Directed by: Alex Lovy, Robert Clampett
Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!
Synopsis: A dog named Ronny (voiced by Gerald Mohr) explains how he was driven to suicide by his infatuation with a Siamese cat named Flora.
Cartoon Cat: This is a rather bizarre cartoon which finds Ronny about to jump off a bridge at the beginning. Instead he tells the audience his story. He was leading a quiet life, tied to a doghouse but enjoying bon bons and reading books when Flora appeared on the nearby fence.
The devise in this short is that the narration makes it sound as if Ronny is enamored with Flora but is repelled by her sadistic nature. In a way this is true, although Ronny’s emerging animal instinct seems to have more to do with his reacting like a normal dog and going after the cat. Either way, when he charges her she simply slams him against the fence.
He then tries to entice her with milk so he can club her with a mallet.
Flora ends up stealing the milk through a straw and hitting Ronny instead.
Ronny then tries to make friends with Flora, taking her out for cocktails. His plan is to poison her, but she drops a pill into his drink instead.
Becoming dejected and somehow homeless, Ronny wanders the streets at Christmas and ends up at Flora’s expensive home where he is shunned again.
At the end Ronny decides not to kill himself and to start down a new road, only to be run over by Flora in a car as he steps into the street.
Final Mewsings: Best not to get on a cat’s bad side.
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