The producers liked the idea enough to decide to develop it into a full-scale animated television series.

and Jules Bass and their team at the Rankin/Bass offices to discuss new project ideas. Weston took the pitch with him to a meeting he had with Arthur Rankin Jr.

In early 1984, Tobin “Ted” Wolf pitched his idea about humanoid cat people to his friend Stan Weston, who was also President of Leisure Concepts Inc.