Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley for April 29, 2014

Any problem like that can be “fixed”.

The devaluation of the word “literally” almost got me in trouble a few years ago when I told someone that I “literally put to sleep” the feral cat that watched me ride my stationary bike..He dozed off after he realized that what he’d been watching me do for ten minutes was all I was going to do.

If I were a dog, I would feel a little uncomfortable about someone telling me they were going to put me to sleep.

Growing up our old pets just went to a farm!

So you think he’d rather be laid to rest?

After the old family dog had been “put to sleep”( she was suffering, my nephew had to get his tonsils out. When they told him they would just give him a shot for sleep, he freaked out. It took quite a bit to show him he was coming back.

Going to put you to sleep – Lay you down to sleepPut downHad to put the children down The only way to fix Lizzie was to put her down. .Satchel, we’re going to fix you so that you can be put down, to sleep. Don’t worry. Just look at the pretty flowers. You’ll doze right off. .(first time I heard a friend say she put down the kids – I freaked. Had never heard the phrase before that and was a little worried)

Annnnd once again scary unanswerable questions about animal rights arises in the world of Get Fuzzy, where animals speak English yet are still casually “put to sleep.”