Cat R. Waul

Cat R. Waul
Background information
Feature films	An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Television programs	Fievel's American Tails
Video games	An American Tail: Fievel Goes West An American Tail: Fievel's Gold Rush
Animators	Kristof Serrand
Voice	John Cleese (movie) Gerrit Graham (TV series)
Inspiration	Warren T. Cat
Character information
Full name	Cat R. Waul
Other names	Boss (referred to by his henchmen) Pussy-poos (by Miss Kitty and his owner) Darling (by his owner) Waul (by Sweet William and Fievel Mousekewitz) Mr. Waul (by Tanya Mousekewitz)
Personality	Evil, manipulative, hungry, snide, suave, contemptuous, sophisticated, polite, gentlemanly, posh, classy, intelligent, imaginative, arrogant, mean, oppressive, greedy, hateful, sinister, dishonest, devious, lazy, clever, cunning, cruel, sarcastic, villainous
Appearance	Slender brown cat, green eyes, pink nose, wears a red top hat with black band around with brim, a red cape with a black satin lining, a white shirt, a pink long-sleeve vest, monocle on his left eye (just like the Grand Duke of Owls)
Occupation	Businessman, Hypnotist, boss and leader of the Cactus Cat Gang
Alignment	Bad
Goal	To turn all the mice of Green River into mouseburgers (failed)
Home	Green River, Wild West
Allies	T.R Chula
Minions	T.R Chula, One Eye, Frenchy, Felonius, Slim, Sweet William, Stogie, Belteo, Phillipe, Spot, The Architect, Roger, Sylvester, many Cactus Cat Gang, Unnamed Rattlesnake
Enemies	Fievel Mousekewitz, Tanya Mousekewitz, Papa Mousekewitz, Henri, Wylie Burp, Tiger, Miss Kitty
Likes	Mouseburgers, Tanya's singing
Dislikes	Being referred to as "Pussy Poos", humans, having to chase after mice
Powers and abilities	Hypnosis
Weapons	Gun, his teeth and claws
Fate	Gets flung into a mailbag and picked up by a Train, forced to endure the cuddles of his newfound busty owner.
Quote	"Which would you rather have: the crouton or the entire caesar salad? Of course, we're going to eat the mice, but only after we have exploited their labors. You see, we are nice to the mice because it is intelligent to be so. If we act sweetly, they will come in droves. If we hiss, they will run and we will have to chase after them; an unnecessary expenditure of calories" "Mouseburgers indeed!" "Right. I want the subversive who tried to assassinate me found." "Someone who doesn't have very long to live." "Okay chaps it's become necessary to put these dogs through obedience school. Kill!"

Cat R. Waul is the main antagonist in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West. Cat R. Waul's devious scheme seemed a long way to go just to feast upon a large number of mice. Waul is a businesscat, above such primitive and gruesome methods of collecting his food as chasing the mice down and eating them; 'an unnecessary expenditure of calories'. Instead, his plan was to travel to New York from Green River and convince the impoverished mice there to move west, insisting that out west cats and mice were friends. And he forced his gang to keep up the act by being nice to the mice, much to their dismay.

In essence, Waul is a well pampered and cultured house cat, with a mind for complex and evil schemes. It could be that his owner makes frequent trips to and from Green River and New York. His schemes tend to be somewhat cruder in Fievel's American Tails, where he often actually does resort to simply chasing the mice down and trying to eat them, and he is treated more like a generic villain in the series.

Background

Physical Appearance

Cat R. Waul is a slender brown cat with green eyes, and a pink nose. He wore a red top hat with a black band around the brim on top of his head, and a monocle on his left eye. Waul wore a red cape with a black satin lining, a pink long-sleeve waistcoat with gold buttons, a white shirt with a black string tie, and white cuffs on his feet.

Personality

Cat R. Waul is a selfish businessman above such primitive and gruesome methods of collecting his food as chasing mice down and eating them. He dislikes humans mostly because he's smothered so much by his owner and called "Pussy Poos", a name he really hates and dislikes being referred to, as shown when Miss Kitty called him it.

Appearances

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

His plan was to orchestrate a cat attack on the mice of New York and then entice them in the sewers in order to trick them into moving out west using a mouse cowpoke marionette. Once gaining their trust and making them think Green River was a place where cats and mice peacefully coexist in harmony, he was going to kill them all with a giant mouse trap at the grand opening of his saloon and turn them into "mouse burgers." Fievel heard about his devious plot on the train, and he was pulled down to Cat R. Waul's paw. The boss tortures him with butter sauce and is about to eat him, but he realizes that his family will miss him and look for him if he eats the young mouse, so he decides to let him go. He told his spider lackey, T.R. Chula to give him "The Flying Ahhh!" and make it good, and Fievel is kicked off the train.

Later, while selecting someone to sing on stage at his saloon, Cat R. Waul was poked in the butt with a fork by Fievel, and he flew through the roof where he was cuddled by his owner. He sees Fievel and tries to eat him again, but he hears Tanya's beautiful singing voice while she sings "Dreams to Dream". Rather than eat her he decided to keep her alive and puts her on stage. Later, when he is about to unleash the giant mouse trap at the grand opening of his saloon, Fievel, Tiger and the former sheriff Wylie Burp show up to save the day. At one point in the ensuing shoot-out Cat R. Waul had the mice cornered and was about to shoot them, but Fievel had him and his gang in the giant mouse trap, and the cats were catapulted out of town and into a mail bag. Cat R. Waul swore vengeance, but was pulled into the train and cuddled again by his owner.

Gallery

Cat R. Waul’s defeat

Trivia

• His actor John Cleese later voiced Jean-Bob the Frog in "The Swan Princess"!
• John Cleese rejected voicing Cogsworth from Beauty and the Beast to voice Cat R. Waul.

An American Tail

Media: An American Tail | An American Tail: Fievel Goes West | An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island | An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster Characters: Fievel Mousekewitz | Tanya Mousekewitz | Papa Mousekewitz | Mama Mousekewitz | Yasha Mousekewitz | Tiger | Tony Toponi | Bridget | Gussie Mausheimer | Honest John | Warren T. Rat | Digit | Henri | Cat R. Waul | T.R Chula | Miss Kitty | Cholena | Dr. Dithering | Scuttlebutt | Mr. Grasping | Toplofty and O'bloat | Chief McBrusque | Chief Wulisso | Nellie Brie | Reed Dailey | Madame Mousey | Twitch | Slug and Bootlick | Lone Woof Songs: There Are No Cats in America | Never Say Never | Somewhere Out There | A Duo | Let's Make Music Together | Way Out West | Rawhide | Dreams To Dream | The Girl You Left Behind | We Live in Manhattan | Anywhere in Your Dreams | Friends of the Working Mouse | Get the Facts | Creature de la Nuit | Who Will