That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for September 21, 2022

Hans found out the hard way that you needed a license to be a dog walker in Copenhagen.

This isn’t Copenhagen, this is Frankfurt, and the man with the net is collecting ingredients for their world famous local sausages

Dog catcher Laars, D-O-G catcher…

/// That cartoonists cliché, the dog catcher,

wears a top hat to augment his stature.

But, what few people knew;

he’ll catch dog walkers, too.

(His second job is body snatcher.)

There is nothing run of the mill/

‘Bout the famed “Danish fire drill”../

It is like the Chinese/

(Except for the fleas)/

You may make of that what you will.. ///

Whilst the Danes tell us that it is meant/

As a simple civic event/

The din it unleashes/

Reaches clear to me beaches/

As (regrettably), so does the scent…///

So if you should chance to be joggin’/

Through the byways of old Copenhagen/

In the Summertime heat/

When you’re planting your feet/

Be certain you’re using your noggin..///

Do not let your interest stray/

To the mermaid who’s perched by the bay/

With her bright shining tail/

With its coating of scale/

And her shameless topless display///

And, if canines ain’t your cup of tea/

Then perhaps you’ll be prudent (like me)/

And sit in your suite/

And consume Akvavit/

Writing postcards and watching TV.

“You can’t “catch” dogs that are on a leash held by the owner, dude! Fill your monthly quota elsewhere!"

Catching dogs in this town was a real bltch of a job.

Giant pooper-scooper for the dog walker who doesn’t use a pooper-scooper.

Among the strangest of paintings, I must say. Where’s an art historian when you need one?

The plague in Denmark might come from bats

More likely it spreads from fleas on rats

It was quite useless, then

To hire top-hatted men

To catch and kill all dogs and cats,

*

Dog walkers in Denmark, Beware!

Canine waste in the streets isn’t fair

To those who ev’ry minute

Are likely to walk in it

It’s more than a sane person should bear.

*

It’s not a net for mere butterflies

It was fashioned to be nearly Man-sized

If a dog-walker hasn’t a license

The matter’s no major crisis

But still his freedom’s excised.

The dogs are relieved the authorities have finally come haul off their crazy owner.

It isn’t a rat, it’s a dog.

The musician wondered why there was no “drum” after “snare” in the ad.

That’ll teach Hans to try to run away with his act from the circus!

Actually, that is quite an action scene to be captured on Canvas.

Chinese response to Covid

WTH? Nineteenth century Democrat voter registration drive?

This convinced the city dogcatcher to demand a really big raise.

After the music industry boycotted Copenhagen for pronominal offenses, the residents were reduced to this sort of thing for entertainment.

A Street Scene in the Dogdays: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wilhelm_Marstrand_-_En_gadescene_i_hundedagene_-_1832.png 

has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2998 (September 20, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 3 works by this artist have been used here. The April 27, 2022, strip has the prior.

Viggo was a dedicated and avid collector.

I am a legitimate dog Walker…get thee away from me, Satan!

Are ya mental? Get the net!

“Street Scene in the Dogdays” (1832)

As I was a walkin’ one morning for pleasure

I spied an old feller come strollin’ along.

His arms were stretched out by a half dozen dachshunds,

And as he approached he was singin’ this song:

“Whoopie-ti-yi-yo, get a long little doggie,

It’s your misfortune if one you don’t own.

”Whoopie-ti-yi-yo, get a long little doggie,

You know that a dachshund will brighten your home.

[Inspired by an actual frequent sight in Cheyenne 30-odd years ago]

He’s not after the dog or the man, he’s after the invisible giant butterfly sitting on the man’s head. Absinthe was a lot stronger in those days.

“Net man, having paid good money to watch dog show was not happy with performance and preceded to get his money refunded any way he could.

Thursday:

You’re making a dreadful mistake/

If you think that SHE uses a rake../

That’s a job for an ethnic/

Or least a “rednethick”/

Not for her kind, for pity’s sake…

“Redneck-nik”.

OMG! There’s no end to your wit! Keep it up!

The dog walker has a sword?