Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 18, 2019

Cougars and cheetahs are the only big cats that meow and purr.

ROFLOL Love his coonskin cap.

Cats have a long history of adaptation!

Next stage: Can/pouch opening skills!

I wonder how much practice Jimmy Olson put into drawing the cats of that story arc. They are very different from his usual toon-like depictings of Ludwig

I hope Arlo is careful when he “Boil that cabbage down”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn-eOvqWO7I

Cougars make hiking fun, since surviving a hike in cougar country becomes a real accomplishment.

Here in the north, our state Department of Natural Resources refuses to acknowledge that we have cougars out in the wild. Not a lot of them, but they are there… I’ve seen one run across a back road many years ago, and there was no mistake: long, low, with a lengthy thick tail, and it trotted across that road like a house cat.

The jaguar is bigger than the cougar, and lives as far north as Arizona. The last wild jaguar killed in Texas was taken in 1946.

I hope somebody opened a Dunkin Donuts on that land bridge. It certainly got a lot of traffic!

Best use for a raccoon ever.

The coonskin hat was a hoot, Jimmy! :o)

What’s the gizmo on his neck? Tracking device? Tether?

this is my favorite strip of the year (so far) love the cat expression and coon-skin hat

Why did this strip become “History of Cats 101”? ;o[

WHERE’S Ludwig?

Everyone talks about animals encroaching on their property. I have news for you folks. The animals were there LONG before humans were. YOU are encroaching on THEIR territory.

Davy Crockett,King of the Wild Frontier ;)

I used to love hiking in Cougar Country. Loved the Blondes, loved the Brunettes. Now I am far older than a cougar. Adapt, Indeed.

a couple of years ago there was a mountain lion in DOWNTOWN CHICAGO , trapped in a coffee shop . they had nothing to catch it with . they destroyed it ,the thought was it was an escaped pet .but it was a wild one DNA showed that came from dakotas . i was wondering about all the lost pets around the area at the time .

Mountain Lion Foundation. 35-year member.

There are still some empty ecological niches to be refilled from the last die-off.

No direct experience, but friends in Michigan’s upper peninsula suggest wearing a pair of sunglasses on your head backwards. Apparently if the cougar thinks you’re facing them, they won’t try to jump you from behind. Personally, I’d wear sunglasses on the back, sides and top of my head… LOL

The raccoon said “beat it,” so I did.

When I was a teenager, I was always on the lookout for a cougar, but, they really weren’t prevalent in my area, so, I had to settle for girls my own age.