That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 01, 2019

It’s October, time to start prepping the Thanksgiving dinner.

Must be the great-grandmother of that guy in Australia who thought it was fun to have a pet cassowary.

Lesson #1: Do not with hold food from a bird that can peck out your heart.

“Okay lady, this is how it works. You put down the bowl and step away nice and easy like and nobody gets hurt. Otherwise you get to see what it feels like to get a sharp beak in your corset.”

Tease a turkey, get gobbled. Wattle you bet she thinks the drumsticks are the percussion section? She’d better make a clean breast of her innocence in this field and hire a trainer. It’s hard work, not all gravy!

cecily teaches her turkey to tango…

Melanie tests Darwin’s theory, trying to see if a turkey will develop an ostrich neck.

Marge found that her new deodorant attracted many interesting things.

So you’re telling me a trained poodle act isn’t creative?

The trick was not to spill the stuffing when she grabbed it by the neck.

I tell you it’s simply absurd/ the way that she tortures that bird/but she’s destined to pay now/(it could come any day now ) / for I’ve given P.E.T.A. the word!

That’s just a weird picture any way you look at it.

A few seconds earlier, she said “Hold my beer”.

Carefully training the turkey for when it will be stuffed for Thanksgiving.

Spicer’s replacement on Dancing With The Stars. (The bird, not the girl.)

“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”

Tippi Hedren gets attacked by a 3 foot tall crow in a cut scene from The Birds.

Cecily, notorious for her atrociously bad hand-eye coordination, hopes that her patient efforts at stretching the turkey’s neck will pay off come time for the chopping.

“Polly wants a cracker. Now!”

Before settling on the German Shepherd as the attack animal of choice, Fatima experimented with training several other types of animals to go for the jugular.

Feeding the Turkey: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eastman_Johnson_-_Feeding_the_Turkey.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/johnson_eastman.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=535 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/eastman-johnson 

https://mam.org/exhibitions/details/Johnson.php 

https://sova.si.edu/record/AAA.johneast?s=0&n=10&t=C&i=0 

https://web.archive.org/web/20160624005124/http://www.nbmaa.org/original-site-assets/timeline_highlights/essays/johnson.html 

http://www.avictorian.com/Johnson_Eastman.html 

http://hoocher.com/Eastman_Johnson/Eastman_Johnson.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist, perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. So far, 3 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2019/09/24?comments=visible  

has the prior (my comment there included the same artist info URLs).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2297 (September 30, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Jennifer has been exercising her bird for quite a while now. Stretching it into shape is exciting and gratifying for her.

You need to move around or the vultures will show up.

Teaching the turkey trot to the turkey proved to be a thankless task.

Maribeth wanted fresh eggs for breakfast, it’s a good thing she is so tall.

The scene is not what you think. The turkey realized that that’s her husband Tom in the bowl. Boy, is she pissed.

Cornelie Monet de Lamarck using her Dad’s theory to make a new breed of long necked turkeys.

What kind of bird is that??