Puss n' Booty

Puss n' Booty is a 1943 Looney Tunes short directed by Frank Tashlin.
== Title ==
The title is a pun on the story "Puss in Boots", though this cartoon has nothing to do with it.
== Plot ==
A pet owner comes home to find that her pet canary Dicky is gone. As she searches around, her cat Rudolph burps the feathers of Dicky, but also stages that Dicky flew out the window. Stating that's the fifth canary that flew out on her, she calls the pet shop to get her a new bird. As the delivery truck arrives, Rudolph waits outside in hopes to get another meal. He peeps inside of the cage, revealing a small bird who shivers on sight of the cat, fearing impending doom from being eaten.
The owner names the bird Petey, and gives him and Rudolph their food. However, Rudolph is disgusted with drinking milk and attempts to eat Petey. As Rudolph leaps for the bird, Petey lifts his cage quickly, directing Rudolph into a wall. Rudolph attaches strings to the cage and attempts the same jump again, but Petey opens both doors of the cage and flies out of the way, leading Rudolph outside of the window and slamming into a fountain.
That night, Rudolph sneakily tries to nab his dinner while Petey is sleeping, but Petey smashes Rudolph's hand with a mallet and drops another one on his head giving a rather malicious grin. Later on, Rudolph then drops from above of the cage, ricocheting up and down repeatedly until he is flung to the door. Petey quickly escapes from the cat's mouth and flies back into his cage, which has Rudolph waiting inside to eat him. After a large fight (that Petey apparently wins) ensues that wakes up the owner, she comes out of her room and finds out that Rudolph is now missing. Petey wordlessly states he doesn't know where Rudolph is, and goes back to sleep but not before the canary burps up Rudolph's neck bow in a hiccup implying that Rudolph has suffered the same fate that he himself bestowed on his owner's previous five canaries.
== Availability ==
LTGC Vol.4.jpg|(2006) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4 Disc Two (restored)
lt bbot pp.jpg|(2011) DVD Porky Pig
=== Streaming ===
lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2023) (restored)
lt max.jpg|Max (2023 - 2024) (restored)
== Notes ==
* This is last black-and-white cartoon in the Looney Tunes series, as well as the last black-and-white Looney Tunes short that Frank Tashlin directed. This is also the latest Warner Bros. cartoon in the Sunset Productions package.
* This cartoon entered the public domain in 1972 due to Warner Bros. failing to renew the copyright in time. 
** It is also the most recent Looney Tunes or Merrie Melodies short in the public domain, as all other such shorts in said series released thereafter still remain under copyright. This does not include any government shorts, including Private Snafu, which are automatically in the public domain due to being works created for the U.S. government.
* This cartoon has a special ending cue of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down".
* The ending implies that Petey killed and/or ate Rudolph.
* This short's concept would later be redone with Sylvester and Tweety in "I Taw a Putty Tat".
* The 1990 computer-colorized version replaces the 1939-43 LT ending card with the 1937-39 one, but keeps the original audio playing over it.
* This was one of the few black-and-white cartoons from the Sunset Productions/Guild Films package to air on Cartoon Network that still aired with a redrawn-colorized print regularly. Others included "Wholly Smoke", "Jeepers Creepers", "Porky's Bear Facts", "Porky's Pooch", and "Daffy's Southern Exposure".
== Gallery ==
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Puss N' Booty Lobby Card.jpg|Lobby card
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File:Puss N' Booty (1943) - Searching.jpg
== References ==
 
Category:Shorts
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:1943
Category:Black-and-white cartoons
Category:Post-1935 Black & White Looney Tunes
Category:Cartoons that contain excerpts from "Powerhouse"
Category:Cartoons written by Warren Foster
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons animated by Don Williams
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Bea Benaderet
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons in the Sunset Productions package
Category:One-Shot Cartoons
Category:Public domain films