As the Crow Lies is a 1951 Noveltoons cartoon featuring Buzzy the Crow and Katnip.
Summary[]
Katnip has the hiccups and is down to his last pill. Even his goldfish has the hiccups. Katnip finds a book with a cure: a freshly caught crow. Katnip spots Buzzy the Crow in his treehouse beating out some boogie-woogie on the piano. This just might be Katnip's answer to his problem...
Plot[]
Buzzy the Crow is about to be eaten by a cat but the cat has hiccoughs. Buzzy, of course, has a few home remedies he graciously shares with the cat but none of them cures the cat's problems. In fact, all of them add to the problem. So much so, that all nine lives of the cat goes to heaven...one life at a time.