Love that pup

Spike sleeps with his son Tyke, when Tyke wakes up from a bad dream. Spike soothes Taika with milk, and they sleep again. Tom and Jerry step onto the stage with great noise. Tom stumbles over a shovel, hoe and rake. Jerry is hiding behind Tyke. Tom runs to the scene and takes Tyke to see what is under him.

Spike runs up to Tom and orders him to release Tyke. Tom does not immediately see Tyke in his hands, gives Tyke to dad and tries to run away, but Spike manages to grab the cat by the mustache and pull it to him. Spike threatens Tom that if he bothers Tyke again, he will tear it to pieces. In a panic, Tom runs away from Spike, not looking ahead, and alternately crashes into a tree, a fountain, a metal pole and a garbage can.

Jerry comes out from behind Tyke and being sure that it's over, but it wasn’t there. Jerry sees Tom and hides from him in his mouth (according to Tom, but actually under his chin) Spike. Tom gently opens the bulldog's mouth and fumbles with his hand there. Suddenly, Jerry crawls out from under his cover and closes the bulldog's mouth. With great difficulty, Tom pulls his hand out of the mouth of an awakened and evil bulldog, and with it his false jaws. Tom (confident that now they won’t bite him, because there’s nothing to do) is removed from the scene by clicking on Spike’s insertion jaws the rhythm of the Mexican song “ Jarabe Tapatío ”, and already disappearing from sight, generously puts his jaws on a bucket.

Spike and Tyke are sleeping, and with them Jerry, using Tyke as a pillow. Tom uses dog kennels as cover, and Jerry almost grabs it. But then the mouse substitutes Tyke’s tail, and Tom grabs it. Satisfied Tom runs with the booty, and understands who he grabbed. Still sleeping, Spike does not detect Tyke under his arm, and so Tom falls under his arm. Spike thinks Tom is his son, and he presses him closer to him. Jerry lowers Tyke's booth onto Tom's tail, who screams in pain and wakes Spike. Spike takes his "baby" and calms him. At that moment, Tyke returns. The embarrassed Spike cannot understand who his son is, and Tom tries his best to assure Spike that he is his son, repeating whining, barking and growling after Tyke. But during the snooze, Tom comes across, meowing instead of growling. Spike began to growl at Tom, but he runs away, after having bitten the bulldog by the nose.

Tom hides behind a fence and, just in case, puts a rake near him, in case Spike turns around the corner. But Spike runs past, and the joyful Tom does not notice how he comes across his own rake.

Tom suspends a steak in the form of a bait on a rope stretched to Spike, and Spike (who holds a rifle and then drops it), like lunatics, goes behind a steak directly into Tom's trap - a barn, despite Jerry’s all attempts to stop the dog. Tom locks Spike in the barn and runs after Jerry. Jerry crawls into a hole in a wooden barrel and Tom closes it with a cork, thereby closing Jerry. But Jerry manages to get out by simply lifting the board and running away. He pulls Tyke under the barrel and puts the board back in place.

Spike bursts out of the barn, instantly approaches Tom, plugging the cork into the hole, and says that if Tyke is under the barrel, he will lower the skin from Tom. Tom was already preparing to calmly, confidently raise the barrel ... and then he was whistled by Jerry sitting on the fence. Tom realizes that he has disappeared, and with trembling hands raises the barrel. There lies Tyke . Tom, as for the first time, runs in a panic, not looking forward, and crashes into various household items, but at the end he is in wait for Spike's fist. The dog beats Tom and rips off his skin (it's all behind the scenes).

The final shot shows us a naked Tom, covered with a barrel and with a bat in his hands (he was literally skinned and forced to guard the bulldogs), and Spike and Taika lying on his skin for convenience. Jerry crawls out from under Spike, hangs a note in his ear with the words "DO NOT DISTURB" and goes to bed with the bulldogs.

• This is the debut of Tyke, Spike's son and frequent guest in further episodes.
• In this cartoon, actor Dawes Butler became Spike's “voice” and succeeded Billy Bletcher, who had previously voiced Spike. Butler will be voicing Spike in future bulldog appearances.
• The re-showing of the cartoon (called " Tops with Pops ") took place in 1957 with the same animation effects, but with a new background and screen format.
• Puppy Tyke will appear in 8 more episodes.
• In this episode, the first opening theme used in episodes of the 1950s and also used in episodes of the 1960s is used for the first time. Although in the remaining episodes of 1948-1949 the same composition sounded a little differently.

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