 In December 2000, the Doggie Diner head was featured in "Zippy" comics as "the doggie" in grassroots effort to save the heads

Zippy frequently participated in his long-running conversation with the giant fiberglass doggie mascot.In 2004, Laughing Squid, a website founded in San Francisco, sponsored three of the dog heads – named Manny, Moe & Jack – as the "Holy Dogminican Order" to take the dog heads on a cross-country trip, ending in a show by Cyclecide at CBGB in New York City.The trip was documented in a movie called "Head Trip", released in 2008.