Pickles by Brian Crane for May 07, 2021

They’ll find it again; just listen for the bark and the squeak from the back yard.

Spouse has been watching a lot of the “TV Vet” shows lately: Loves the medical aspects. A lot of it gives me the squeams, including close up shots of what the vet pulls out of the GI tract of critters who swallow … things …

Though if they’re small enough, the problem generally passes with little trouble.

Anybody got the telephone number for the Humane Society? Earl’s tactic sounds inhumane.

Now the question arises, whose going to catch and how quickly will they release?

Wait until that turns up whilst on a walk!

The good news: Muffin’s squeaky mouse toy will eventually be recovered.

The bad news: Muffin’s not going to want anything to do with it.

When my dog was a puppy we had to have a sponge type material surgically removed, I would have taken Roscoe to a vet!

Just give it time to pass on through …..

They could try to “retrieve” it at the other end.

Well, what were you doing having that toy anywhere near Roscoe, Opal?

This too shall pass.

I hope that Lois cuts Earl off for this terrible thing that he did to the Precious Roscoe .

I also wonder if the little toy will make the ( squaring noise when he pass it ) ? That might be little fun , maybe .

This, too, shall pass???? Guess that saying really DOES apply in all situations. . .

Roscoe will cough it up methinks! But Earl! What the hell?

Arc lifted from “Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels”. (5 * )

This too shall pass.

To the vet with Roscoe.

My firm policy ,when I’m fishing, has always been “Catch and Release………in Lake Crisco”! ;o}

He’ll be squeaking one out any day now.

We really trusted our dog and thought he never left our property when we let him out. We did live in the country after all, so what could go wrong? After a couple of large vet bills when he had eaten an old boot off a neighbors trash heap and a road kill deer, we invested in a fence for our yard. We did regularly feed him veterinary approved dog food, by the way.

that is a bit weird

It seems like the toy is actually not swallowed by looking at the picture, but only inside Roscoe’s mouth. They could have tried a little tug or opening his mouth to see if it could be retrieved. Of course, that would ruin the cartoon, so never mind.

It’ll all come out in the end.

the phone number is 7

I would have slowly pulled like I did as a boy holding one end of spaghetti while swallowing the rest. Yep this comic triggered that dormant 1950s memory.

and what goes in must come out

Give Roscoe a day or two…..

Yeah, Earl; not funny. You have now given Roscoe a couple of very bad days before you incur a sizeable medical bill for the surgical removal of a non-digestible squeaky toy. Saw it with fair regularity when I worked for the vet. Only certain things digest. Squeaky toys, not so much.

In a day of two it will reappear.

We had a dog that swallowed a treble hook and it came out in his poop! We weren’t aware until it showed up on the other end with line intact! SO LUCKY it didn’t get caught along the way! Same dog we paid a fortune to have eye surgery on because he got a grass seed behind his eye. Great dog though!

If he doesn’t choke on it, it will still get stuck in his GI tract. Which means $1000’s in medical bills.

Roscoe looks like he’s choking.

Divided feelings on this one! I understand the comedic intent but like many others, I envision it getting caught in his digestive tract and requiring a trip to the vet. Funny story – I rented a room from a friend and one day I got home and my dog’s abdomen was HUGE. I took him to the vet and they did xrays. The vet was having a hard time not laughing when he came to tell me that my dog was literally full of s***. It turned out he had gotten into a bag of rabbit food and eaten quite a bit which of course swelled up in his stomach. After a day or so he was back to his normal self. I still get a good laugh out of it.