The cat eventually discovers that Pepé is a married father of two, who is physically abused by his jealous wife.

After so much abuse, (being thrown out of a butcher’s meat store, shooed from a house, and attacked by a dog) an orange cat decides that he has got to do something about it.

Although he is successful in keeping his tormentors at bay, he accidentally attracts the unwanted attention of a real skunk, "Henry."

Continuing to run, the cat accidentally brings a dog into the mix, then tries a Bugs Bunny costume to fool Henry.

Standing in disbelief (and completely dropping his French accent), Henry claims that he was only "wiping a cinder from a lady's eye," but she, still thinking that he is cheating on her with someone else, begins to repeatedly beat him on the head with her umbrella as the cat crawls away to escape and remove all of the paint and smell.