in "captain carrot and his amazing zoo crew" #14 and #15, in a storyline titled "crisis on earth-c!," the just'a lotta animals were finally revealed to actually exist, on a parallel earth named "earth-c-minus" (as opposed to the world of the zoo crew, which was named "earth-c"). the two teams united to defeat the villains of the story, dr. hoot (an owl mad scientist) and feline faust (a cat sorcerer; an analog of justice league villain felix faust).