"Dogs in the Dishes" is an old-time reel or breakdown in D Major. The parts are played AB. The source for the notated version is Irvin Yaugher of Fayette County, Pa. who learned it from fiddler Bill Lowry. The first strain is shared with "Blockhouse Dutchman". The banjo tablature is by John Letscher. It was printed in Bayard's Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife (1981).