Close to Home by John McPherson for August 30, 2018

If that were pet ferret, then it would have been pop goes the weasel.

So that’s what they’re calling it these days. “Sorry I’m late, I was choking the gerbil.”

Did Lem learn how to do that from Richard Gere?

That’s one oddly shaped gerbil!

oops! squeezed a little bit too hard.

there goes the little bugger’s spleen

Egads. The first thing through my head was “pop goes the weasel”…

Of course once Katie figured out that her gerbil wasn’t actually choking, the evening took a turn for the worse.

Wait until he has to give it mouth-to-mouth.

I saw a news story several years ago about a fireman giving mouth to mouth to a cat.

Lemuel knew just what to do, having spent so much time with Lilliputians!

But then he blotted his copybook by continuing to hug and squeeze and call it George.