This is Mickey Mouse and his pet dog Pluto. There is a school of thought that says not to find any inner meaning in comics and cartoons, another one says there are subtle messages hidden in every work for children's consumption, provided it has a certain minimum pedigree. Say for instance the works of Lewis Carroll or Sukumar Ray. Now here Sir Walt Disney injects the message of democratisation of power where a dog has been kept as a pet by a mouse. We get to see so many of these underlying messages, just need to see beyond the obvious.