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from Wikipedia:

Toto belongs to Dorothy Gale, the heroine of the first and many subsequent books in the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz series. In Tik-Tok of Oz, Toto reveals that he is able to talk, just like other animals in the land of Oz, and simply chooses not to. In the first book, Toto is illustrated as a Cairn Terrier, but in subsequent books becomes a Boston Terrier for reasons that are never explained.

In the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, Toto was played by a black Cairn Terrier whose real name was Terry. Terry was paid a $125.00 salary each week, which was far more then many of the human actors (the Singer Midgets only received $50.00 a week). Also, Terry was stepped on by one of the witch’s guards, and a double had to be used because her foot was broken. The popularity of the movie actually changed her name to Toto, because that was the role she was most remembered for. In the 1985 movie Return To Oz, Toto was played by a Border Terrier. In The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz, Toto is played by Pepe the Prawn.