For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 06, 2020

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    capricorn9th  over 4 years ago

    They do, Liz! They just don’t do that on command. You have to pretend to leave them on the floor and walk away. However if Farley is not in the habit of chewing stuff left on the floor, he probably will not eat your homework. Blame on your mom. She trained him well.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 4 years ago

    Fortunately for me, I never had a dog who would eat my homework. No recollection of the cats shredding it though.

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    Enter.Name.Here  over 4 years ago

    They might eat the paper if your fingers still had peanut butter on them from lunch.

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    tatsu10  over 4 years ago

    NO

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    [Unnamed Reader - 8bb645]  over 4 years ago

    Only in cooking class

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    Tantor  over 4 years ago

    Nice try

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    jonathan  over 4 years ago

    Shhhhh!!!!!! Don’t give teachers any ideas.

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    jpayne4040  over 4 years ago

    Looks like you’ve got some of it done already. Why would you want to waste that effort?

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    david_42  over 4 years ago

    Some dogs do, but not all. When I was in middle school, one guy would use the excuse and finally, one day, he brought in his chew-up textbook.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Sure they do. You just need to smear the right perfume on it. Like eau de bacon or some such.

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    Jelliqal  over 4 years ago

    cover it in peanut butter

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    Gerard:D  over 4 years ago

    Lynn’s Comments:

    “I omitted the top of the first 3 panels here just to see if it would make a nice change to the look of the strip. I think it did. It was around this time that I started to white out borders and let parts of the illustration extend outside the line. I’ve never been one to keep things the same; another reason why the characters "grew up."

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    Plods with ...™  over 4 years ago

    Sure they do. I had to write the note to my son’s teacher and sent her what was left of it.

    This was the same puppy that ate an entire couch.

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    rebelstrike0  over 4 years ago

    Hey Elizabeth, what’s the capital of Alberta?

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    j.l.farmer  over 4 years ago

    put some gravy on it!

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    Leojim  over 4 years ago

    Well Teach, my dog is paper trained….. and see right here!

    Yuck, take that back home.

    Fudge is useful in many ways!

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    lgusy  over 4 years ago

    Try putting some A1 sauce on it.

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    Asharah  over 4 years ago

    My dog doesn’t eat pickles. Give her part of a burger, she’ll eat everything else and leave the pickles on the floor.

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    tuslog1964  over 4 years ago

    Do teachers really bother to actually read the papers they assign? My son was assigned a twelve-page essay. Suspecting that he did not read these essays, we put together a paper with the first four and last four pages as assigned, but filled in the middle pages with a combination of copy from Spanish, German and Turkish literature I had on hand. It passed. (His younger brother is now a teacher, and he says he doesn’t assign anything that he doesn’t read – if he assigns it he reads and corrects it)

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    sobrown51  over 4 years ago

    That’s really more of a puppy thing (or misbehaved adult dogs).

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    BluNova  over 4 years ago

    But these days they could swallow your flash drive. My cat stole mine once.

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    Sassy's Mom  over 4 years ago

    I used to teach college. Once I had a student actually told me that her dog (still a puppy) ate her homework! She showed me the homework (a corner missing, and well-chewed but still legible enough for me to read) as well as her textbook with a well-chewed corner! We had a good laugh!

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    rebelstrike0  over 4 years ago

    Farley is seeing how homework tastes, while the Enjos are wondering how Farley tastes.

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    Jan C  over 4 years ago

    Our dog really did eat our son’s homework once. It was an art project that was actually very well done. The dog got hold of it and lets just say she added her own “artistic” touches. He turned it in anyway with an explanation and got an A on the project.

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    STACEY MARSHALL Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Put gravy on the homework before you try feeding it to the dog.

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