Merrie Melodies - A Mouse Divided (1953)

A Mouse Divided is a 1953 Merrie Melodies animated short directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on January 31, 1953, and stars Sylvester.
The title is a pun on Lincoln's House Divided Speech.
Notes:
While this cartoon was used in Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island, it starts at Sylvester's House and the ending is changed and reanimated so that Sylvester was delivered to Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island, where a wedded mouse duo wished for a baby.
This short and the Daffy Duck cartoon "Duck Amuck" were submitted for Academy Awards in 1952, though neither was nominated.
The Boomerang SVOD print uses the unrestored late-1980s/early-1990s VHS/LaserDisc print for this short instead of the 1998 "THIS VERSION" restored print.
Sylvester's wife would later reappear in "Goldimouse and the Three Cats" seven years later, albeit with a drastically different appearance, voice and personality, where both she and Sylvester had a son named Sylvester Junior.
This cartoon marks the debut of Friz Freleng's version of The Drunk Stork, who would reappear in four more cartoons after this one, "Goo Goo Goliath", "Stork Naked", "Pappy's Puppy", and "Apes of Wrath". Prior to that, a different drunk stork previously appeared briefly at the beginning of Bob Clampett's "Baby Bottleneck", who is a caricature of Jimmy Durante.
This is the only cartoon in which the drunk stork's voice is higher-pitched, making him sound a little like Daffy Duck. In later cartoons beginning with "Goo Goo Goliath", the drunk stork's voice is lower-pitched.