Annette

### Likes

Surly, dancing, her friends, working, going to balls, playing with children, knitting, reading, shopping, ballgowns, music

## Family information

### Partner(s)

Surly (boyfriend)

**Annette** is a major character in the feature film, *Animal Planet* and in the *Enchanted Pup* franchise. She's the girlfriend of Surly and a worker at Mammal Resources at Basel's City Hall.

## Background

Many years ago, Annette lived in Basel's Garden with her family who lived in a high-social class. She was taught fine manners and etiquette. It was somewhat hard for Annette as she would often fail due to her clumsy nature. Despite that, Annette managed to please her parents and spend some quality time with her childhood friends, Abby and Sara. Although, she was content with her life, she longed to live a quieter life with another squirrel who can help her relax. As a young woman, she fell in love with a squirrel named Surly who has lived on farm for most of his life.

Their love for each other soon developed into a romantic relationship that grew stronger over the years. Along with Surly, Annette managed to get a job at city hall. Peace was maintained in the kingdom until an evil bird nicknamed Red Bird infiltrated the city and sought residence inside the Bungle Jungle Volcano. He immediately posed as a threat to the entire city and in order to ensure safety in the city, the Bungle Jungle Volcano was sealed off by residents until Red Bird is apprehended.

### Development

Annette is loosely based off Andie from *the Nut Job* franchise. The storywriter was smitten with Andie's character, appearance and animation from the film that it inspired him to create a character similar to her.

### Personality

Annette is shown to be very romantic as she enjoys going on dates and any other activities that she finds romantic. She has somewhat of a ditzy personality and can be socially awkward and clumsy around almost everyone she meets. Aside from her flaws, she is a loving and affectionate friend. At her job, she happily supports animals who are new to the city. Annette's relationship with her boyfriend has helped her to take time off from work to relax, have fun and spend time with family and friends, whom she almost never has time for.

The kind of activities that Annette loves to do is to go shopping, knit and to go to balls with Surly. She is shown to have a talent for dancing.

### Physical appearance

Annette is a slender brown squirrel wearing a lavender dress and has a large bushy tail.

## Appearances

### Animal Planet

Annette is first seen at city hall when Prince Theodore notified all of his workers to come over for an emergency meeting. He announced that Red Bird's threat level has increased dramatically and that the army is going to need some volunteers if they're ever going to survive. Hansel and his family offers to help and all of the mammals cheer, knowing that survival is possible. Later that night, Surly and Annette bid a farewell as they went their separate ways. During Surly's absence, Annette continued to work over at Mammal Resources.

Later in the film, after "Red Bird" is defeated, the mammal cadets return home to the garden and are reunited with their families. Surly and Annette immediately embrace each other and share a kiss. Unfortunately, it is revealed that Red Bird is still alive and somewhere in the kingdom. He and his chicks abduct all of the mammals and sentence them all to death. Fortunately, Hansel returns to Basel's Garden and defeats Red Bird. As a reward for his heroism, Ben is crowned the new king of Basel's Garden. Annette moves into the castle and becomes one of Abby's ladies in waiting. One day later, the gang heads over to Rainforest Town for a concert. Annette is last seen dancing with Surly.

### The Enchanted Pup: The Series

Annette serves as a supporting character in the cartoon series.