History Main / TroublemakingNewPet

** Aunt Sarah later does this to Lady's boyfriend Tramp, whom she thinks was attacking a baby, and immediately has him taken away by the dogcatcher (it was the rat that was attacking the baby, Tramp was actually protecting him). It is only from Lady's owners returning and heeding Lady's barking that the truth is discovered.

When you come back in the room, you become surprised at the mess and become quick to [[NeverMyFault blame the old pet for causing the damage]]. The pet tries to insist that he did not do it, but you don't listen (of course, it helps that the pet isn't usually able to talk). The old pet [[IncrediblyLamePun takes matters in his own paws]] to expose the new pet for the fraud that he is. Once the new pet has been exposed for what he really is, he is immediately disposed of and the old pet is forgiven.

* Stitch in ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' starts out wreaking havoc around Lilo's neighborhood after becoming Lilo's pet, due to him acting upon his destructive instincts given to him by Jumba. He gets better.

* A Johto episode of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' had Ash and friends come across a seemingly cute and innocent Teddiursa, whom they temporarily take under their wing. However, when Ash, Misty, and Brock are not around, Teddiursa is not as innocent as he seems as he frames most of the Pokemon (Totodile, Chikorita, Psyduck, and Bulbasaur) for eating the food, which it actually did itself.

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets'' Max tries to make Duke look like this so Katie will get rid of him by destroying things around the house.

* The Mogwai pose as such in ''Film/{{Gremlins}}. While Gizmo is fairly well behaved, his offspring quickly send warning flags with their treatment of the Peltzers' other pets, tormenting Gizmo multiple times, and tying up the family dog Barney in their outdoor Christmas lights (they get away with the latter not by framing either of them but because Billy instead suspected resident {{Jerkass}} Ms. Deagle, who holds a grudge against Barney). This culiminates in them sabotaging Billy's clock so he will unwittingly feed them after midnight and set off their metamorphosis, upon which the trope takes nightmarish levels...

** Aunt Sarah later does this to Lady's boyfriend Tramp, whom she thinks was attacking a baby, and immediately has him taken away by the dogcatcher (it was the rat that was attacking the baby, Tramp was actually protecting him).

* In ''Film/TheUglyDachshund'', the dachshunds act like this to the Great Dane, despite him being the "new" pet. After spilling paint, they're even shown cleaning themselves up so their masters won't notice they did it.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' had [=SpongeBob=] buy another pet as a friend for Gary, but the pet causes a lot of trouble by tormenting Gary, but since [=SpongeBob=] is an expert of ComicallyMissingThePoint, he thinks that Gary is roughhousing with the pet, even in the end when he blames Gary for all the damage.

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* ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'':

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* Used in two WesternAnimation/BettyBoop cartoons:

* The ''WesternAnimation/HouseofMouse'' short "Pluto's Kittens", which is about [[WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup Pluto]] being [[SublimeRhyme kicked out of the house]] by WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse after a trio of kittens sneak in and make a mess.

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* ''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp'':

* Stitch in ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' starts out wreaking havoc around Lilo's neighborhood after becoming Lilo's pet, due to him acting upon his destructive instincts given to him by Jumba. He gets better.

* ''Disney/LiloAndStitch''

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* Used without a new pet in the ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' episode "Everyone Knows It's Bendy". The friend is apparently wrongly blamed for all the misdeeds that he committed at his old creator's home, but once he's been welcomed to Foster's, he actually turns out to be a complete JerkAss who promptly gets Wilt, Eduardo, Coco, and Bloo into various kinds of troubles that he did himself, while still mooching to Mr. Herriman and Frankie under his innocent facade. Like the [=SpongeBob=] example, fans consider it the worst episode of the series ([[CreatorBacklash the crew even apologized for it]], which is why Bendy was never seen again after this).

* Used without a new pet in the WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends episode "Everyone Knows It's Bendy". The friend is apparently wrongly blamed for all the misdeeds that he committed at his old creator's home, but once he's been welcomed to Foster's, he actually turns out to be a complete JerkAss who promptly gets Wilt, Eduardo, Coco, and Bloo into various kinds of troubles that he did himself, while still mooching to Mr. Herriman and Frankie under his innocent facade. Like the [=SpongeBob=] example, fans consider it the worst episode of the series ([[CreatorBacklash the crew even apologized for it]], which is why Bendy was never seen again after this).

* The ''WesternAnimation/HouseofMouse'' short "Pluto's Kittens", which is about [[PlutothePup Pluto]] being [[SublimeRhyme kicked out of the house]] by MickeyMouse after a trio of kittens sneak in and make a mess.