Sometime during the war years, Toto died and was buried in the back of the Spitz property. Because everybody on the set of the Oz movie called the terrier Toto, Spitz renamed her after the movie was completed.mainly because Terry now responded to Toto, not Terry. Terry auditioned for The Wizard of Oz, got the job immediately because of her instant rapport with all the leading actors, and earned $125/week on the picture, which was more than most of the Munchkins earned. Terry had a great life at the Spitz facility, in a country setting with other canine pals and ultimately starred in several Hollywood movies. But her owners never reclaimed her, and she became an orphan.until the Spitzes decided to keep her as a pet, and groom her as a movie extra.
Her original owners took her to Spitz's 10-acre dog-training school where she quickly learned that peeing outside was good.
Born in 1933, Terry was not the perfect little girl.she had a house-breaking problem and later, according to Judy G, bad breath (want to bet it was people-food causing it?). As you probably know by now, Toto started out as "Terry", a cairn terrior who, a few months into her life, became the property of her trainer, Carl Spitz.
Terry = Toto Willard Carroll's out-of-print book, I, Toto The Autobiography of Terry, the Dog Who Was Toto provides the complete story of Toto and her life.
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