Well then, y'all

In both of these scenes, the pistol packers fired at Snagglepuss who ran much like Oz's cowardly lion (perhaps a greater source of the character's basis then my description below) He was the target because he was a lion, or was it beccause he was pink?

I better do a lil' ol' yell to protect my lil' ol' self, she said in a lil' ol' southern belle accent. A lion on deck! Snagglepuss, a laughable name now, but appripo for the era. Snaggle (getting caught in messes) and puss, shortened for cat, a softer kinder word before the usurping of it for euphemisms anatomy. I think, quite sharply the creators, Hanna Barbara were keen to the relationship between efeminate voiced lion and a pink character who says everything as though he were on stage.