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** In some theatrical cartoons, Goofy owns a ''pet'' dog. He is also, for some reason, identified as George G. Geef in these cartoons, and his floppy dog-ears are not visible. A short film, "The Goofy Success Story", played with the [[Animated Actors]] trope by showing Geef as a role that Goofy played as an actor.
** A notable [[Lampshade Hanging]] occurs during a ''Goof Troop'' episode in which, Goofy, when confronted by a pair of vicious non-anthro canines, says something to the effect of: "I'm great with dogs. It's like I'm one of the family".
** Also in ''[[Goof Troop]]'', Goofy had a pet cat, and Pete had a pet dog. While Pete was originally a cat, his later appearances suggest he's a dog or maybe a wolf. And then there are a number of similar but separate characters existing in a number of mutually exclusive universes and a whole bunch of cartoon shorts that have [[Negative Continuity]] anyway. There are even multiple Petes running around the [[DuckTales (1987)]] universe.
** In another episode of ''[[Goof Troop]]'', Goofy hears a crash in his garage and assumes it was made by a ''giant mouse''. Aside from a quick cameo in ''A Goofy Movie'', Mickey never appeared on ''Goof Troop'', [[Fridge Logic|but]]...
** It gets better. Pete is a cat. His wife is, near as anyone can tell, a dog (species-wise, she's actually rather attractive). They have children together. Let me repeat that: Pete, a cat, married a dog, and [[Improbable Species Compatibility|they had viable offspring]]. I guess she was a [[Catgirl|cat person]] ([[Rimshot]]). Not only that, but their son, PJ appears to be a literal cat-person like Pete, and their daughter Pistol seems to be a "dog" like her mother, making this a case of [[Gender Equals Breed]].
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** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] at last in ''[[The Mighty Ducks (animation)|The Mighty Ducks]]'' animated series, where two of the eponymous anthro ducks (from [[Another Dimension|another universe]]) spend the end of an episode discussing the differences between themselves and Earth ducks.
* With all of this in mind, the ''[[Lion King]]'' level in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]] 2'' is just a carnival of Furry Confusion. Donald is temporarily a non-anthro bird who can ''fly'' and Pete is a non-anthro cat (more specifically, a lion). What makes it worse is the fact that Donald comments on Sora's transformation (into a lion)]] while avoiding any mention of Goofy's or his own. It should be mentioned that Donald's non-Anthro form is identified, in the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' literature as "Bird Donald". Try to read that without having a [[Psychic Nosebleed]].
* Speaking of Disney ducks, ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' gave us at least two episodes with some good examples of Furry Confusion:
** In the episode inspired by ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]'', the Odysseus stand-in, his girlfriend, and most of the supporting cast are Dog-Noses. Circe, of course, turns several of them into non-anthro pigs. Later, Circe herself is turned into a pig as punishment. Here's the thing: Circe was depicted not as a dog-nose, but as an [[Pig Man|anthropomorphic]] ''[[Pig Man|pig]]''. Uh... uh?
** Even funnier is the episode where Launchpad finds himself the unwilling object of affection for a trio of harpies. And the harpies were birds with human heads. And so we got to see birds with some human features fawning over a human with some bird features.
** [[DuckTales (1987)]] also introduced a new sidekick for Scrooge's nemesis Magica De Spell; her brother Poe who was the subject of a [[Baleful Polymorph]]. Specifically he was turned into a... bird. A different species of bird (he is a raven now), to be fair, but still... a bird. He can still talk, he still wears clothes (a hat at least), he still has functional [[Feather Fingers]], and is for all intents and purposes the same character just a different species. Still, he views his fate as awful and wants to turn back into a duck. This despite the fact that he merely seems to have gotten a bit shorter [[Cursed with Awesome|and can now]] ''[[Cursed with Awesome|fly]]'' (heck, ask an ornithologist and they will make a good argument that duck-to-corvid is an upgrade). He's just ''barely'' less anthro than the other characters.
* One episode of ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'' had Piglet (a pig) eating ''ham'' at a picnic. No one seemed to notice the grotesque implied cannibalism there, even if Piglet is supposed to be a ''stuffed'' pig... Of course, that brings up the issue of how, exactly, [[Living Toys]] digest real food—but that's probably a [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=192 different trope (warning: gore).]
* The cast of Disney's ''[[Robin Hood]]'' is (arbitrarily) made up entirely of [[Funny Animal|anthropomorphic animals]]. It actually manages to avoid some of these issues (they pointedly [[The Un-Reveal|do not show who or what]] is pulling the carriage at the end), while bringing up entirely new ones (just [[Redwall|what kind of Church]] do these animals have anyway?)
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* The show ''[[House of Mouse]]'' is definitely one of the worst offenders ever. At one point, we actually get to see [[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|Baloo]] (a talking, bipedal bear that is completely naked) sitting next to [[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Little John]] (a talking, bipedal bear that wears a hat, a tunic, and shoes, but no pants), and at another, we actually see [[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Jiminy Cricket]] (a talking, bipedal cricket that wears clothing) sitting next to [[Mulan|Cri-Kee]] (a nontalking, [[Four-Legged Insect|quadrupedal]] cricket that is completely naked).
** One episode of ''House of Mouse'' was actually about [[Donald Duck]] attempting to fly like other Disney characters that somehow posess flight ([[Dumbo]], [[Aladdin (Disney film)|The Magic Carpet]], [[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|Buzzy, Dizzy, Ziggy, and Flaps,]] and [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|Victor, Hugo, and Laverne]]), and when he gives up, he actually had to be helped by [[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Peter Pan]] of all characters! (that episode actually marked the first time we ever get to hear Peter Pan sing) Wait a minute, isn't Donald supposed to be a ''bird?''
** The "what is Goofy" question is lampshaded in House of Mouse. [[Hercules (1997 film)
* Applying [[Fridge Logic]] to the ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' films generates a certain amount of Toy Confusion. Just what constitutes a "toy", anyway? The Etch-A-Sketch is animated and sentient, but Molly's iPod doesn't seem to be. Toy vehicles are self-propelling, but toy versions of other objects (xylophones, tracks for toy trains) have to be put in place by the humanoid toys. The green aliens who worship "the Claw" are sentient, but "the Claw" itself (basically a big toy with little toys inside) is not.
** Not to mention Bullseye, a toy horse who acts like a horse, despite the presence of other animal toys who speak and act normally.
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