OK Walt: We know you are changing for the better. Prince Charming will no longer inflict life-saving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on Snow White without her permission and The Pirates of the Caribbean will stop groping the wenches and politely invite them to tea under the strict supervision of their legal guardians.
But you need to extend your newly acquired conscience to the animal kingdom. Since his birth on the drawing board in 1932 Dippy Dog, his original name, has been saddled with the derogatory name of “Goofy.” If he is intelligent enough to talk he should be treated with more respect. Admittedly his southern accent does give insight to why he is considered to be of limited intelligence, but we know now that occasionally a southerner can have a modicum of common sense. Use the name “Godfrey” and you won’t have to change his bath towels.
Cartoon dogs have enjoyed a much higher status in other studios. In 1959 Warner Brothers introduced Mr. Peabody, a Beagle and inventor of a time travel machine used to teach history to Sherman, an intelligent adolescent boy thirsting for knowledge. (although there is some controversy regarding whether or not Mr. Peabody had secured the necessary permissions to take Sherman to other time periods and geographic locations).
So c’mon Disney. Fix it! And while doing so look into the Pluto problem. If he does not have the power of speech like Godfrey, at least provide him an interpreter proficient in sign language.