 The roundabout dogs started appearing in Linköping, Östergötland, Sweden after a sculptured dog that was part of the official roundabout installation "Cirkulation II" () by sculptor Stina Opitz had been vandalised and later removed.The original dog had been made of concrete, and Opitz was planning to make a new version of it after the vandalism, when someone placed a homemade wooden dog  on the roundabout.The dog was given a concrete dogbone by another anonymous artist.