Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 16, 2009

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    margueritem  about 15 years ago

    ‘Well’, he just had the snot beat out of him, Mom…

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    Yukoner  about 15 years ago

    Feeling a little jumpy these days Calvin?

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    sjoujke  about 15 years ago

    Cats are REALLY sneaky Calvin you’d better watch your back.

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    rentier  about 15 years ago

    It’s not so easy to have a tiger as friend!

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    Ronshua  about 15 years ago

    Good thing Hobbes isn’t a stuffed bull elephant .

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    Ivy0730Lcsq  about 15 years ago

    Have Hobbes as your friend your life would never being dull. isnt that GREAT? LOL

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    Dino-1  about 15 years ago

    I’ve never had cats but everytime I’m at someone’s house it never fails that their cat will come running and pounce on me when I’m talking. I guess I’m an animated speaker and it gets them all excited in a good or bad way. Sometimes it’s just a pounce but I’ve gotten the claws and teeth in the arm or leg more often. It scares me at my cousin’s because she gets alot of drop-off cats outside her house and alot haven’t been around humans she says and of course haven’t been for any shots or a vet check for Rabies! I guess that’s why I’m a dog person!

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    watcha  about 15 years ago

    I feel exactly like Calvin when I am near cats. I am definitely a dog person.

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    4deerinmyyard  about 15 years ago

    I like your cousin, Dino! If, that is, she’s neutering and getting all necessary treatment for the ferals she rescues. If she can’t manage it financially, suggest that she contact her local TNR (trap-neuter-release) program.

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    vibjyor  about 15 years ago

    Calvin, go to bed and take Hobbes with you so that you can hold him tight and sleep. That way he cannot reach 90 mph.

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    Leonardeuler  about 15 years ago

    Only 90 mph, vibjyor ????

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    Herocoder  about 15 years ago

    Just stick to him Calvin .. He cant sneak up on you that way ..

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    lewisbower  about 15 years ago

    How come they are so nice and friendly at 5 AM feeding?

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    jrbj  about 15 years ago

    First, Hobbs is training Calvin for life, as an adult, in the real world. Second, you anti-cat people better watch it. Cats only let us live here out of the goodness of their hearts (and because we feed some of them), and they can revoke the privilege at any time.

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    uncleroach  about 15 years ago

    you shoud use a mask on back side of your head Calvin, tigers then think you’re watching them and dont attack - till they figure it out at least

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    gjsjr41  about 15 years ago

    Yeah, and wear your clothes backwards. lol

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    alondra  about 15 years ago

    jrbj, don’t let my cat Macushla hear that. She tells me the same thing but I don’t believe her!

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    COWBOY7  about 15 years ago

    Calvin, get a stuffed wolf as a second animal for protection!

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    wicky  about 15 years ago

    Keep an open can of tuna handy tigers cannot bite while they are eating.

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    alan.gurka  about 15 years ago

    Oh, Mom–that’s a threat that’ll get Calvin looking perky in no time. I know it always worked on me when I was a little kid: Go to bed early? Heaven forbid!

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    Ray_C  about 15 years ago

    4deerinmyyard: TNR programs are great. Last year, a feral kitten insisted on moving in with us. So the “T” part was simple. He didn’t think much of the “N” part but he went along with it. At this point, it doesn’t look like the “R” will ever happen. But our two “legitimate” cats get along fine with him, so we’re all happy.

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    tonytiger29  about 15 years ago

    Calvin, put a bell on him. That’s what we did to our cat as he was always sneaking around. He REALLY hated it at first. I mean RRREEEEAAAALLLLLYYYYYY hated the bell. Now he doesn’t seem to care about it. Besides that, cats don’t have owners… they have staff.

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    GROG Premium Member about 15 years ago

    You’d think he’d been drinking too much coffee as jumpy as he is. Maybe the threat of an early bedtime will calm him down.

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    shakeswilly  about 15 years ago

    Calvin, cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

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    Dino-1  about 15 years ago

    4deerinmyyard: I’ll tell my cousin about your idea! She eventually gets the feral cats tamed and gets their shots if she can’t get a home for them right away that will do it. She gets them all to ask to go outside to do their business but has a litter box backup and gets them all adopted. There’s no doubt she’s, “The Cat Whisperer”!

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    rentier  about 15 years ago

    Sometimes he gives an impressive sign of his existence!

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    ratlum  about 15 years ago

    Our cat is a lot like Hobbes

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    Stede_Bonnet  about 15 years ago

    Good quote Shakeswilly…

    I hate to see jumpy little kids who have learned to be fearful of their own shadows. They shriek and flee at the very sight of a dog or cat or are afraid of the dark or water or whatever.

    Children need to be taught how to cope with fear and rationally analyze potential dangers. Sadly, modern, molly-coddling, yuppie parents typically prefer to reinforce cowardly responses to any threat in the name of safety. “Better safe than sorry”, they say. That may be fine for surviving the “rigors” of American suburbia but in the real world, “Better prepared than safe AND sorry” is a superior survival strategy.

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    lazygrazer  about 15 years ago

    Neutering Hobbes would calm him down, but I would seriously miss his testosterone moments. And I don’t think tranquilizing a six year old nervous wreck is the answer either.

    I guess they’ll just have to work it out for themselves after a nice long rest.

    Good call, mom.

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    musicnut1986  about 15 years ago

    Calvin’s next thought will be - Great! Now I have to go to bed early because of Hobbes.

    I can already hear their next fight after Mom closes Calvin’s bedroom door. Going to bed earlier will just give the monstors under the bed more time to try to snare Calvin.

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    Rakkav  about 15 years ago

    If cats can revoke the privilege at any time, they’d better start doing it soon for their sakes, because humans have put most of them (including tigers) on the endangered species list.

    Hobbes’ hubris notwithstanding, big brains and opposable thumbs will beat him sooner or later…starting when Calvin gets a few more years of growth.

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    bald  about 15 years ago

    4deerinmyyard

    one of the rescue centers when i lived in Goshen NY would let people bring in feral cats and neuter /spay them at no cost to the person bringing them in and either give them back or try to find homes for them

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    Vonnegut  about 15 years ago

    Many years ago, I recall memorizing Frank Herbert’s Litany Against Fear:

    I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

    Perhaps it is the comfort of these words which allows me to live without fear of daily tiger attack.

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    runninanreadin  about 15 years ago

    I never feel as good as I always do, myself…

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    4deerinmyyard  about 15 years ago

    Ray C: Good for you. Dino: Good for you and your cousin. Bald: The rescue center that does that in my town (KC) is The Pet Connection http://www.thepetconnection.net/ ; but they always like a donation if they can get one. Most of these places run on a wing and a prayer.

    Vonnegut, what your subconscious registers of that is “…fear…fear…fear…fear…fear…”.

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    chiqui091  about 15 years ago

    haha thats funny LMAO…OMG…LOL but not that funny

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    KenOcougar  about 15 years ago

    Really, Mom, he’s not bad; just undermedicated. Paxol will enable him to enjoy a “happy, fuller childhood”.

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    Trisha_Evenstar  about 15 years ago

    Hahahahahhha poor calvin :D

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    pintcape  about 15 years ago

    to bed early,just what calvin wants to hear.

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    Guilden_NL  about 15 years ago

    I have a parrot that like to climb down her ladder and walk around the house until she finds me then announce her presence in a very loud voice. She’s 40 and started this as a teenager. I still haven’t gotten used to it!

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    glitterygal07  about 15 years ago

    lol, Calvin’s expression in the second panel… it’s so funny

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    thebigkittykat  about 15 years ago

    Considering that cats are the only ones that self domesticated, vis-a-vis humans, it is realistic for Calvin to fear any of them!!! Fear the cat who is not given its due!!!

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    Puddleglum2  about 15 years ago

    Is Calvin just a bit paranoid? ‘Nice kitty!’

    “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear has torment…” I John 4:18a

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    Vonnegut  about 15 years ago

    4deerinmyyard said, about 15 hours ago

    Vonnegut, what your subconscious registers of that is “…fear…fear…fear…fear…fear…”. ———————————————————

    Fear is an unavoidable consequence of consciousness. Herbert’s contention was that responses to fear are what distinguish human from animal. Animals react instinctively to fear without considering consequences. The test of humanity is whether one can overcome fear when necessary to preserve life.

    I control my fear, therefore I am human. Observation suggests that far too many members of our society cannot make that claim.

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    Rakkav  about 15 years ago

    Just maybe, Vonnegut, many are overcoming their fear but differ in the whys, ways and means by which they do. Not all efforts to overcome fear and survive lead to constructive results, and not all deaths are meaningless.

    I’d argue that unfortunately, the real test of being human is being completely unable to define good and evil of ourselves and (barring outside intervention) being so hell-bent on proving otherwise. And there, we all pass with full marks. Animals don’t have that problem.

    Authors Herbert, Vonnegut, Heinlein, Asimov, etc., etc. - as much as I respect their genius - are prime examples of the problem. And by nature, so am I and so is everyone else. It’s the core of the human condition. (I believe that more than human orneriness is involved, but leave that aside.)

    Calvin once asked Hobbes (essentially) if he believed in the Devil and his influence. Hobbes replied, “I’m not sure that humans need the help.” As Calvin noted to himself, “You just can’t talk to animals about these things.”

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