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** Foo-Foo is Miss Piggy's pet dog who not only acts like a real dog, but alternates between being played by both a Muppet dog and a real dog. Rowlf, on the other hand, is a Muppet dog with human intelligence.
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* In [[http://www.pbfcomics.com/268/ this]] ''ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship'' strip, a non-anthropomorphic rabbit in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals gets treated as a streaker, complete with [[MoralGuardians pixelating its genital era]] in the TV news.

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* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': In 'Store Story', Bear talks to a bunch of teddy bears in a toy store, but stops mid-sentence when he realizes none of them can talk.
** In the same episode, Snake talks with an ordinary boa constrictor that can only hiss.
** Balloon gets an ordinary "decoy" balloon as a prize at the end of [='VRcade'=].
** Liz is a semi-anthropromorphic lizard is in charge of...a reptile house, which would logically include lizards.
* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': The main cast consists of anthropomorphic animals who live in a world where they interact with real animals, and even keep pets, such as cats, gerbils, dogs, and an elephant on one occasion. When asked about it on a forum, writer Warren Graff compared the situation to humans and monkeys, explaining that Happy Tree Friends are the next evolution of animals, and that all Cuddles the bunny sees when he sees a non-anthropomorphic bunny is, well, a bunny.
* ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity'' has plenty of nonanimal ones, especially later in the second season.
** [=MePhone4=] is shown using a inanimate [=MePhone=] to answer calls sometimes.
** Paintbrush used an inanimate paintbrush to paint in Alternate Reality Show.



* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': The main cast consists of anthropomorphic animals who live in a world where they interact with real animals, and even keep pets, such as cats, gerbils, dogs, and an elephant on one occasion. When asked about it on a forum, writer Warren Graff compared the situation to humans and monkeys, explaining that Happy Tree Friends are the next evolution of animals, and that all Cuddles the bunny sees when he sees a non-anthropomorphic bunny is, well, a bunny.
* ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity'' has plenty of nonanimal ones, especially later in the second season.
** [=MePhone4=] is shown using a inanimate [=MePhone=] to answer calls sometimes.
** Paintbrush used an inanimate paintbrush to paint in Alternate Reality Show.

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* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': The main cast consists WebVideo/{{Jehtt}}'s video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usf06ziW8z4 "They Are Not Like Us"]] discusses ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes''[='s=] use of this trope by showing Team Chaotix arguing about the differences between anthropomorphic animals who live in a world where they interact with real animals, like themselves, and even keep pets, such as cats, gerbils, dogs, and an elephant on one occasion. When asked about it on a forum, writer Warren Graff compared regular animals like the situation to humans and monkeys, explaining frogs of the jungle they're in. It is capped off by the appearance of a non-sapient crocodile that Happy Tree Friends are the next evolution of animals, and that all Cuddles the bunny sees when he sees sends Vector straight into a non-anthropomorphic bunny is, well, a bunny.
* ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity'' has plenty of nonanimal ones, especially later in the second season.
** [=MePhone4=] is shown using a inanimate [=MePhone=] to answer calls sometimes.
** Paintbrush used an inanimate paintbrush to paint in Alternate Reality Show.
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* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': In 'Store Story', Bear talks to a bunch of teddy bears in a toy store, but stops mid-sentence when he realizes none of them can talk.
** In the same episode, Snake talks with an ordinary boa constrictor that can only hiss.
** Balloon gets an ordinary "decoy" balloon as a prize at the end of [='VRcade'=].
** Liz is a semi-anthropromorphic lizard is in charge of...a reptile house, which would logically include lizards.

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* In ''Film/StuartLittle'', the eponymous character is an anthropomorphic mouse adopted as a son by humans; as a result he has a pet cat. However, the cat also speaks. It is implied that all cats and mice have intelligence in this world, but are generally treated as we treat animals anyway... Stuart being given "special treatment" creates a bit of a social scandal in both the human and animal worlds. Note that this is '''[[AdaptationDisplacement completely]]''' different from the original novel. In the book, [[MundaneFantastic Mrs. Little gives birth to a mouse-like, mouse-sized child]]. [[{{Squick}} Don't think about that one too hard.]]
* In a short scene in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'', Puss in Boots tries to flirt with normal, meowing female cats.
* In ''Film/HowardTheDuck'', the eponymous character flips out when he is served a breakfast that includes fried eggs. Howard's behavior is justified because he was accidentally abducted from a world populated with anthropomorphic ducks like himself, so the eggs "always remind him of his birthday", despite being chicken eggs.

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* In ''Film/StuartLittle'', the eponymous character is an anthropomorphic mouse adopted as a son by humans; as a result he has a pet cat. However, the cat also speaks. It is implied that all cats and mice have intelligence in this world, but are generally treated as we treat animals anyway... Stuart being given "special treatment" creates a bit of a social scandal in both the human and animal worlds. Note that this is '''[[AdaptationDisplacement completely]]''' different from the original novel. In the book, [[MundaneFantastic Mrs. Little gives birth to a mouse-like, mouse-sized child]]. [[{{Squick}} Don't think about that one too hard.]]
* In a short scene in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'', Puss in Boots tries to flirt with normal, meowing female cats.
* In ''Film/HowardTheDuck'', the eponymous character flips out when he is served a breakfast that includes fried eggs. Howard's behavior is justified because he was accidentally abducted from a world populated with anthropomorphic ducks like himself, so the eggs "always remind him of his birthday", despite being chicken eggs.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryAndTheWizardOfOz'' has Toto acting as a perfectly normal dog and farm animals acting like normal animals as well. This makes sense in the original film as only Oz has {{Talking Animal}}s and {{Funny Animal}}s... however the film features Tom and Jerry acting essentially like non-verbal humans. They are bipedal, are treated like farm hands, and apparently aren't pets. To make matters worse, Butch seems similarly anthropomorphic but lives in a dog-house and seems to be a pet.

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''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryAndTheWizardOfOz'' has Toto acting as a perfectly normal dog and farm animals acting like normal animals as well. This makes sense in the original film as only Oz has {{Talking Animal}}s and {{Funny Animal}}s... however the film features Tom and Jerry acting essentially like non-verbal humans. They are bipedal, are treated like farm hands, and apparently aren't pets. To make matters worse, Butch seems similarly anthropomorphic but lives in a dog-house and seems to be a pet.



* In ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'', according to Sonic, Longclaw eats mice, implying that regular mice somehow exist on Sonic's planet of anthropomorphic animals. [[CarnivoreConfusion Or at least we hope they're regular mice.]]
* ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'': Sir Didymus, some sort of dog-knight, is astride a normal-looking dog.

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* ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'': In ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'', according one scene, Puss in Boots tries to Sonic, Longclaw eats mice, implying that regular mice somehow exist on Sonic's planet of anthropomorphic animals. [[CarnivoreConfusion Or at least we hope they're regular mice.]]
* ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'': Sir Didymus, some sort of dog-knight, is astride a normal-looking dog.
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* In ''Film/StuartLittle'', the eponymous character is an anthropomorphic mouse adopted as a son by humans; as a result he has a pet cat. However, the cat also speaks. It is implied that all cats and mice have intelligence in this world, but are generally treated as we treat animals anyway... Stuart being given "special treatment" creates a bit of a social scandal in both the human and animal worlds. Note that this is '''[[AdaptationDisplacement completely]]''' different from the original novel. In the book, [[MundaneFantastic Mrs. Little gives birth to a mouse-like, mouse-sized child]]. [[{{Squick}} Don't think about that one too hard.]]
* In ''Film/HowardTheDuck'', the eponymous character flips out when he is served a breakfast that includes fried eggs. Howard's behavior is justified because he was accidentally abducted from a world populated with anthropomorphic ducks like himself, so the eggs "always remind him of his birthday", despite being chicken eggs.
* In ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'', according to Sonic, Longclaw eats mice, implying that regular mice somehow exist on Sonic's planet of anthropomorphic animals. [[CarnivoreConfusion Or at least we hope they're regular mice.]]
* ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'': Sir Didymus, some sort of dog-knight, is astride a normal-looking dog.
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* K-9 Corp's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-hsJigMLzA Dog Talk]]'' uses the aforementioned Goofy confusion in a seriously {{squick}}y way.
* Rathergood tends to use anthro cats as performers in their music videos. So in [[http://www.rathergood.com/cold "When I Had a Cold"]] the anthro cat performer sings that he "snotted and snotted all over my cat", which is illustrated as an ordinary, non-anthro kitten.
* The video for {{Music/Goldfrapp}}'s ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeawPUpTHJA Strict Machine]]'' has men with dog heads [[DigitalHeadSwap pasted over their heads]]. At the end of the video, they are shown walking normal dogs.

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* K-9 Corp's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-hsJigMLzA Dog Talk]]'' uses ''Literature/TheKaturranOdyssey'' takes place in a world populated entirely by {{Intellectual Animal}}s. There is some pretty spectacular CarnivoreConfusion to be found here, but for the most part everyone else is treated equally... except for in the city of Od Ashud. If you aren't a Golden Monkey, expect to be added to the Empress' ''zoo''.
* In ''TimeWaitsForNoMouse'' and its sequels this was averted by making insects the equivalent of animals for the talking rodent main characters. Grasshoppers are apparently their equivalent of cattle.
* The sci-fi novel ''I, Weapon'', manages a form of FurryConfusion without actually involving [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom Furries]] (although some have fur). The series is written in a far future where humans were nearly wiped out by invading aliens with the surviving members having largely speciated into various specialized forms to survive on far planets. One of the groups of humans was bred by the overlords for muscle, lack of brains, and large earlobes (the aliens thought earlobes were fascinating and bred for it as a decorative traits). At the time when the human races begin re-establishing contact, they decide that the kindest thing to do for the meat race is to continue breeding and using them as food. One of the scary aspects of the book is that it's implied that, outside of the huge earlobes, the meat race are the ones who look most like what we think of as humans.
* The minotaurs in the Dragonlance universe ride horses (specially bred to carry them, since they're bigger than people). They also keep livestock, though they don't keep cattle, they've instead bred sheep to cattle size as a substitute. They are explicitly aware of this trope. Calling a Minotaur a "cow" is [[FantasticRacism roughly the equivalent of the n-word]], as they are ''very'' conscious of their resemblance to said animal and don't take kindly to being reminded of it.
* Some Creator/RichardScarry books actually have the inhabitants of Busytown (all anthropomorphic animals) coexist with non-anthropomorphic animals. For example, one book actually showed a pig farmer raising non-anthro pigs!
* The Polish books about ''Literature/KoziolekMatolek''. Matołek the goat, and later his family, seems to be the only anthropomorphic animal around (though all animals are sapient, as usual in children's literature). The humans he meets react variously; some treat him as an ordinary person, some call for the butcher immediately upon spotting him, and then there are those who initially treat him as a human but try to make him into a stew once he displeases them.
* A few of the species in the ''{{Literature/Redwall}}'' series flip-flop on their level of sapience. Eels appear to be monsters in ''Taggerung'', but in ''Mossflower'' an deal is made with a talking eel to free him in exchange for their lives. In the third book, Basil Stag Hare jokes that the magicians be allowed in Redwall "as long as they don't pull rabbits out of hats", which makes one wonder how that trick would work when there are no humans in the series and [[http://www.somagames.com/somaniloquy/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/SpeciesSizes.jpg hares are among the larger species in the setting]]. Reptiles also vary in terms of intelligence, especially snakes. Asmodeus Poisonteeth from the first book was an intelligent, articulate villain, but later snake characters, like the giant water snake Deepcoiler, have only animalistic intelligence.
* ''Literature/LittleCritter'':
** In ''Just Go to Bed'', Little Critter pretends to be a rabbit. It could be justified in that he might have been pretending to be another person who just happened to be a rabbit.
** In ''Just Pick Us, Please!'', Little Critter and his friends help the local animal shelter to host a pet fair, which includes a hodgepodge of anthropomorphic animals all adopting various pet animals, including on one page an anthropomorphic rabbit holding what very much appears to be a non-anthro rabbit.
** ''It's Easter, Little Critter!'' also features Little Critter and Little Sister getting a pet rabbit named Egg for Easter, despite
the aforementioned Goofy confusion presence of anthropomorphic rabbits in other titles.
** In some books, Little Critter has
a seriously {{squick}}y way.
* Rathergood tends to use anthro cats
pet,cat, but there’s also his teacher, who’s an anthropomorphic cat.
** One book has Little Critter and his class going on a hike. One of his classmates is an anthropomorphic frog, but they encounter a regular frog
as performers well in their music videos. So in [[http://www.rathergood.com/cold "When I Had a Cold"]] the anthro woods.
* A 1995 ''Look and Find'' book for ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' mixes normal looking animals, {{Civilized Animal}}s, and {{Funny Animal}}s on the same page. So you'll have an anthropomorphic
cat performer sings that he "snotted woman just to the right of running cats, normal porcupines on the same page as Sonic, and snotted Sally amongst chipmunks and squirrels.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Maisy}}'':
** Maisy and her friends are
all over my cat", which anthropomorphic, but in the book ''Maisy's Morning on the Farm'', Maisy visits/feeds a number of farm animals, milks a cow and then uses it for her breakfast cereal, as well as giving some to the farm cat.
** In the book ''Maisy Gets a Pet'', Maisy, who
is illustrated as an ordinary, non-anthro anthropomorphic mouse, adopts a pet kitten.
* In ''Literature/DaughterOfSmokeAndBone'', one of the LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces of [[MixAndMatchCritters chimerae]] are sheep-people who live by herding aries, sheeplike animals. All sentient races and most dumb animals in Eretz are [[MixAndMatchCritters hybrids of Earth species]], but sentients will most often be [[BeastMan humanoid]] and/or part-human.
* Furry Confusion is an actual plot point in ''Literature/TheBookOfTheNamed''.
The video for {{Music/Goldfrapp}}'s ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeawPUpTHJA Strict Machine]]'' has men main characters are sapient prehistoric felines who call themselves the Named specifically to distinguish themselves from near-identical felines called the Unnamed that act animalistically. The two groups are, in fact, the same species, but it's assumed that any Unnamed cubs will always be unintelligent... at the start of the series, anyway. Interactions between Named, Unnamed, hybrids, and strangers with dog heads [[DigitalHeadSwap pasted over their heads]]. a different sort of intelligence drive the story as a whole.
* The ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTeddyRuxpin Teddy Ruxpin]]'' book "All About Bears" discussed about the different kinds of bears.
At the end of the video, they story, Grubby wonders if Illiops are shown walking normal dogs.also bears, and Teddy says "Well, you can call me an Illiop, or you can call me a bear. I really don’t care, as long as you call me your friend".



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* ''Podcast/QuestInShow'' has a scene where Tristan Lambert (a sheep-like BeastMan) investigates a wool farm, which is naturally filled with normal sheep. Tristan’s player explicitly compares the dynamic to that of humans and monkeys.

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* ''Podcast/QuestInShow'' Discussed in ''Series/EvenStevens'':
-->'''Louis''' "Is it fair that Pluto
has to wear a leash and sleep in a doghouse while Goofy, who is also a dog, gets to drive around in a car and play golf with Mickey?"
* In a ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' sketch, two [[PantomimeAnimal pantomime horses]] get into a pastiche of chase scenes -- which at one moment has the pantomime horses riding on horseback.
* The various [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppet]] productions have had some fun [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] and subverting this issue. To wit:
** On ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', Gonzo, an anthropomorphic... birdlike... something eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:chicken hawk, and was thus dubbed the set's resident expert on chickens]], seemed to be in a relationship with Camilla, a non-anthropomorphic chicken who only speaks through clucks.
** And there have been both talking puppet chickens ("I'm a chicken; this ''sketch'' is a turkey!") and ordinary chickens on the show. If he wanted to dance with a chicken... well... but then, getting a puppet chicken that could actually dance would've [[RuleOfFunny ruined the comedy]] of watching Gonzo urge a real chicken to "please do something!" would have been compromised.
** Phyllis George's episode has a segment where the Swedish Chef plays with inanimate honeydew melons, despite one of the Muppet Show cast members being a sentient honeydew melon (however, this can be excused seeing that Bunsen isn't in the episode).
** In one segment, Rowlf, a Muppet dog, sang "What a Wonderful World" to a non-Muppet dog. This could be excused out of sheer adorable.
*** Likewise, Link Hogthrob sang "Sonny Boy" to a real-life piglet.
** In ''Film/TheMuppetsTakeManhattan'', Kermit (with temporary amnesia) goes into hysterics at the thought of a Frog wanting to marry a Pig, complete with ridiculous puns. Did amnesia turn him off the idea of InterspeciesRomance? And in one episode of the show, an android Kermit replica -- long story -- flirts with Piggy thusly: "A frog and a pig! We could be married and have bouncing baby figs!"
*** ''Manhattan'' also features
a scene with Rowlf operating a kennel with a mixture of Muppet and non-Muppet dogs.
** ''Film/AMuppetFamilyChristmas'' ends with Kermit giving Miss Piggy a gift of a mink -- a live, anthropomorphic mink who proclaims herself Piggy's biggest fan. Creepy...
** Played with in this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egVA8FCPyNY Sesame Street sketch]]. Kermit's reaction when the frog is brought out says it all.
** Two web shorts involve the skateboarding dog. The Muppets, including Rowlf, seem completely unable to distinguish between a real dog and a muppet dog, talking about him as if he were capable of anything a muppet dog could do.
** The Muppets even go one step further; Both ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' and ''Series/MuppetsTonight'' had episodes that involved ''ventriloquist dummies.'' As Boppity (a muppet from [[ChristmasSpecial The Great Santa Claus Switch]]) once said, "I can hardly believe it -- a stick of wood that talks!"
* ''Series/TopoGigio'' is a mouse and he has a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MES1xlB1nA pet cat]], and the cat is even smaller than him (and no, he's not a giant mouse as he is often seen [[TalkingAnimal speaking with humans]]).
* Shows
where Tristan Lambert (a sheep-like BeastMan) investigates the characters are portrayed as people in costumes may get a wool farm, bit more slack with this trope. Nonetheless, there are a few episodes of ''Series/ZoobileeZoo'' that are thought provoking:
** In one episode, Lookout Bear adopts a non-anthropomorphic dog played by a real dog. The image of a guy in a bear costume playing with a real dog was pretty jarring. (And we'd give anything within reason to know what the dog was thinking.)
** In another episode, a witch arrives to bully the residents of Zoobilee Zoo by making them -- and these were her exact words -- "act like ''animals''!" (Bravo is the only one who replies, "I already act like a fox.")
** Finally, there was an episode where the characters travel back to Zoobilee Zoo's distant past and meet a ''human'' caveman. (Really, the only way all of this could make sense is if the show takes place at an [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom Anthro-Con]] that never ends.)
* Parodied in an episode of ''Series/OutOfJimmysHead'', when Jimmy visits "Animal-Lovin'" Kevin's house and his cartoon friends stare in confusion at their real-life counterparts within Kevin's menagerie. Even Pickles is confused by an actual pickle in a jar.
* ''Series/DonkeyHodie'':
** Clyde is a living cloud, yet the other clouds we see in the sky aren't sentient.
** There are some scenes where the animal characters on the show will often refer to their feet as their toes when they don't have any. For instance, in "Mountain Climb Time", Donkey and Panda mention their toes hurting. However, some episodes avert this trope, such as "Hoof Dancing Is Hard" and "Cheesy Con".
** In "Art Show Today", Harriett Elizabeth Cow claims that she made her piece of art, "The Cow Jumped Over The Prune", out of a plastic milk bottle. Milk comes from cows, so the thought that Harriett might have drank that milk is a little bit unnerving.
** In "The Lavender Lights", Donkey claims she's giving Duck Duck and Bob Dog donkey rides...while she's standing on her two feet rather than standing on all four hooves.
** In most episodes, penguins communicate by using the word "squibbit", while in others, the penguin characters are shown to be capable of speaking perfect English, like Penguin Referee and Fashion Penguin. This is made even more confusing by the episode "Good Dog School", where Penguin Referee says "squibbit" to try and distract Bob Dog.
** In "The Cow And Potato Bug Opera", there's a character named Mr. Anybuggy who only speaks in buzzing noises, and Donkey says that the audience needs to understand his speech. Later, Donkey is shown communicating with Mr. Anybuggy and understanding his thoughts.
** In "A Donkey Hodie Halloween", one of the pumpkins shown has a dog face on it,
which is naturally filled Donkey calls cute. This hints that Someplace Else might have non-anthropomorphic dogs in it. Towards the end of the same special, we see statues of non-anthro donkeys with wings.
* ''Series/DontHugMeImScared'': In the first episode, there appears a humanoid briefcase who himself carries a
normal sheep. Tristan’s player explicitly compares briefcase. Yellow Guy calls him "one of those guys with one of himself."
* The French-Canadian kid show ''Cornemuse'', featuring live anthropomorphic characters, is especially prone to this. In one episode
the dynamic to that veterinarian Cornemuse (an anthropomorphic dog played by Danielle Proulx) is seen taking care of humans and monkeys. a real dog.


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* K-9 Corp's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-hsJigMLzA Dog Talk]]'' uses the aforementioned Goofy confusion in a seriously {{squick}}y way.
* Rathergood tends to use anthro cats as performers in their music videos. So in [[http://www.rathergood.com/cold "When I Had a Cold"]] the anthro cat performer sings that he "snotted and snotted all over my cat", which is illustrated as an ordinary, non-anthro kitten.
* The video for {{Music/Goldfrapp}}'s ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeawPUpTHJA Strict Machine]]'' has men with dog heads [[DigitalHeadSwap pasted over their heads]]. At the end of the video, they are shown walking normal dogs.
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* ''Podcast/QuestInShow'' has a scene where Tristan Lambert (a sheep-like BeastMan) investigates a wool farm, which is naturally filled with normal sheep. Tristan’s player explicitly compares the dynamic to that of humans and monkeys.
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* Happens in-universe to Otto of ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'', who feels sorry for a dog that walks on four legs and wears no clothes. Otherwise usually averted, because Otto is still "animal" enough to interact with other dogs on the same level, even though he's closer to anthropomorphism than they.
* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide''. Perhaps it would be best just to leave it at "Gary Larson is in love with lampshading this."
** A chicken is serving her sick husband a bowl of soup, saying, "Just eat it. First of all, chicken soup is good for a cold, and second, it's nobody we know."
** There's another strip where a cow is grilling beef, with other cows pointing and screaming: "You're sick, Jessie! Sick! Sick! Sick!"
** An even creepier strip shows a cow ''eating a steak'' while the other cows watch, apparently as an experiment. Why they decided to do it is [[NightmareFuel probably best left unknown]].
--->"Interesting, interesting... I'd say we [[TastesLikeChicken taste a little like chicken]]."
** Then there's the one where a young bull walks into his house in a leather outfit. Two of the on-looking cows are horrified, but a third explains, "Don't mind him. That's our calf Randy -- he wears leather for the shock value."
** Don't forget the one where the chicken was baking a cake, noticed that eggs were on the ingredients list, ''and then looks over at her unhatched children.''
** In a less creepy example, one dog is pedalling a bicycle which is being chased by another dog running on all fours.
--->"Hey... Be cool, man, be cool."
* Subverted in the newspaper comic strip ''ComicStrip/MyCage''. While all the "people" in the strip are anthropomorphic animals of some variety, all the "animals" are, in fact, enormous microbes. The main character, Norm, even has a pet amoeba named Squishy. There's also one strip where one character is said to suffer from a condition that makes him think he is non-anthropomorphic.
* In ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'', a strip populated mainly with talking animals, the little guard duck (usually an over-the-top violent military type) attempts a rather tender relationship with a non-anthropomorphic female duck. This is quite explicitly mentioned in the strip, with the author making an appearance to explain things to the characters. ([[spoiler:In the end, the non-anthropomorphic female duck flies away to migrate, but the little guard duck is incapable of flight. He is quite sad, for a duck who blasts sedans with [=RPG=]s on a semi-regular basis.]])
** Also, in a rather gruesome early strip, Pig is thrown out of a club for pigs due to his love for [=BLTs.=] And before that, there was the strip where a diner owner refused to bring Pig the ham sandwich he ordered because it might be one of his relatives. Pig proceeds to call a relative and ask about every member of his family. Upon finding out his aunt is missing, Pig orders a fruit salad.
** Another example is the non-anthropomorphic sheep that joined the ''Pearls Before Swine'' crew early on, providing the proverbial [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]].
* One of the running themes in the ''ComicStrip/{{Pluggers}}'' [[http://joshreads.com/?cat=57&submit=view commentary]] at [[http://www.joshreads.com The Comics Curmudgeon]] is the question of what, exactly, the interaction between anthropomorphic and non-anthropomorphic characters is like; since the characters in ''Pluggers'' are drawn as anthropomorphic animals, but the ideas used in the strip are submitted by readers (i.e. ''humans''), the overlap can range from confusing (an anthropomorphic bear taking a normal dog for a walk) to disturbing (a chicken-woman storing her jewelry in an egg carton.) [[http://joshreads.com/?p=19248 One strip]] in particular may require two or three readings to understand — its caption refers to the "dog", meaning an ''off-panel'' pet dog, even as the reader can ''see'' the family's husband, a dog-man.
* Since the cast of ''Comicbook/{{Rocky}}'' is portrayed as humanistic with animal heads, Furry Confusion occasionally happens. Tellingly, the Authors standard answer to the question "What breed is Rocky?" is a completely straight-faced "Aryan".
* ''ComicStrip/TomTheDancingBug'' did a brief, 3 panel comic that made fun of trope. An anthro dog walks a normal dog. An anthro pig asks "I don't understand, aren't you both dogs?" The anthro dog replies "Well, isn't that a pork chop in your bag?"
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* In ''Film/StuartLittle'', the eponymous character is an anthropomorphic mouse adopted as a son by humans; as a result he has a pet cat. However, the cat also speaks. It is implied that all cats and mice have intelligence in this world, but are generally treated as we treat animals anyway... Stuart being given "special treatment" creates a bit of a social scandal in both the human and animal worlds. Note that this is '''[[AdaptationDisplacement completely]]''' different from the original novel. In the book, [[MundaneFantastic Mrs. Little gives birth to a mouse-like, mouse-sized child]]. [[{{Squick}} Don't think about that one too hard.]]
* In a short scene in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'', Puss in Boots tries to flirt with normal, meowing female cats.
* In ''Film/HowardTheDuck'', the eponymous character flips out when he is served a breakfast that includes fried eggs. Howard's behavior is justified because he was accidentally abducted from a world populated with anthropomorphic ducks like himself, so the eggs "always remind him of his birthday", despite being chicken eggs.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle'', Chanticleer the rooster and his friends all live on a farm. But when all the other animals go to the city to find Chanticleer so they can get him back and stop the evil owl, instead of humans, all the inhabitants of said city are also animals! And also consider the fact that Edmund (the boy who was apparently turned into a cat by the evil owl) and his parents are the supposed owners of Chanticleer's farm. On the surface this is easily explained by [[spoiler:AllJustADream]], at least until the next scene where the live-action kid appears on the cartoon farm just to confuse the issue even more.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' we have Digit the Cockroach, a FourLeggedInsect that wears clothes and talks, in the same movie as a group of photo-realistic {{Creepy Cockroach}}es that sneak up on Fievel while he's exploring a storm drain.
* In ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAForest'', when the three main characters get stuck in a storm drain we see a group of scary realistic rats scurry by before the tunnel gets flooded with water. One of the main characters is a cartoony wood mouse.
* In ''[[WesternAnimation/TomSawyer2000 Tom Sawyer]]'', all the characters are anthropomorphic animals. At one point, Becky Thatcher mentions that baby kittens are some of her favorite things. She is a cat herself, and it's never made clear whether the kittens she is referring to are the equivalents of human babies or if there are non-anthropomorphic cats in that universe.
* In ''WesternAnimation/Epic2013'' some of the animals (like Mub and Bufo) and plants (like the dandelions) can talk and interact like humans but others (like the mouse and birds) can only interact as animals of comparable size to humans would.
* The American cut of ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'' opens by saying that all the inhabitants of the future-North America are mutated cats, dogs, and rats, but later features a normal cat hissing and clawing at the camera when startled.
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryAndTheWizardOfOz'' has Toto acting as a perfectly normal dog and farm animals acting like normal animals as well. This makes sense in the original film as only Oz has {{Talking Animal}}s and {{Funny Animal}}s... however the film features Tom and Jerry acting essentially like non-verbal humans. They are bipedal, are treated like farm hands, and apparently aren't pets. To make matters worse, Butch seems similarly anthropomorphic but lives in a dog-house and seems to be a pet.
** ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryWillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'': Droopy and Spike demonstrate that some dogs are able to work jobs, own homes, and go to prison, but Spike's son Tyke is briefly seen being walked on a leash.
* For most of its existence, ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' took place in what was basically the real world, just with three (later six) chipmunks who talked, acted like, and were the same size as human children. Then came ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure''. In addition to the Chipmunks and Chipettes, the film contains non-anthropomorphic dogs, horses, lizards and sharks, cobras and alligators with slightly human traits, and... penguins that live in igloos, sleep in carved wooden beds, and carry lockets with photographs of their families. ...What?
* In ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'', according to Sonic, Longclaw eats mice, implying that regular mice somehow exist on Sonic's planet of anthropomorphic animals. [[CarnivoreConfusion Or at least we hope they're regular mice.]]
* ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'': Sir Didymus, some sort of dog-knight, is astride a normal-looking dog.
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* ''WebVideo/TheAnnoyingOrange'' once talked to a sentient iPhone, but has been shown to have a smaller, non-sentient iPhone of his own in later episodes.
* ''Roleplay/DarwinsSoldiers'' had this occur twice in the 3rd RP.
** Cpl. Stern has this to say:
---> '''Cpl. Stern''': So, Vipers. I understand that you can sense motion and heat differently than humans can. Does it works like a real snake's senses?
** Birds chirping outside the window wake up Shakila, and it's almost sure that said birds are non-anthro.
* On Website/GaiaOnline, there are normal animals such as the companion items and the fish in people's aquariums, talking animals who may or may not wear clothes such as the tailcoat-and-hat-wearing cat NPC Rufus, furry avatars created by modifying the human base with animal-related bits such as ears, tails, paws and fur, and the animal bases (which are shorter than humans, but still walk upright). It's rather interesting seeing four different levels of anthropomorphism on the same website, or on occasion in the ''same page of a forum thread''.
-->'''Rufus the Cat:''' I don't get along so well with other cats. They never have much to say...
* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': The main cast consists of anthropomorphic animals who live in a world where they interact with real animals, and even keep pets, such as cats, gerbils, dogs, and an elephant on one occasion. When asked about it on a forum, writer Warren Graff compared the situation to humans and monkeys, explaining that Happy Tree Friends are the next evolution of animals, and that all Cuddles the bunny sees when he sees a non-anthropomorphic bunny is, well, a bunny.
* ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity'' has plenty of nonanimal ones, especially later in the second season.
** [=MePhone4=] is shown using a inanimate [=MePhone=] to answer calls sometimes.
** Paintbrush used an inanimate paintbrush to paint in Alternate Reality Show.
* WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum: Human agents Laburnum and Foxglove go to the Real World for a holiday and bump into agents Naomi (human), Drake (anthro fox in human disguise), Stormsong, Skyfire, and Stormy and Sky's adopted kids Molly and Moses (all various anthro mustelids in human disguise). In a conversation, Drake wants to go to a zoo, but Sky argues against it on the basis that Molly would have a fit (she already had one after encountering a pet shop).
* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': In 'Store Story', Bear talks to a bunch of teddy bears in a toy store, but stops mid-sentence when he realizes none of them can talk.
** In the same episode, Snake talks with an ordinary boa constrictor that can only hiss.
** Balloon gets an ordinary "decoy" balloon as a prize at the end of [='VRcade'=].
** Liz is a semi-anthropromorphic lizard is in charge of...a reptile house, which would logically include lizards.
* ''WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier'': In the ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' special, Fred's buddy is a dwarf with the ability to tame wild animals. He then attempts to use this ability on a Worgen (wolf-man), Tauren (bull-man) and Pandaren (panda-man). Note that these are all not only sentient creatures, they're all ''players''.
* Parodied in a skit from the ''Sonic Shorts'' series of fan-made skits. Sonic and his friends, who are all staying at the [[Anime/SonicX Thorndyke residence]], are fed different kinds of foods, all of which apply to the diets that their species have in real life. Knuckles is given non-anthro (but still talking) ants, and Tails is given a non-anthro, cooked rabbit. Cream, who is sitting next to Tails at the time, starts crying, and runs out of the room.
* Parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPLyXfVXp6I a Sonic fan video,]] where a non-anthro hedgehog approaches Sonic with another non-anthro hedgehog who was run over by a car. The living non-anthro says to Sonic, "Avenge him, Sonic! ''Avenge your brethren's death!''"
* ''Literature/{{Plonqmas}}'': In “A Plonqmas Tale -- 1998” and “A Plonqmas Tale -- 1999,” FunnyAnimal Plonq owns two non-anthropomorphic pet cats.
* WebVideo/ProZD: The cow card game in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkGXPSavzhg when your opponent won't finish you off in a card game]]" includes both Cowboy Cow (a [[NonHumanHead cow-headed humanoid]] who is also a cowboy) and Cowboy Cow's Cow (a regular-looking cow).
* In ''WebVideo/SMPLive'', Cooper enjoys fishing... Despite being a fish himself.
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* James Coney Island, a fast food chain specializing in hotdogs, had a logo consisting of an anthropomorphic hotdog cheerfully holding up a regular hot dog.
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** A plant example. Venus Mc Flttrap's pet is a plant that isn't humanoid, but is clearly not a normal plant either.

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** A plant example. Venus Mc Flttrap's [=McFlytrap=]'s pet is a plant that isn't humanoid, but is clearly not a normal plant either.

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