Purr-tenders
were produced by Hallmark in 1987-88 and Fisher Price
in 1989. They were a very short lived line of cats pretending
to be other animals in order to be bought from a pet shop
as they felt nobody wanted to buy a cat!
There was a set of large, plush toys,
smaller plush toys, small plastic figures and a few books
but they never made it into cartoon status.