Birdbrains by Thom Bluemel for August 24, 2010

Really, do you think that will help? I wanted a swimming pool for my rubber duckie, but she doesn’t like alligators.

Good Morning Supreme Leader of the Birdbrains Good Morning Fellow Birdbrains & Gator Bait

Lots o’ faces in the Shrubbery!

(and that unhairy ape, too)

Yikes!!! May be you can think to change your pool.

Uh oh! :-o Maybe this time the alligator will win.

Aside from the faces in the shrubs (there are enough to force me to order more meds), where that alligator is scares the Bejesus out of this male. Did Freud have a name for that phobia?

When you’re hip-deep in alligators, it’s difficult to remember that your initial objective was to… clean the pool?!?

EDIT: Thought of this too late (c/o Snoog Tees):

I dunno, methinks the gator is a bit scared of the face on that guy’s stomach. I know it scared me.

There’s an alligator in the shrub looking up at the sky.

That may not be the only thing that’ll need changing.

the algae-gator is loose!

So this is the result of Sylvia actually catching that 9:00 o’clock train?

Geeze louise, what a way to make me even MORE afraid of swimming!

Mornin’ folks.

I hope that’s gatorade in his glass because he is going to need all the help that he can get.

I’m guessing those shrubs are boxwoods.

According to WGN radio, Clark there’s 2 more there this morning.

I kinda like that boxer/weightlifter in the shrubbery. He’s got a friendly look to him. Even if he is rather green.

My favorite thing in the shrubbery is the, uh, we’re number 1 gesture.

Actually, Dry, I think it’s a hedgehog☺ And Lew, just think when you are setting on the throne about the gaters that have been flushed. I found a toad in my bowl one day last spring, came up from the drain….ugh!!!☼

I don’t think the filter’s where it caiman.

In about three seconds that will be the least of your worries.

Goodquestion look closer to the left, that’s the alligator. The hedgehog is in the middle of the hedge.

What possess’es people to buy baby alligators and bring them home in the first place?

Clark Kent, I read about the gator(s) found in the Chicago River, but also that one was found in NYC. Your cartoon is quite timely, Thom!

It could be a toy alligator? He should try to touch it and see what happens. It probably belongs to Junior.

We had two tree frogs inside our fireplace on the glass doors Sunday night. Have never seen that before. Cats went crazy.