Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for June 25, 2024

it’s a job for (drums)……… GUMBO!

A job for the Cat, err.. Kat y

I like their conversation!

If it’s a flying squirrel, expect a moose at your front door very soon.

Habanero almonds? That’s a all we need …. a hyped up squirrel with the runs bounding around the house

Panels 2 and 3: Their eyes . . . their eyes are following me!

“Here squirrel, squirrel, squirrel” Who will respond first? Maybe Adam?

Open all doors and windows as is possible. The more routes leading out the faster your guest will leave.

We had cheopo construction done in our bathroom when I was young. (To be fair, my Mum was single raising 3 kids, so the ‘cheopo’ remark is meant for us as much as them) But sometime after the job was ‘completed’ I was downstairs watching TV and saw squirrel exit our kitchen with a packaged treat before making their way upstairs. I followed in time to see the bathroom mirror swing back in place on the wall above the sink. A quick peek showed it was hung to cover a giant hole!

The squirrels, or at least the one, had been using it to grab food out of our kitchen! They must’ve slipped down while I was watching TV, but I only noticed upon their return when they were dragging a packaged snack cake.

Sneaky buggers! Cute, but not stupid!

Consult Clark Griswald. Doesn’t Ed eat these things?

Whomever catches that squirrel is likely to get bitten.

Like Bullwinkle, try to pull a rabbit out of a hat and instead get a squirrel! Voila! ☺

The squirrel is no dummy. He won’t come to Caty….no way!

He’s so rarely seen in this comic that they forgot they have a natural squirrel wrangler in Gumbo.

There’s a squirrel in the house — and No one is looking at ADAM??!!

Squirrels dislike hot food, so habanero almonds might not work.

Red fox urine on cotton balls drives them away.

Rob Harrell does such a great job on their eyes. They’re so exactly expressive of the emotion!

I love this comic but I can’t abide the misspelling of Habanero. Unlike the Jalapeño, from which this error likely originates, the former champion of hot peppers uses a regular n, and is also pronounced accordingly. I blame several celebrity chefs who proliferated the mispronunciation in the early 2000s (lookin’ at you, Bobby!)

Why do so many comics depict squirrels as dangerous and everybody afraid of them. They’ll only attack if they feel threatened