Red and Rover by Brian Basset for April 12, 2013

It’s exhausting to scratch a dogs ears for as long as they would like – whew!

Red, take a break while Rover “kneads” your back!

Should have “Pulled Back” on the frame so we could see Rovers leg ‘going’ like Thumper’s. That’s how I always judged a “scritchie.”

My mom was the same with shoulder masages.

I like them anywhere.

This is so typical of my cat Macushla (my profile pic). You can’t just pet her for a few minutes and quit. She wants more. And more. And more. I could spend all day petting that cat and she’d still want more!

Rover’s ‘smile’ in panel two! : D Priceless.

The second panel is hilarious and somewhat disturbing.

We had a St.Bernard. You didn’t need to go to the gym, she’d give you a good work out every day.

There is something very relaxing about stroking a dog or cat. Although I’d hate to lose too many skin cells.

I had heard that petting and stroking a dog or cat lowers the blood pressure..I put it to the test while petting my Cleopatrabehind the ears…BP went from 122/78 to 115/75…Now I’ll have to put the blood pressure cuff on ME and see what happens