Pickles by Brian Crane for September 15, 2020

Well at least its a little better since that time when Roscoe swallowed that cell phone.

Yeah, this is why no one leaves me home alone either.

We had to rescue a skunk from an empty “Yoplait” yogurt container a few years back. Turned out to be not too bad: Towel over the tail and back to keep her from spraying, then hold her through the towel while someone else grabbed the container and pulled. Came right off and we all ran for it. Skunk was so glad to be able to see and hear that she just took off in a different direction. Aside from the planning phase, it probably took 15 seconds or less.

Since then I’ve been a lot more aware of the potential dangers of littering (or leaving garbage where it’s an attractive nuisance for the critters).

We have two cats, a male Bombay and a female Torte. We have a dog, a female Husky Lab cross. One day my wife and I went out and when we got home the entire kitchen floor was strewn with garbage. We figured the dog had knocked over the kitchen garbage can and both the dog and cat ate whatever they fancied. It was such a mess. Those two had worked together as partners in crime. :-) The cat used to give the dog a hard time but after the garbage caper they seemed to be friends now. When we go out we make sure the garbage can cannot be knocked over and make sure the lid cannot be pried open!

well done, Roscoe

Nirvana!!!!!!!!!

Does the color seen especially bright in today’s strip? Looks that way to be.

reminds me of the “I Love Lucy” episode where she gets the trophy stuck on her head…

Second panel for our dogs ….

I see a cone of shame in Roscoe’s future ( LOL ) !

That is one humongous jar.

“Outside every silver lining, there’s a dark cloud.” — George Carlin

LOL! It should have been a jar of pickles.

Now you can’t blame it on the CAT! GOTCHA!

Oh, Pooh!

And, can enjoy being locked in a cage for a week or two.

This is why it is dangerous to leave small animals and idiots by themselves.

‘Female tortie’ is redundant, Mikey. Except for genetic accidents, all torties are female.

Skippy peanut butter? Do they still make Skippy®? We were a Skippy household growing up. It was Dad’s favorite – no Peter Pan or other stuff in our house. He loved the Crunchy while the rest of us liked the Creamy – guess which we had most often?

Imported peanut butter is expensive where I live – a 28 oz. jar of Jif costs about $12.00 (on sale) – so I have been accustomed to using the local mani which is cheap, tasty but doesn’t have all the sugars and chemical ingredients that make American peanut butter so irresistible.

Our dogs smarter then Roscoe on empty peanut butter containers.

Oops! Busted!

Jif.

Sweet fangy face! <3

I have the world’s greatest invention – a trash compactor, right in my kitchen! My beagles have never been able to get anything. A guest Jack Russell figured out that the pedal would open it, but didn’t weigh enough to make it work. Plus I learned long ago – if you don’t put anything in the trash that rots, dogs won’t generally bother it anyway. A garbage disposal takes almost anything, and the rest can go in a baggie in the freezer until garbage day. People ask me why my house smells so good, but yet with no candles or anything. It’s lack of smell, not added smell. Why put anything that rots into a container so it will continue to rot where you cook?

I threw two tomatoes with mold spots the size of a quarter in the garbage and went on to work. When I got home, my dog Ginger had tipped over the basket and both tomatoes were on the floor, intact, except for where the mold had been. She had gotten the mold out as slick as if she had used a knife. She was a smart little cookie> :)

He forgot to poop on the rug.

Go, Roscoe!

A peanut butter jar that big, they must shop at Cosco.

once when my wife and I went on vacation we got to motel and started to unpack. We found we had no toiletries. When we got home we found that our dog got in suitcase and dragged the case out in our back yard. Lucky the motel had toothbrushes and paste for us.

You have to be strict. If they knock over the garbage – no garbage for a week! :)