What kind of dog was in the wizard of oz?

Terry, the dog that played Toto in the 1939 screen adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, was a brindle Cairn terrier. Due to the identification of the State of Kansas with the original story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a resident of Wichita has begun a drive to make the Cairn terrier the official dog of Kansas. read more

Toto is a fictional dog in L. Frank Baum's Oz series of children's books, and works derived from them. The name is pronounced with a long "O", a homophone of "toe toe". The dog was originally a small terrier drawn by W. W. Denslow for the first edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). read more

In the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz," Dorothy's dog Toto was played by a cairn terrier. The book's author, L. Frank Baum, never specifically identified Toto's breed. Baum described Toto as a small black dog with long hair, although illustrations typically depict Toto as a cairn or Yorkshire terrier. read more