Doggone Cats

{{Infobox film

| name = Doggone Cats

| image =

| caption =

| story= Lloyd Turner
Bill Scott{{cite book |last1=Beck |first1=Jerry |title=I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat: Fifty Years of Sylvester and Tweety |date=1991 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co |location=New York |isbn=0-8050-1644-9 |page=92}}

| animator = Basil Davidovich
J.C. Melendez
Don Williams
Emery Hawkins

| background_artist = Philip DeGuard

| layout_artist = Don Smith

| starring = Mel Blanc

| music = Carl Stalling

| producer =

| studio = Warner Bros. Cartoons

| distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1947|10|25}}

| color_process = Cinecolor (original)
Technicolor (reissue)

| runtime = 7 min

| language = English

}}

Doggone Cats (reissued as Dog Gone Cats), is a 1947 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Arthur Davis.{{cite book |last1=Beck |first1=Jerry |last2=Friedwald |first2=Will |title=Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons |date=1989 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co |isbn=0-8050-0894-2 |page=180}} The short was released on October 25, 1947, and stars Sylvester.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |accessdate=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/140/mode/2up |pages=140–142}}

Plot

Wellington the dog is given a package to deliver to Uncle Louie, with strict instructions not to let go of it. Sylvester and an unnamed orange cat, both of whom Wellington has been tormenting, see this as their chance to get even. They try multiple ways to get him to drop the package (one of which is disguising a cigarette from pepper and using it to make him sneeze), but Wellington always outsmarts them.

Besides repeatedly filching the package, at one point they drop a duplicate off a bridge. Wellington still manages to retrieve the package a few times, but never for as long as he hopes for. At the end of the cartoon, Wellington finally arrives at Uncle Louie's, but is upset when he finds out that the package contains dinner for the two cats. Realizing that he had been a "jackass" through the whole thing, Wellington slams his head against the mailbox and crowns himself with garbage can lids.