Canis goofus, as Farmer put it. But, while neither Disney nor Farmer identifies a specific breed, one consensus answer is more widely accepted than all the others among Disney fans and dog breed experts. Goofy is a black and tan coonhound.
Officially a mixed-breed dog, he made his debut as a bloodhound in the Mickey Mouse cartoon The Chain Gang. Together with Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, and Goofy, Pluto is one of the "Sensational Six"—the biggest stars in the Disney universe.
Clarabelle Cow is a cartoon character created by The Walt Disney Company. As an anthropomorphic cow, Clarabelle is one of Minnie Mouse's best friends. She was once depicted as the girlfriend of Horace Horsecollar, although now she is often paired with Goofy.
Goofy and Pluto are both dogs. Yet Pluto walks on all fours, runs around naked and can only bark at the world. Goofy walks on two feet, wears clothing and has the power of speech — albeit, mostly to say "goofy" things. Maybe that's why I identify with him.
Despite some confusion about what kind of animal he is, Goofy is an anthropomorphic dog. It's a little odd that Goofy is a dog since he doesn't share many similarities with Mickey's dog, Pluto. While Goofy can talk and walk on two feet like all the other characters, Pluto can't.
The most widely accepted and probable theory is that Goofy has evolved from a dog, but Pluto was unable to do so. Another theory is that Disney animators wanted to flex their wide-range of skills by creating the same animal in two completely different ways.
Originally known as Dippy Dawg, the character is more commonly known simply as "Goofy," a name used in his short film series. In his 1950s persona, Goofy was called George Geef, or G. G. Geef, implying that "Goofy" was merely a nickname. In Goofy Gymnastics (1949) he fills out a coupon with the name James Boyd.
Pete (also called Peg Leg Pete, Bad Pete and Black Pete, among other names) is a cartoon character created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks of The Walt Disney Company. Pete is traditionally depicted as the villainous arch-nemesis of Mickey Mouse, and was made notorious for his repeated attempts to kidnap Minnie Mouse.
Maximilian "Max" Goof is a cartoon character who is the son of the Disney character Goofy. He first appeared in the 1951 short Fathers Are People as Goofy Jr., and later appeared in the 1992 television series Goof Troop as Max Goof, a preteen.
Early production documents for Goof Troop contain a proposed explanation for the absence of Goofy's wife, proposing that she may have fallen off a cliff while Goofy was taking her picture during a visit to the Grand Canyon.
It's a little-known fact that Minnie and Mickey were married in their “private life”. There was never an onscreen wedding for the two, but Walt Disney admitted in 1933 that the mice were in fact married. Well, now the two most famous cartoon characters are going through a tough divorce.
To name the Mouse's trusty companion, Walt doggedly dug through many mutt-worthy monikers, including Pal and Homer the Hound. Finally, most likely in honor of the headline-grabbing newly discovered planet, and certainly with an eye to alliteration, the imaginative producer decided on Pluto the Pup.
Because Pluto is an actual dog, while Goofy is an anthropomorphic dog. It's just a common thing in Western cartoons generally, where both actual animals & anthropomorphic animals live together.
He is an anthropomorphic dog, like Mickey is a mouse. Goofy was originally called Dippy Dawg which leads me to believe he's a dog. Since he speaks and walks upright, he's not a dog like Pluto. I don't know how JC categorizes him, since he doesn't show up when searching “cow” or “dog.”
Gloves humanize the characters. Walt Disney explained that gloves were used to make characters like Mickey Mouse more relatable and human-like. It also made animating their hands easier. White gloves represent a bygone era.
It's true that Goofy originally had a wife featured in many of the classic animated shorts from the 1950s. However, Mrs. Goof strangely vanished, never to be seen or mentioned onscreen again.
The Goofy cartoons Tiger Trouble and African Diary were featured in this episode, and it was said that the goofy from these cartoons were in fact named Amos Goofy, and that he was Junior's grandfather and Goofy's father. In later printings of the comic adaptation of this episode, Amos was renamed Hunter Goofy.
Just Incase you didn't know, according to Walt Disney in a 1933 interview, Mickey and Minnie are in fact married outside of their acting careers though they don't have a sex life. But if you ask me they do, it's just that they take every precaution nessacary so that Minnie doesn't get pregnant.
Dinah replaced Fifi the Peke as Pluto's girlfriend in the later Disney cartoons. She appears as Pluto's girlfriend although she sometimes dates Butch the Bulldog as well.
