Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for April 13, 2016

Business first for her. I guess compassion doesn’t pay the bills.

It’s a dog eat bird world….

First, you find that biscuit-eating dog.

Practical child because of how she’s been raised. Even before Gene came on the scene she knew where her food came from, and it wasn’t the grocery store.

$4 a dozen?

Not bad for real free-range backyard chicken eggs…they’re more like $5 around here now…Way more than store eggs but delicious if you can find them.30 or 40 years ago if you found a house selling eggs they were cheaper than at the store…but that’s before they were “discovered.”I really miss the duck eggs I used to buy that way.

Ok… too early for that kind of lack of feeling…. time to stop reading this one for a while

Farm Lesson No. 1 – Never name the animals.

Everybody loves chicken.

Looks to me like somebody doesn’t have their dog under control.

The first rule in a farm is, never let the kids name the animals. The second rule is, if they do name one, make sure they know that it might be the last to go but it WILL go.

note the emaciated look to the dog … you can see his/her ribs. A story will ensue; properly fed it will be adopted by Meg.

N-G 49 from yesterday——we are part of nature too. If you have a problem with that then stop eating anything that is produced on farms, end of problem. I do not have any of my animals named but I get upset when I lose one to a wild animal. But when a neighbor’s dog kills one of my animals I get very mad!!!!! I do not understand why city folks think that when they move to the country that they need a big dog and let it run loose. Their dog in their yard is their pet but on my farm it is just more vermin that needs to be shot. Meg, find out who that dog belongs to and file on them and ask for $25.00 for the hen and $200.00 for lost egg production.

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A friend told me her in-laws owned a small farm. They kept pigs and chickens. My friend told me that the pigs were treated as pets and could do tricks. She was having Easter Sunday dinner with them and they started talking about how funny “Sally” was and how she she could do certain tricks…this started when the Mother set the beautiful roast ham on the table. My friend had trouble eating her portion. ;-)

should have the chicken yard fenced in so the stray dogs and coyotes can’t get to them. We use to have chickens, ducks, and geese and one night the coyotes got in and got mostly the ducks and geese and a few chickens…….lesson learned, put a fence up around the chicken yard with a fence on top also…….safety first.

I love the comments on today’s strip. Meg’s Eggs will rebound, with security for the hen house.

My grandpa used to say that there was only one way to stop a chicken-eating dog. You have to cut his tail off, right behind his ears.

This is awful. Boring!

We used to have a dog that would slip her collar and go after the neighbour’s chickens. She was well-fed, and we kept her tied, but she had that "itch’. We had the vet put her down.

When I was a teenager in Colorado, my young doberman got into the neighbor’s yard and killed one of their chickens. She It was in the winter time, and my mother tied that frozen dead chicken around her neck every time she went outside. She scolded her and told her what an awful dog she was. After a week, she wouldn’t even LOOK at a chicken! Later, we had some Easter chicks and she “mothered” them and tried to keep them rounded up. We raised them to eat, and she never even attempted to chase them.

She shouldn’t name the chickens.

Where I come from that dog would be shot on sight.

I have had a Fox kill 7 of 8 chickens, I was able to save 1, and I am trying to catch the fox now. I have shot at it a couple of times, I think I hit it once, because he dropped the last chicken, and she is doing fine,

She can have the neighbors pay for the chickens their dog has killed

I DO NOT EAT HELPLESS ANIMALS OF ANY KIND

Bad doggy! Bad! Bad!

we ALWAYS name ours; pigs = Joey Knuckles; Kevin Bacon, Mia Hamm, etc…Steers = Chuck Norris; Phil A., Cole Porterhouse, Lon Don Broil…you get the picture….

Dogs are not allowed to run wild in most places. I’d find the owner and make them pay for a new chicken.

We live on a smallish (acre) hobby farm, thanks to our oldest son and his wife. Three cute grand kids! They also raise chickens. When we first moved in I started naming all the chickens. My son told me to stop. He said he couldn’t kill and eat a chicken with a name. Beast that I am, I stepped it up a notch and even named the turkey! ;-)

(Son just stopped listening)

If your dog slipped its collar you could have bought a harness. They are extremely effective. No need to kill it! Seems you were looking more for an excuse than a solution.

A friend of mine sometimes raises a cow or two….They’re all named Bessie….And they taste great…..

a nascent conservative

Time to find the dog’s owner. There was a time when the farmer would be waiting with a shotgun for the dog to come back for another chicken.

“You mean this is Tar Baby?”As we looked down at a platter of the tenderest steak on the planet from our Black Angus yearling.(Daddy lied the next day and told us he swapped Tar Baby to the local butcher for another beeve.We named the next one Hamburger.)

That’s too cold. Almost turned A&J off.

She’s all heart.

I see ribs on that dog.Its hungry.

All she can think about is money? sigh I had hoped for better from her…

I think Johnson is listening to too much Buffett and drinking too much tequila…..

Everyone’s talkin’ ‘bout chickenChicken’s a popular wordWell you call it this or you can call it thatA chicken ain’t nuthin’ but a bird