Life With Feathers

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Life With Feathers is a 1945 Merrie Melodies cartoon, directed by Friz Freleng and produced and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film centers on a heartbroken lovebird's decision to commit suicide after his marriage goes sour. He recruits a cat to eat him, but the suspicious cat thinks the bird is poison and refuses. For the rest of the film, the lovebird attempts to get the cat to eat him by persuasion, bribery, and force. The gag of a character wanting to be eaten and the cat refusing to is later repeated in the Hubie and Bertie cartoon Cheese Chasers.

The unnamed cat, later better known as Tweety Bird's adversary Sylvester the cat, makes his first appearance in this cartoon.

The title, though nothing about the plot, is a reference to the old standard theatrical play, Life with Father.