This is the most disturbing cartoon ever released by Disney.

We begin with a top-hatted bear driving around in a car that is not revolving on wheels, but using its wheels to walk. That's unnerving enough.

 

 

He's driven by Not-Oswald-the-Lucky-Rabbit. We don't know why they're driving around; nor do we know why the action suddenly switches to this:

 

 

 

When they spy the school, the bear and the Not-Rabbit turn into dog catchers wearing full-body Klan Kondoms:

 

 

 

They kidnap all the dogs and put them in the dog-catcher vehicle, and drive away. You may be wondering why a society that includes sentient animals who are capable of organizing themselves into educational establishments would have dog catcher system. It makes no sense. But this entire thing is a nightmare.

Alice and Not-Felix are looking for the missing dogs, using a car that walks, and has a sensitive nose capable of smelling footprints made by . . . someone other than dogs, presumably:

 

 

 

Once they find the bear and the Not-Oswald (Their vehicle has lost its dog catcher sign) they give chase, but the bear and his driver find an ingeneous way to get over a ravine. Several scenes in this cartoon are much more sophisticated than previous pieces; there's experimentation with, and rather confident mastery of, perspective. It's not all side-on, in other words.

 

 

 

They escape, and make it into town. Which has this:

 

 

The dog-girl in the Juliet window woos dogs over a trap door, which the bear and Not-Oswald open with a ladder. The dog goes down a chute . . .

 

 

 

Where he is struck hard on the head by a Klansman. See, this is a sausage factory. They are making sausage out of dogs. That's why they kidnapped everyone from a school, and use sex to lure citizen dogs to their death in their underground abbatoir.

 

 

 

Oh, but it gets better. Dogs that aren't killed with a blow to the head are executed in a Death Chamber.

 

 

 

A padre gives them a few words from the good book . . .

 

 

The dog struggles, to no avail . . . .

 

 

And then a string of prepared meats made from his flesh are pulled out of the death chamber. Let me repeat that, with one addition: "In this Disney cartoon, a string of prepared meats made from his flesh are pulled out of the death chamber." Hope that gets into Google somehow.

 

 

But! Alice and Not-Felix hit the bear on the head and release the hounds . . .

 

 

. . . and they pour out in a marvelously drawn sequence, freed at last.

 

 

Happy ending! Except for the dead dogs. We never find out of the one in the balcony was tried as a collaborator.