foot, angering him enough to grab them and try to eat them. When he realizes the danger of this, thinking of a red wigwag with the word "DANGER" on it in white, the cat spits the mice out one at a time and runs out the front door, slamming it behind him. Claude finally concludes that he will never again be able to eat mice, that he has nothing left to live for, and also decides to commit suicide. Claude heads outside and punches a bulldog in the front yard, who runs out barking in anger. Then he looks back and sees Claude waiting for him, blindfolded and smoking a cigarette. Confronting Claude, he asks, "Hey, cat, what gives? Why don'tcha run? Don'tcha know I'm gonna massacre ya?", to which Claude says, "Yes", and asks him to do it. The bulldog tells Claude to not give him any trouble. When Claude continues to beg the bulldog to "massacre" him, the bulldog thinks "SOMETHING DECIDEDLY FISHY HERE" (with a wooden sign with "SOMETHING DECIDEDLY FISHY HERE" in red pointing to a fishbowl with three goldfish), and the mice come running out of the house and once again beg Claude to eat them. The bulldog asks Claude if cats eat mice, which he denies ("No!"), and asks Herbie and Bertie if mice eat cheese, which they also deny ("Cheese? Ahh! Don't mention that word!"). The bulldog tries to figure out why Claude no longer wants to eat mice and the mice do not want to eat cheese anymore. Finding out, using an adding machine, in the end that "It just don't add up!", he runs after a passing dog catcher truck, now wanting to get committed ("Hey, wait for me! Wait for baby!"), with Claude ("Hey, wait for me! You gotta massacre me!") and the mice ("Wait, you cowardly cat!") following after him, all three of them still wanting to end their own lives. Legacy This is the first appearance of the bulldog that would become Marc Antony in Feed the Kitty (1952), Kiss Me Cat (1953), Cat Feud (1958), and Feline Frame-Up (1954). The plot resembles that of the 1945 cartoon, Life with Feathers, directed by Friz Freleng and written by Tedd Pierce, which marked the first appearance of Sylvester the Cat in his mature form. In that short, a jilted suicidal Lovebird repeatedly tries to get Sylvester to eat him,