In no particular order....

• Deep Rover - 2 person sub

  

  Yes, you can own one.

  Is this a great planet, or what?!

• Ship USS Red Rover

  

  First a Confederate steamer, later captured and recommissioned as a hospital boat. The Catholic order Sisters of the Holy Cross became the first female nurses to serve aboard a Navy Ship

• Rover Bump

  

  December 1, 1983 Slim and Clovia Skinner become the cartoon world's first adoptive parents

  Yeah, it's kinda sappy, but it's our webpage and that is cool in our book!

• Irish Rover Pub

  

  Every town on earth has a pub named Irish Rover

  This one gets cred by being in Copenhagen
  ...which is kind of like Ireland
  kinda sorta

• The Irish Rovers

  

  Alas, those were the days when young rebels dressed exactly alike to show their outward individuality and inner solidarity.

• Lunar Rover

  

  250,000 miles on a single tank

  Thank goodness for free parking

• Cars

  

  Seems like everybody makes a Rover

  Speaking of Rovers

  I just know that the soccer moms riding the brakes in the Target parking lot see themselves differently than we do

  

• Yes, it has a name!

  

  The growling underwater weather balloon nemesis was actually named Rover

• And from the fine creative types* at www.CarolWrightGifts.com

  

  Kind of makes you wanna grab that FirstAct Guitar off the Wal*Mart endcap head for the Walden Pond Best Western and get in touch with your inner Hank Thoreau, don't it?

  * like you could have resisted the pun. Harumph!

• The Star Rover

  by Jack London

  

  Inspired by his friend Ed Morell, who spent five years in the barbaric San Quentin jail, The Star Rover is a searing indictment of a violent and corrupt penal system. Describing the brutality of a life behind bars, it explores the power of imagination to transcend physical hardship, and ultimately sustain hope.

  Whoa!

  of course I didn't write that, I stole it from a publisher, Prometheus Books

  For the "open source" crowd there is the text online at Sunsite.Berkley.edu

  While you're at it - A Jack London Bio Page

• From the Land Down Under

  Where men are men and women are traded for horses and lawn equipment

  Caught on any lesser mower, you are diced and fed to a wombat.

  

  https://www.rovermowers.com.au/

  (these guys take mowing way seriously - nice to know there's an ocean)

• And of course - the famous Ty Rover and Space Rover toys

  

  Yeah, I had never heard of them either, but somebody thought them worth mentioning.

  They're both red.

• Even "The Evil Empire" loves Rover

  

  "Rover" -- 1995-2001

  "Rover," that mangey little mutt, went from "old yeller" to "new feller" and took on a whole new look. Microsoft Bob's 1995 Rover is a 2-D sprite graphic with a cartoonish "flat" look. Windows XP's Rover is a 3-D rendered model with textured "skin" and more realistic motion.

  In 2001, Microsoft gave Rover a new life in Windows XP -- six years after being introduced in Microsoft Bob. - Dan Rose

  (image and text stolen lock stock and barrel from http://www.d2ca.org/ ... with permission and for CRYIN' OUT LOUD - the guy even updated me when he moved his domain! You GOTTA check his software "Wax Museum" out. It's a trip!)

• Actual Dog named Rover

  

  Photo used with express permission from Rover herself: rover (at) coder.com

  Dear Jason,

  Wow! That's neat! You named a whole theatre company after me? I've never even been to Texas!

  My people say you can use one image or even both images. I wonder why no one names dogs Rover anymore.

  And I love having visitors on my webpage, so a link to rover-planet.com would be great.

  Thanks a lot for emailing. My people thought this was great.

  -Rover

  https://www.rover-planet.com