Dude
Biographical information
Species	Cat
Gender	Male
Hair color	Black and grey stripes
Eye color	Green
Born	~1990
Family	Tobias (owner)
Occupation	Tabby cat
Behind the scenes
First appearance	The Invasion (mentioned)
Last appearance	The Invasion (mentioned)

Dude was Tobias' pet cat and first morph.

BiographyEdit

Dude was a pet cat of Tobias and one of his only friends.^[1]

The same night Elfangor gave the Animorphs the ability to morph and told about the Yeerk invasion, Tobias went home and practiced morphing into Dude.^[2]

Dude's fate after Tobias became trapped in morph remains unknown.

TriviaEdit

• Dude was the first animal acquired and morphed by any of the Animorphs.
• Dude can be seen on the inside cover of The Change in a framed picture on a bookshelf in the background of Tobias' room.
• It is unknown if Tobias can still morph into Dude after regain the ability to morph from the Ellimist, however it is believed that he CANNOT morph into Dude.
• Even though Tobias cannot morph into Dude, it is believed that Dude's DNA is within Tobias, as when Tobias was human, he had both the cat and the hawk DNA within him, and upon morphing into a hawk, had the human and cat DNA within him. When he was trapped in morph, he was unable to use both the human and cat DNA. Even though he regained his power to morph, even back to his original human self, he cannot morph Dude. (Tobias may have two strands of his original human DNA; the original one he cannot use and the one he uses to morph).

ReferencesEdit

1. ↑ The Invasion
2. ↑ The Invasion