For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 11, 2023

Have fun, Johnny, at releasing this mouse.

Elly, it was NOT the mouse’s fault your car got in a ditch. WHO drove the car? YOU did. Clearly you parked it in the wrong spot. Clearly you were not paying attention to where you were parking the car. It is YOUR fault, Elly. Mouse had zero responsibility in that $60. I bet you were distracted, thinking about stuff when you arrived at the destination and didn’t notice the ditch. A long drive tends to put drivers in a trance.

If there is a second mouse. There are a lot more little mice hiding somewhere.

You can have this mouse, or what is in the pot on the stove. Hard choice!

Put up or shut up, John.

And now John is at a loss for words.

Send it to the pirates in Overboard or get a real cat.

Not if you drive with my partner, trance would be merciful

Get. A. Cat!!

Flush?

For God’s sake find the place where they are getting in and take care of it.

Elly there’s a phrase for that. Do stupid stuff, win stupid prizes. Be glad your prize only cost $60 and there was no damage to the car. Learn from it.

I hope that teaches John that there are times when it is better to keep your mouth shut!

$60 for a tow in the country? Shows how old this comic is…

You get down on your hands and knees and look in EVERY bottom cabinet and closet for an entry hole,then block it.Worked for me.

Perhaps a quick ‘snap’ is better than inadvertently starving in a ‘live trap’.

Where there’s one mouse, there’s at least 12 more

Doesn’t that pot belong in a different strip?

I still use snap traps.

It’s your turn to take a mouse to the country.

The rats can’t be too far behind

ya sure that ain’t the same one… :\

Flush the mouse? Are you nuts? You would then probably need a plumber.

Yep… the cost of woke… Go Woke, Go Broke…

We were bored at the fire station once, and we had mice. So we built a little combination trap and catapult. When a mouse climbed into the dish at the end, he triggered the catapult that flung him out the second story window. Think little screams diminishing into the distance. Eeeeeeeeeee ee e e e e e .

You don’t flush mice it will plug your toilet just put in the trash and take the trash out

Flush?! Don’t think so. i put the corpses out by the lilac bush. By the next morning, the Racoons have taken them away.

Fill a large bucket with water, insert trap, wait overnight, and empty and clean trap.

Bet there is a neighborhood kid with a pet snake nearby.

We had a mouse in the kitchen, so I set a Havahart live trap. It caught the mouse, and I could see that the trap was tripped. The mouse made no noise. My wife, who was in the kitchen, didn’t realize that I caught the mouse, and remarked “it’s not making any noise”. I showed her the mouse.

She now has a better appreciation for the saying “quiet as a mouse”.

That’s the trouble with a live capture trap.. getting rid of those cute little eyes is hard. Poison works best, out of sight and gets them all.

Getting stuck in a ditch or a snowdrift is also a good way for Elly to damage the skid plate on her car.

I’m so impressed that El would even touch the trap. My SO won’t even take it out of the cart, brand new, at the hardware store.

there is a video of Neil deGrasse Tyson explaining the most humane way to treat a mouse is……… well here, I’ll let yu watch it…Opinions….?…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAQOKqaznT0

Call the cat over. End of problem.

John gives it to Brad Luggsworth. Then he returns home.

John: “Elly, I got rid of the mouse and I gave one of the town lowlives something to eat. Talk about killing two birds with one stone!”

Now His turn to get stuck in a ditch!!!

I guess I was wrong yesterday about Elly getting hung up on a rock instead of in a ditch. Oh well, we can’t all be perfect.

One wonders though, how did Elly call a tow truck in 1994? She was on a country road in the middle of nowhere. In those days, even if she did have a cell phone (remember the “brick”?) there weren’t very many towers and reception in a rural area was usually non-existent.

Old hippies learning the real cost of their “noble” causes.

I have no issues with mice. We’ve got lots of wild field mice running around our property (I live out in the REMOTE rural part of town.). I’d rather coexist with them than with rats. I’ve heard of horror stories regarding rats in NYC. Makes me shudder…

Flush it down the toilet? Not a good idea under any circumstances, septic or city sewer. Very unwise thing to do.

Since this is a comic strip, and comic strips are supposed to be funny, how about this.

John: “Sure I will get rid of the mouse.”

Elly: “OK, how?”

John: “Calvin has offered to help.” John pulls out transmogrifer gun and transforms Elly into an owl “Here’s your dinner, Elly the Owl!”

Toilet, flush.

It’s “Crush A Mouse Time” kids!!

We have cats. NO mice, rats or squirrels.

They need a cat.

Oh, just let it go out behind th garage.

Actually, their real problem is figuring out how the mice are getting into the house. Seal off the access points and you won’t have to worry about it anymore.

Probably the same one…I once made my Dad take a mouse outside rather than kill it. He said it would beat him back in the house and he was right.

If I were charged sixty dollars for a tow I’d feel relieved it had been so cheap.

Heh.

ANOTHER one?Call the realtor,that house is uninhabitable.

Flush?