Garfield by Jim Davis for July 21, 2021

Score one for the dogs… for winning a trophy.

Next comes the howling competition every full moon.

My dog eats at 3am

Contest of what?

ODIE …. more like Loudie! Ha ha

As long as dogs do not disturb a cat-nap, they can bark to their hearts content whenever they want.

To HOWL, with the neighbors, pets need enterntainment too, you know.

Smaller the brain … bigger the bark ODIE!

Answer: 3 A.M. is about the time that house burglars start to prowl the neighborhood.

Some call it noise – some call it melOdie…Odie the number one on the Bark scale

Sound travels further in the night, handy for those who missed the “Twilight bark”….

That is SO weird! I’m up this a,m at 3 a.m. due to my “pitador” (as his vet calls him) “Shaw” barking in the dog yard starting at 3! Decided to get thru the funnies early this a.m.

4:32am here in the woods and a hunting hound is the last contestant. He was last seen headed north past my porch. This stuff only happens in the funnies.

Well that explains it

I wonder who does the judging and what the criteria are for winning…

Eh, some dogs keep barking all day and all night. The fiends. I hate dogs. Why those wretched little…. Wait, no… Not that… Anything but that… No, don’t do that puppy eyes trick on me… NOOOO!!! Come to me little doggie! Let me pet you and feed you some food!

Cue “We are the champions”

Aah…that explains it! :D

Our town has mandatory quiet hours 10 pm to 6 am. They don’t apply to fireworks, muffler-less motorcycles, donut cars or domestic arguments – apparently. Just dogs.

Cat contest starts at 4am.

Makes sense…

Garfield should talk, since he’s been singing and dancing on the fence at night as well. Which reminds me, when’s the last time that we’ve seen Garfield do that?

Awww…cute enough to want to use it to bang his head with it.

Of course. The drool contest is afterward.

Wonder when it ends

That’s prime haunting hour. Spiritual activity peaks at 0300.

No, it’s opposite day, so Odie’s last place.