One of the earliest instances of wolf whistling appeared in a 1943 Tex Avery cartoon, called "Red Hot Riding Hood". In the cartoon, the ‘Wolf’ whistles enthusiastically at a woman called ...

Tex Avery was a filmmaker ... and conditioned kids from a very young age that the behavior modeled in Avery’s productions was acceptable. Avery’s short films such as “Red Hot Riding Hood”, “Little ...