Spike's Been Spayed....

Poor old Spike is going to have his cigar digitally removed from all the Tom And Jerry cartoons.
Apparently you can kick an animal flat, but making them breathe smoke is cruel beyond all limits.
Actually the smoking is being airbrushed out of history because it is assumed to lead to children learning to smoke.
But not learning to hit cats with large hammers or blunt instruments, apparently.

Of course, I still remember growing up in the seventies, watching Tom and Jerry and learning to feel contempt for the Soviet Union, where historical photo-records were known to be altered to remove features unpalatable to the then ruling elite.


But as we all know, the Soviet Union was defeated.

Right?