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Originally Posted by ourfirstyorkie  So, I just happened to be reading chapter 18 of Yorkshire Terriers for Dummies and there is a section titled "Toto Was a Yorkie (Maybe)"
So I thought I would share it:
"Some folks claim that the character Toto in L.Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was a Yorkie. According to Frank, Toto was 'a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.'
This description, you have to admit, can apply to several breeds of dogs. But the Wizard of Oz's original illustrator, W.W.Denslow, owned a Yorkie and very well may have used his dog as a model for the illustrations in the book. So Toto may or may not be a Yorkie. But he definitely wasn't a Cairn Terrier, which is the type of dog cast in the 1939 movie version." |
Found this online and thought interesting. Wanted to see why they used a norwich terrier in the movie:
However, from the illustrations in the first book many have concluded that Toto is a Cairn Terrier while others believe the dog is a Yorkshire Terrier as this breed was very popular at the time. In subsequent books Toto becomes a Boston Terrier for reasons that are never explained, but then resumes the earlier look in later books.
Seems the illustrator could not make up his mind.