“All I'm asking you to do is just tilt your head a little, you can do that can't you? Come on.”
- Mittens

Mittens is a street smart alley cat whom Bolt encounters early on in the movie. As Bolt drags her across the country so that she can help him find Penny, it is later revealed that she once had a family who abandoned her, a declawed cat, to fend for herself. She is the one who tells Bolt that he is an actor from a TV show, and that everything he believes is real is not. Although she initially thinks of Penny to be the same as the humans who left her, she eventually comes to understand that she truly loves Bolt, and Mittens is later adopted along with Rhino into Bolt's family.