History FurryConfusion / DisneyAndPixar

** The ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' short [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVKXj5nCM4I "Dog Show"]] finally [[LampshadeHanging hung a lampshade]] on it. [[spoiler:Apparently Mickey makes for a better non-anthro dog than Goofy does.]]

** The confusion goes up about eight or nine more levels when Dale discovers an unusual-looking chipmunk-sized animal lost in the park and, because [[AllAnimalsAreDogs he acts just like a dog]], Dale decided to make a pet out of him. Said animal soon reveals that he can talk, that he is an alien, and that [[spoiler: he is a miniature '''Stegosaurus''' [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology sent from the Dinosaur Planet to check on the team of explorers who went to visit Earth 155 million years ago]]. And it turns out that those small explorers became some of the dinosaurs we know when they started eating Earth food; when our hero does this he grows very large and loses his ability to speak.]] Things get straightened up eventually and the alien returns to his ship to go back home, but not before topping off the Furry Confusion bonanza with this line:

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur'' features talking non-avian dinosaurs, but also birds (including chickens with theropod hands) that are non-sentient and kept as pets or even livestock. Seeing as birds are classified as living dinosaurs, it seems odd that the birds in the movie wouldn't be alongside their non-avian relatives as sentient lifeforms. Even weirder, a group of pterosaurs--which, contrary to popular belief, are not dinosaurs--are also shown to be sentient and capable of speech (and insane).

** The show gets even weirder when you consider the source material. Baloo, Louie and Shere Khan were characters from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook'', and were [[NearlyNormalAnimal Largely Normal Animals]] who could [[AnimalTalk talk among each other]] and make human-like facial expressions and hand gestures, but lived in the jungle and walked around naked. Suddenly it's the 1930s, [[AnthropomorphicShift and the same characters are wearing clothes, flying planes]], etc. Their designs changed a bit as well; Baloo traded his claws for fingers, but otherwise looked the same. Khan on the other hand went [[FourLegsGoodTwoLegsBetter from a quadruped to a biped]], a much more noticeable change.

** ''House of Mouse'' is definitely one of the worst offenders ever. At one point, we actually get to see [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook Baloo]] (a talking, bipedal bear that is completely naked) sitting next to [[WesternAnimation/RobinHood Little John]] (a talking, bipedal bear that wears a hat, a tunic, and shoes, but no pants), and at another, we actually see [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Jiminy Cricket]] (a talking, bipedal cricket that wears clothing) sitting next to [[WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} Cri-Kee]] (a nontalking, [[FourLeggedInsect quadrupedal]] cricket that is completely naked).
** One episode of ''House of Mouse'' was actually about DonaldDuck attempting to fly like other Disney characters that somehow possess flight (WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}, [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} the Magic Carpet]], [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook Buzzy, Dizzy, Ziggy, and Flaps,]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackofNotreDame Victor, Hugo, and Laverne]]), and when he gives up, he actually had to be helped by WesternAnimation/PeterPan of all characters (that episode actually marked the first time we ever get to hear Peter Pan sing). His desire to fly seems to stem from the fact that internally he knows that, as a duck, he ''should'' be able to fly, and the reason he can't is because he ''doesn't have wings''. Donald temporarily dubs himself "Donald Donkey" since "Donkeys can't fly" (cue Burrito from ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'').

** The show gets even weirder when you consider the source material. Baloo, Louie and Shere Khan were characters from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'', and were [[NearlyNormalAnimal Largely Normal Animals]] who could [[AnimalTalk talk among each other]] and make human-like facial expressions and hand gestures, but lived in the jungle and walked around naked. Suddenly it's the 1930s, [[AnthropomorphicShift and the same characters are wearing clothes, flying planes]], etc. Their designs changed a bit as well; Baloo traded his claws for fingers, but otherwise looked the same. Khan on the other hand went [[FourLegsGoodTwoLegsBetter from a quadruped to a biped]], a much more noticeable change.

** ''House of Mouse'' is definitely one of the worst offenders ever. At one point, we actually get to see [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 Baloo]] (a talking, bipedal bear that is completely naked) sitting next to [[WesternAnimation/RobinHood Little John]] (a talking, bipedal bear that wears a hat, a tunic, and shoes, but no pants), and at another, we actually see [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Jiminy Cricket]] (a talking, bipedal cricket that wears clothing) sitting next to [[WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} Cri-Kee]] (a nontalking, [[FourLeggedInsect quadrupedal]] cricket that is completely naked).
** One episode of ''House of Mouse'' was actually about DonaldDuck attempting to fly like other Disney characters that somehow possess flight (WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}, [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} the Magic Carpet]], [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967 Buzzy, Dizzy, Ziggy, and Flaps,]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackofNotreDame Victor, Hugo, and Laverne]]), and when he gives up, he actually had to be helped by WesternAnimation/PeterPan of all characters (that episode actually marked the first time we ever get to hear Peter Pan sing). His desire to fly seems to stem from the fact that internally he knows that, as a duck, he ''should'' be able to fly, and the reason he can't is because he ''doesn't have wings''. Donald temporarily dubs himself "Donald Donkey" since "Donkeys can't fly" (cue Burrito from ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'').

** The show gets even weirder when you consider the source material. Baloo, Louie and Shere Khan were characters from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook'', and were [[NearlyNormalAnimal Largely Normal Animals]] who could [[AnimalTalk talk among each other]] and make human-like facial expressions and hand gestures, but lived in the jungle and walked around naked. Suddenly it's the 1930s, [[AnthropomorphicShift and the same characters are wearing clothes, flying planes]], etc. Their designs changed a bit as well; Baloo traded his claws for fingers, but otherwise looked the same. Khan on the other hand went [[FourLegsGoodTwoLegsBetter from a quadruped to a biped]], a much more noticeable change.

** ''House of Mouse'' is definitely one of the worst offenders ever. At one point, we actually get to see [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook Baloo]] (a talking, bipedal bear that is completely naked) sitting next to [[WesternAnimation/RobinHood Little John]] (a talking, bipedal bear that wears a hat, a tunic, and shoes, but no pants), and at another, we actually see [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Jiminy Cricket]] (a talking, bipedal cricket that wears clothing) sitting next to [[WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} Cri-Kee]] (a nontalking, [[FourLeggedInsect quadrupedal]] cricket that is completely naked).
** One episode of ''House of Mouse'' was actually about DonaldDuck attempting to fly like other Disney characters that somehow possess flight (WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}, [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} the Magic Carpet]], [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook Buzzy, Dizzy, Ziggy, and Flaps,]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackofNotreDame Victor, Hugo, and Laverne]]), and when he gives up, he actually had to be helped by WesternAnimation/PeterPan of all characters (that episode actually marked the first time we ever get to hear Peter Pan sing). His desire to fly seems to stem from the fact that internally he knows that, as a duck, he ''should'' be able to fly, and the reason he can't is because he ''doesn't have wings''. Donald temporarily dubs himself "Donald Donkey" since "Donkeys can't fly" (cue Burrito from ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'').

** A segment of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' that spoofed ''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp'' featured most of the cast as [[AnimalTalk talking, but non-anthropomorphic animals]]. At one point, we see [[LawyerFriendlyCameo a transparent Goofy parody]] being led to the gas room in a dog pound, despite insisting that he's "half human."

** ''Disney/Fantasia2000'', pictured on the main page, gives us the best LampshadeHanging of this trope: Donald appears as a deckhand on Noah's Ark, responsible for a group of animals that includes, to Donald's visible puzzlement, a couple of normal ducks.

** The Gran Festival starring Disney/TheThreeCaballeros ride at Epcot has a moment like this. Like its source material, the videos combine animation with live action. Looking for Donald, José and Panchito ask a live action chef if he's seen a duck. They quickly realize that they don't want to know the answer to that question, and run off. Another version of the scene has the chef showing them a plate of roast duck, which gets a similar reaction from the duo.

* With all of this in mind, ''Disney/TheLionKing'' level in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' is just a carnival of Furry Confusion. Donald is temporarily a non-anthro bird who can ''fly'', Pete is a non-anthro cat (more specifically, a lion), while Goofy is, out of all animals, a [[TurtlePower tortoise]]. What makes it worse is the fact that Donald comments on Sora's transformation (into a lion) while avoiding any mention of Goofy's or his own. It should be mentioned that Donald's non-anthro form is identified in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' literature as "Bird Donald".

** The show gets even weirder when you consider the source material. Baloo, Louie and Shere Khan were characters from Disney's ''Disney/TheJungleBook'', and were [[NearlyNormalAnimal Largely Normal Animals]] who could [[AnimalTalk talk among each other]] and make human-like facial expressions and hand gestures, but lived in the jungle and walked around naked. Suddenly it's the 1930s, [[AnthropomorphicShift and the same characters are wearing clothes, flying planes]], etc. Their designs changed a bit as well; Baloo traded his claws for fingers, but otherwise looked the same. Khan on the other hand went [[FourLegsGoodTwoLegsBetter from a quadruped to a biped]], a much more noticeable change.

* Minnie Mouse has Figaro from ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' as a pet in various cartoons, such as some shorts of ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse''. A joke from the writers, maybe?
** ''House of Mouse'' is definitely one of the worst offenders ever. At one point, we actually get to see [[Disney/TheJungleBook Baloo]] (a talking, bipedal bear that is completely naked) sitting next to [[Disney/RobinHood Little John]] (a talking, bipedal bear that wears a hat, a tunic, and shoes, but no pants), and at another, we actually see [[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} Jiminy Cricket]] (a talking, bipedal cricket that wears clothing) sitting next to [[Disney/{{Mulan}} Cri-Kee]] (a nontalking, [[FourLeggedInsect quadrupedal]] cricket that is completely naked).
** One episode of ''House of Mouse'' was actually about DonaldDuck attempting to fly like other Disney characters that somehow possess flight (Disney/{{Dumbo}}, [[Disney/{{Aladdin}} The Magic Carpet]], [[Disney/TheJungleBook Buzzy, Dizzy, Ziggy, and Flaps,]] and [[Disney/TheHunchbackofNotreDame Victor, Hugo, and Laverne]]), and when he gives up, he actually had to be helped by Disney/PeterPan of all characters (that episode actually marked the first time we ever get to hear Peter Pan sing). His desire to fly seems to stem from the fact that internally he knows that, as a duck, he ''should'' be able to fly, and the reason he can't is because he ''doesn't have wings''. Donald temporarily dubs himself "Donald Donkey" since "Donkeys can't fly" (cue Burrito from ''Disney/TheThreeCaballeros'').
** The "what is Goofy" question is lampshaded in House of Mouse. [[Disney/{{Hercules}} Hades]] calls Goofy over to complain about the menu using his name without authorization, then gets derailed by asking what Goofy is supposed to be.

** In one episode, Donald is shown with normal ducks. To add insult to injury, he is flying an airplane rather than flying like a normal duck alongside the other ducks. The only time Donald is actually shown flying like a normal bird is in one later scene in ''Disney/TheThreeCaballeros'', but he is flying like a hummingbird.

** ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' actually did this with furniture. Considering the fact that ''all'' of the Beast's servants were turned into furniture due to a magic spell, it's actually never explained what happened to the actual furniture inside the Beast's castle. The west wing of the castle has been more or less destroyed over the years by the Beast's various rampages. Now, was he simply vandalizing his own furniture, [[FridgeHorror or outright]] '''[[FridgeHorror attacking and even killing servants]]'''?
** ''Disney/ChickenLittle'': What humor there is derives from {{lampshad|eHanging}}ing this trope. For example, a father and son play Frisbee in the backyard, and the son catches the toy in his ''mouth'' -- they are both FunnyAnimal dogs. Then there is the rug in Chicken Little's bedroom which is designed after a fried egg, yolk and all (classic "fried egg"-style eggs are non-fertilized so it's not quite the same thing. Still pretty squicky though...).
** ''Disney/{{Dinosaur}}'': All the protagonist dinos are treated as sapient and we can understand their speech. Background dinos of the same species tend to use grunts and roars like animals would, but it's assumed they're just not feeling talkative at the moment. None of the carnivore dinos speak, [[PredatorsAreMean because they're the villains]]. Where it gets ''really'' complicated is with Url, an ankylosaur who doesn't speak, pants like a dog, barks like a dog, carries a rock to be thrown and chased after like a stick, and is the pet of another dinosaur. So either ankylosaurs are not sapient, or Url is the equivalent of a mentally disabled person being kept as a pet.
** ''Disney/TheLionKing'':
*** During "I Just Can't Wait To Be King", crocodiles are shown singing, showing sapience equal to the other animals. Crocodiles are also shown sapient in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard''. In ''Disney/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'' however, there is a scene where Kovu and Kiara are attacked by non-sapient crocodiles.

** In ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' Max the dog and Glut the Shark act like a normal dog and shark respectively, whereas the other animal characters (like Flounder, Scuttle, and Sebastian) can talk, sing, and dance, and Ariel can understand them. Even Flotsam and Jetsam, Ursula's moray eels, can talk. What's more, during the "Les Poissons" song, realistically-drawn crabs are seen in Chef Louis's kitchen, contrasted with the much more anthropomorphic Sebastian.

*** ''Disney/TheLittleMermaidIIReturnToTheSea'': Undertow the tiger shark can speak, which is confusing when you consider how Glut from the first film didn't.
** ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' evidently takes place in a universe with fully anthropomorphic cats, foxes, and crickets; ordinary cats and fish with human-like awareness; and fully non-anthropomorphic animals. The closest this comes to furry confusion (imagine if Figaro met Gideon) is how Cleo doesn't seem to have a problem with the fact that all Geppetto and Figaro seem to eat is fish.
** ''Disney/TheRescuers'' (and its [[Disney/TheRescuersDownUnder sequel]]) and ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'' are odd examples. There are talking anthropomorphic mice and other small animals in both films, but there are also some animals that are non-sapient, in addition to non-talking creatures that display some degree of sapience. The former has the crocodiles (or alligators, it's [[InformedSpecies unclear]]) Brutus and Nero, Evinrude the dragonfly, some non-sapient bats and a zoo lion; and its sequel has Marahute the eagle and Joanna the Goanna (a type of lizard). The latter has the loyal BigFriendlyDog Toby, Ratigan's RightHandCat Felicia, and some wagons drawn by horses. What's more, humans are also present in all three of these films.
** ''Disney/RobinHood'': The cast is made up entirely of [[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic animals]]. It actually manages to avoid some of these issues (they pointedly [[TheUnreveal do not show who or what]] is pulling the carriage at the end), while bringing up entirely new ones (just [[Literature/{{Redwall}} what kind of Church]] do these animals have anyway?). How King Richard (a lion) could be the uncle of Maid Marian (a fox) [[ArtisticLicenseBiology remains unaddressed]], [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction with some nasty implications]].

Disney, due to its extensive and often mixed use of {{Funny Animal}}s, {{Civilized Animal}}s and {{Intellectual Animal}}s and the many, many series mediums its various characters have appeared in, has no shortage of examples.

** In the 1945 short "The Eyes Have It," Donald hypnotizes Pluto to make him think he's a mouse, and we also see a real mouse scurrying about the house. Remember that Pluto's owner is none other than Mickey Mouse.
* On the subject of Pete's wife: Most "people" in Disney comics are depicted as [[{{Dogfaces}} very anthropomorphic dogs]]. They have a black nose and (sometimes) floppy ears, but are otherwise human. Even real historical people (similar to ''Arthur''). Which makes Goofy even more confusing as he looks nothing like the other "dogs".

** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] at last in ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyDucks'' animated series, where two of the eponymous anthro ducks (from [[AnotherDimension another universe]]) spend the end of an episode discussing the differences between themselves and Earth ducks.

** Creator/DonRosa chimed in on this in a recent edition of ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'' where he defended the removal of a early Duck-pun by saying that as far as he is concerned, the Duck characters [[FurryLens are in fact human beings]] who are ”caricatured” as looking like ducks in the comics, much like his Theodore Roosevelt in the same issue is drawn with a dog nose and four fingers.

* One episode of ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'' had Piglet (a pig) eating ''ham'' at a picnic. No one seemed to notice the grotesque implied cannibalism there, even if Piglet is supposed to be a ''stuffed'' pig. Of course, that brings up the issue of how LivingToys digest real food -- but that's probably a [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=192 different trope (warning: link includes gore).]]
** ''Pooh's Heffalump Movie'' depicts several non-anthro rabbits, and in the skits shown during the closing credits, they are shown playing alongside the other Pooh characters, including Rabbit. It should be noted that, unlike the above Piglet example, Rabbit doesn't have the "he's actually a toy" excuse--he's meant to be a living rabbit.
* The cast of Disney's ''Disney/RobinHood'' is (arbitrarily) made up entirely of [[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic animals]]. It actually manages to avoid some of these issues (they pointedly [[TheUnreveal do not show who or what]] is pulling the carriage at the end), while bringing up entirely new ones (just [[Literature/{{Redwall}} what kind of Church]] do these animals have anyway?).
** How King Richard (a lion) could be the uncle of Maid Marian (a fox) [[ArtisticLicenseBiology remains unaddressed]], [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction with some nasty implications]].
*** [[WildMassGuessing Maybe Richard's queen is a fox, whose sister is Marian's mother.]]
* Then there's the Mickey Mouse cartoon, "The Worm Turns". Mickey is working on a courage potion and goes around testing it on a variety of non-anthropomorphic animals -- including a normal mouse. Things also get pretty awkward whenever Chip and Dale appear in the same cartoon as Mickey.
** Regarding Mickey/Minnie and mice, there's the page image of EekAMouse, and [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/old-brew/the-wonderful-world-of-gonorrhea-1712.html this]] weird ''Look'' comic about medication, where Mickey tests the drug on lab mice.
* Speaking of Chip and Dale, there's an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' where Dale wants to get a pet. His desired pets, a frog and a kitten, are fairly standard for a human. But considering his ''other'' best friends are mice and a fly, the wisdom of bringing them home is... questionable (not to mention the sight of {{Funny Animal}}s having pets and the logistics of getting them up into a tree all by himself).
** The kitten is the worst, as other cats in the series (Fat Cat for example) are portrayed as being every bit as anthropomorphic as the titular rodents. It's almost like wanting a human baby for a pet.
*** And considering that cats ''eat'' rodents, that is actually closer to bringing the baby of a sentient, extremely dangerous monster home as a pet.

* What humor there is in ''Disney/ChickenLittle'' derives from [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] this trope. For example, a father and son play Frisbee in the backyard, and the son catches the toy in his ''mouth'' -- they are both FunnyAnimal dogs.
** Then there is the rug in Chicken Little's bedroom which is designed after a fried egg, yolk and all (classic "fried egg"-style eggs are non-fertilized so it's not quite the same thing. Still pretty squicky though...).
* ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' evidently takes place in a universe with fully anthropomorphic cats, foxes, and crickets; ordinary cats and fish with human-like awareness; and fully non-anthropomorphic animals. The closest this comes to furry confusion (imagine if Figaro met Gideon) is how Cleo doesn't seem to have a problem with the fact that all Geppetto and Figaro seem to eat is fish.
* Bronx and the other "gargoyle beasts" like him in ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' are kind of an odd, borderline case. At first glance, Bronx is a wingless Gargoyle, and isn't really any physically different from the talking Gargoyles aside from lacking wings. But he acts like, and is treated as, a non-talking, non-loincloth-wearing animal. A few episodes (such as the one that introduced Puck) explicitly pointed out that he was the other Gargoyles' "dog", while the show's creator described him as their equivalent of a non-human ape.
** And yet, when Puck swaps everyone's species in the city turning every human into gargoyle and every gargoyle into human Bronx is turn into a dog.
* In their early cartoon appearances, Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar were sometimes shown as regular four-legged non-clothed barnyard animals, and other times as fully anthropomorphic creatures on par with Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy.
** Horace's first appearance was as a horse that Mickey was ''riding''. At other times, he has been depicted himself riding non-anthropomorphic horses.
* This Zé Carioca cover gag has Zé, an anthropomorphic parrot dressed up as a Pirate, with a [[http://www.papersera.net/vilaxurupita/zc/br_zc_2050a.jpg non-anthropomorphic pirate on his shoulder instead of a parrot]]. [[http://www.papersera.net/vilaxurupita/zc/br_zc_1659a.gif a couple]] [[http://www.papersera.net/vilaxurupita/zc/br_zc_2283a.jpg others]] also play with the idea.
** There's even a story where he sees a contest for whoever can get a Parrot to say "Rio De Janeiro". He decides he's going to enter this contest. He then goes out and buys himself a Non-anthropomorphic parrot.

** DiabolicalMastermind Thaddeus E. Klang from the "For Whom the Bell Klangs" two-parter seems to be an anthropomorphic cobra (albeit with a metal jaw and hands), just as smart as everyone else. [[spoiler: Except the end reveals he's ''not'' anthropomorphic. As no one else witnesses this, it seems to serve no purpose but to [[MindScrew confuse the audience.]]]]

* Applying FridgeLogic to the ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' films generates a certain amount of Toy Confusion. Just what constitutes a "toy", anyway? The Etch-A-Sketch is animated and sentient, but Molly's [=iPod=] doesn't seem to be. Toy vehicles are self-propelling, but toy versions of other objects (xylophones, tracks for toy trains) have to be put in place by the humanoid toys. The L.G.M.s who worship "the Claw" are sentient, but "the Claw" itself (basically a big toy with little toys inside) is not. Duke Caboom is sapient, but his motorcycle and launcher aren't.
** However, at the end of the first movie, Woody drives RC Racer ''against his will'' with his remote control to rescue Buzz.
*** Off of that, RC is considered a sentient toy. In the sequel another toy car (possibly a Barbie car) can be driven by the toys, but gives no indication of being sentient, and [[spoiler:Bo Peep's]] Skunkmobile in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory4'' is similarly inanimate.
** Not to mention Bullseye, a toy horse who acts like a horse (and [[AllAnimalsAreDogs dog]]), despite the presence of other animal toys who speak and act normally.
** Believe it or not, [[spoiler: ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory4'' ''actually addresses this''. The movie introduces a new character in the form of "Forky"-- a random plastic spork who was turned into a toy by a kid who glued google eyes and pipe cleaners to him. As a result, he's conflicted about being a toy when he was previously not one. Having only recently been given consciousness, he insists that he is still "just trash" and tries to throw himself away, which ends up setting off the movie's main conflict.]].
** Another Pixar example would be Aphie (who is treated like a pet dog to the ants) in ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife''. This is justified though, as ants have actually "domesticated" aphids in real life.
*** A straighter example from that film, however, would be Thumper. Depending on how you view him, he's either the grasshoppers' insane thug, or their ''pet''. He acts much more animalistic-- specifically [[AllAnimalsAreDogs dog-]] [[RightHandAttackDog like]]-- than fellow grasshoppers Hopper and Molt, and it's unclear how intelligent he's supposed to be or what his relationship to them is. We do, however, get a scene in the outtakes where he's shown as an "actor" who can talk normally, so make of that what you will.
** Or Bessie (a non-anthro paving machine) from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}''. And in the ''Cars'' universe, there are insects that resemble [[StealthPun VW Beetles]], as well as farm equipment that behave like cattle. And in one of the [[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts spinoff shorts]] starring Mater as a bullfighter, there are bulldozers that also act like cattle similar to the farm equipment in the movie.
*** In the sequel, there are tiny airplanes that act like birds, and one of the racers' crew chiefs is a VW Beetle (in the first film, VW Beetles are all supposed to be the car equivalent of insects).
*** Back to the first ''Cars'' film, there is actually still a dinosaur on the logo for Dinoco, and one RV seen near the end of the film appears to be surrounded by plastic flamingos, while another has a {{jackalope}} tattoo on his rear end.
*** A trailer for ''VideoGame/DisneyInfinity'' has Mater trying to strike a conversation with a non-anthropomorphic vehicle.

* ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' actually did this with furniture. Considering the fact that ''all'' of the Beast's servants were turned into furniture due to a magic spell, it's actually never explained what happened to the actual furniture inside the Beast's castle.
** The west wing of the castle has been more or less destroyed over the years by the Beast's various rampages. Now, was he simply vandalizing his own furniture, [[FridgeHorror or outright]] '''[[FridgeHorror attacking and even killing servants]]'''?
* In ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' Max the dog and Glut the Shark act like a normal dog and shark respectively, whereas the other animal characters (like Flounder, Scuttle, and Sebastian) can talk, sing, and dance, and Ariel can understand them. Even Flotsam and Jetsam, Ursula's moray eels, can talk. What's more, during the "Les Poissons" song, realistically-drawn crabs are seen in Chef Louis's kitchen, contrasted with the much more anthropomorphic Sebastian.
** Which leads to some CarnivoreConfusion too; if ''all'' fish can talk, what the hell do mermaids eat? They can't eat sentient fish, because they consider that evil and [[FantasticRacism a reason to hate humans]] but apparently non-sentient fish ''don't exist''. Do all these merpeople subsist on seaweed?
*** In the series, a frequently mentioned merfolk dish is 'plankton pate'. So does that mean merfolk eat like whales?
*** Supplementary materials note that Ariel's sisters like foods such as "kelp wraps", "coral stews", and "sea cucumber sandwiches" suggesting merpeople are vegan.
*** Except that sea cucumbers are actually animals, as are corals. Both are extremely primitive life forms, though, so maybe only creatures with actual brains are counted as sentient?
*** Sea slugs and sea stars were shown joining in on “Under the Sea”, though.
** ''Disney/TheLittleMermaidIIReturnToTheSea'': Undertow the tiger shark can speak, which is confusing when you consider how Glut from the first film didn't speak.

* There's a bizarre inversion style case in one ''Donald Duck'' comic book story where anthropomorphic animals are acting so much as stand-ins for humans that they treat an anthropomorphic animal as an anomaly. The story revolves around a rat-man creature people have encountered in some sewers. Everyone treats this much like a werewolf (or -rat) among humans, not believing in it before they see it and then thinking it a monster. In the end, it turns out to be a ScoobyDooHoax cooked up by some cat criminals. So the terrifying anthropomorphic rat monster turns out to be a run-of-the-mill anthropomorphic cat person in a costume.
* In ''{{Film/Dinosaur}}'', all the protagonist dinos are treated as sentient and we can understand their speech. Background dinos of the same species tend to use grunts and roars like animals would, but it's assumed they're just not feeling talkative at the moment. None of the carnivore dinos speak, [[PredatorsAreMean because they're the villains]]. Where it gets ''really'' complicated is with Url, an ankylosaur who doesn't speak, pants like a dog, barks like a dog, carries a rock to be thrown and chased after like a stick, and is the pet of another dinosaur. So either ankylosaurs are not sentient, or Url is the equivalent of a mentally disabled person being kept as a pet.
** On the subject of dinosaurs, ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur'' features talking non-avian dinosaurs, but also birds (including chickens with theropod hands) that are non-sentient and kept as pets or even livestock. Seeing as birds are classified as living dinosaurs, it seems odd that the birds in the movie wouldn't be alongside their non-avian relatives as sentient lifeforms. Even weirder, a group of pterosaurs--which, contrary to popular belief, are not dinosaurs--are also shown to be sentient and capable of speech (and insane).
* Donald's nephews are members of the Junior Woodchucks, who are Boy Scout parodies. The girl scout parodies are the Junior Chickadees. So, are they named after the animals, or a species of anthropomorphic people? And what happens when an anthro woodchuck joins the Junior Woodchucks, or a chickadee the Chickadees?
* ''Disney/TheRescuers'' (and its [[Disney/TheRescuersDownUnder sequel]]) and ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'' are odd examples. There are talking anthropomorphic mice and other small animals in both films, but there are also some animals that are non-sapient, in addition to non-talking creatures that display some degree of sapience. The former has the crocodiles (or alligators, it's [[InformedSpecies unclear]]) Brutus and Nero, Evinrude the dragonfly, some non-sapient bats and a zoo lion; and its sequel has Marahute the eagle and Joanna the Goanna (a type of lizard). The latter has the loyal BigFriendlyDog Toby, Ratigan's RightHandCat Felicia, and some wagons drawn by horses. What's more, humans are also present in all three of these films.
* ''Disney/TheLionKing'': During "I Just Can't Wait To Be King", crocodiles are shown singing, showing sapience equal to the other animals. Crocodiles are also shown sapient in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard''. In ''Disney/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'' however, there is a scene where Kovu and Kiara are attacked by non sapient crocodiles.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'' features animals who [[AnimalTalk talk]] but otherwise mostly act like wild animals. Animals hunting others is discussed frequently and the Lion Guard frequently has to stop hyenas from hunting animals (supposedly because they kill too many and are thus disrupting the 'Circle of Life').

** Creator/DonRosa chimed in on this in a recent edition of ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck where he defended the removal of a early Duck-pun by saying that as far as he is concerned, the Duck characters [[FurryLens are in fact human beings]] who are ”caricatured” as looking like ducks in the comics, much like his Theodore Roosevelt in the same issue is drawn with a dog nose and four fingers.
* With all of this in mind, ''Disney/TheLionKing'' level in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' is just a carnival of Furry Confusion. Donald is temporarily a non-anthro bird who can ''fly'', Pete is a non-anthro cat (more specifically, a lion), while Goofy is, out of all animals, a [[TurtlePower tortoise]]. What makes it worse is the fact that Donald comments on Sora's transformation (into a lion) while avoiding any mention of Goofy's or his own. It should be mentioned that Donald's non-Anthro form is identified, in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' literature as "Bird Donald".

** In the episode inspired by ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', the Odysseus stand-in, his girlfriend, and most of the supporting cast are Dog-Noses. Circe, of course, turns several of them into non-anthro pigs. Later, Circe herself is turned into a pig as punishment. Here's the thing: Circe was depicted not as a dog-nose, but as an [[PigMan anthropomorphic]] ''[[PigMan pig]]''.

** ''[=DuckTales=]'' also introduced a new sidekick for Scrooge's nemesis Magica De Spell; her brother Poe who was [[BalefulPolymorph turned into a raven]]. While he can still talk, he still wears clothes (a hat at least), he still has functional FeatherFingers, and is for all intents and purposes the same character, just a different species, he views his fate as awful and wants to turn back into a duck, despite the fact that he merely seems to have gotten a bit shorter [[CursedWithAwesome and can now]] ''[[CursedWithAwesome fly]]'' (heck, ask an ornithologist and they will make a good argument that duck-to-corvid is an upgrade). He's just ''barely'' less anthro than the other characters.

-->'''The Nostalgia Critic''': They're all birds! How does this work? When is Pluto gonna walk Goofy?! It's never explained!!

** [[http://disneyweirdness.blogspot.com/2009/11/this-only-leads-to-further-questions.html One]] particularly {{Nightmare Fuel}}errific ''Donald Duck'' comic strip has his cousin Fethry Duck going ''duck hunting'' -- and Donald, of course, initially assumes that Fethry is coming after ''him''. Adding to the confusion, Donald's panicked rationale for why Fethry shouldn't hunt him is that he's ''domesticated -- which raises the question of what exactly that's supposed to mean in this context. Later, the non-anthro ducks are ''also'' able to [[TalkingAnimal speak]], and seem to notice him in passing as well.

** A notable LampshadeHanging occurs during a ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' episode in which Goofy, when confronted by a pair of vicious non-anthro canines, says something to the effect of: "I'm great with dogs. It's like I'm one of the family".
** Also in ''Goof Troop'', Goofy had a pet cat, and Pete had a pet dog. While Pete was originally a cat, his later appearances suggest he's a dog or maybe a wolf. And then there are a number of similar but separate characters existing in a number of mutually exclusive universes and a whole bunch of cartoon shorts that have NegativeContinuity anyway. There are even multiple Petes running around the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' universe.
** In another episode of ''Goof Troop'', Goofy hears a crash in his garage and assumes it was made by a ''giant mouse''. Aside from a quick cameo in ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'', Mickey never appeared on ''Goof Troop'', [[FridgeLogic but]]...

*** Point of Order: in the original Goofy-specific cartoons, EVERY extra was a Goof, extremely similar to Goofy himself but each being slightly different. This was carried over into more modern material as well; if Goofy was the main driving force of the feature, everyone in it would be a Goof.
* Regular ducks have been shown to exist alongside the anthropomorphic DonaldDuck. Adding to the weirdness parade, in a theatrical cartoon, Donald once encountered a ''recipe for roast duck'' in a cookbook, which he angrily ripped up. In a different cartoon he heard another recipe for it on a radio cooking show. His only comment was "Over my dead body".

** ''Disney/{{Fantasia 2000}}'', pictured on the main page, gives us the best LampshadeHanging of this trope: Donald appears as a deckhand on Noah's Ark, responsible for a group of animals that includes, to Donald's visible puzzlement, a couple of normal ducks.
** One particularly {{Nightmare Fuel}}errific Donald Duck comic strip had his cousin Fethry Duck going ''duck hunting''. Like [[http://disneyweirdness.blogspot.com/2009/11/this-only-leads-to-further-questions.html this one]]. The "confusion" part in "Furry Confusion" is especially apparent in panels 2 to 4. In the picture, the non-anthro ducks, who are able to [[TalkingAnimal speak]], seem to notice him in passing as well.

* The most obvious [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Disney]] example, cited in the quote on the main page: WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse is an anthropomorphic mouse. His best friend WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} is an anthropomorphic dog-man who walks on two legs. Mickey's pet Pluto is a (relatively) normal dog that mostly behaves like a real dog.

* ''Disney/TheRescuers'' (and its' [[Disney/TheRescuersDownUnder sequel]]) and ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'' are odd examples. There are talking anthropomorphic mice and other small animals in both films, but there are also some animals that are non-sapient, in addition to non-talking creatures that display some degree of sapience. The former has the crocodiles (or alligators, it's [[InformedSpecies unclear]]) Brutus and Nero, Evinrude the dragonfly, some non-sapient bats and a zoo lion; and its' sequel has Marahute the eagle and Joanna the Goanna (a type of lizard). The latter has the loyal BigFriendlyDog Toby, Ratigan's RightHandCat Felicia, and some wagons drawn by horses. What's more, humans are also present in all three of these films.

* ''Disney/TheRescuers'' (and its' [[Disney/TheRescuersDownUnder sequel]]) and ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'' are odd examples. There are talking anthropomorphic mice and other small animals in both films, but there are also some animals that are non-sentient. The former has the crocodiles (or alligators, it's [[InformedSpecies unclear]]) Brutus and Nero, Evinrude the dragonfly, some bats and a zoo lion; and its' sequel has Marahute the eagle and Joanna the Goanna (a type of lizard). The latter has the loyal BigFriendlyDog Toby, Ratigan's RightHandCat Felicia, and some wagons drawn by horses. What's more, humans are also present in all three of these films.

** The ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' short [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVKXj5nCM4I "Dog Show"]] finally [[LampshadeHanging hung a lampshade]] on it.

** And the Creator/CarlBarks comic [[http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/show.php?num=18&loc=1952/W_OS_422-02&s=date "The Gilded Man"]] shows Donald and the nephews being quite shaken and disturbed by the sight of stuffed normal ducks sitting on a shelf. This is quite unusual as most Barks stories treat the Ducks as stand-ins for humans, and this is, in fact, one of the only times they seem to recognize their relation to non-anthropomorphic ducks, other than the times Barks has them refer to "us Ducks and humans"...

* In ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'', [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals all the characters are anthropomorphic animals]]. There are also non-anthro, non-sapient animals including normal-looking sea life and a few "cryptids". Where it gets really weird, though, is the episode that features a talking parrot who clearly has full human-level intelligence -- but is not anthropomorphic and is treated like a pet by all the other characters. Sime episodes involve the main characters transporting other non-anthropomorphic animals including birds and kangaroos, and one episode even has them buy a pig (and the pig vendor is another porcine, a Hippo).

** One particularly {{Nightmare Fuel}}errific Donald Duck comic strip had his cousin Fethry Duck going ''duck hunting''. Like [[http://disneyweirdness.blogspot.com/2009/11/this-only-leads-to-further-questions.html this one]]. The "confusion" part in "Furry Confusion" is especially apparent in panels 2 to 4. In the picture, the ducks seem to notice him in passing as well.

** Believe it or not, [[spoiler: ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory4'' ''actually addresses this''. The movie introduces a new character in the form of "Forky"-- a random plastic fork who was turned into a toy by a kid who glued google eyes and pipe cleaners to him. As a result, he's conflicted about being a toy when he was previously not one. Having only recently been given consciousness, he insists that he is still "just trash" and tries to throw himself away, which ends up setting off the movie's main conflict.]].

** Or Bessie (a non-anthro bulldozer) from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}''. And in the ''Cars'' universe, there are insects that resemble [[StealthPun VW Beetles]], as well as farm equipment that behave like cattle. And in one of the [[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts spinoff shorts]] starring Mater as a bullfighter, there are bulldozers that also act like cattle similar to the farm equipment in the movie.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'': Although all electronic devices are sapient (though the humans don't even realize this), and the junkyard cars are all sapient as well, but at the beginning the appliances plan to ''use an old refrigerator'' mounted on a rolling chair as a mode of transportation to help find the Master. Taken in context, this would be like a group of people climbing inside a corpse. Furthermore, a sentient refrigerator is one of the appliances seen in the "It's A B-Movie Show" song.

* In ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' Max the dog and Glut the Shark act like a normal dog and shark respectively, whereas the other animal characters (like Flounder, Scuttle, and Sebastian) can talk, sing, and dance, and Ariel can understand them. Even Flotsam and Jetsam, Ursula's moray eels, can talk.

** During the ''Les Poissons'' song, realistically-drawn crabs are seen in Chef Louis's kitchen, contrasted with the much more anthropomorphic Sebastian.

** On the subject of dinosaurs, ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur'' features talking non-avian dinosaurs, but also birds (including chickens with theropod hands) that are non-sentient and kept as pets or even livestock. Seeing as birds are considered modern day dinosaurs, it seems odd that the birds in the movie wouldn't be alongside their non-avian relatives as sentient lifeforms. Even weirder, a group of pterosaurs--which, contrary to popular belief, are not dinosaurs--are also shown to be sentient and capable of speech (and insane).

* ''Disney/TheRescuers'' (and its' [[Disney/TheRescuersDownUnder sequel]]) and ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'' are odd examples. There are talking anthropomorphic mice and other small animals in both films, but there are also some animals that are non-sentient. The former has the crocodiles Brutus and Nero, Evinrude the dragonfly, some bats and a zoo lion; and its' sequel has Marahute the eagle and Joanna the Goanna (a type of lizard). The latter has the loyal BigFriendlyDog Toby, Ratigan's RightHandCat Felicia, and some wagons drawn by horses. What's more, humans are also present in all three of these films.

** Believe it or not, [[spoiler: ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory4'' ''actually addresses this''. The movie introduces a new character in the form of "Forky"-- a random plastic fork who was turned into a toy by a kid who glued google eyes and pipe cleaners to him. As a result, he's conflicted about being a toy when he was previously not one. Having only recently been given consciousness, he insists that he is still "just trash" and tries to throw himself away, which ends up setting off the movie's main conflict.]]t.

** In ''Disney/{{Fantasia 2000}}'', pictured on the main page, Donald appears as a deckhand on Noah's Ark, responsible for a group of animals that includes, to Donald's visible puzzlement, a couple of normal ducks. Best LampshadeHanging '''ever.'''

** In the classic short "WesternAnimation/TruantOfficerDonald", Huey, Dewey and Louie pranks Donald into thinking he'd accidentally burned them alive. They did this by fleeing their fort and placing their caps on the chickens they were roasting right before — suggesting they're not only fully aware that corpses of fellow fowl are sold as food, they're perfectly comfortable buying them at the store.

** ''[=DuckTales=]'' also introduced a new sidekick for Scrooge's nemesis Magica De Spell; her brother Poe who was the subject of a BalefulPolymorph. Specifically he was turned into a... bird. A different species of bird (he is a raven now), to be fair, but still... a bird. He can still talk, he still wears clothes (a hat at least), he still has functional FeatherFingers, and is for all intents and purposes the same character, just a different species. Still, he views his fate as awful and wants to turn back into a duck. This despite the fact that he merely seems to have gotten a bit shorter [[CursedWithAwesome and can now]] ''[[CursedWithAwesome fly]]'' (heck, ask an ornithologist and they will make a good argument that duck-to-corvid is an upgrade). He's just ''barely'' less anthro than the other characters.

** How King Richard (a lion) could be the uncle of Maid Marian (a fox) [[ArtisticLicenseBiology remains unaddressed]]. [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction Beware the implications]].

* Speaking of Chip and Dale, there's an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' where Dale wants to get a pet. His desired pets, a frog and a kitten, are fairly standard for a human. But considering his ''other'' best friends are mice and a fly, the wisdom of bringing them home is... questionable, never mind the sight of {{Talking Animal}}s having pets. (Not to mention the logistics of getting them up into a tree all by himself.)

** Then there is the egg-shaped rug in Chicken Little's bedroom. No, not a ''whole'' egg. A '''broken''' egg. Yolk and all. (Classic "fried egg"-style eggs are non-fertilized so it's not quite the same thing. Still pretty squicky though...)

* In ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'', all the characters are anthropomorphic animals. There are also non-anthro, non-sapient animals including normal-looking sea life and a few "cryptids". Where it gets really weird, though, is the episode that features a talking parrot who clearly has full human-level intelligence -- but is not anthropomorphic and is treated like a pet by all the other characters.

* A running thing in the comics was that Brer Fox and Brer Bear were after various animals (Chip, Dale, Bambi, etc) sometimes to eat them and sometimes to sell them to a pet store. This slightly works since the Brer's are more humanlike and actually live in houses and wear clothes. However, [[http://animationrecapsandotherstuff.blogspot.com/2012/06/furry-confusion-no-sale.html one comic]] has Brer Bear getting so mad at Brer Fox that he ties the fox up and takes him off wanting to sell BRER FOX to a zoo, despite the fact that both Brer's are closer to people than they are animals. So are humans still the elite in the Disneyverse? Can animals willingly sell each other? Who would want Brer Fox, any way? Many, many, many questions are raised.

* Minnie Mouse has a cat named Figaro in some shorts of ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse''. A joke from the writers, maybe?

** One episode of ''House of Mouse'' was actually about DonaldDuck attempting to fly like other Disney characters that somehow possess flight (Disney/{{Dumbo}}, [[Disney/{{Aladdin}} The Magic Carpet]], [[Disney/TheJungleBook Buzzy, Dizzy, Ziggy, and Flaps,]] and [[Disney/TheHunchbackofNotreDame Victor, Hugo, and Laverne]]), and when he gives up, he actually had to be helped by Disney/PeterPan of all characters (that episode actually marked the first time we ever get to hear Peter Pan sing). His desire to fly seems to stem from the fact that internally he knows that, as a duck, he ''should'' be able to fly, and the reason he can't is because he ''doesn't have wings''. Donald temporarily dubs himself "Donald Donkey" since "Donkeys can't fly" (cue flying donkey)

** Believe it or not, [[spoiler: WesternAnimation/ToyStory4 ''actually addresses this''. The movie introduces a new character in the form of "Forky"-- a random plastic fork who was turned into a toy by a kid who glued google eyes and pipe cleaners to him. As a result, he's conflicted about being a toy when he was previously not one. Having only recently been given consciousness, he insists that he is still "just trash" and tries to throw himself away, which ends up setting off the movie's main conflict.]]t.
** Another Pixar example would be that aphid (which is treat like a pet dog to the ants) in ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife''. This is justified though, as ants have actually "domesticated" aphids in real life.

** The west wing of the castle has been more or less destroyed over the years by the Beast's various rampages. Now, was he simply vandalizing his own furniture, [[FridgeHorror or]]...
* In ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' Max the dog and Glut the Shark act like a normal dog and shark respectively, whereas the other animal characters (like Flounder, Scuttle, and Sebastian) can talk, sing, and dance. Even Flotsam and Jetsam, Ursula's moray eels, can talk.

** Eric's dog acts like a normal dog. So why can Ariel understand a bird but not a dog?
** ''Disney/TheLittleMermaidIIReturntotheSea'': Undertow the tiger shark can speak, which is confusing when you consider how Glut from the first film didn't speak.

* ''Disney/TheLionKing'': During "I just can't wait to be king", crocodiles are shown singing, showing sapience equal to the other animals. Crocodiles are also shown sapient in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard''. In ''Disney/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'' however, there is a scene where Kovu and Kiara are attacked by non sapient crocodiles.

* Applying FridgeLogic to the ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' films generates a certain amount of Toy Confusion. Just what constitutes a "toy", anyway? The Etch-A-Sketch is animated and sentient, but Molly's [=iPod=] doesn't seem to be. Toy vehicles are self-propelling, but toy versions of other objects (xylophones, tracks for toy trains) have to be put in place by the humanoid toys. The L.G.M.s who worship "the Claw" are sentient, but "the Claw" itself (basically a big toy with little toys inside) is not.

*** Off of that, RC is considered a sentient toy. In the sequel another toy car (possibly a Barbie car) can be driven by the toys, but gives no indication of being sentient.

** Believe it or not, [[spoiler: WesternAnimation/ToyStory4 ''actually addresses this''. The movie introduces a new character in the form of "Forky"-- a random plastic fork who was turned into a toy by a kid who glued google eyes and pipe cleaners to him. As a result, he's conflicted about being a toy when he was previously not one. Having only recently been given consciousness, he insists that he is still "just trash" and tries to throw himself away, which ends up setting off the movie's main conflict ]].

* On the subject of Pete's wife: Most "people" in Disney comics are depicted as [[PettingZooPeople very anthropomorphic dogs]]. They have a black nose and (sometimes) floppy ears, but are otherwise human. Even real historical people (similar to ''Arthur''). Which makes Goofy even more confusing as he looks nothing like the other "dogs".

* Another Pixar example would be that aphid (which is treat like a pet dog to the ants) in ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife''. This is justified though, as ants have actually "domesticated" aphids in real life.

** Believe it or not, [[spoiler: The teaser for WesternAnimation/ToyStory4 ''actually addresses this''. The teaser introduces a new character in the form of "Forky"-- a random plastic fork who was turned into a toy by a kid who glued google eyes and pipe cleaners to him. As a result, he's conflicted about being a toy when he was previously not one.]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'': Although all electronic devices are sapient (though the humans don't even realize this), the junkyard cars are all sapient as well, but at the beginning the appliances plan to ''use an old refrigerator'' mounted on a rolling chair as a mode of transportation to help find the Master. Taken in context, this would be like a group of people climbing inside a corpse. Furthermore, a sentient refrigerator is one of the appliances seen in the "It's A B-Movie Show" song.

** Also in ''Goof Troop'', Goofy had a pet cat, and Pete had a pet dog. While Pete was originally a cat, his later appearances suggest he's a dog or maybe a wolf. And then there are a number of similar but separate characters existing in a number of mutually exclusive universes and a whole bunch of cartoon shorts that have NegativeContinuity anyway. There are even multiple Petes running around the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' universe.

** In the classic short ''Truant Officer Donald'', Huey, Dewey and Louie pranks Donald into thinking he'd accidentally burned them alive. They did this by fleeing their fort and placing their caps on the chickens they were roasting right before — suggesting they're not only fully aware that corpses of fellow fowl are sold as food, they're perfectly comfortable buying them at the store.

** Believe it or not, [[spoiler: The teaser for WesternAnimation/ToyStory4 ''actually addresses this''. The teaser introduces a new character in the form of "Forky"-- a random plastic fork who was turned into a toy by a kid who glued google eyes and pipe cleaners to him. As a result, he's conflicted about being a toy when he was previously not one.[[/spoiler]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'': Although all electronic devices are sapient (though the humans don't even realize this), the junkyard cars are all sapient as well, but the Master's car isn't (probably because he is constantly using it all the time, considering if the aforementioned statement is actually true).