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Bloodhound: "Pluto", the Disney Character (1931-)
Pluto (also known as Pluto the Pup) is an animated cartoon made famous in a series of Disney short cartoons. Pluto, has most frequently appeared as Mickey Mouse's pet dog. His first comics appearance was in the Mickey Mouse daily strips in 1931. He also had an independent starring role in a number of Disney shorts in the 1940s and 1950s. Pluto is unusual for a Disney character in that he is not anthropomorphized beyond showing an unusually broad range of facial expressions or upper-body movements at key points, like Goofy. He is actually represented as a normal dog: a bloodhound, although when the character appears at Disney theme parks, he walks upright on his two hind legs. Pluto was named after the dwarf planet Pluto which was discovered in 1930, the same year that the character was conceptualised, and thus is indirectly named after the Roman god of the underworld. Pluto was designed and supervised by Disney animator, Norm Ferguson.
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