If Pluto is a dog, what is Goofy?

[GIGObuster]

@Loopus

Horace Horsecollar was sometimes shown riding a horse in Mickey’s comic strip.

I also remember reading a Donald Duck comic book story that heavily involved (non-anthropomorphic) ducks, which I thought was kinda weird.

Disney made fun of that in Fantasia 2000, with Donald doing a double take on the duck couple going into the ark.

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[Chronos]

Quoth Ethilrist:

None of that compares to watching Donald carve the turkey at Thanksgiving. The horror…

What’s so bad about that? You eat cows, don’t you?

[Ethilrist]

Maybe it’s not a turkey…

[Irishman]

@gwisby

It was always my understanding that Goofy isn’t a dog, but a Goof. As you mentioned, he was once known as Dippy the Goof.

Okay, smartypants, what kind of animal is a “goof”?

All of the Disney parade are animals. Goofy is a dog, so is Pluto. Pluto is a pet dog, Goofy is a person dog.

[Powers]

It amazes me how many people try to over-complicate this.

If Peg-Leg Pete is a cat, and Figaro is a cat, how can Minnie keep Figaro as a pet? How can Mickey be person-sized while Chip and Dale are rodent-sized? Why is Bugs Bunny taller than Elmer Fudd? (Non-Disney example.)

Sheesh!
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[John_W.Kennedy]

Many years ago, in the letters column of Howard the Duck, there was a lengthy breakdown of the great chain of being as it exists in Disney, with[ul]
[li]full humans, like Snow White, and Madame Triple X in Dangerous Disguise,[/li][li]all-but-human dogfaces and pigfaces, like Chief O’Hara,[/li][li]fully anthropomorphic animals, like Mickey and Donald,[/li][li]clothed, but wild, animals, like the Big Bad Wolf,[/li][li]naked, but still somewhat anthropomorphized animals, like Chip and Dale,[/li][li]naked and natural animals that nevertheless talk, like Bambi,[/li][li]animals that do not talk, but still possess some degree of sapience, like Pluto, and[/li][li]full animals, like the animals on Grandma Duck’s farm.[/li][/ul]

[Powers]

@John_W.Kennedy

Many years ago, in the letters column of Howard the Duck, there was a lengthy breakdown of the great chain of being as it exists in Disney, with[ul]
[li]full humans, like Snow White, and Madame Triple X in Dangerous Disguise,[/li][li]all-but-human dogfaces and pigfaces, like Chief O’Hara,[/li][li]fully anthropomorphic animals, like Mickey and Donald,[/li][li]clothed, but wild, animals, like the Big Bad Wolf,[/li][li]naked, but still somewhat anthropomorphized animals, like Chip and Dale,[/li][li]naked and natural animals that nevertheless talk, like Bambi,[/li][li]animals that do not talk, but still possess some degree of sapience, like Pluto, and[/li][li]full animals, like the animals on Grandma Duck’s farm.[/li][/ul]

Ah, the Sliding Scale of Animal Anthropomorphism, as they call it over at TV Tropes.
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