Rita (Oliver & Company)

"We gotta clean you up, child and, get you some on the job trainin'!"

- Rita Rita is a Saluki dog and one of the deuteragonists in Disney's 1988 feature film Oliver & Company. Rita is the only one of Fagin's dogs who is a female. Her speaking voice is done by Sheryl Lee Ralph, and Ruth Pointer, one of the Pointer Sisters, does her singing voice (for "Streets of Gold," though, but in the "Why Should I Worry" reprise, Ralph does her own singing.

Personality
Rita is a proud saluki and the only female member of Dodger's dog-gang. Sometimes, Rita acts like a mother figure to Oliver since she is seen; most of the time, taking care of him, teaching him while singing "Streets of Gold" as a way of educating him about the rough and tough streets of New York and about "how the best survive by keeping their dreams alive," protecting him from danger, the only one convinced that he's happy in his new home after being adopted by a little girl named Jenny Foxworth, and happily saying good-bye to him in the end. She is kind, funny, tough, proud, and beautiful.