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== Newspaper Comics ==

* ''[[Krazy Kat]]''. (S)he even fits the [[Ambiguous Gender]] Trope. (S)he may be the inspiration for Yakko, Wakko, and Dot from ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'', and Mooch from [[Mutts]].

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_the_Jeep Eugene the Jeep] from ''[[Popeye]]'' comics looks like a dog sized, yellow, spotted, ambiguous looking cat-thing with a big, lightbulb-looking nose. Meanwhile, the animated cartoons define him as some sort of dog.

 

* The Warners in ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]''. Although often referred to as "puppy-children," they insist that they aren't puppies. They even have a song about it. The page quote is what starts the Warners singing about what they are. In case you're wondering, they're {{spoiler|cute!}} ''Animaniacs'' [[Word of God|creator Tom Ruegger confirmed in an interview that their species is]] ''[[Canis Latinicus|Cartoonus characterus]]''.

** During the production process, they started out as ducks. But everyone thought they looked too much like three miniature versions of Plucky Duck from ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures (Animation)|Tiny Toon Adventures]]''. So they added noses, doggy ears, and kitty cat tails.

** The ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures (Animation)|Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' redesign came about because the [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Hold_Anything.jpg original design] of Bosko and Honey owed a great deal to [[Uncle Tomfoolery|blackface caricature]] -- when the characters' creators transferred to MGM, they were [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cywg7wzfIBs/R78HknVsDiI/AAAAAAAADgI/UmqN90c9e_g/s1600-h/boskohoneycolor.jpg redesigned] to look unmistakably like caricatured black children. Redesigning the characters to resemble the Warners was a less problematic option.

* Most of the characters in ''[[Arthur (Animation)|Arthur]]'' are borderline cases; you have to take [[Word of God|Marc Brown's word for it]] what specific species they are meant to be. Really, can anyone tell, at first glance, that Arthur is an Aardvark? In the first books he ''did'' [http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0316111937.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg look like an aardvark], but then [[Art Evolution]] happened. The cartoon uses the newer and more well known style, of course.

** The characters in ''[[Duck Tales (Animation)|Duck Tales]]'' [[Dogfaces|who look like humans but have black noses, dog muzzles, and dog ears]]. Since they include the Beagle Boys, they're presumably the same kind of anthropomorphic dog-thing as Goofy. They've become fairly common in the Disney anthropomorphic world.

** Roxanne from ''[[A Goofy Movie]]'' pretty much looks like [[Little Bit Beastly|a human with a dog nose and muzzle]].

** Originally (before he was pitted against Mickey Mouse in 1928), Pete was depicted as a nondescript [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_black_bear American black bear]. In the early days when he was pitted against Mickey, he was a black cat with a white face, a modest looking chin, and a tail. Now he is depicted as an ambiguous looking cat without a tail, a flesh colored muzzle, and a ''really'' big chin.

*** The ''[[Mickey Mouse Clubhouse]]'' version of Pete looks reasonably like the cat, but the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' "present day" version of Pete, though still a cat, looks more like a French Bulldog.

** Another non-animal example would be ''[[Cars]]''' Lightning [[Mc Queen]]. According to his toy bio, he is actually "a 2006 all-new, one-of-a-kind race car."

* Ralph in ''[[Twice Upon a Time]]'' is an "[[Voluntary Shapeshifting|All Purpose Animal]]". His [[Shapeshifter Default Form]] is a generically cute little animal of... some sort. With nerd glasses.

** Bobcats (which have similar cheek tufts) had bred with housecats, so Gideon might be a Lynx/Housecat mix.

* The Snarfs from ''[[Thundercats (Animation)|Thundercats]]'' are a species of intelligent cat-like creatures that are native to the planet Thundera.