Animal Jingoism: Difference between revisions

== Literature ==

* Averted in the ''A Cricket In Times Square'' series by George Selden, which features a mouse (Tucker) and a cat (Harry) who are best friends. A flashback book even averts [[Cats Are Mean]] by having Harry be the one to initiate the friendship in the first place. A later book even has the pair adopting an orphan puppy.

** The ancient enmity between rats and humans is also subverted. Between rats and terriers, not so.

* Explained in an African folk tale. According to the story, Cat and Dog were once great friends and did many friendly things together. But then came hard times and Cat and Dog had to go their separate ways. Dog wandered off and Cat found a human family to shack up with. Dog eventually went to Cat and begged to be allowed in so he could get a decent meal. Cat took pity and directed Dog to his owner's brother, but not before extracting a promise that Dog not come back. Dog kept his promise for a while, but eventually either forgot or judged that circumstances rendered the promise moot, and shambled on back to see Cat. Cat was pissed, to say the least. So dogs aren't chasing cats because they hate cats-they want to be friends again, and cats still refuse to forgive.

== Web Original ==

* The cat/dog rivalry is inverted in [http://reynardnoir.wordpress.com/ Reynard Noir], where Cassandra Cat and the technically canid Slylock Fox have an on again/off again romance. However, speciesm is fairly rampant amongst the population as a whole, especially in the case of predator vs. prey species or humans vs. nonhuman. Sayings such as 'blind as a bat' are even regarded as speciest slurs.

 

== Western Animation ==