Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for December 22, 2024

I couldn’t take either of those

Fur balls meet the needle stack..

fur, meet fir

Fur tree eh.

This would be a good ad for vacuum cleaners.

This comic really needles me.

They shed light on the problem

It’s a hairy situation for them.

If it comes down to a shedding contest, the world champions are golden retrievers.

They can shed twice their weight in fur every week.

It is a good thing that they are very lovable dogs or they would have gone extinct. Ours came with his papers and a vacuum cleaner.

i say a lab wins

A natural tree can outshed the most enterprising cat!

Turn over your reports to the fuzz.

The tree sheds more than the cats.

… but the cats can climb the tree – the tree can’t climb them.

Nah. You can take him down. I’ve seen it done.

even our artificial tree drops a few needles every year

We once brought in a live Weeping Yaupon as our Christmas tree. This tree has very small leaves. By the time we took it outside, every single leaf had fallen off.

We planted it in the back yard, it recovered, and it’s still going strong decades later.

Even if you switch to an artificial tree, ten years later you can still kneel on a pine needle in the house. They are as insidious as pet fur.

My little girl could out do that tree without any effort whatsoever.

They should keep it out back in the shed.