Hooray for Ruff and Reddy!

Another cartoon show that I remember from the early days of WXIX is Ruff and Reddy. Ruff was the Cat and Reddy the dog. Now the show started at NBC in 1957. It was the first cartoon for television that was produced by Hanna-Barbara productions and was part of many other older cartoons that were originally done for movie theaters and was hosted by Jimmy Blaine and later Captain Bob Cottle. Now the show was on the air from 1957-1960 and 1962 to 1964. The early episodes where in black and white. The voice over artist were Daws Butler and Don Messick. Don was Ruff the cat and Daws was Reddy the dog. Daws used a voice for Reddy that would later become famous in a few years as the voice of Huckleberry Hound. The show was popular enough to get some merchandising in comic books, golden books, a transogram game and years later I saw a computer game about them.
I didn't see the show till it was syndicated in the late 60's early 70's. I only saw the color episodes minus the live host. The host of the cartoons at WXIX were puppets called Teaser the mouse and Rooty the rooster. They were part of the Larry Smith Puppets Hour.
The above comic book is from this auction of the Ruff and Reddy Dell comic book.