Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for July 12, 2017

What’s the criteria?

I know I’m not. In so many ways.

When I poop in the yard, I get a treat!

A French Poodle Treat, no less.

I have wound my tether about my anchor until I cannot move and bark myself hoarse at every passing stranger though my chain collar constricts about my neck so that I can barely breathe. If that is good, then yes, I am good. If it were not good, then somebody would come to set me free and rub behind my ears and say I was in fact a good dog within a separate context. People pass by and say I am stupid, but I am better educated and more experience than they, and know that I am correct, and I tell them so. I sort of regret not being able to reach my water dish, though.

Whoa, that’s a hell of a question. Who among us can truly said to be good? What is goodness?

You dog you.

Yes no, it’s good to be naughty..

Yes. No. Umm, maybe?

Sparky heard it through the Twilight Bark..

Je suis un bon chien.

Who rates dogs, anyhow?

P.S. Don’t ask Brent.

Looks like Banks cleans up pretty well. Good or not, I can’t judge. (Barkeater Lake). As for my cats, when they’re good, they’re very good indeed; but when they’re bad, they’re horrid.

Please define “good dog.”

On the scale of… good, better, best?

I stole some food and knocked over the garbage, I am good at being a dog.

Собачье сердце ( Heart of a Dog ) by Mikhail Bulgakov

Written in 1925 but still relevant today and very funny satire.

No. I’M a good bunny.

prettyfeet’s archive link got me cruisin’ the archive. This link:

http://www.gocomics.com/frogapplause/2012/08/02

got me wondering what happened to some of the commenters from those days of yore. FA was really at the top of its game back then. A fantastic blog, and -dare I say it- some of Teresa’s best strips, too.

You can’t see the issue as simply black and white. There are shades of gray… and yellow… and maybe blue.

I am a VERY good dog. Until I’m not.

@ SUMOSASQUATCH –

Wow! 62 comments on a regular daily strip!

It’s also interesting that most of the old avatars still work.

Many still have active accounts, I wonder why they don’t come ‘round no mo’?

Beggin’ Strips (Commercial, 1998) · https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=0k4JS4M-DHs

Who’s a good dog? Who’s a good dog? Yes! You’re a good dog, aren’t you! Yes, you are! Good dog! Good dog. Does the good dog want tummy rubs? Tummy rubs? Ahh, there’s a good dog!

(Actual conversation, transcribed first-hand.)

Who’s a good dog-owner?

Who’s a good scribe?

Who’s really, really lame?

Hey little doogie doogie four shoes.

My Charcot boot is up and running. What a relief from my worn out one.