By the time Tex Avery and Heck Allen got around to making Wild and Woolfy, they had to figure out different sexual-excitement gags for the wolf when he sees Red on stage than they had used before.
They kept things to a minimum. The first one features the MGM ink-and-paint department’s brush work, some multiples, and eyes popping out of the head, bouncing away like table tennis balls.
Showmen’s Trade Review of Jan. 5, 1946, reported:
After viewing the MGM Color Cartoon, "Wild and Woolfy," Marines stationed at Camp Pendleton, Calif., have requested the Culver City studio for permission to use the leading character, a little dog in a ten-gallon hat, as their official mascot. The studio is now working up an insignia featuring the pup for the Marine outfit.
Wild and Woolfy was copyrighted Sept. 21, 1945 and released Nov. 3, 1945. Claude Smith’s model sheet for the cartoon is dated May 5, 1944. The short was animated by Preston Blair, Ed Love, Ray Abrams and Walt Clinton, whose name was taken off the October 1952 re-release. Johnny Johnsen was the background artist; the cartoon opens with a pan over one of his lovely paintings with buttes, plains, cacti, and rocks with the credits on a foreground overlay.
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