This Disney short rather highlights Pluto's limitations in cartoons and also owes a debt to the Tom and Jerry cartoons. Even my son mentioned it reminded him of the cat and mouse capers.Pluto finds a gopher in Minnie's garden and tries to get rid of the annoying gopher without much success. In fact in trying to get rid of him Pluto has destroys the garden in the process.Minnie Mouse makes a small cameo appearance but we have seen this variation of a formula before as Pluto tries to get rid of a pesky animal that is annoying him. An energetic short but also instantly forgettable.

In this Disney cartoon short, Pluto gets a bad rap at Minnie's house when a gopher disturbs his sleep and digs up the flower bed, but is getting blamed for it by Minnie. When the gopher manages to get inside the house, it's a tug-a-war and a game of cat and mouse between him and Pluto.There's plenty of slapstick action, but I didn't like seeing poor Pluto getting the brunt of all the bad luck and blame, while the mischievous gopher gets away with murder. So, to me, it's not a very enjoyable cartoon short. Minnie is hardly in it at all and, had she discovered that a gopher is responsible for the mess in her backyard, it would have been a better cartoon story.Grade D

This is a Disney 6-minute Technicolor cartoon from 65 years ago and it is exactly about what the title say: Pluto's encounter with a feisty little gopher. Minnie Mouse has a little cameo as in a couple other Pluto short films and she basically plays the character who always comes in when the gopher caused some mayhem and it looks like it was Pluto's fault. There is certainly a parallel to Tom's owner in the Tom and Jerry cartoons that were incredibly famous around 1950. Anyway, it starts chaotic here, but gets really much more when the gopher mistakes a green carpet for a meadow. Poor Pluto is really in trouble in this one. Unfortunately, in terms of the humor I cannot say I was too impressed or well-entertained. All in all, a fairly generic Disney piece that does not stand out for any reason. A bit of a disappointment given how prolific Nichols, Kinney and Schaffer were at this point. Not recommended.

Who doesn't enjoy classic Disney shorts? I quite enjoy them, but I must confess that this one isn't one of the classics. Pluto on his own, fighting a small animal doesn't offer much variety. I have seen this before, like in Canine Patrol (1945) (fighting a turtle), Pluto's Playmate (1941) (a sea lion) or Bone Bandit (1948) (another gopher).