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I have to agree with your original idea Kristen -- Penelope . Pepe's love interest.

"In recent years, the shorts featuring his character have been more and more downplayed and even banned as his relentless pursuit of clearly unappreciative females comes across more as stalking and/or sexual harassment.

However, the behavior is not entirely one-sided as Penelope has been shown to actually be very much in love with Pepé, trying several schemes to rid him of his odor so she can capture him.

The Academy Award-winning 1949 short For Scent-imental Reasons ended with an accidentally painted (and now terrified) Pepé being romantically pursued by a madly smitten Penelope (who has been dunked in dirty water, giving her a ratty appearance). Penelope locks him up inside a perfume shop, hiding the key down her chest, and proceeds to turn the tables on the now imprisoned, and odorless, Pepé.

In another short, Little Beau Pepé, Pepé, attempting to find the most arousing cologne with which to impress Penelope, sprays a combination of perfumes and colognes upon himself. This resulted in something close to a love-potion, leading Penelope to fall madly in love with Pepé in an explosion of hearts. Pepé is revealed to be extremely frightened of overly-affectionate women ("But Madame!"), much to his dismay, as Penelope quickly captures him and smothers him in more love than even he could imagine.

And yet again, in Really Scent, Pepé removes his odor by locking himself in a deodorant plant so Penelope would no longer be afraid of him. However, Penelope had a similar plan, and locked herself in a limburger cheese factory to make herself stinky. Now more forceful and demanding, Penelope quickly captured the terrified Pepé, who, after smelling Penelope's new stench, wanted nothing more than to escape the amorous female cat. Unfortunately, Penelope would not take "no" for an answer and proceeded to chase Pepé off into the distance, with no intention of letting him escape.