Today is National Pet Day, a day to honor (and probably spoil) the little furry friends who brighten up our lives and bring a smile to our faces when we come home. Whether you have a cat, a dog, a rabbit, a lizard, or something even more strange and unusual, this is a day to reflect on all the ways they love you - and maybe to give them a little treat.

On a day dedicated to honoring pets of all kind, we'd like to take a look at some animated pets - because just because they're fictional doesn't mean they're any less important! In fact, the fact that these pets are cartoons usually gives them even more bearing on the story than our own pets do in real life - but even when they're basically just there as accessories for certain characters, we still love them!

Here's to all the Pixar Pets out there - did you forget about any of these guys? (And no, before you ask, we are NOT including Remy, how DARE you make that suggestion. Remy was not Linguine's PET, they had a PARTNERSHIP, that's the WHOLE POINT OF RATATOUILLE. Come on now.)

Happy national pet day to you and your furry (or scaly, or feathery, or whatever) friends!

Buster (Toy Story)

How could you not love this cute little weiner dog?? Especially when he functioned as Woody and Jessie's loyal steed over the years after they got him at the end of the first Toy Story movie. They set him up like he was going to be a big problem for the toys, but he really just turned out to be the cutest and sweetest when he showed up in Toy Story 2 - when we saw him old and gray in Toy Story 3, it definitely brought a sentimental tear to our eye.

Dug (Up)

"I was hiding under your porch because I love you!"

Dug is probably everybody's favorite Pixar pet - he's the amagamation of everything we know dogs to be. He's loyal to a fault, intensely loving, fiercely loyal, and, most importantly, pure of heart. (Also, a little bit stupid, in only the most endearing of ways.) The collar that allows him to talk gave a voice to not only him, but all dogs everywhere - because he's probably saying what basically all of them would say.

Hal (WALL-E)

Hal is the name of the cockroach in WALL-E - leave it to a quirky robot like him to keep a pet cockroach on the post-apocalyptic Earth.

The cockroach is a good and loyal pet - he stays when told to stay (most of the time), sits on WALL-E's shoulder like a good boy, and he snuggles up in a Twinkie bed when it's time for lights out. He even wags his nonexistent tail - he may be a roach, but he's also one of the cutest pets Pixar ever created.

Dante (Coco)

Dante's more than just a pet - he's also a spirit guide! Though he's technically a stray when we see him hanging out with Miguel at the beginning of the movie, Dante gets to accompany his buddy into the spirit world, and we eventually learn that for all his fumbling around, he's actually an incredibly powerful creature, with a deep connection to Miguel.

He's also the sweetest, goofiest little dog, and it's impossible not to love him.

Scud (Toy Story)

Don't hate on Scud! He played rough with the toys in Toy Story, but it wasn't his fault - how is he supposed to tell the difference between his own toys and the kids' toys if the kids don't care whose heads he chews off?

Seriously, though, this actually begs a much larger question: What about chew toys in the universe of Toy Story? Do they enjoy being chewed on? Do they have a higher pain tolerence? Or are all the toys just kind of silently pitying them and thanking god THEY weren't created as a toy for a pet?

Nemo and all the Tank Fish (Finding Nemo)

They weren't exactly treated the best when they were given to Darla, but the fish in the tank at P. Sherman 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney are still that dentist's pets. He cleans their tank on the regular, and even installed a new purifier whent the tank got too dirty. Their little closed fish community makes them a little bit strange - that, and the massive trauma of knowing a giant child could come tapping on the walls of their home at any moment.

Angus (Brave)

A noble and loyal steed he is! Angus is the huge clydesdale that Merida rides in Brave, and her constant companion on all her adventures. He carries her to the Will-o-Wisp, he does the running when she's racing the clock to fix her mother's torn tapestry, and he's always around when she wants to feel the wind in her hair and shoot arrows from his back.

Spot (The Good Dinosaur)

You don't really think of humans as pets, but that's more or less what Spot becomes to Arlo in the least-well-known Pixar film, The Good Dinosaur. Spot begins the movie as a feral human who's been stealing food from the dinosaur farmers that make up Arlo's family - but when Arlo is dispatched to kill him, he instead ends up on an adventure where the two need to depend on each other to survive.

Robaire Junior (Turning Red)

Virtual pets are pets too - especially in Turning Red! Robaire Jr. is Mei's pet Tamagotchi in the story, named after her favorite member of the boy band 4-Town. She takes careful care of him throughout the movie - and we're sure that all the kids who grew up with Tamagotchis and had to explain to their parents why they had to take it to school to feed it can relate.

Aphie (A Bug's Life)

We bet you forgot about his little guy! Yes, one of the bugs in A Bug's Life has a pet bug - Aphie is The Queen's pet aphid in the movie, and she adores the little creature the same way a 40's movie star would adore a pomeranian she carries around. He doesn't really have much of a role in the film or its plot...but he is very cute.

Sox (Lightyear)

A preview of a Pixar pet! Lightyear isn't slated to come out until summer, but we've already got quite a good look at Sox, Buzz's robotic cat companion who appears to be some form of AI assistant for his space missions. Sox can play music or sounds and makes dry, well-timed commentary, and we're guessing that his presence with Buzz on important missions in the trailer means that he can do a lot more than that, too.

We're looking forward to getting to know him when Lightyear comes out on June 17 this year!

Mr. Mittens (Soul)

Mr. Mittens is the name of the therapy cat in Soul whose body Joe accidentally ends up in - and though we don't ever get to meet the actual cat for long, his body plays an important role in the rest of the film.

(Plus, a little extra love to therapy animals on this day, as many therapy dogs and cats can also double as pets for the people they help.)

The dog and cat from the end of Inside Out:

This is just a bonus because they're so cute - and because, on National Pet Day of all days, it feels appropriate to remind ourselves what's probably actually going on in our furry friends' heads.