Who’s your favorite Disney cartoon character? Mickey Mouse? Jiminy Cricket? Ariel? Tiana? Bent-Tail? You do know Bent-Tail, don’t you? Perpetually hungry Bent-Tail and his son, Junior, tried to steal the hens that Pluto is guarding in the Pluto cartoon short Pests of the West, which first had audiences howling on this day in 1950. Bent-Tail, who appeared in a total of four cartoon shorts as well as Disney Comics, first made his debut in the 1945 Pluto short The Legend of Coyote Rock, where the narrator described him as “old Bent-Tail, a mighty powerful critter he was, with a voice that would turn an opera star green with envy.”
