Zero, the ghostly
dog had a nose of bright fluorescent red. He'd a home in the
cemetery, but he stayed by Jack's bed. Following close in
Jack's steps, he gave unconditional love. He led Jack's coffin
sleigh that night, ducking the missiles above.
Jack's pet Zero is
a ghostly dog who floats faithfully after him wherever he goes. Always
ready for a romp, Zero loves to play catch. Jack often obliges by tossing
one of his own ribs for Zero to fetch. When fog threatens Jack's Christmas
Eve plans, Zero's glowing
nose makes him - what else? - a halloweentown version of Rudolph. Jack
Skellington's little dog Zero is the perfect Halloweenland pet. He's both
faithful and playful. He's a ghost who floats just above the ground with an
illuminated pumpkin nose.
Like most dogs, Zero sleeps most of the
day, some-times in a little basket in Jack's room and sometimes in his
dog house in the cemetery. But when Jack goes for a walk, he's ready to
follow, and he likes to play catch with Jack's ribs.
Zero doesn't always understand Jack's strange actions,
but he's always ready to lend a helping paw. On the foggy Christmas Eve
when it looks as if Jack's plans are about to be shattered, a brilliant
light cuts through the night. Jack realizes at once that Zero, with his
shining nose, is the one to guide his sleigh.
Zero is Jack's faithful
hound. He always floats just
off the ground. A ghostly pup, he
loves to fetch. So Jack throws a rib
bone - his own - to catch.
We first see Zero in the
film when Jack snaps his fingers and calls him as he goes by Zero's grave. Zero's tombstone
is shaped like a doghouse with a cross over the door. Zero comes out of
the ground in front of the house at Jack's call.
Zero goes with
Jack on his walk, but when the door opens and Jack is whisked in Zero is
left outside waiting. He then lives with Jack. When Sally makes a fog to
prevent Jack from going Zero's nose lights Jack's way.