That poster is such a lie. For me, Dogmeat died literally 10 minutes after I found him, he got killed by a bandit :<

Let me tell you why that's bullshit.

1. Dogmeat has an insane amount of health.
2. You would've obviously killed the enemy before he could even attempt to harm Dogmeat.
3. There are no bandits in Fallout 3, they're called raiders.

I don't know, man. I swear though, he only lived 10 minutes. Something else could have happened, but I was fighting a band of raiders (forgot what they were actually called, haven't played it in approx 3 years), and he was dead. I just saw the "Dogmeat has died" in the upper left corner. I never got to experience how awesome he was.

However, I am probably gonna play it again soon because of the fallout channel. I rushed through it before, so this time I'm exploring everything. Anyway, if anyone has suggestions for fun shit to do in hardcore mode, let me know.