A runty and pudgy but tough-guy feline coach cons Sylvester into becoming his stooge to catch the mice that he can’t manage to capture, under the pretense of training Sylvester to be a champion mouser. Entering a warehouse, Sylvester runs into baby kangaroo Hippety Hopper, and thinks that Hippity is a giant mouse that must be fought. Bounced by Hippety, Sylvester declares: “If it keeps up like this, the kid’ll make a vege-tanarian outa me!”