For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for June 09, 2024

Dog logic, the squirrel opened the door.

Have to make sure a squirrel is on the railing every time he goes out now.

But he’ll still scratch when he wants to go out—ever think of THAT, Elly the Smug?

Sweet Edgar, he’s a few dog biscuits short.

Don’t listen to em Rose… you got it

They should have called him Einstein rather than Edgar

Dog logic is not the same as human logic.

Edgar is so cute. I’d rather him just come to the door with a woof.

Dear stoopid Edgar. He reminds me of my brother’s dog Benji…aka Benjamin J Freckles. Benji was the sweetest Spaniel on Earth, but dumb as a box of rocks. (And yes, I spelled “stoopid” on purpose.)

Thank heavens for the colorized version! I never would have known in Canada whether a red SKRIITCH is louder than a yellow SCRATCH.

But then, when Edgar resorts to a RED SCRATCH, he must really be getting frustrated and mad and want in.

We are fortunate (or perceptive) enough to have a house with 2 doors to the fenced back yard—the one to the kitchen and the one to a mudroom. We installed a doggie door in the door to the mudroom and the housebreaking involved putting them out that door. The one we have now and the three we had before him were able to come and go as the wished.

Oh oh, Edgar just scared off his ticket to getting back in to the house.

Now Elle just needs to buy a stuffed squirrel to put out on the porch railing when she wants Edgar to come in.

Ooga Farley

Booga Farley

Googa Farley

Wooga Farley

A mind is a terrible thing to confuse!

Squirrels = open door, if you bark.

Years ago, we had one dog – we’d let him out in the backyard and he knew to bark to be let back in. Then we got a second dog who came from a home where they kept him outside all the time and I assume he was scolded if he barked. He observed his new brother bark and be let back in. When he wanted in – I’d never heard a dog try to whisper his bark before…

Squirrel = door opens. Dog math.

I wonder if this obsession of Elly’s has some psychological background to explain it.

Remember, he’s still a puppy

I like the way the squirrel looks normal but Edgar’s thought squirrel looks demented.

The look on Edgar’s face when she opens the door is hilarious.

Sigh…this means the door will only open when he sees a squirrel. Good thing their house is located near some woods!

From Lynn’s Comments: I said in a previous note that the only thing my dog would bark at was the snow plow. I was wrong. He would also bark at squirrels. He’d stand at the porch window and wait for them to come to the bird feeder and then he’d bark like crazy. If I let him out, he’d run after them—with no hope at all of ever catching one. Eventually, this routine was as much fun for the squirrels as it was for the dog. They knew which window he would come to and which door he’d be coming from, and they’d taunt him until he was desperate. He made a lot of noise, but it didn’t bother anyone but me. It’s a good thing we lived waaaay out in the country!

The squirrels are in for it now. . . .

Who’s the bigger idiot here, Edgar or Elly?

Ugh, not this again!

So if someone is prowling around casing the place and the dog barks, they just think he has to whiz? Then they let him out and go face to face with a bad guy?

Here we go again!!

if there’s as many squirrels in t heir neighborhood as there are in mine, Elly is about to be driven out of her mind