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This isn't really a rumor or news, but there isn't a triva board I could find, and there is good collective knowledge here.
Recently my wife Melissa noticed a statue of a doberman pincher in the display of Walt's formal office at the Walt Disney Story/ Sound Dangerous with Mr. Lincoln attraction at the main street opera house at disneyland. We asked the tour CM about it and she said she hadn't noticed it before, but it caught her interest. A couple of other CMs that she asked about it had some information about it. They said that it was fashionable at the time to have a statue of a dog, and that Walt was alergic to dogs and so they did not have a family pet - so that this statue of a doberman was Walt's to guard his office in lieu of having a real dog.
But we were watching the Walt Disney Story that repeated on A & E last night, and in it there was footage of Walt giving Lillie a Chow puppy in a box, and Walt was petting and playing with the puppy....so was he allergic to dogs or not? And it looks like they had at least one family dog....
I think the basis of our curiosity is that we often wonder what kind of dog Pluto is...although Mickey (and therefore Walt) once told Pete "Ahhh, he's just a mut," we wonder if there was a real dog that served as a model for Pluto - think of all the wild life that they brought into the studio for Bambi, for instance. We wonder if there was a real dog that served as a character reference, but we've been told that Walt didn't have a pet.
Again, off topic, but not more so than other posts I guess (maybe the rumor is that Walt was allergic to dogs)- any insights?
DR
Recently my wife Melissa noticed a statue of a doberman pincher in the display of Walt's formal office at the Walt Disney Story/ Sound Dangerous with Mr. Lincoln attraction at the main street opera house at disneyland. We asked the tour CM about it and she said she hadn't noticed it before, but it caught her interest. A couple of other CMs that she asked about it had some information about it. They said that it was fashionable at the time to have a statue of a dog, and that Walt was alergic to dogs and so they did not have a family pet - so that this statue of a doberman was Walt's to guard his office in lieu of having a real dog.
But we were watching the Walt Disney Story that repeated on A & E last night, and in it there was footage of Walt giving Lillie a Chow puppy in a box, and Walt was petting and playing with the puppy....so was he allergic to dogs or not? And it looks like they had at least one family dog....
I think the basis of our curiosity is that we often wonder what kind of dog Pluto is...although Mickey (and therefore Walt) once told Pete "Ahhh, he's just a mut," we wonder if there was a real dog that served as a model for Pluto - think of all the wild life that they brought into the studio for Bambi, for instance. We wonder if there was a real dog that served as a character reference, but we've been told that Walt didn't have a pet.
Again, off topic, but not more so than other posts I guess (maybe the rumor is that Walt was allergic to dogs)- any insights?
DR
