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* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', Florence Ambrose, a red wolf, get almost invariably mistaken for a dog on first contact.

* Murphy from ''Webcomic/BoyAndDog'' mistakes Rowan (a human baby) and Milo (an adult cat) for dogs.

** VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog (featured prominently in the "Mario and Bowser's Stupid and Crazy Adventure" story arc) does not like being called a cat.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangface}}'' episode "The Space Monster Mishap", the title character - a werewolf - is deeply offended when an astronaut mistakes him for a dog.

* WesternAnimation/HeckleAndJeckle, billed on screen as "the talking magpies," are often mistaken to be crows.[[note]]Both are in the family ''Corvidae'', and their exact species is a bit of an informed attribute; they are frequently depicted with entirely black feathers, making them look more like crows than like any particular species of magpie anyway.[[/note]]

* ''WesternAnimation/MightyMax'':
** Virgil is constantly referred to as a chicken. ("Fowl, actually.") Which makes it even more confusing since Virgil has revealed more than once that his race is in fact the [[EvolutionaryLevels next evolutionary stage]] of mankind. So somehow humans managed to evolve from bipedal primates into a class whose fossil record indicates they should have evolved from therapod dinosaurs?
** There was also an episode with Beetle Brow with a running gag of "Bug." "Beetle." "Whatever!"

* Done with much humor in one of the episodes of ''Disney's WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTarzan'', where a greedy scientist catches a supernatural silver gorilla with healing abilities. Much to his annoyance he repeatedly has to remind his henchman that it is an ape, and not a "giant monkey".

* ''WesternAnimation/ItsPony'': Mr. Pancks, the landlord owner of the apartment the Bramley's live in, will generally have a tendency to mistake Pony as some sort of "Big Weird Dog".
* ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters''. Ickis is [[BerserkButton rather insistent]] that he is ''not'' a bunny, but a long-eared gremlin.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'':
** Ren is constantly referred to as other animals like a rat, a weasel, and even, most commonly, a mosquito and he angrily corrects then that he's a chihuahua.
--->'''Ren:''' I'm an Asthma-Hound Chihuahua!
** Also, Stimpy himself is mistaken for a dog by his [[NegativeContinuity two-episode-lasting]] owner George Liquor. Even after Stimpy corrects him, he still insists otherwise.
--->'''Stimpy:''' I'm a cat.\\
'''George Liquor:''' Atta boy, Rex.
* A Creator/KidsWB promo for ''WesternAnimation/ChannelUmptee3'' had Creator/{{Jim Cummings|VoiceActor}} mistakenly identifying Ogden the Ostrich as a chicken.
-->'''Ogden:''' ''[points to [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} Chicken Boo]]]'' See? Chicken! ''[points to himself]'' Not a chicken!\\
'''Cummings:''' Well, ya do ''look'' like a chicken...\\
'''Ogden:''' Do not!
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'':
** Another not-animal but not human so it probably counts: fairies don't like being confused with Pixies and vice-versa.
** Lawn gnomes also hate being confused for Pixies, to the point where they wrote a rap about it.
* A running gag in the original ''[[WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967 Spider-Man]]'' cartoon involved the bad guy of the week refer to Spider-Man as an insect, at which point Spidey angrily yells, "Spiders are not insects! They're arachnids!!!"
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'', an irate New Yorker named Vic tries to make money from a video he took of the turtles fighting, and throughout the episode he kept referring to them as "Kung-Fu Frogs".
** Hilariously this is lampshaded when he gets mind-controlled by the Kraang in a later episode, calling them "The ones known as the turtles that I call frogs".
* In ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', animal lover Elmyra Duff mistook Dizzy Devil (a tasmanian devil) for a dog and Fifi La Fume (a skunk) for a cat. The latter even had to remind her otherwise (though in the latter's case, Elmyra ''knew'' she was a skunk, but thought "skunk" meant "stinky kitty").
* WesternAnimation/HeckleAndJeckle, billed on screen as "the talking magpies," are often mistaken to be crows.[[note]]Both are in the family ''Corvidae'', and their exact species is a bit of an informed attribute; they are frequently depicted with entirely black feathers, making them look more like crows than like any particular species of magpie anyway.[[/note]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'', Arthur's white moth costume, complete with long thick antennae, is confused for a rabbit.
** Speak, the "dog" that The Tick rescued in South America, was actually a capybara (described by his vet as "a giant rat"). Tick makes the mistake of calling Speak a dog one more time while bathing him, but profoundly apologizes for the mistake and assures Speak that he respects his "lifestyle choice."
* In ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'', Russell the Hedgehog is constantly mistaken for a porcupine.
** In the episode ''What, Meme Worry?'', Sunil is mistaken for an otter, a weasel, a bear cub and a fur turtle. In the Brazilian Portuguese dub, his species is even changed to be a weasel.
* Lucy from ''WesternAnimation/BenAndHollysLittleKingdom'' couldn't tell the difference between elves and fairies in Season 1. The last instance of this was at the end of the episode Lucy's Picnic, where she mistakes King Thistle for an elf. In Season 2 this trope is averted.
* A RunningGag in ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'' is that the titular heroine's monkey sidekick, Captain Huggy Face, is often mistaken for other animals by people. He has been called a hedgehog, (flying) rabbit, dog, koala, rat, aardvark (in tights), ferret, otter, llama, a hairy kid, and many more.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheTwistedTalesOfFelixTheCat'' had a woman mistake Felix for a squirrel and a raccoon in the episode "Black Magic Bag".
* In one of ''WesternAnimation/TheAntAndTheAardvark'' cartoons, Aardvark has chased Charlie Ant on to a beach, but the lifeguard on duty refuses to let Aardvark go after him, thinking he's a dog, and stating that dogs aren't allowed on the beach without a leash. After several attempts, the lifeguard calls a dogcatcher and has Aardvark sent to the pound.
* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' had this problem with the superhero group "The Justice Ducks". Neptunia constantly reminds them that she is not a duck (she's a mutated fish) while Stegmutt will say that he used to be a duck (he was a duck turned into a Stegosaurus).
* Happens at least once in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'' with Fung, the leader of the Croc Bandits. In the episode, "Good Croc, Bad Croc", Po and Fung are playfully insulting each other for how lame they are, until Po calls Fung a “moron alligator”, causing Fung to sternly tell him that he's a ''crocodile'', even pointing out that his snout is "totally different" from a gator's.
* ''WesternAnimation/MagicalGirlFriendshipSquad'': A RunningGag involves Nut often being mistaken for a raccoon when she's in fact a red panda.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}'': A running gag is Luci being mistaken for a cat (talking animals are common enough that nobody's surprised when he speaks).
* Inverted with Baboon in ''Animation/TingaTingaTales'', who often corrects others that he's a baboon and ''not'' a monkey -- baboons ''are'' monkeys, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_World_monkey Old World monkeys]] to be exact.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangface}}'' episode "The Space Monster Mishap", the title character - a werewolf - is deeply offended when an astronaut mistakes him for a dog.
* The French dub of the ''WesternAnimation/ShimmerAndShine'' theme song has this line: "De génie ou de fée", as the translation for "Your genies divine". While their correct species (genies) is mentioned here, it also incorrectly refers to them as fairies.
* Naarky from ''WesternAnimation/StarlandKrew'' is inaccurately called a bunny when he's really an aardvark.
--->'''Naarky:''' And I am not... a ''bunny!''
* ''WesternAnimation/AThousandAndOneAmericas'': Chris' pet dog Lon gets upset every time he's mistaken for a different animal. In the third episode, the tribal people who live in of the Valley of Mexico repeatedly mistake him with a coyote. Considering that dogs were a rare sight for the majority of pre-Columbian civilizations of Mexico in RealLife (the main exception being the Mayans, which usually ate them as part of their diet), the confusion is understandable.

** Also, Perry the Platypus is sometimes referred to as a "beaver-duck", since he has a duckbill and a beaver tail.

* At various points in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', Perry the Platypus is mistaken for a rodent, a marsupial, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs a beaver, a duck, and a beaver-duck]].

* The titular duo of ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' are very often mistaken for weasels.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': A RunningGag is to have somebody call Olaf an auk instead of an emperor penguin.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' are constantly mistaken for weasels. Or, more commonly, for "pointy bird things". It's not surprising at all -- even for a kid's show, they don't look remotely like beavers except their tails.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' episode "Out of Scale", "Ratso" Ratskiwatski sends his two thugs out for squirrels for his daughter. They pick up Chip and Dale. ''None'' of the humans can tell the difference, and call them squirrels throughout, each time corrected with a "[We're] chipmunks!" from one or both of them. Not that they ever pick up on this...
** Worth noticing is how HilariousInHindsight it is because in most non-english-speaking countries, there is no ''word'' for chipmunk (since in those countries there are no chipmunks period), and Chip and Dale ''are'' called squirrels in comics and cartoons. In ''Rescue Rangers'', they replaced the gag by having other people call them "mice" and their angry answer being "WE ARE SQUIRRELS!".
* Fang from ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian'' is always being mistaken for a monkey, to the point where "I'm not a monkey!" is her catchphrase. She even is delighted that when she meets her idol, he calls her a human. (Even after him doubting for a second.)
* Possibly the example to beat all others goes to Rufus of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_mole_rat naked mole rat]]. Various characters assume him to be a gerbil, bald mouse, nude rat, and mutant vermin, [[spoiler:and in [[CrossOver one case]], an alien genetic experiment]].
* Doctor Hamsterviel of ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' is frequently mistaken for a gerbil or other small rodent, insisting that he is, in fact "hamster-like". Though he really does look considerably more like a gerbil/rabbit hybrid than a hamster.
** Lampshaded in a crossover episode with Kim Possible, where Lilo describes him as an "Alien Gerbil that ''thinks'' he's a hamster".
* ''WesternAnimation/MightyMax'':
** Virgil is constantly referred to as a chicken. ("Fowl, actually.") Which makes it even more confusing since Virgil has revealed more than once that his race is in fact the [[EvolutionaryLevels next evolutionary stage]] of mankind. So somehow humans managed to evolve from bipedal primates into a class whose fossil record indicates they should have evolved from therapod dinosaurs?
** There was also an episode with Beetle Brow with a running gag of "Bug." "Beetle." "Whatever!"
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Animaniacs}}'':
** The Warner siblings aren't based on any real sort of animal, but are often refered to as dogs, cats or monkeys. Not that the Warners seem to mind, as even ''they'' don't know what they're supposed to be. Whenever asked what they are supposed to be, they simply reply, "We're the Warner Brothers! ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And the Warner Sister!]])"
** WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain are mice, not rats.
** Defied with Rita and Runt. Runt has a disposition to chase cats, but is too stupid to realize that his friend Rita is one (he thinks she's a dog). It's probably for the best, though.
* Being an EdutainmentShow, ''WesternAnimation/DinosaurTrain'' frequently has to clarify what is and isn't a dinosaur. For example:
** In "Carla Cretoxyrhina", when Buddy says he loves meeting big dinosaurs, Carla clarifies that sharks are ''fish'' (note that this show usually has NoCartoonFish).
** In "Paulie Pliosaurus", Buddy asks the titular character if he's dinosaur, but Paulie says he doesn't even know what a dinosaur is.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'':
** Rocko is typically mistaken for a beaver. He's also mistaken for a dog once. As he's explained many times, he's a wallaby -- "Like a kangaroo, only smaller." He's even been mistaken for a ''platypus'' at one point.
** On the same show, [[MeaningfulName Heffer]] is often referred to as a cow, and has to correct people that he's a steer. [[PlayingWithATrope In this case, it's not a distinction of species, but sex]]; "cow" is the word for a ''female'' bovine, even if it's sometimes used for the species as a whole. Technically, he should probably say he's a bull, because Heffer being a steer would mean he was castrated.
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': Three anthropomorphic dogs take offence at Scaramouche's words:
->'''Dog A''': Rover?\\
'''Dog B''': Barking?!\\
'''Dog C''': I think he's calling us dogs.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In one episode, Bart and Lisa are rescued by a clan of hillbillies. The patriarch claims that he married a bear and started a family with it after wandering away from a school excursion. His (human) wife keeps loudly insisting that "I ain't a bear!" He's so convinced that he responds to everything she says with "Raar raar raar! No one understands you, she-bear!"
** Grampa Simpson misidentifies the family dog Santa's Little Helper, walking across the room wearing a cone collar, as the lamp trying to escape.
--->'''Grampa:''' ''(Chasing SLH in another episode)'' That raccoon stole my lamb chop!
* Not quite animal, but Larry the Cucumber of ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' is often mistaken for a pickle, which bothers him.
* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'', Raimundo refers to Dojo (who is a small dragon) as a gecko. Dojo is... not pleased, and [[{{Sizeshifter}} shapeshifts into his larger form]] to intimidate him. This may be a reference to the ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' example.
-->'''Dojo''': ''(Leering down at Raimundo)'' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Don't]]. ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Ever]].'' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Call me a gecko!]]\\
'''Raimundo''': ''(Nervously)'' M-My mistake!