What breed of dog is Toto?
It depends on your source. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Baum describes him as “a little black dog, with long, silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.” He never said what breed he was, but Denslow drew him as looking somewhat like a Cairn terrier or a Scottie. When Toto next appears in an Oz book, John R. Neill drew him as a Boston terrier or French bulldog (Neill had a French bulldog himself at the time), even though he was well aware of Denslow’s depiction. In one illustration in that book, Neill’s Toto laughs at a statue of himself, which Neill drew in Denslow’s style, complete with signature seahorse. As Neill drew Toto more in later books, however, he got shaggier, and ended up looking more like Denslow’s depiction, a convention other Oz illustrators have pretty much stuck with. For The Movie, Scotties were initially looked at, but when Carl Spitz brought in Terry, a Cairn terrier, she got the job, and Toto became a Cairn to ma
