Buster

Buster is Andy's pet dog, whom he receives as a puppy for his Christmas present at the end of Toy Story, but makes his first full appearance in Toy Story 2 as a brown miniature dachshund. He is able to understand the toys when they talk to him and is shown to be friends with Woody. He is first shown as he bursts into Andy's room to find Woody and sets a new record of 13.5 seconds, as shown on Mr. Spell and remarked by Hamm. When Andy's mother takes Wheezy, the squeeze toy penguin, out to be sold at a yard sale, Woody whistles to Buster, and the dog takes him out to the yard sale, where Woody climbs into a box to dig out Wheezy and bring him back to Andy's room. Unfortunately, Buster makes a leap while heading back to Andy's room, causing Woody to fall, which leads to the events afterwards. At the end of the film, Buster is shown alongside Slinky Dog, who understands that Buster wants to get out of the room, and Jessie performs a stunt with a Hot Wheels car and track to reach the doorknob to let Buster out. He is last seen when Woody sees Andy, Molly, and their mother go out for another outing.

He makes his last appearance in Toy Story 3, although very old, mixed brown and a little gray, a bit overweight, and a teensy bit weak. Woody whistles for him again for help getting downstairs to rescue his friends from getting thrown away, but Buster is way too old and falls asleep on Woody then he turns Buster around for air. Buster is still loyal to Woody, and is last seen being with Andy when he departs for college telling him to keep Molly away from his stuff.

Trivia

 * An early version of Buster, named Speck by the toys, appeared in the Toy Story comic story "Pup and Circumstance", printed in the November 30, 1996 issue of Disney Adventures. The character's name in the story was not updated when it was reprinted in 2005.


 * In Toy Story 2, Buster's ears are longer than his older self in Toy Story 3. The reason for this was probably to make Buster look more close to an appearance of a real dachshund.