Pickles by Brian Crane for August 02, 2022

Feelings instead of principles

Yep – animals learn what you teach them.

good luck at that, Earl

Explains why Roscoe looks a little chubby. Also, a master at sign language.

“Humans are easy to train.”

You’d think Earl would have learned a few tricks in all the years they’ve been married.

In pet reality, thoughts and prayers do work. And “dog” spelled backward is …

Earl, use the puppy dog eyes.

“Don’t look at me that way!”…because you know, I can’t resist!

She loves Roscoe. She tolerates Earl.

Seems like the artist has been peeking in my kitchen window.

Yeah……… good luck with THAT..!!!

Roscoe REWLS ALL. I like him better than the PEOPLE in this strip!!!

Opal caves with Roscoe but she’ll give Earl H E LL just for looking….

Yeah, Roscoe. You could create a university and teach that to people who are tired of being manipulated.

@ forusingyt

I like dogs better than people in the real world.

You trained her well Roscoe

The advantages of not having opposable thumbs. People bring you food instead of you having to go get it yourself.

You got that right, Earl.

Use your “puppy dog eyes” to get a treat.

I had a cat who gave me that look until I put down four different kinds of cat food. He looked at the other cats, said, “I told you I could make him do it.” and walked off – “saving it for later”.

It works on me just about all the time.

Teach your humans well, and know they love you.

Having had 3 beagles so far, I get that look constantly. My child even learned to use it. It does not work on me. Dog meals here are on a fixed schedule. On a rare occasion she does get hungry a little earlier or even later and might sometimes need a little extra treat. I don’t eat exactly the same amounts every day – my nutritional needs change with longer walks or whatever – so I assume her needs can vary a little, too. But she has to convince me it’s not a con. Her hospital work can make her hungrier as we walk miles going all over the hospital, so I generally take a few treats along for that. I was going to say my dog, not my child, but my adult child does also work in a hospital.

I have deer in my wooded back yard that will come up close to the house and stare at me in the kitchen window until I go out and give them some deer corn. 1 doe with a fawn, 1 doe with 2 fawns, and an older doe with a yearling doe and yearling spike buck (I call him bucky and he does not go far away while I put out the piles of deer corn for them to eat. Some times some show up in the evening too.

There’s nothing sadder than my best friend looking at me that way … until the sick and dying part, that is. ’Just cannot go through that anymore. Maybe GMO will match their lifespans to humans, or better yet, Harriet the tortoise.

We have 3 fur babies does the same way, hour before they have lunch and same with dinner, for breakfast they wake daddy up early.

Love this comic.

Don’t, don’t you look at me this way,

No don’t you understand I’m at your command

Oh baby please, please, don’t look at me this way … nooo baby

Don’t look at me this way

My cats trained me that way too.

It’s not the eyes that have it but the reward at the tail end

Nope! We saw Earl with his nose in the fridge. He can get his own.

Well Earl its not so easy. You need to have puppy dog eyes.

You cannot be taught this stuff – Doggies is born with it.