Peanuts by Charles Schulz for October 06, 2021

Icy-cold water. The bane of any rescue squad.

Yeah, Snoopy, don’t want to catch hypothermia.

The rescuer decided he didn’t want to be the rescued!

I forgot this part. Barely put his toes in! Love his expression in the second panel.

Well go get it!

She owes him a toy piano

Forget it Schroeder. Your piano’s ruined by now by all that exposure to water.

Yeah, I’m sure it’s desperately cold in California. ;)

Not unlike the person who is educated enough to be the best doctor ever…provided they weren’t squeamish…

Run in too quick and you’ll get concussion!

Hmm, that first panel sounds familiar. Did some pop music star such as Elton John have a song or record album called, Don’t Shoot! It’s Just My Piano Floating Down the River.

The piano ain’t gonna save itself Snoopy :l

There might have been a Queen Snake in the water. Once a Queen Snake chomps on you, boy you’ve had it.

Wise move Snoopy. We definitely don’t want what happened to poor Farley to happen to you.

Fuhgeddaboudit.

My wife and I have a pool. She measures the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit; I measure it in minutes of useful consciousness before hypothermia sets in.

so much for the world famous emergency rescue squad.

Sounds like a job for Joe Cool.

So much for man’s best friend.

Just as well. Never attempt swift-water rescue without your PFD and backup.

Would have don the same thing

There goes the world-famous loser, failing as always.

OK, go ahead and fear.

Have sally yell at the piano. She did that to her beachball one time at the shore and it came right back

heh heh…C.B. and Schroeder have identical expressions between panels 2 and 4…

Well Snoopy, it wouldn’t be there if you had tripped or tackled Lucy.

Wimp

That’s a mighty fine, gracefully done paw dip.

Get that little thing out of the water before it gets swallowed by a piano tuna.

Schultz grew up HERE in MinneSNOWta,

so he knows snow, ccccold

Well, Red Adiar he isn’t! :D

See, this is why you need the U.S. Life-Saving Service (yes, I know they merged with U.S. Revenue Cutter Service over fifty-nine years before this strip ran to form the U.S. Coast Guard) on hand. They weren’t so afraid of a little cold water.

Perhaps the Russian River, which is near Santa Rosa, CA.

The hydrophobic member of emergency rescue team is not helping the men win the war between the men and women.