If a cat was sleeping on top of the water barrel, even if there was a fire, I'd probably still hesitate to wake the cat up and try to carefully lift and transfer it to a chair like I always do when a sleeping cat is in my way

Instead of retiring the old weird design like with most cartoon characters they went "we'll just put this old Badger design that looks like a soulless creature from the void out there to terrorize children and adults alike"