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I've never understood this reaction. Goofy and Pluto are both dogs in the same way Humans and dogs are both mammals. They're not the same, just visually similar, but Goofy has more in common with Mickey than Pluto.
Ok, but a dog's a dog. So in the case of pluto, it's either a disability or pet play. Pick your poison.
Neither, he's just a dog. Is your (hypothetical) real-world dog disabled? Is your dog engaging in kink? No, it's just a dog, and we've generally accepted that it's ok to own/adopt one into your home.
Is a marmoset that is owned/adopted as a pet by a fellow simian human somehow mentally disabled or engaging in pet play? No, it's just a monkey, and sometimes they're pets.
Just because a human and a marmoset are both simians, both primates, doesn't mean we treat them the same. The same is clearly the case for Goofy, Mickey, and Pluto.
There's a lot of examples of non-personified cartoon animals in those comics and cartoons, typically in the background. It's just how the world works, animals owning animals, just like us.
So if I own a human as a pet, that's cool? Two humans in this universe is the same as two dogs in that one. A marmoset isn't a human. It's not a proper comparison. If you see a human being led around on a leash in this universe there are two options. Usually in cartoon universes mammals are anthropomorphic and birds and fish are not but if you have a universe where dogs are anthropomorphic and one of them is being led around on a lead, that's not right.
But they're not the same, that's what I'm getting at. One of them is a man who walks and talks, and the other is just a cartoon dog. Idk why that's so hard to understand.
I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.