Seamus

Throughout - There is some blues harmonica wailing away in the background. If you've seen the performance of Mademoiselle Nobs (aka Seamus with harmonica) on the "Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii" movie, you'll know why this is. The dog will only bark like that if there's a harmonica playing. Pink Floyd aren't really a harmonica band, so they decided just to record the dog's howling, and overdub it with piano and guitar for the album. Unfortunately, it was picked up anyway by the dog's microphone... and ended up in the finished song.
Throughout - More barking... either bleedthrough from previous takes of the dog's "solos" or the band also played the pooch some recordings of other dogs for encouragement! Especially audiable at 1:13, according to FATSS reader Ick.
0:02, 0:15, 0:35, 1:15, 1:55, 2:00, 2:03 - Extraneous guitar noises from the left ear (with help from FATSS reader Radu C)
0:28 - Click in the left ear, sounds like an edit
1:00 - Talking (noted by FATSS reader Ick)... sounds like "very theatrical!"

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