming it has already attacked other forest animals.

King Leonardo, despite its earlier episodes repackaged for syndication as The King and Odie during the mid-1960s, never attained the popularity of Total Television's other series, Underdog and Tennessee Tuxedo, and is hardly ever aired on television today.

Published since June 19, 1978, it chronicles the life of the title character, the cat Garfield ( named after Davis's grandfather ); his owner, Jon Arbuckle ; and Arbuckle's dog, Odie.

Jon has a grandmother who, in a strip, kicked Odie ; Garfield subsequently hugged her.

Jon's parents once visited Jon, Garfield, and Odie in the city.

Also, there was a storyline involving Garfield catching Odie eating his food and “ kicking Odie into next week .” Soon, Garfield realizes that “ Lunch isn ’ t the same without Odie.

Ever since Jon and Liz began to go out more frequently, Jon has started hiring pet sitters to look after Garfield and Odie, though they don't always work out.

Jon notices Garfield has been gone too long, so he sends Odie out to find him.

Jon starts to get lonely, so he offers a reward for the return of Garfield and Odie.

After a series of events, including Odie being adopted by a small girl, both pets meeting up at a circus that they briefly joined, and both going to a pet shop, Garfield and Odie make it back home.

") When Hearn guest starred as a mouse in the Garfield and Friends episode Basket Brawl, Odie literally runs into a popcorn machine.

He appeared in the auditorium scene watching Garfield and Odie.

He finally appeared in a crowd cheering Garfield and Odie.