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NOT up to the standard of Feed the Kitty but still excellent.

Guarding a construction site bullying hound Mark Anthony finds the endearing kitten Pussyfoot emerging from a trash can. When his frenzied barking only elicits purrs and affection he takes a shine to the kitten and proceeds to batter and pound a stray that wanders in and tries to take the cat's food.

While the animation is a bit ropey (a la the later Tom and Jerry's) this is still one of my favourite cartoons ever despite being the least pleasing of the Bulldog/ Kitten quartet.

As has been noted before, Mark Anthony's increasingly frenzied barking at Pussyfoot producing no reaction whatsoever is one of the funniest things Chuck Jones has ever done.

I dearly wish that Warner Bros would put this and the other 3 cartoons on one cassette/ DVD.

I saw Cat Feud as a fan of Chuck Jones and also of Furry Frame-Up and especially Feed the Kitty. It was rather disappointing compared to those two cartoons and to some of Jones' other work, with a very standard and rather rushed story and a couple of parts that come across as too cutesy for my taste. However it is not bad. The animation is good, maybe Marc Anthony's character design is a little too generic here but the backgrounds do have detail and the colours are appropriately luscious. The music has the energy and characterful orchestration as you'd expect it to, while the dialogue is amusing and the gags while not what you call imaginative at least make their mark, particularly Marc Anthony's frenzied barking and the ending. Both Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot are memorable here, and their rapport is fun, dynamic and touching. The vocals of Mel Blanc are stellar as always. So all in all, not a great cartoon but nowhere near what I call bad. 7/10 Bethany Cox

This Cartoon consists of a great many sight-gags and is one of at least three cartoons that feature both Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot. While the concept of a bulldog becoming the protector of a kitten is too cute by half, this one has found a soft spot in my heart (or is it my head?) because it principally covers what happens to another cat who tries to bully Pussyfoot and suffers, in consequence, Marc Anthony's wrath in return. I will always root for a bully to receive their comeuppance and the gags, while more or less standard, are reasonably good. Worth watching.

The final Marc Antony and Pussyfoot short, directed by the great Chuck Jones. It's a sweet and funny cartoon that changes a few things from previous entries but, for the most part, still follows the formula of the series. If you've never seen Jones' classic "Feed the Kitty," you definitely should. It was a brilliantly simple cartoon about a bulldog protecting an adorable little kitten. A short-lived series of cartoons featuring these two characters followed but they were all pretty much derivative of the original and thus never quite as memorable. The animation here is good, if a little sketchy. You can definitely start to see some Grinch in the faces, particularly with the alley cat trying to get at Pussyfoot. The music from Milt Franklyn is nice. Mel Blanc handles the voice work but that's just cat and dog noises, no talking. In the end this is a fun cartoon but nothing exceptional. It's easy to see why they decided to stop making them. The central idea was pretty limited and here, removed from their regular household setting and with Pussyfoot being tougher than usual, they were getting away from the premise of the series. It still works on a basic level but I don't know where they could have gone from here.

Never liked this one. Watched it when I was about ten and I found the cat's fate at the end torturous and cruel. Chuck Jones did a great job with the artwork and sound effects but some of the sight gags are a bit repetitive. Maybe the author of the cartoon delights in torturing cartoon characters that he sets up to be evil. Perhaps Chucks Jones is using this as some sort of catharsis to placate some of the angst he experienced growing up. Hopefully the workmen let him down the next day. Just felt bad for him. Could you imagine being cramped up in a bucket like that? It must be awful and of course Mr. Bulldog doesn't care! Just goes to show you that some people just like to cause evil to suffer and delight in their suffering.