That dog, of course, was Pluto. Now, some 31,714 days after Walt Disney first laid eyes on the now-dwarf planet (and 31,192 days after the rest of humanity found out), we finally see what he saw ...

A series of dark and light squiggles creates what look like two ears, two eyes, a nose and even the tongue of Pluto the dog in an image taken of the planet by the New Horizons spacecraft on July 11.

One of the internet's most enduring mysteries is why Pluto is the only original Disney character who doesn't talk — and I finally have an answer. Actually, if I'm being exact, I have 10 answers ...

But the story doesn’t stop there. New Horizons made its closest flyby of Pluto on July 14 and released an Instagram-exclusive close-up of the dwarf planet’s surface.

A series of dark and light squiggles creates what look like two ears, two eyes, a nose and even the tongue of Pluto the dog in an image taken of the planet by the New Horizons spacecraft on July 11.

And the unnamed dog that would evolve into Pluto, was shown to be a Bloodhound. Perhaps unsurprisingly, that Bloodhound was trying to track down Mickey in the cartoon.

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson blames the backlash he has received for recognizing Pluto as a dwarf — and not a full-fledged — planet on the popularity of the Disney dog with the same name ...

Amid rumours NASA's New Horizons spotted a lifeform on Pluto, we applied our advanced 'cartoon sensor' to investigate. See the results. An unusually shaped light patch on the surface of Pluto ...

Venetia Burney also lived to be 90, and she was also philosophical. She conceded she would rather have Pluto keep its designation as a planet, but late in life she was more vexed by another claim: ...

Dog Can't Contain Its Joy When It Meets Disney's Pluto. ... was on a trip to Disneyland in California with one of the group's trainers when he met his canine cartoon counterpart -- the famed Pluto ...

Gavino says the lovable cartoon character is his dog’s favorite, since he has a stuffed toy of Pluto at home that he “loves so much,” Fox News reports. Photo: Julian Gavino/Fox News ...