# Favorite non-anthropomorphic cartoon animal **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2018, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487 "2018-05-20T01:31:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/101 "2018-05-26T16:51:12Z")
> [@Trisha\_Gaurav](#): > > Then I guess Lilo has a very different definition of anthropomorphic than you. Since she treats Stitch as a person, and not an animal, it seems more that she has a different definition than you. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/102 "2018-05-26T17:11:02Z")
> [@Trisha\_Gaurav](#): > > The dictionary says you have to be able to bear children to be considered female… What dictionary says _that?_ ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/103 "2018-05-26T17:12:26Z")
This is so typical of the SDMB! 😃 Rather than listing our favorite, we are debating who is and who isnt anthropomorphic and the definition of that word! :p:smack: lol/ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/104 "2018-05-26T17:13:25Z")
> [@Trisha\_Gaurav](#): > > Then I guess Lilo has a very different definition of anthropomorphic than you. Lilo is fictional, _and_ never used the word “anthropomoric” in the movie, so you have no idea what her definition of the word is. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/105 "2018-05-26T17:16:39Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > This is so typical of the SDMB! 😃 > > Rather than listing our favorite, we are debating who is and who isnt anthropomorphic and the definition of that word! :p:smack: > > lol/ Finding out what the OP means by using the word, then perhaps finding the correct word, would make it a lot easier to play the game. It’s as if someone said “What is your favorite baseball position?” then announced that her/his favorite position is “quarterback”. ---
**Author:** ![Trisha\_Gaurav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Trisha\_Gaurav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trisha_Gaurav)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/106 "2018-05-26T17:27:54Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > So an animal is anthropomorphic only if one of the human characters screams “holy fuck, that animal is acting like a human!”? So you’re saying you would beat a person with a broom for accidentally breaking a vase? Or make your wife sleep outside for trying to sleep in your bed? Or get all excited about adopting a child as if they were a pet? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/107 "2018-05-26T17:29:12Z")
> [@Trisha\_Gaurav](#): > > So you’re saying you would beat a person with a broom for accidentally breaking a vase? Or make your wife sleep outside for trying to sleep in your bed? > > Or get all excited about adopting a child as if they were a pet? What _are_ you talking about?? ---
**Author:** ![Trisha\_Gaurav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Trisha\_Gaurav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trisha_Gaurav)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/108 "2018-05-26T17:29:43Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Lilo is fictional, _and_ never used the word “anthropomoric” in the movie, so you have no idea what her definition of the word is. You don’t have to know a word to understand the idea behind the word. Most babies know how to tell a cat apart from other animals is without having ever heard the word ‘cat’ in their life. ---
**Author:** ![Trisha\_Gaurav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Trisha\_Gaurav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trisha_Gaurav)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/109 "2018-05-26T17:33:33Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > What _are_ you talking about?? Mammy Two Shoes hits Tom with a broom. And in one episode she beat him up and threw him outside for trying to sleep in her bed. Also, didn’t Lilo say “Come here, boy” to Stitch in the movie? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/110 "2018-05-26T17:33:50Z")
> [@Trisha\_Gaurav](#): > > You don’t have to know a word to understand the idea behind the word. Apparently sometimes you _do_. That is what dictionaries are for. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/111 "2018-05-26T17:41:49Z")
Of the very few non-anthropomorphic animals brought up in this thread, I too would go with Bandit from _Jonny Quest_. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/112 "2018-05-26T17:42:11Z")
> [@Trisha\_Gaurav](#): > > So you’re saying you would beat a person with a broom for accidentally breaking a vase? Or make your wife sleep outside for trying to sleep in your bed? > > Or get all excited about adopting a child as if they were a pet? If I did, would it mean the person wasn’t human? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487/113 "2018-05-26T17:44:05Z")
> [@Trisha\_Gaurav](#): > > Mammy Two Shoes hits Tom with a broom. And in one episode she beat him up and threw him outside for trying to sleep in her bed. I can say with reasonable certainty that both of these things have been done to humans. I will admit that at least one of them happened to me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-non-anthropomorphic-cartoon-animal/814487.md?page=5)