Kit for Cat

Sylvester and this kitten are both trying to get shelter from the freezing storm when they arrive, one at a time, at the doorstep of Elmer Fudd. It's predictable stuff at first. Elmer can't keep both cats, but he's very partial to the kitten. Sylvester does everything he can to make the kitten "lose points" with Elmer, but to no avail, until Sylvester is actually a thread away from getting bounced outside.

The element that makes this a gem is the frenetic ending. It builds mercilessly into a hysterical display of the cats trying to get one up upon the other with the radio blaring and synchronized to their actions. It's very well directed and totally memorable.

In this one, Sylvester and a cute little kitten are searching for food in an alley when it starts getting cold. After the big cat kicks out the kitten for invading his territory, he knocks on a house door in an attempt to get in. It's Elmer Fudd at the door! He lets Sylvester in and tells him he can stay as long as he wants. Another knock comes on at that point. It's the cute little kitten! Now Elmer has to make up his mind since he can't keep both. Sylvester gets jealous when Mr. Fudd seems to be really taken with the kitten. So smitten that anything that the big cat tries to frame him with backfires in spades! The rest of the cartoon builds into a crescendo of calamities mostly caused by Sylvester that you have to see to believe. On that note, I highly recommend Kit for Cat. Directed by Friz Freling.

Sylvester is out in some alleyway, searching for food among the garbage cans. Suddenly, he spots a kitten doing the same right near him. "Say there, small fry," he says, "I'm working this side of the street. Now scram. Beat it!"

Sylvester boots the little guy across the street. Suddenly a cold, hard wind comes up and the cat decides he needs to "find a warm place to flop." He goes up to a house, pounds on the door and pleads, "Please save a frost-bitten feline from a frozen fate!"

Who answers the door? Elmer Fudd! Elmer, being a nice guy, lets the cat in and puts him on a nice easy chair next to the fireplace and tells him, "Please consider this your home now, Mister Pussycat."

Seconds later, someone else in knocking on the door: the little kitty. Elmer can't believe it. "Great grasshoppers," he says, "another orphan of the storm!"

Elmer tells the felines, "I can only keep one of you," but it's obvious he thinks the little kitten is cuter and probably will be the one to stay. Sylvester is no sap; he sees this and goes to work to get the little kitten in trouble and force Elmer to pick him as his pet. Needless to say, whatever Sylvester cooks up.....it deservedly backfires. Some of the scenes are very clever, such as the cat doing his balancing act with falling dishes.

Overall, a good cartoon, although justice didn't prevail in the end, at least for the "nice guy."

Not being an "Elmer Fudd"-type, myself - i know exactly which one of these 2 abandoned pussycats I'd choose as my new-found house-pet (and it certainly wouldn't be the slobbering Sylvester).

Anyway - In "Kit For Cat" it's a freezing cold winter's night. And, as it turns out - The clueless (but kind) Mr. Fudd unknowingly makes the grave mistake of welcoming both of these conniving kitties into his warm and cozy home.

Well - It certainly doesn't take long for all hell to break loose when both Sylvester and the cute, little kitten get it into their feline heads that the other one must go at all costs.

Enjoyably entertaining - 1948's "Kit For Cat" was competently directed by popular Warner Bros. animator, Friz Freleng.

Having seen "Back Alley Oproar" and "Kit for Cat", I wish that Elmer Fudd and Sylvester could have co-starred more often. This one has Sylvester and an orange kitten vying for adoption by Elmer one cold night, and they both keep trying to frame each other for making noise, in the hope that Elmer will throw out the other. I never predicted what would happen at the end! One thing that I wondered while watching the cartoon was about the radio show with which they try to awaken Elmer. It features a character named "Melvin". Knowing that the Man of 1,000 Voices himself - Mel Blanc, that is - provided the vocalizations here, I wonder whether or not that character was named after him.

Oh well. I probably shouldn't get hung up on that. The point is that this is a hilarious cartoon.