In Lonesome Lenny, Screwy Squirrel pours hair remover on Lenny the dog, leaving him naked save for a pair of boxers. He bashfully covers himself up and makes his way to a closet where he keeps extra dog suits. In the episode "Sven Hoek", Ren unzips the front of his fur to urinate on the "Don't Whiz On The Electric Fence" board game Stimpy and Sven are playing. Compare Removable Shell for the shelled animal variant, Removable Animal Markings for when an animal's natural stripes and spots are depicted as removable, and Clothing Appendage for when the "garments" aren't removable. Subtrope of Appropriate Animal Attire. See also Exposed Extraterrestrials and Fur Is Skin. The title panel of the August 1, 1993 strip shows Garfield's fur put on a clothes hanger as if it were a suit.

In the September 20, 1987 strip, Odie pulls on a thread that causes the fur on Garfield's lower half to fall down like pants. Jon laughs at Garfield's misfortune and Garfield retaliates by removing Jon's belt, making Jon's pants fall down. Almost Naked Animals takes this to its literal extreme. The entire cast has mostly-bare skin and underwear, even characters who are animals that logically can't be shaved. As revealed in the PixarShort Tokyo Mater, a car's paint actually serves as its clothing, so not wearing paint at all is considered to be the automobile equivalent of nudity. In the novel American Gods, Shadow hitches a ride with a fellow who tells a tall tale about a deer that literally jumped out of its skin to escape a hunter, then was given a replacement knitted by local women. Played straight in the May 1, 1988 strip , where Lanolin takes off her wool to relax in a pond. Roy comes along and takes her wool, but gets his comeuppance when Lanolin retaliates by taking Roy's feathers.

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In a Krazy Kat strip, Krazy claims to be "complitley clothed in a garmint of fur"—as opposed to Ignatz Mouse, who's hairless and therefore "nude". (Krazy feels embarrassed for him and covers him with a cloth.) In Animalympics the flamingo figure-skater's big finish has her spin around so fast her feathers are blown off, revealing a set of underwear beneath, which she immediately covers with a robe. Perry the Platypus from Phineas and Ferb is frequently like this. In one episode, Perry went to his lair via suction tubes and reveals Perry naked with his boxers. One M&M's commercial has the green M&M piece changing clothes (her candy shell) and being caught naked (she is a chocolate chunk). In Timon & Pumbaa, the eponymous characters show that their fur is this (they sometimes wear underwear under it). This pretty much changes what many people thought about the Lion King franchise, because based on this info, we can pretty safely assume that it goes for the whole movie cast.

In Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood Daniel Tiger, the main character, is seen naked numerous times throughout the series, usually when he’s taking a bath or getting changed into new clothes. We see a lot of this in the episode Good Morning Daniel/Goodnight Daniel! Sheep in the Big City sometimes uses gags involving Sheep's wool being treated like clothing. Examples include Sheep dropping off his wool at the dry cleaner's in the pilot episode and Sheep occasionally covering himself in embarrassment when his wool unravels.An earlier Pixar short For the Birds has all of the little birds ( who were total jerks to the weird but nice bird) lose their feathers. The big bird laughs as though they were naked, and all of the little birds react as though they were nude in public. The entire story of How The Rhino Got Its Skin is about this — the reason the rhinoceros' skin is all wrinkly is because some other animals filled it with sand when he took it off to go swimming. The Far Side: one strip has a snake and a man meet in a pond while skinny dipping. The man has a pile of clothes on the lakeside, and the snake has his skin on the bank. Each variant can also work with feathers, or, more rarely, scales and skin. Not to be confused with Pretty in Mink or Fur and Loathing, though any of those might be referenced for the sake of humor.

In Ventriloquist Cat, a cat is projecting his meow at a series of mannequins dressed in police uniforms. Butch the dog strips the uniform off each dummy looking for the cat. The cat then projects his meow onto a real police officer, and Butch ends up stripping him down to his boxers. In retaliation, the officer pulls Butch's fur down, leaving him in his boxers. Another commercial has the brown M&M clearing up a misunderstanding by explaining to some humans at a party that her shell is brown, so it only looks like she's naked. The red M&M sees her, think's it's "that kind of party" and tears off his own shell. An odd case happens in the episode "Hot Dog", where Kitty Katswell cools herself down by taking off all her clothes and shaving her fur into a onesie. The titular duo of The Ren & Stimpy Show have revealed their fur to be nothing but a suit in a few different episodes, by unzipping to take a bath or go skinny dipping. In the Daffy short "Thumb Fun", a car whizzes by Daffy as he's hitch-hiking, leaving him featherless and in his boxers.In the Popeye episode "Olive's Boithday Presink", Popeye grabs a bear by the wrist and punches it, leaving him with a bear fur coat in his hand. Spike also takes the fur of his upper body off like a shirt and places it over a puddle for Tom and Jerry to walk across in "The Truce Hurts". He wears a red undershirt beneath his fur. An interesting version appears in "Rabbit Hood" when Bugs pulls a paper and pen out of the side of his chest as if he was wearing a coat. In the Betty Boop episode " The Old Man of the Mountain", a bear removes the upper part of his fur as if it were a coat and places it over a puddle for Betty to walk across. In Tex Avery's "Cross Country Detours", was a parody of a nature documentary, which at one point features a lizard shedding its skin. The lizard gets on its hind legs and begins to perform a striptease dance while it sheds its skin, a scene rotoscoped from footage of an actual stripper they brought into the animation studio.