The Pet

Colonel Bert's wife acquires a dog-like pet which grows rapidly and begins eating everything that it can reach. The film opens with a couple in bed who have just had a big meal of spicy foods. The husband comments that the food will probably cause wild dreams. Sure enough, the wife dreams that an endearing little creature has just come to their front door. It's small, so she has no difficulty holding it in her hands . She gives it a bowl of milk, causing it to grow a little. Overnight, it grows some more, and it's already quite large when it approaches their breakfast table. It goes down to the cellar and dines on a big pile of coal, growing all the while, and by the time it goes back upstairs, it fills the hallway. Alarmed, the husband goes to a nearby store and orders a barrel of poison, "Rough on Rats," and feeds it to the creature. It eats it all up, and it breaks out in all kinds of spots and blisters, which then become absorbed. It's now huge, and it casually eats an automobile as it walks along. Finally, as it prowls along the city's buildings, it's attacked by a fleet of planes as the dream comes to an end.

Colonel Bert, Wife, Pet

Silent cartoon.

Inspired by a Rarebit Fiend strip from March 8, 1905.