For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for August 31, 2023

Farley looks really happy

Farley got lucky!

Mutt-ing to worry about

Daddy!

And Farley’s successor was thus created

Oops!

to late!

(best Paul Anka), “Aaaannd they callled it…puppy looooooooooovvvveeee!” ;D

so was it farley who undid the latch on sera’s cage?

Should have been a responsible owner and had her “fixed” then. But you can say the sane about Farley’s owners too!

Puppies! Can I have the pick of the litter?

Edgar !

Isn’t that cute?

These are the times that try neighborly friendships! 8^ )

I want a puppy!!!!!

Very funny, a good morning laugh.

So if the lady dog Sera shouldn’t be running around loose right now, does that mean that Sera is in heat?

Oh oh! Wouldn’t that make a funny story line for next month? Farley the Mutt and Sera are going to make some puppies! That will get Connie’s goat! heehaw!

My aunt in Mississippi had a miniature poodle named FiFi who was in heat. Aunt Rose had been religiously keeping FiFi in all week, then she got out and matched up with the neighbor’s English bulldog named Beauregard. Aunt said she hollered out the door “Oh Fifi, not Beauregard!!”

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Is this where Edgar comes from? I cannot remember the story arc =(

Hello, Edgar!

If they spayed and neutered like responsible pet owners they wouldn’t be having an oops litter on the way.

Very sweet.

Interesting coincidence that this strip gets rerun the week Bob Barker died. SPAY AND NEUTER YOUR PETS, people! Sheesh.

Can dogs get abortions? Puppy morning after pill?

I see possibly the ending of the friendship between Connie and El….or at least a period of…..shall we say disagreement ???

And they called it puppy love

Oh, I guess they’ll never know

How a young heart really feels

And why I love her so

And they called it puppy love

Just because we’re, we’re seventeen

Tell them all it, please tell them it isn’t fair

To take away my only dream

In memory of Bob Barker, this is why you always spay and neuter your pets. Although, they can still make friends and go off to meet those friends if they get out. That definitely still happens. ;-) And I have a rescue who got neutered as an adult, and while his drive to seek out females is reduced, he’s still intensely curious about females in heat. He just doesn’t do anything about it when he finds them. (So far. It’s only happened once, in a dog training class when one of the other owners discovered their new dog was actually older than they realized, and experiencing her first cycle. Vet told them she had to finish it before they could get her bits removed.)

Love is blind, but apparently it has a pretty good nose.

Good for Farley !!

Isn’t Farley a little old for that?

I know THAT smile!

Hey,it could have been a St.Bernard named Beethoven

Looks like they already “made whoopie”.

“What if she meets some ugly, stupid, neighborhood mutt?” .. Too late. They should have kept Elizabeth away from Anthony.

You end up with a litter of healthy, interesting and non-inbred puppies.

Elly probably got named that due to her constant yelling, either at the kids, the dog, or even John. Call her “Yelly Elly.”

God forbid she’s fixed!

They should both be neutered

Puppies! ♥

Guess who gets a basket of (big) puppies.

SO STINKIN’ ADORABLE!!!! DX

heeeeeeeeere comes Edgrr!

Okay, can we try to understand what this is really about. Lynn is aware that one of the consequences of letting the characters age in normal time is that pets grow old and eventually die. (Unless she gets koi fish that live more than 40 years, or a parrot with a 70 year life span or a turtle that lives 50 years.) Farley is aging, at some time he will be departing for the rainbow bridge. By having Farley father some puppies, a part of him will live on and can remain part of the strip.

All of this could have been prevented if only Connie had thought to hang a “Do Not Litter” sign on Sera’s backside.

Puppy love?

Sera IS a mutt. Farley is not.

thats why you spay and neuter

“♪♫Who let the dogs out?♪♫”

WATCH IT CONNIE, FARLEY’S A PUREBRED!

Given both dogmom’s history of OOOPS! pregnancies, is this really a surprise?

Ruh Roh

Uh oh. Serah knocked up?

Lynn Johnston helped create a charity called the Farley Foundation, which aids lower class people and senior citizens in veterinary care. Ironically, the Farley Foundation pays for spaying and neutering.

Say hello to Edgar.