Chazz: I can see a latch on this window. If I stuff you through the milk box you can open it.
Poncho: Yeah, okay. Hey, which dog lives in this house anyway? Is it somebody I know?
Chazz: Poncho?
I grew up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s, and one of the houses where we lived had a free standing milk box on the back porch, but no milk box that gave access to the inside. It would have been better to have the kind that gave access to the inside. Many mornings we found the milk bottle (yeah, milk was delivered in glass bottles back then) with its top off, because the milk had frozen and pushed up out of the bottle…
My parents bought our first house new in 1957. It had a milk door just like the one in this strip. Milk delivery stopped in the late ’60s and from then on it became the Cat Door.
My parents’ house, built in early 60’s, has one of those milk boxes too. Later, on they used it to store stuff needed for the outside. They put in a lock on the inside, but the outside was always easy to open.
I remember metal milk boxes on the stoop but not in the wall. But the amazing part is that the milk deliveries in our Philly neighborhood in the 1940’s was by horse-drawn wagon! (It just occurred to me: could that have been because of wartime fuel rationing?)
Argythree over 8 years ago
HA!!!!
Templo S.U.D. over 8 years ago
Oh, it is some dog Poncho knows. (Bone Crusher from some arc a long time ago, right?)
bkybl Premium Member over 8 years ago
Poncho has learned a valuable skill from the cats.
juicebruce over 8 years ago
Poncho sure moves fast when he wants to !
Joken' over 8 years ago
Talk about in your face!
Adiraiju over 8 years ago
He sure as heck knows YOU, Ponch!
Charlie Fogwhistle over 8 years ago
Faster than a speeding bullet. Able to leap tall trees in a single bound.
Kalkkuna over 8 years ago
milk box, aka, literary contrivance.
Argy.Bargy2 over 8 years ago
-@Mikeand@Kalkuna
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I grew up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s, and one of the houses where we lived had a free standing milk box on the back porch, but no milk box that gave access to the inside. It would have been better to have the kind that gave access to the inside. Many mornings we found the milk bottle (yeah, milk was delivered in glass bottles back then) with its top off, because the milk had frozen and pushed up out of the bottle…
DennisinSeattle Premium Member over 8 years ago
Ha, I almost missed Poncho in the last panel.
When I was small my mother used me like Poncho when she locked us out of the house.
Srover over 8 years ago
Cat-like reflexes!
daleandkristen over 8 years ago
That dog DOES look familiar.
Dennett Premium Member over 8 years ago
My parents bought our first house new in 1957. It had a milk door just like the one in this strip. Milk delivery stopped in the late ’60s and from then on it became the Cat Door.
JennyJenkins over 8 years ago
My parents’ house, built in early 60’s, has one of those milk boxes too. Later, on they used it to store stuff needed for the outside. They put in a lock on the inside, but the outside was always easy to open.
hoagieman12 over 8 years ago
Milk box?
pschearer Premium Member over 8 years ago
I remember metal milk boxes on the stoop but not in the wall. But the amazing part is that the milk deliveries in our Philly neighborhood in the 1940’s was by horse-drawn wagon! (It just occurred to me: could that have been because of wartime fuel rationing?)