The Cat Who Walked by Herself (Russian: Кошка, которая гуляла сама по себе, romanized: Koshka, kotoraya gulyala sama po sebe) is a 1988 Soviet animated feature film directed by Ideya Garanina and made at the Soyuzmultfilm studio.
Like the earlier Soviet animated feature Adventures of Mowgli, the film retains the dark, primal tone of Kipling's work.
It is not the only Soviet screen version of this fairy tale; in 1968 the director Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya at the same studio released another animated film, "The Cat Who Walked by Himself", lasting only 20 minutes.
When the child grabs her tail, the Cat angrily reminds him that they agreed "a thousand years ago" that he would not do that.
It also includes the films Barankin, Be a Man!,[1] Inchgirl,[2] The Pot of Porridge,[3] How the Cat Fought with Mice,[4] and Wings, Legs and Tails[5] (total running time: 142 minutes).