Editing Sylvester the Cat (section)

==Naming==
The name "Sylvester" is a play on ''[[Felis silvestris]]'', the scientific name for the [[European wildcat]] (domestic cats like Sylvester are in the species ''[[Cat|Felis catus]]''). Sylvester was not named until [[Chuck Jones]] gave him the name Sylvester, which was first used in ''[[Scaredy Cat]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Chuck Amuck : the life and times of an animated cartoonist|last=Jones|first=Chuck|year=1989|isbn=0374123489|pages=105|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux }}</ref> Although the character was named Sylvester in later cartoon shorts (beginning with 1948's ''[[Scaredy Cat]]''), he was called "Thomas" in his first appearance with [[Tweety]] in ''[[Tweetie Pie]]'', most likely as a reference to a male cat being called a tom. However, this name would never be used again because [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] already had a cat named [[Tom Cat|Thomas]] from ''[[Tom and Jerry]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Hollywood cartoons : American animation in its golden age |last=Barrier |first=Michael |year=1999 |pages=405 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-503759-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/hollywoodcartoon00barr/}}</ref> Mel Blanc had also voiced a human character named Sylvester on [[Judy Canova]]'s radio show earlier in the 1940s.