I’m definitely Team Dog. IIRC, the character’s name was originally Dippy Dawg before it was changed to Goofy. So, unless there was a species change along with the name change, Goofy is a dog.
Then how come Pluto is a pet but Goofy is autonomous??
Ask Walt. All dogs are created equal, but some are more equal than others, I guess.
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Goofy goes all the way back to the earliest days of Mickey and friends; he appeared in the daily comics before transitioning to the animated shorts. Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Horace, and Clarabelle were the 5 primary characters. As @brklinck mentioned, his name was originally “Dippy Dawg”. The animators internally referred to him as “the goof” ( at the time, a less-than-nice term for someone who didn’t seem to be very smart - not that “Dippy” was much better). As times changed, the name morphed into the “Goofy” that we now all know and love.
Pluto was originally a minor character that showed up as Mickey’s hunting dog in a few of the animated shorts. The animators really liked him as there was a lot more they could do with him as a dog, so he always remained a “pet” to Mickey’s anthropomorphized mouse. And he became a beloved character in his own right. To this day, some of his sequences are considered to be the best “visual gag” animation ever created by the studio.
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And the “emotional support” nonsense gets even crazier:
Read the comments - they are hysterical!
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I’m so sad. I can’t find the comments to get my daily laugh.
To the left of the picture of the Spirit plane there should be a ‘Comment’ link.
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Jean-Luc PetardSlate Plus Member
1 hour ago
Emotional support hamsters are a thing? I thought someone was making that up when I read it on a comment thread the other day.
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Livonian
1 hour ago
@Jean-Luc Petard
Yes. They wear little green vests with pockets, and a sign “I’m working. Please don’t pet.”
Does anyone believe this emotional support thing is going a little too far? I am all for service animals but there has to be some limits and rules to support the claim. What about the people with allergies.