It's a Wild Wednesday but we're cheating a little today...because today's animal is an animatronic. A very long-lived animatronic, in fact...
On Carousel of Progress, originally built for General Electric for the 1964 New York World's Fair, then moved to Disneyland in 1967, and then finally Disney World in 1975, Rover is our host John's faithful companion through the decades. He adds a sense of continuity (and canine immortality) to the passage of time, and lends an ear for John's exposition to us.
If you recognize a certain resemblance amongst Rover and other dogs across Magic Kingdom, you're not alone. Cast Members in the 1990s created an unofficial backstory linking them. According to a Disney fandom website, our boy "Rover would be revealed to have been from a litter of five puppies" and each scene's dog was one of that litter: Rover, Queenie, Sport and Spot, the fifth being the unlucky Bony, the Caretaker's dog from Haunted Mansion. As the story went, they were the pups of, Loki, a ghost dog near the mummy on the same attraction. Loki was, in turn, the pup of Master Gracey's dog, Hellhound, and also a descendant of the dog from Fort Sam Clemens on Tom Sawyer Island (too soon?) and the prison dog on Pirates of the Caribbean. (disney.fandom.com)
So there you have it—finally, a tale to link all of those tails!!
I took this with a 400mm zoom as the lights were just coming up in the theater, 1/250 seconds, f/6.3, ISO 10000, and then dealt with the noise in edits.