Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for July 12, 2020

He just needs the right incentive.

“Penalty – delay of game, 1 yard. Two minute warning.”

Is he rolling on a dead animal?

Once tossed a shrimp to my dog. She sniffed it then rolled on it.

LOL! Always when you don’t want him to!

My cousin lives on a small ranch in Virginia. They have chickens and chicken coops and always have at least three dogs.

One day my wife and I were visiting along with our niece who was living with us as she interned at the company for which I worked. She is most definitely not a “farm girl” but does like to ride horses.

While we were there one of the dogs “alerted” on one of the chicken coops. There was a rat under the telephone-booth-sized coop. So we emptied the coop of chickens and other objects and tipped it over.

The rat had a 10-yard head start. It ran 10 more yards for the rest of its life. The dog was upon it as if launched from a rocket sled.

The rat, with accelerating dog behind it, ran straight at my niece who gave a shriek heard three counties away and in a single bound was soon sitting atop a 5 foot high fence.

The dog spent the next 30 minutes doing victory laps around the property with the dead rat in its mouth occasionally dropping it to roll over it.

Apparently the last thing a dog wants to do when hunting prey is smell like a dog.

Another “roll rover” strip today in Marmaduke!

is this “train your dog to roll over” day. they were trying to get Marmarduke to roll over too!

That looks like a squashed squirrel. Kicked out from the road?

Location, location, location.

Anyone notice how a fence suddenly appeared in the last panel?