Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for April 02, 2022

What’s brown and sounds like a bell?

I’d give a shouting beetle whateeeever it wanted.

Let that insect enjoy its donut in peace.

Dibs on my place backs that’s been marked as my territory.

Oh good. They are using the sanitary handling implements. I hate it when they get their filthy fingers all over it.

…the poop bag is a part of my daily life…

…almost every hoodie and/or jacket has a roll…

…I also have a ballcap with a flashlight type device in its bill…

…and a winter cap with a similar device planted in it…

…yes, I am a dog walker…

…my cocker spaniel & I are part of the informal dog walking society in my town…

…see another member…

…cross the street…

…or go the other way…

… I do not let my dog go in other people’s yards…

…but always have her use the medium strip…

…I once got a Christmas card from my next door neighbor…

…"Merry Christmas and if I ever catch you letting your dog poop on our medium strip…

…or anyone else’s…

…I will call the cops and throw the crap against the side of your house…

…and throw poisoned tidbits out on my sidewalk…

…we hope your holiday season is a joyous one…

…the fact that I always carry baggies and always clean up…

…made me wonder if she really meant for me to have a joyous holiday…

…and the fact that she has caged wolves next store that howl all hours of every night…

…well cross them off our Christmas cd list this year…

…no, just won’t give them one with a hard cd case…

…that’ll show ’em…

Dung dung dung dung!

As the local steward of the International Fraternal Union of Dung Beetles, I’m preemptively striking.

Must be National Dung Beetle Day … see Dan Collins’ Looks Good On Paper today.

Dim Libs calls out Dibs for Dung.

…dung Da dung dung … CRAAAP …!

( first line of Dunga Din )

Margueritem (and her dogs) are the best.

Yesterday, there were almost 130 comments on FA. Today, a whole lot less. I guess elbow macaroni vs a dung beetle calling DIBS on a some dung is no contest.

This ain’t no Beetlejuice.

A picture from life’s other side.

The results, published in Biotropica, suggest that—in lowland Brazilian forests, at least—dung beetles of all sorts are particularly fond of human waste, and much less interested in the dung of the animals native to their ecosystems.

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ɪᴛᴀʟɪᴄᴛᴇxᴛɢᴇɴᴇʀᴀᴛᴏʀ

The lowly Dung Beetle, or elevated Scarab, has a natural claim. I must say, I find s fight over a Piece of Sh*t to be unseemly.

In every case, scatological humor is problematic. Also likely odoriferous.

Yield to the beetle! Its hunger is unlimited! Help prevent plastic pollution!

Dibs and pass the Gas.

Yes sir and our famously butter sauce for dipping.

A bib sir?

What the crap! Teresa’s dung-beetle is better!

https://www.gocomics.com/frogapplause/2022/04/02

https://www.gocomics.com/looks-good-on-paper/2022/04/02

Dibs not for what the baggie reaches, it reaches for thee.

Butt, should we say Grace?

…Dibs, the English dung battle, was eaten by Zoe, the golden retriever…

…Pauline, swore she’d, as Dibs 4EVR LVR, never forget him…

…finally…

…love wins!…

…this is why I LOVE Frog Applause…

…it is better than a 10 minute space flight…

…(but only your mind floats)…

…viva la’ Frog…

It was a crime, when all Dung Beetles fart at the same time.