Pickles by Brian Crane for February 07, 2024

There are indoor pads for dogs to use. So much better than shoving the poor dog out into the snow or rain especially late at night and you have to stay up to wait for the dog to return.

Not only indoors but the PEOPLE actually clean it out!

There was a Mad magazine poster “Toilet Train Your Dog”, where he’s sitting on the toilet reading a newspaper.

No, but there has been a corroborated rumor that a cat can be trained to use the human potty. It would be worth the cat’s weight in gold pressed latinum

Our cats go outside.

Our cat was outside and when we got home she could hardly wait for us to open the door to the back porch where her litter box was even though she could have come in through the propped open screen door.

Early ’70s we lived in a building that at the time had no indoor plumbing (we got it installed later). Dead of winter we had to go outside to the outhouse.

The cats had a litterbox inside, not far from the wood stove we used for heating. And when it needing refreshing, we had to take it outside and bury the old contents, likely digging a hole through the snow and frozen ground to do so (at least that part could wait until daylight, unlike the outhouse trips).

Even in the Pickles home where all pets are treated equal, some animals are more equal than others (Ref: Animal Farm – 1954, George Orwell)

I don’t want to think of how this strip would be without the adorable Roscoe and the nice kid. Thanks for both.

We have a dog that is a Husky/Lab cross. I wish she could poop in a box like our two cats do! When my arthritis gets the better of me how I wish! :-)

Well if he didn’t keep eating the litter it might be different r

In one large, long-civilized country, so many people are accustomed to relieving themselves outside (carrying special water bottles to rinse) that campaigns are ongoing to break that custom as being unsanitary and prone to spread disease. But toilet facilities are often not easily available.

Roscoe: “You were saying?”

Nelson’s first personal encounter with irony! That’s a ‘Kodak Moment’ if I ever saw one.

It’ll come back indoors anyway if they pick it up from outside after the event and bring it back in again for disposal. If you can get the dog to sit on the crapper, you’ll cut out the middle man

Dig – squat – poop – bury….. Can ya HANDLE that..????

That is only because if you let the cat out, it might not come back.

Oy! Muffin flaunting her stuff….

Don’t fret, Roscoe. You can go outside whenever you need to.

Cats have always believed themselves to be exceptional.

Bummer.

What? He’s not a new puppy anymore?

Deep sigh for Roscoe…….SIGH…….

Actually, dogs enjoy going outside! Scratching at the grass and such!

Cat’s just got to rub your nose in it

Our house bunnies used to hop outside, they did their thing and popped back inside

If you own a cat, you have a box of …. uh… nuggets in your house!

Another proof that cats are smarter than dogs. And they don’t have to be litter-trained; they do it on their own. We trapped a mom and two kittens living in the woods, and they all used the litterbox from day one, no “accidents.” When they passed around a stomach bug, they even went to the litterbox to vomit, and it was easy to clean up. Until one of our other two cats puked on the living room rug in front of all three of them, and apparently they thought, “Hey, if we can do it anywhere….” and they never bothered going to the box to vomit again.