The Chow Hound Dog (Looney Tunes)

The Dog is a one-shot character from the Looney Tunes short film series who made his only appearance in the 1951 cartoon, Chow Hound. He serves as the main antagonist of an unnamed cat and mouse duo in said cartoon.

Why He Sucks

 * 1) His only defining trait is his gluttony, as he's always hungry for meat non-stop, and even greedily eats them with no control whatsoever.
 * 2) To start off, he bosses around an innocent cat and a mouse into getting food for him.
 * 3) He doesn't even bother to get food himself. All he does is send in the cat and wait until he comes back with a steak.
 * 4) He is so obsessed with gravy that whenever the cat that he's picking on forgets it, he yells out "What, no gravy!?" and gives the poor feline a nasty beating.
 * 5) * Speaking of which, his gravy obsession doesn't make any sense whatsoever, as every time the cat he picks on gets food from his owners, none of them come with gravy. At first, it may originally seem that the dog desperately needs gravy to eat with his steaks, but once he purchases a meat market, clearly none of the meats sold there come with gravy which he didn't even complain of at all, and once the cat and mouse attempt to force-feed him with gravy at the ending he desperately urges them not to do so, meaning that the dog is clearly dishonest and doesn't mean it when he needs gravy with his steaks and is just being mean and abusive towards the cat for no reason whatsoever.
 * 6) He is ungrateful whenever the cat brings him a steak, due to the previous reason listed above.
 * 7) When the mouse tries to stand up to him, he knocks him out with a tiny hammer.
 * 8) He holds the cat hostage for weeks to the point that his three owners and the zookeeper could post reward offers for the cat's return to them on the newspapers, pretends to return the cat to his three owners and yanks him away with a string at the last moment, and even pretends to capture him as a saber-toothed cat, just to get money, which proves that he's also sleazy and greedy.
 * 9) * Speaking of which, when he returns the saber-toothed cat to the zoo, he even forces the mouse to dress up as a Zulu native which is an offensive racial stereotype of Africans, which even the mouse laments of how humiliating his role is.
 * 10) Following that, he then uses his ill-gotten gain to buy an entire meat market and lets his hunger and gluttony get the better of him when he proceeds to eat all of its contents.
 * 11) Even though he deserved it, his fate at the end of the short is quite morbid for a Looney Tunes cartoon, as he, while morbidly obese to the point that he is immobilized from the massive amount of meats he has consumed, gets force-fed gravy by the cat and mouse he has been bullying as revenge and presumably dies after the iris-out closes.
 * 12) Overall, he is one of the few dogs in the Looney Tunes series to be portrayed negatively, after Shep and Charlie Dog.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) As stated above, he only appeared in Chow Hound and never made another appearance in the Looney Tunes series again.
 * 2) Ignoring the dark subject matter of it, he does get his comeuppance at the end of the cartoon, and the comeuppance he receives is extremely satisfying.
 * 3) His design isn't bad.
 * 4) John T. Smith does a good job doing his voice.
 * 5) Being the greedy, gluttonous and abusive villain he is, he's clearly supposed to be hated as such.

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