Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for August 10, 2012

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    common sanse  over 12 years ago

    fetch, maybe

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    marshallr0ss  over 12 years ago

    F-E-T-C-H Not a word that would be familiar to very many cat “owners”.

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    mrbribery  over 12 years ago

    Have you ever noticed that in Europe, August is the month everyone takes vacation?

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    Varnes  over 12 years ago

    Luddy knows, he’s just not telling….

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    solarrhino  over 12 years ago

    How about, “Honey!”

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    gary4160  over 12 years ago

    arlo needs a dog!

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    bagbalm  over 12 years ago

    I know a cat who brings his owner a toy and wants to play fetch.

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    unicornannette  over 12 years ago

    My first cat, Bu, taught me to play ‘fetch’ with a cork. She would play for hours.

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    mhlon Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Cats will play fetch, given the right circumstances. We had a cat that fetched – a robin, a sparrow, a red headed woodpecker, and a blue jay. We didn’t ask, he just did.

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    doublepaw  over 12 years ago

    I have trained my cat so she will wake me up any hour during the night if she is hungry. So much for you can’t teach a cat anything.

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    Doodlemommie  over 12 years ago

    Our cat Bruce taught himself to play fetch. Hair tie, bottle cap, wine cork, etc. Likes to play in the middle of the night.

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    Gojira  over 12 years ago

    Mine does not sit on my keyboard. She will carefully step over it and then sit on my mouse.

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    BradyB66  over 12 years ago

    My cat plays fetch all the time with the plastic strips I remove from milk bottles. She’ll spend hours with me flicking the strips to her and her returning them to me.

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    finale  over 12 years ago

    My daughter has taught her cat to ambush her and jump on her back when she enters her apartment.

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    Kathleen Cunningham  over 12 years ago

    I know that Jimmy Johnson means Fetch, but if one thinks of it in Internet terms, you could think Find, or Search.

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    George Alexander  over 12 years ago

    One doesn’t “teach” cats to do anything; what they do comes out of their ancestry as hunters. Cats, once they catch, play with and finally kill their prey, will often offer the carcass, be it mouse, rat, or bird, to their owner. (Not that they ever consider themselves owned by us.) If they have kittens, they’ll do the same to them, thereby teaching them to hunt. Absent actual prey, they’ll play with anything inanimate that responds, like a ball or plastic strips from milk bottle caps. I’ve had many cats, like and respect them, but all this stuff that they interact with us on a personal level is pure self-serving folderol.

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    GSJohnson  over 12 years ago

    One of our 3 cats plays fetch; she’ll return whatever toy I throw over and over and… another will fetch maybe twice, then look at me for me to come ‘fetch’.

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    moe_the_cat  over 12 years ago

    Unless I missed someone mentioning it the 5 letter word for command to fetch is “meow”

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    gobblingup Premium Member over 12 years ago

    My last cat played fetch with a little ball. I’d throw it, he’d go tearing after it and bring it back to me. He’d also come when I whistled and he’d go on his hind legs to beg. Great cat!Anyone who is hateful towards cats (or any animal) is just a rude, nasty person who deserves the same treatment that they give towards cats.

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    GESWho  over 12 years ago

    Most of the cats I’ve been around will play fetch, but only with “toys,” not as part of helping around the homestead…:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PycSQnwdyw&feature=plcp

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    smalltownbrown  over 12 years ago

    We’ve taught three different cats to fetch. The current one, Lily, has been doing it for eight years. She gets cat treats for fetching. She’ll brings us her “toy” when she wants to play. Very entertaining for us “old coots.”

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    iced tea  over 12 years ago

    It is difinetely fetch.

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    hippogriff  over 12 years ago

    Ken Ross: Good one! I just wonder how many readers recognize that a fetch is a type of familiar in mythology.

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    MyTBaron Premium Member over 12 years ago

    OK, so it’s F-E-T-C-H, and cats don’t fetch but how is this funny? The cat isn’t doing the crossword which might make it funny if he didn’t get it.

    Arlo is apparently writing something down in the last panel so even if the joke was about being a cat owner this contradicts it.

    8o/

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    Arianne  over 12 years ago

    I love Luddie’s expression! What do you suppose he’s thinking? Something like, “You’re a riot, Arlo!” or “Fetch this!” He knows when Arlo’s messing with him.

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    Dampwaffle  over 12 years ago

    My cat Yuki taught herself how to play fetch with a gum eraser and also marbles.

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    kaecispopX  over 12 years ago

    Actually cats understand the concept of fetch. That’s what they expect their owners to do.

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    donwestonmysteries  almost 4 years ago

    Cat owners don’t ever use the word fetch as if a cat would ever follow a command anyway.

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    philipenewman  over 3 years ago

    If he had a dog, he’d know the word.

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