Garfield's grandfather (voiced by C. Lindsay Workman) is the maternal grandfather of Garfield, Raoul, Sly, and Garfield's other cousins and the father of Garfield's mother, Arno, Barney, Berle, Bernie, Bob, Ed, Edna, Evelyn, Harry, Hubert, Leo, Morty, Nick, Rockliva, Patrick, Roy, and two unnamed sons. In both the comic strip and television special continuity, Garfield's maternal granddad is a sulky and ill-tempered cat who continued to reside in the Italian restaurant (which is Garfield's birthplace).
He is a gray, furry-looking cat. He is a mouser and is proud of it. He wants Garfield to become a mouser, but being the mouse lover that he is, Garfield refuses, saying, "I'd rather swallow my pride than that mouse." This irritates Garfield's grandfather. He is a tough cat. In December 1984, he is living with Garfield's mother in an abandoned pasta factory when Garfield winds up there in the comic strip.
He appeared with Garfield's mother in the television special Garfield on the Town, which later became a basis for the December 1984 comic strip sequence. Garfield, having just gotten into a fight with Odie and tearing up the house, causes Jon to take him to Dr. Liz Wilson over concerns of his out-of-control behavior. En route to the veterinarian, Garfield is thrown out of the car into an urban area. He thinks this is cool being away from a house and rules until he angers Ali Cat, a mean cat who leads a gang called the Claws. In fleeing the Claws, Garfield stumbles into an abandoned building, which he realizes was his birthplace, to which he finds his mother and her relatives still living there, to include his mother's father. However, because Garfield re-introduced the fight between the Claws and his family, his granddad orders him to just return home, calling him "Lardball", after the same insult is used by the television special's main antagonist, the purple-furred leader of the Claws. Garfield's mother, however, goes on to assure Garfield not to mourn over his granddad's orders to leave, claiming that leaving to return to his life with Jon is so much better that his family envies him for this.
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In a stretch of 12 comics in November 1980 (excluding one on a Sunday), a different-looking grandfather showed up to Garfield's house for a visit and talked to his grandson regarding their younger lives before leaving, stating that he would write Garfield letters. After thinking about the concept, Garfield yelled "Cats can't write!". His grandfather replied "Now you're getting the picture". In the comics, he had gray hair, a slim body shape, and seemed to have a personality similar to that of Garfield.
It is possible this grandfather is Garfield's paternal one.
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