The Moose Hunt

The Moose Hunt
Directed byBurt Gillett
Produced byWalt Disney
StarringWalt Disney
Pinto Colvig
Animation byNorm Ferguson
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • April 30, 1931 (1931-04-30)
Running time
7:22
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Moose Hunt is a Mickey Mouse short animated film first released on April 30, 1931, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series. It was the twenty-eighth Mickey Mouse short to be produced and the fourth of that year.

This is the first cartoon to feature Pluto as Mickey's pet – in his previous appearance, 1930's The Picnic, he was called "Rover" and lived with Minnie Mouse. The cartoon is dominated by Pluto's antics, he gets a minute and a half of solo screen time.

Pluto speaks three times in the cartoon – crying "Mammy!", telling Mickey to "Kiss me!" and pointing out "The moose!" Except for one more "mammy" at the end of Mickey Steps Out, Pluto never speaks again.