One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for February 19, 2019

OMG, let’s not get all politically-correct about animals now.

Hate to see what they would have said if he was a Mongrel…

Prius owner says “Heeeyyyyy”

They prefer to be called Canine-Americans

A “Heinz” dog. 57 varieties

Right. Once a mutt and free, is now a chi-weenie, labradoodle, puggle, et al, and sells for $400!

A Curbside Setter…

A woman once proudly told us that her dog was a pure-bred Goldendoodle, and asked what our dog was. We told her that Poppet was a mix. “But what woould you call her breed?” My wife replied that we weren’t sure what exactly to call a mixed breed dog, but we’d call it a “mutt.”

Goldendoodle lady walked away in huff…

Meanwhile, guess who we finally see in today’s comic at creators.com?

Curbstone setter

Was it a he or a she? I got names for both.

I once had a wonderful Irish Woodle. $25 from a shelter.

Peter Schickele, in the introduction to a PDQ Bach piece, explains that the Tromboon is a hybrid instrument. “That’s the polite term.”

That’s not politically correct.

We call them the “All American” breed

That’s like calling a mixed-race human a hybrid.

With DNA tests, you know for sure. But it’s fun to postpone the tests until you’ve done a fair bit of guessing what you’ve got.

I tell everyone I have a canardly. You can hardly tell WHAT she is.

I remember a Reader’s Digest story where a woman made up the breed name “Belgian Weaslehound” for her rescue mutt.