...there wouldn't be a Jerry for Tom to chase anymore. And, depending on the owl (e.g. an Eurasian Eagle-owl, ), there wouldn't be a Tom, either (yes, an owl can hitch a domestic cat if she's large and powerful enough, there's even a photo I once saw depicting this happening and the cat seemed to be very confused "")."Hootie" (or "Ollie") would bring about the ultimate end for the entire cartoon in the first episode she were to be featured, perhaps in the first three seconds of her appearance. And this end would be the most quick and the most silent end for a cartoon, like, ever.

Do you feel the cartoon was based in reality much? A cat is a mouse's predator too, yet the mouse lives to see another day again and again. It would be a real golden age of television finale if an owl flew into the sunset with Tom in one talon and Jerry in the other.

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@FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website (For some reason your instance startrek.website isn't returning your comment for any of the instances where I have an account, so I'm trying to reply you through a self-reply)Do you feel the cartoon was based in reality much? A cat is a mouse’s predator too, yet the mouse lives to see another day again and again.I live with three cats. When they see a mouse, one of them runs from it, the other thinks it's a funny toy and try to gently pat it without harming it, and the third is too old (14y.o. cat) for ever noticing the mouse. So having a cartoon cat to fail at catching a mouse is not that far fetched from reality lolNow, an owl is very, very unlikely to fail. In fact, the mouse doesn't even get to notice until it's already dangling from a tree branch.It would be a real golden age of television finale if an owl flew into the sunset with Tom in one talon and Jerry in the otherOh... Thank you so much for gifting my imagination such a mesmerizing scene! Now I must draw this kind of scene some time.!showerthoughts@lemmy.world

Nah, it will just be Tom and Jerry working together to defeat the owl.

If an owl were to exist in the cartoon...

He would sing.

Hard to defeat a big Bubo bubo when you got no wings and not even half the size of the Featherly Queen of all birds. Best case scenario for them, Tom would end up squeezed together with Jerry inside Jerry's shelter, both trapped inside, both shaking intensely and fearing for their lives as Ollie surrounds the entrance, the whole place shaking as she does an evil laughing "Hoo-hoo-hoooo, hoooo, hoooo". The big Ollie's talons with sharp claws would be visible hovering next to the floor at the other side of the entrance as she's prowling and encircling it. Tom's stomach would start rumbling, both Tom and Jerry look at each one's eyes, Jerry with a face asking for Tom's mercy and Tom with a sad face pointing at his own belly, Jerry closes his eyes sincerely and nods negatively, then both jump out of scare as the ground shakes again with another "hoo-hoooo" from Ollie, both Tom and Jerry would end up hugging tightly and trembling as Ollie peeks at the entrance with her large, scary orange eyes, owl's typical grumpy face, ear tufts doubling as devilish horns before she does the Bubo bubo-esque smile at them and tries to squeeze her talon through the shelter's entrance towards them both, who are already pushing against the wall.Maybe they could team up with Kau* the raven and hope he and his cawing friends could shoo her away "and once again the day was saved by Kau, for now... (credits unroll)". But guess this is as anticlimactic as my sadistic storytelling. lol*: Wordpun for "caw!" (a crow's call)!showerthoughts@lemmy.world

LOLEssentially an animal-wise "The Voice". Interesting how the owls were depicted, and the owlet singing with ecstatic dilated pupils, so amazing!!showerthoughts@lemmy.world

Spike basically fills the ecological role that the owl would in this scenario, doesn't he?

Perhaps Tom is just bad at being a predator?

IMHO, not exactly. Dogs can't fly, aren't as silent hunters as owls and are too clumsy to fill the ecological role of "unavoidable, fearsome predator unexpectedly swooping down from the skies".!showerthoughts@lemmy.world