Bulldog



Bulldog was initially an Easter egg in the RuneScape Knowledge Base. However, it is now more-or-less confirmed that players will be able to have a bulldog as a pet in the new Summoning skill.

Initial speculation
The Easter egg was revealed by one of Jagex's banner ads in early September 2007. It informed players about the knowledge base, and showed the search feature. The word "bulldog" was typed in, and the search button was clicked. Search results were not shown in the banner ad.

However, this sparked many players' curiosity, and those who actually searched for "bulldog" were greeted with an article saying "Thanks for using the Knowledge Base!" and a picture of a man walking his pet bulldog (shown here).

Jagex's wording of a behind the scenes article about Back to my Roots, which used the phrases, "sniffing around in the jungle" and "this quest's bark is worse than its bite" led many players to speculate that these bulldogs would be a part or a reward of this quest. However, when the update was released, bulldogs were not.

Nevertheless, this fuelled rumours that RuneScape's list of pets will soon include dogs.

Summoning

 * Main article: Summoning

Jagex has hinted that the new Summoning update would include bulldogs. In the "Summoning: Part 1 - Concept" Development Diary, it says that the bulldog animation was "previously released as a teaser linked from a banner advert for the Knowledge Base".