Dr. Claws

### Likes

Science, experimentation, succeeding, monsters, Enchanted Pup stories, helping others, soup

### Dislikes

Failed experiments, solitary confinement, being called crazy, being framed

### Status

Active

**Dr. Claws** is a supporting character in the feature film, *Animal Planet* and the animated series, *The Enchanted Pup.* He's the paraplegic scientist of Basel's Garden who often assists the Basel monarchy, military, government and police departments with his inventions.

## Background

Dr. Claws was born paraplegic which lead him to use a wheelchair to get from place-to-place. Before becoming a citizen of Basel's Garden, Claws lived in a small town known as Weasel Town. After finishing medical school, he brought unused land and decided to build an observatory for him to perform his experiments. One night, while drawing the blueprints of his inventions, Claws is encountered by Theodore, the prince of the garden. He asks the weasel if he had a place to stay for the night and he replies no. Theodore kindly invited Claws to stay in the castle with his family until his new home was built. Appreciated by the prince's act of kindness, Claws promises to someday to return the favor to Theodore.

Claws' observatory was eventually finished and he moved out of the castle. In his observatory, Claws immediately got to work on building machines to help the kingdom. When Theodore was elected the governor of the garden, Theodore's first act as governor was appointing Claws as the Royal Scientist. Claws was ecstatic by Theodore's appointment and vowed to build inventions that will protect and help the kingdom.

Dr. Claws is one of the garden residents to be fans of the Enchanted Pup and are thrilled when he comes to the kingdom unannounced.

### Personality

Dr. Claws is found weird and strange by most of the mammals of Animal Town, mostly because of his passion for science and love to make monsters. However, as revealed in *Stop Copying Me,* it was revealed that when he was younger, he created a lot of monsters that ran amuck in Animal Town. When he aged into an adult, Claws took responsibility in his creations and was willing to take the blame for his assistant, Hugo. Aside from his eccentric nature, Dr. Claws is found to be a caring, helpful and kind person to be around. His intelligence and friendship with the Mayor, his family, Chief Yak, the BPD officers, Hansel and his family proves to be one of his strengths as he meets new animals and humans that roam around in and out of Animal Town.

Dr. Claws expresses deep remorse when his inventions runs amuck in the kingdom and is willing to give up his freedom for his assistant.

He was restricted from going outside of his house and was practically locked in his room. Result of being locked in his rooms for over 30 years, Dr. Claws developed claustrophobia and says that he's goes crazy if he's in a closed space or in solitary confinement. The doctor believed the reason was because mammals saw weasels as antisocial and feral creatures that you couldn't come in contact. When the doctor entered adulthood, he decided to prove the mammals of Animal Town, by showing how friendly and sociable he is.

Dr. Claws also proves to be a talented inventor and enjoys creating monsters or animals alongside his assistant, Hugo.

### Physical appearance

Dr. Claws is a red weasel who wears a white lab coat and sits on a wheelchair. Unlike weasels, he doesn't have that many teeth.

## Appearances

### Animal Planet

Dr. Claws is introduced when Chief Yak and Officer Stripes reports to Mayor Robinson that his father was murdered by Red Bird. Mayor Robinson orders Dr. Claws to get to work on designing new laser guns for the garden's army as they work to defeat Red Bird and avenge the late members of the BPD and City Hall. Later in the film, Dr. Claws gives General Coby, the location to Red Bird's lair before heading back to his laboratory. The laser guns that Dr. Claws made for the army proved to helpful as it helped them as it presumably destroys Red Bird and his lair. Because of Hansel's heroic actions, he is cheered as the hero of Basel's Garden. Just all of the mammals of the garden, Dr. Claws takes a liking to him as well.

However, before a party, Hansel and Ben had a falling-out and the former collects the gang and returns home to the palace. Shortly, after leaving, Dr. Claws informs Ben and the others, that the Red Bird that Hansel destroyed was a robot and that the real one was alive. Just then, Red Bird appears and abducts all of the mammals in the kingdom. Dr. Claws, along with millions of animals were about to be dropped in a pit of lava but thanks to Hansel (who was came back to the garden with help from Squeaky), Red Bird is defeated and the mammals are saved.

With Red Bird finally gone for good, Ben is crowned the new king of Basel's Garden. One day later, Dr. Claws attended to a rock concert in Rainforest Town and was humming along to the music.

### The Enchanted Pup: The Series

Dr. Claws appears in the cartoon series as a major character. He often joins Hansel on his adventures throughout the kingdom of Basel's Garden.

## Trivia

* Dr. Claws' character is based off Dr. Finklestein from the Nightmare Before Christmas. They're both scientists who go from place to place in a wheelchair.
* The storywriter also decided to have Dr. Claw's facial appearance based off Duke Weaselton's from Zootopia.