Uga the Dog

The Uga mascots started in 1956, when Seiler brought a bulldog that was given to him as a wedding present,[2] by Frank Heard, at Georgia Bulldogs’ first home game of the season. Afterwards, head coach Wally Butts asked his permission to use the dog as Georgia’s mascot, and around the same time a University of Georgia Law School fellow student and friend Billy Young suggested that he name it Uga, a play on the common “UGA” abbreviation of the University of Georgia.[a][3][4] Since then, every official Uga has been owned by and lived with the Seiler family in Savannah, Georgia. They also transport him to and from the events he attends as mascot. -Wikipedia 2025