Dogmeat is a special non-player character who can be located and recruited in Fallout 2. The same dog appears several decades later, but this is non-canon. Although, in the game, it is possible to survive the military base with Dogmeat alive, usually by sealing him inside different rooms to protect him from the super mutants. In the Vault Dweller's memoirs, it is disclosed that Dogmeat died in the Mariposa Military Base after running into a force field. His previous owner had been killed by thugs hired by Gizmo (most likely the Skulz) about a month before Dogmeat met the Vault Dweller. The Vault Dweller can distract him for the old man and, by doing this, recruit him as a companion. He can be found in Junktown in 2161, terrorising an old man named Phil, by remaining at the doorway to his house and keeping him out.
