MGM Cartoon Studio
Directed by: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna

Cat Out of the Bag Alert!  This review contains some spoilers for this film!

Synopsis: A friendly police officer tries to rescue a kitten from an overenthusiastic pup.

Cartoon Cats: Officer Pooch is a dog himself but an anthropomorphic one as opposed to the rascally pup who has “treed” a gray kitten up a pole.

Officer Pooch climbs the pole and finding the kitten to be meek and timid he naturally assumes he can just pick the kitten up. He assumes wrong.

Before Officer Pooch tries to rescue the kitten again, the kitten backs into some live wires around a glass insulator on the pole. Officer Pooch gets an even worse shock when he comes in contact with the wires.

On the ground, Officer Pooch realizes the kitten is under his hat.

The excited terrier shows up and lunges at the kitten and the chase is on again!

This time the kitten runs up an actual tree and Officer Pooch has to try another rescue, this time dealing with a vicious woodpecker.

The kitten ends up in a nest at the top of the tree.

Eventually Officer Pooch manages to get the kitten down, but loses his shorts in the process of pulling the kitten from the back of his shirt (that must have been some wedgie!)

Spying a basket of kittens nearby, Officer Pooch returns the wayward kitten to his family.

But the terrier isn’t done yet and starts after the whole basket, which Officer Pooch tries to balance on his head.

In the end the terrier and a bunch of other dogs tree all of the kittens and Officer Pooch.

Final Mewsings: Are dogs who try to rescue cats from other dogs considered traitors?

Many thanks to Ted Davis for reminding us of the kittens in this cartoon!

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