Marc Antony and Pussyfoot  Marc Antony and Pussyfoot are animated characters in four Warner Bros. "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" shorts. Three cartoons focus on the dog and kitten pair: "Feed the Kitty" (1952), "Kiss Me Cat" (1953) and "Cat Feud" (1958). They also appear in one Claude Cat cartoon, "Feline Frame-Up" (1954). Marc Antony is a burly bulldog that is usually brown with a tan belly and black ears, though his coloration varies in some shorts. He bears a close resemblance to Hector the Bulldog, but with thinner back legs and minus the outer fangs. Pussyfoot/Cleo, in contrast, is a petit and extremely cute, blue-eyed black-and-white Tuxedo cat to whom Marc Antony is utterly devoted with motherly passion. The characters seem to be named as an allusion to Marc Antony and Cleopatra, who were lovers detailed in Plutarch's "Parallel Lives". Chuck Jones, the creator, has discussed the efforts to maximize the kitten's sheer adorableness. All head and eyes, it is black with a white face and belly and a white tip on its fluffy tail. Pussyfoot has appeared in some Warner Bros. merchandising, and the pair have been featured in various Warner Bros. productions, such as the third segment of the film version of "" (1983), and a "Looney Tunes" comic book story called "Bringing Up Baby" published in 1999. "Tiny Toon Adventures" featured a similar character named Barky Marky who was a comparatively minor character on the show. The pair were also an inspiration for the Buttons and Mindy characters that were featured in the successor to "Tiny Toons", "Animaniacs". In the Buttons and Mindy short "Cat on a Hot Steel Beam", the cat that Mindy follows throughout the cartoon is Pussyfoot. Pussyfoot makes a cameo appearance in the Chuck Jones' short "Another Froggy Evening" (1995). Jones would later revisit the idea of a cute kitten having an unlikely protector in a MGM "Tom and Jerry" short, "The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse" (1964), with Jerry becoming a kitten's friend and protector against a selfish and jealous Tom (the plot of which was borrowed from "Feline Frame-Up" 1954). In "Feline Frame-Up", Claude the Cat attempts to convince their human owner that Marc Antony wants to harm Pussyfoot.