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Uh oh, Fido's gotten into the whipped cream! Or the shaving cream, or the soap suds, or the toothpaste -- the point is, white foam is dripping from his mouth. Cue people running away and screaming, "Mad dog! Mad dog!"

Sometimes it's a human being rather than a dog inspiring the panic.

* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' (October 28, 1986), Calvin makes an attempt to fool his mom into thinking he was rabid. When she just tells him to spit the toothpaste foam out of my mouth, Calvin says to himself, "Maybe Dad will fall for it if I bite him first."

-->'''Hammy''': I am a crazy rabid squirrel! '''I WANT MY COOKIES!!!'''

* ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': In the episode, "Dog Hotel", Grizz eats a pie covered in whipped cream. But when he goes to take a walk with the other dogs, Joshy thinks he's a rabid dog, and she calls animal control. Luckily, his brothers and the other dogs were able to rescue him in time.

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* There was a depressing ''ComicStrip/BetweenTheLines'' strip where a dog had just finished eating some honey offered to him by a cat. The owners then think he's rabid, and the last panel shows the dog's tombstone as the cat smirks smugly.

* In ''Film/Speedy'', the titular character puts shaving cream on his pet dog in order to scare off the gangsters hiding Pop's streetcar at the far side of town.

* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin makes an attempt to fool his mom into thinking he was rabid. When she just tells him to spit the toothpaste foam out of my mouth, Calvin says to himself, "Maybe Dad will fall for it if I bite him first."

* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin made an attempt to fool his dad into thinking he was rabid using toothpaste foam.

* In ''Film/ScoobyDoo2MonstersUnleashed'', Shaggy and Scooby [[PlayingSick induce this]] using whipped cream to go to The Faux Ghost by themselves. They are later called out on it.

* In the description of the Court of Miracles in ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', it's shown that beggars fake rabies by chewing on bits of soap to evoke pity from passersby.

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** In another ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short, "Porky's Party", WesternAnimation/PorkyPig's dog Black Fury uses shaving cream to get rid of the hair that grew as a result of his getting into the hair tonic. When Black Fury comes out of the bathroom, everyone panics and runs away from him.

* In the {{Droopy}} short "Wags To Riches," Spike puts shaving cream on a sleeping Droopy and phones in a report of a mad dog, but a fan blows the foam onto Spike's face just as the dog catcher arrives.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "The Waggily Tale", when Junior dreams he is a dog, his owner brushes his teeth with shaving soap, causing him to be mistaken for a mad dog.
* In another ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short, "Porky's Party", WesternAnimation/PorkyPig's dog Black Fury uses shaving cream to get rid of the hair that grew as a result of his getting into the hair tonic. When Black Fury comes out of the bathroom, everyone panics and runs away from him.