Pooka is Anastasia's scruffy pet puppy. He is the first friend she made after being heartlessly sent away from the orphanage. Pooka generally speaks in barks, but it is revealed later in the film that he is capable of speech. In the DVD commentary of Anastasia, Bluth describes his reasoning behind Pooka's gender identity. "I wanted the boys to have someone to root for, you know? Rarely in media do you see men represented as raw, multifaceted creatures. I remember one particular call with a netwo