It's a Dog's Life

**It's a Dog's Life** is the ninth episode of *Fraidy Cat*.

## Synopsis

Caught by the aroma of food, Fraidy eats all of the dogs' food at a dog show and is chased, and eventually winds up disguised as a dalmatian.

## Plot

Fraidy is starving, as he hasn't had a good meal for days. He opens a garbage can top in search for food, only to find a slovenly and bruised cat occupying it. The alley cat states, that the business is closed, thus Fraidy puts the can top back. As Fraidy is wondering, what should he do, the smell of dog food from the bowls reaches him to a room, where bowls with names "Dane", "Brigitte", "Marlene" and "Truman" stand on a rack. Fraidy is delighted with such amount of food on sight.

At the same time, the recipients of the dog food are preparing to the show. The large Dane tells the remaining dogs to move out. The females are arguing about their looks, while the long-haired male pug is trying to calm them down. The dogs leave the contestants' room while Fraidy has had a feast. Having completed the last bowl, he is spotted by the dogs with huge belly. Fraidy states that his mom told him not to run on a full stomach, then his belly shrinks and Fraidy flees. He barely manages to evade the chase in another room.

While in his hideout, Fraidy states that if the dogs catch him, his chances aren't worth five cents, which summons Billy the Kitt. Fraidy explains, that the dogs are chasing him, apparently for eating out their food. Billy walks to the corridor, hurls his lasso against the dogs and snatches them, despite Fraidy's protests. Dane breaks the lasso and asks Billy in quite a formal way, if he wanted to see them. Billy fears the dogs and replies and points at Fraidy, then he laughs and disappears with his lasso. As a result, Fraidy has to flee from enraged dogs once again.

Fraidy calls for "Merciful heaven", which summons the Ghost Number Seven - Eddie Kittenbacker, who asks Fraidy about his problem. Fraidy explains, that dogs are chasing him. Eddie evaluates the issue, considers the problem, and prepares an aircraft to escape. The plane takes off inside the building. While Eddie asks Fraidy about the flight being bumpy, Marlene prepares a pack of catnip with a hair dryer, so the cats can't escape. Eddie smells the catnip, then he he does admit that he flips over catnip as he starts to perform dangerous maneuvers with the plane. Suddenly, Eddie tells Fraidy that it's time to bail out and Fraidy is thrown out from the disappearing plane. The dogs keep chasing Fraidy once again, to the cellar.

The dogs stumble in darkness. When Marlene turns on the light, it's visible the dog pack fell from the stairs. As they taunt Fraidy, Truman admits he's already mad, because the chase made him perspire. Fraidy found a shelter behind a wardrobe with two buckets of paint. After he peeks out, he causes the paint to spill on him. Brigitte spots a motion from Fraidy's latest hideout, thus he elects to run. The dogs pursue him from the cellar to the stage, where the dog show takes part. Fraidy is stopped by a chair he runs into, then his pursuers catch him up. Fraidy yells on his knees, that he gives up, but the dogs just run past him. He states that he'll never understand dogs, as he finds them dumb and weird. The complaints are interrupted by Dane, who mistakes Fraidy for a dog and asks in quite a polite way if he saw a miserable cat around here. Fraidy denies, but nearly breaks the disguise when Dane strokes him and Fraidy starts to purr.

When confronted with purring, Fraidy tries to maintain the camouflage by stating he's a mixed breed dog, including a Pointer and a Dalmatian. Quite unexpectedly, Fraidy wins the first prize at the dog show, causing the original participants extremely jealous. Gloating about his newly-won prize summons Tinker Elephunt the Cave Cat and his dinosaur companion, Ant. The ghosts unveil that Fraidy is a cat - Tinker says it aloud and Ant licks out the paint from Fraidy. Dane cannot believe that a cat won the dog show contest, then the prehistoric ghosts depart.

Fraidy discards the first prize cup and is forced to flee from the dogs once again. The alley cat is shown wearing Fraidy's prize cup on his head and the episode ends.

## Characters

* Fraidy Cat
* Alley Cat
* Dane
* Brigitte
* Marlene
* Truman
* Billy the Kit
* Captain Eddie Kittenbacker
* Tinker Elephunt Cave Cat
* Ant

## Trivia

* The episode's name is a reference to a 1955 movie produced by Henry Berman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s\_a\_Dog%27s\_Life\_(film).
* For a majority of time, this episode was one of the few missing YouTube uploads of Fraidy Cat. Then, in 2021, a user named HaloFan found the episode, and then another user named thet00nedl00n uploaded the episode onto YouTube.
* The paint Fraidy had spilled on himself to mask as a Dalmatian dog doesn't cover his eye lids.

"The Not So Nice Mice" "Cupid and the Cat" "Over the Wall and Havin' a Ball" "Feline Fortune" "Puss n' Boats" "A Scaredy Fraidy" "Meaner Than a Junkyard Cat" "Love Is a Many Feathered Thing" "**It's a Dog's Life**" "Choo Choo Fraidy" "Magic Numbers" "A Small Star is Born"
***Cancelled Episodes***
"Fraidy Gone Fishing" "Fraidy Come Home" "Double Trouble" "Unlucky Fraidy" "This Cat for Hire" "Culture Schlock"