Dog Pounded

Dog Pounded is a 1954 Looney Tunes short directed by I. Freleng.
== Plot ==
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!"
== Availability ==
W UK10554 LooneyTunesVideoShowNo19The.jpg|(1984) VHS The Looney Tunes Video Show, Volume 19
51QXZD98XSL.jpg|(1990) VHS Sylvester and Tweety (1990)
SYLVESTER AND TWEETY'S BAD OL' PUTTY TAT BLUES.jpg|(1994) LaserDisc Sylvester and Tweety's Bad Ol Putty-Tat Blues
Jlaser-bnt.jpg|(1997) LaserDisc Bugs and Tweety: Watch the Birdie (1997 dubbed version) (only in PAL regions)
HomeTweetHomeVHS.jpg|(1998) VHS Looney Tunes Presents Tweety: Home Tweet Home (1997 dubbed version)
Bumper07.jpg|(1998) VHS Special Bumper Collection (Vol. 7)
LTCE VOL 14 CARTOON SUPERSTARS.jpg|(1999) VHS Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition Volume 14: Cartoon Superstars (1997 dubbed version, without notice)
I Love Tweety - Volume 1.jpg|(2001) DVD I Love Tweety: Volume 1 (restored with DVNR)
Zee Best Of Zee Best Correct Cover.jpg|(2011) DVD Looney Tunes Super Stars' Pepé Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best (restored without DVNR)
LTPC Volume 3 Cover.png|(2014) Blu-ray Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3, Disc Two (restored without DVNR)
LT Platinum Collection VOL 3 DVD Cover.png|(2014) DVD Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3, Disc Two (restored without DVNR)
=== Streaming ===
lt boomerang.jpg|Boomerang App (2017 - ) (restored without DVNR)
lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2022) (restored without DVNR)
Lt max.jpg|Max (2024 - ) (restored without DVNR)
== Notes ==
* 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 non-reissued 16mm print of the short was uploaded online.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVvtIQYYITU
* 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.https://www.dohtem.com/bugs/wide/
**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.
==Gallery==
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Dog Pounded original opening rings 1.png|Original opening rings
Dog Pounded original ending rings.png|Original ending rings
DogPoundedIrvWynerProductionBackgroundSc4-6-16-52-1278&TweetyProductionCel.jpg|Production background with a Tweety production cel
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===TV Title Cards ===
Screenshot 2020-12-28 at 9.23.01 PM.png|Sylvester and Tweety
lt dog pounded tbbats.jpg|The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show (Final Season)
==References==
==External links==
*"Dog Pounded" at the SFX Resource Wiki
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Sylvester Cartoons
Category:Tweety Cartoons
Category:Shorts
Category:Pepe Le Pew Cartoons
Category:1954
Category:Cartoons directed by Friz Freleng
Category:Blue Ribbon reissues
Category:Re-released cartoons whose original titles are known to exist
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons written by Warren Foster
Category:Cartoons produced by Eddie Selzer
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Hawley Pratt
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Irv Wyner
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn