# Bingo — Wild Animals I Have Known character guide

> Bingo in Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Poor Bingo, III Bingo

**First appearance:** 0006-bingo

## Snapshot

A clever, independent dog who adopts the narrator's team of horses as his own, howling omens and keeping a private life the narrator can only glimpse.

## Who they are

Bingo attaches himself to the De Winton Farm with an intensity that borders on ownership, trotting beside the horses by day and sleeping at the stable door by night. His refusal to follow the team one morning, and the death dirge he howls after it, becomes the story's eerie center — an omen the narrator cannot shake. Through Bingo, Seton explores the hidden loyalties and half-wild intelligence of a dog whose inner life no human fully reads.

## Relationships

### [Gordon Wright](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wild_animals_i_have_known_se/characters/gordon_wright)

_friendship_

Bingo is Gordon Wright's loyal dog, serving as a companion and working partner.

### [Gordon Wright](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wild_animals_i_have_known_se/characters/gordon_wright)

_friendship_

Bingo is Gordon Wright's loyal dog, serving as a companion and working partner.

## In the story

### [Note to the Reader](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wild_animals_i_have_known_se/chapters/note-to-the-reader)

Bingo was the author's dog from 1882 to 1888, with interruptions due to visits to New York.

### [Wild Animals I Have Known](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wild_animals_i_have_known_se/chapters/wild-animals-i-have-known)

Introduced as a dog with a distinct personality, whose story of loyalty and adventure is included.

### [Bingo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/wild_animals_i_have_known_se/chapters/bingo)

The central dog character, known for his obsessive cow-herding, loyalty to horses, and deep bond with his owner. He also shows a strange gentleness toward a she-wolf and is involved in a dog-killing incident.

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