Cat and Duck Issue Title is Good Grounds (1943)

Mar 27, 2016

British Pathé

Synopsis: Newsreel footage shows a cat and a duck in a miniature boxing ring with a kookaburra as referee, plus more kookaburras and a cockatoo for an audience.

Reality Cat: The narrator introduces this match as Don the Demon vs. Tom the Terror, but what is actually going on here is never quite explained.  Why are these two fighting?  Who set up this match?  And what are the odds?

Cat and Duck Issue Title is Good Grounds - tabby cat and duck in boxing ring

Obviously this happened in Australia where watching cats playfully wrestling with ducks might make for great entertainment.  Less amusing is the Clarence Nash impersonator speaking for the duck.

Cat and Duck Issue Title is Good Grounds - tabby cat wrestling with duck in boxing ring

It looks to us as if the cat would like to have the duck for dinner, if he would only stop moving.

Cat and Duck Issue Title is Good Grounds - tabby cat and duck playing rough in boxing ring

Final Mewsings: Tom likes his duck on the very rare side.

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