--Traitorous though it feels, I really prefer whoever the dog is in the Pilot (not Lincoln, I think?) to Draco (the dog in seasons 3-4). It's the eyes, I think, those intensely pale and so *goofy*-looking eyes.

I agree. The dog in the pilot is so much more convincingly half-wolf. Draco is adorable, truly, but that dog is much more feral.