Dog Pounded

A hungry Sylvester tries to scout a trash can for food, which has been occupied by another alley cat. He later sees Tweety in his nest, which sits on a nearby tree. Sylvester is quick to try to run up the tree, but the tree is located inside the city's dog pound containing a plethora of bulldogs. Sylvester is brutally mauled entering the pound, and when he tries to peep at the dogs, they gnaw off his head fur.

Sylvester attempts numerous ways to catch Tweety, all easily intercepted by the dogs:

Sylvester uses an umbrella to walk upon a telephone line. The bulldogs blows a massive gush of wind to knock Sylvester out of balance and into the dogs.
Sylvester attempts to sneak by digging underground. However, the bulldogs digs in the same tunnel opposite of Sylvester and quickly attack him as Sylvester tries to bury them.
Sylvester uses a fake dog costume, which fails to fool the dogs. When Sylvester runs off in fear, a dog catcher mistakes Sylvester as a dog and throws him back into the dog pound.
Trying to peer over the fence again, another bulldog walks on the other side to see if Sylvester is still out, tilting the fence post Sylvester is on and into the bulldogs.
Studying hypnosis, Sylvester manages to freeze the dogs in place, allowing him to get Tweety entirely undetected. As Tweety yells for help and begs to know what will wake the dogs up, Sylvester ends up blurting out that a police whistle will release them from their trance. Tweety just so happens to have a police whistle, and Sylvester covers the bird with a cup when he realizes his mistake. However, Tweety stabs Sylvester's hand using a pin, freeing him and waking the dogs as Sylvester futilely tries to escape.
Sylvester strangely notices the bulldogs are nowhere in sight. He tries to climb up the tree, only to find the dogs are instead perched up on the trees instead.
Using a firework cracker in attempt to fly up, it only blows out the cat's top fur coat.
Sylvester tries to use a swing to reach Tweety, but he goes down too low and gets attacked by the bulldogs.

The cat's final attempt is to paint a white stripe on his back to disguise himself as a skunk. This ploy nearly works; scaring off the dogs in the process. However, as he tries to exit, Pepé Le Pew suddenly appears and mistakes him for a female skunk and starts flirting with him as Sylvester tries to escape Pepé's grasp. "That puddy tat's turning out to be an awful stinker!"

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This is the only appearance of Pepé Le Pew (a Chuck Jones character) in a Friz Freleng cartoon. Later the same year, Tweety would appear for the only time in a Chuck Jones cartoon, "No Barking".
Pepé Le Pew would romantically pursue Sylvester by mistake again in The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries episode "Is Paris Stinking?" and the 2000 direct-to-video feature film Tweety's High-Flying Adventure. Additionally, in The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries episode "Platinum Wheel of Fortune", Sylvester gets romantically pursued by a lovesick skunk by mistake, though it is not Pepé, but his cousin Pitu Le Pew.
Similar in concept to "Ain't She Tweet" (1952), this cartoon also centers around Sylvester trying to catch Tweety surrounded by bulldogs, except that here Granny is absent and Tweety is not a pet.
On 12 September 2022, a 16mm print of the short with original rings was uploaded online.^[1]
This cartoon was released two days before the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio reopened on 4 January 1954, after a brief seven-month shutdown from June to December 1953 during the height of the 3-D craze at the time. From that point on, subsequent cartoons are being produced for both widescreen and full screen formats, with animation being done in open-matte Academy aspect ratio (1:37:1) as usual and being matted to 1:75:1 widescreen format for theatrical release.^[2]
- This is the first cartoon to have the orange-blue Color Rings adjusted to the widescreen standard (1.85:1), becoming smaller, despite the cartoon itself being originally produced in 1953, as revealed on the short's copyright notice on the opening titles, which was before the cartoons themselves were filmed in open-matte Academy ratio (1:37:1) to adjust to the widescreen standard (1.85:1) effective from January 1954.

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"Dog Pounded" at the SFX Resource Wiki

Pepé Le Pew Cartoons
1945	Odor-able Kitty
1947	Scent-imental over You
1948	Odor of the Day
1949	For Scent-imental Reasons
1951	Scent-imental Romeo
1952	Little Beau Pepé
1953	Wild over You
1954	Dog Pounded • The Cats Bah
1955	Past Perfumance • Two Scent's Worth
1956	Heaven Scent
1957	Touché and Go
1959	Really Scent
1960	Who Scent You?
1961	A Scent of the Matterhorn
1962	Louvre Come Back to Me!
1995	Carrotblanca

Sylvester Cartoons
1945	Life with Feathers • Peck Up Your Troubles
1946	Kitty Kornered
1947	Tweetie Pie • Crowing Pains • Doggone Cats • Catch as Cats Can
1948	Back Alley Oproar • I Taw a Putty Tat • Hop, Look and Listen • Kit for Cat • Scaredy Cat
1949	Mouse Mazurka • Bad Ol' Putty Tat • Hippety Hopper
1950	Home, Tweet Home • The Scarlet Pumpernickel • All a Bir-r-r-d • Canary Row • Stooge for a Mouse • Pop 'Im Pop!
1951	Canned Feud • Putty Tat Trouble • Room and Bird • Tweety's S.O.S. • Tweet Tweet Tweety
1952	Who's Kitten Who? • Gift Wrapped • Little Red Rodent Hood • Ain't She Tweet • Hoppy Go Lucky • A Bird in a Guilty Cage • Tree for Two
1953	Snow Business • A Mouse Divided • Fowl Weather • Tom Tom Tomcat • A Street Cat Named Sylvester • Catty Cornered • Cats A-weigh!
1954	Dog Pounded • Bell Hoppy • Dr. Jerkyl's Hide • Claws for Alarm • Muzzle Tough • Satan's Waitin' • By Word of Mouse
1955	Lighthouse Mouse • Sandy Claws • Tweety's Circus • Jumpin' Jupiter • A Kiddies Kitty • Speedy Gonzales • Red Riding Hoodwinked • Heir-Conditioned • Pappy's Puppy
1956	Too Hop to Handle • Tweet and Sour • Tree Cornered Tweety • The Unexpected Pest • Tugboat Granny • The Slap-Hoppy Mouse • Yankee Dood It
1957	Tweet Zoo • Tweety and the Beanstalk • Birds Anonymous • Greedy for Tweety • Mouse-Taken Identity • Gonzales' Tamales
1958	A Pizza Tweety-Pie • A Bird in a Bonnet
1959	Trick or Tweet • Tweet and Lovely • Cat's Paw • Here Today, Gone Tamale • Tweet Dreams
1960	West of the Pesos • Goldimouse and the Three Cats • Hyde and Go Tweet • Mouse and Garden • Trip for Tat
1961	Cannery Woe • Hoppy Daze • Birds of a Father • D' Fightin' Ones • The Rebel Without Claws • The Pied Piper of Guadalupe • The Last Hungry Cat
1962	Fish and Slips • Mexican Boarders • The Jet Cage
1963	Mexican Cat Dance • Chili Weather • Claws in the Lease
1964	A Message to Gracias • Freudy Cat • Nuts and Volts • Hawaiian Aye Aye • Road to Andalay
1965	It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House • Cats and Bruises • The Wild Chase
1966	A Taste of Catnip
1980	The Yolks on You
1995	Carrotblanca
1997	Father of the Bird
2011	I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat

Tweety Cartoons
1942	A Tale of Two Kitties
1944	Birdy and the Beast
1945	A Gruesome Twosome
1947	Tweetie Pie
1948	I Taw a Putty Tat
1949	Bad Ol' Putty Tat
1950	Home, Tweet Home • All a Bir-r-r-d • Canary Row
1951	Putty Tat Trouble • Room and Bird • Tweety's S.O.S. • Tweet Tweet Tweety
1952	Gift Wrapped • Ain't She Tweet • A Bird in a Guilty Cage
1953	Snow Business • Fowl Weather • Tom Tom Tomcat • A Street Cat Named Sylvester • Catty Cornered
1954	Dog Pounded • Muzzle Tough • Satan's Waitin'
1955	Sandy Claws • Tweety's Circus • Red Riding Hoodwinked • Heir-Conditioned
1956	Tweet and Sour • Tree Cornered Tweety • Tugboat Granny
1957	Tweet Zoo • Tweety and the Beanstalk • Birds Anonymous • Greedy for Tweety
1958	A Pizza Tweety-Pie • A Bird in a Bonnet
1959	Trick or Tweet • Tweet and Lovely • Tweet Dreams
1960	Hyde and Go Tweet • Trip for Tat
1961	The Rebel Without Claws • The Last Hungry Cat
1962	The Jet Cage
1964	Hawaiian Aye Aye
2011	I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat

[1] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVvtIQYYITU

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