Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 04, 2020

Cold nights have proven… I only borrow the bed around here!

This might be funny some other time. Not this week, though.

What’s the point of a couchful of cats if you don’t share the said couch?

Ours leave with a sharp Oi!, and return once you’ve sat down.

Or just shout “OFF!!!” very loudly. Chair empty in .0012 seconds.

i’m curious why he would want to sit in the cats’ chair…

Easy solution, open a can of sardines.

Being cats, they’ll lose interest and lie elsewhere within a day or so.

We only have one cat. She leaves (sometimes with a parting slash) when its “my turn to sit here”. Though it took actually sitting on her a few times to get the point across that “big” beats “godlike perfection” in a few instances.

You might as well just drag the chair outside and set it on fire. You will never get that smell out of it.

Never mind the chair—we work to make the house payment so our 3 can rule over their kingdom. We understand our role in their realm…

Lucy and Danae? I have not seen them in this strip for a while now. They are the real reason I follow this strip. Where are they?

NO!…the cats all have orange fur/skin…

An earlier commenter gave the best description I ever heard. dogs have owners. Cats have staff.

Or to put it in modern perspective: half of the human population in that house is enabling indolence, indifference, and arrogance, while the other half stands in shock. [Take today’s results for example]

As soon as I sit down I change into a cat bed.

Nightly, my last challenge for the day is moving a 70 lb. standard poodle out of my spot on the bed without waking up my wife.

and two of them are orange and fat and shoring up the adage what’s yours is mine in territorial terms and in the franchise. We be in deep do-do and that is not in reference to the litter box.

When you own the most comfortable seat in the house you rarely get to sit in it without a fight.

I would add 2 more cats to the ottoman. That would be an accurate depiction of my den.

Cats, huh?

looks like my chair too—-

Nope, cats will be gone.

Cats can send out powerful “do not disturb” waves. Also, always make some kind of sound before touching a sleeping cat. I forgot that rule while bending over a sleeping cat. When I touched him, he jumped straight up with enough force to give me a nose bleed.

Not even a frivolous lawsuit claiming that counting all the votes disenfranchises voters or that the darkest night is one with clear sky and a full moon.

If you want the best seat in the house, you will need to move the pets.

" Step away from the comfy chair and no one will get hurt! "

Same between cats and dogs.

Anything done under threat of violence is not peaceful. It is intimidation and bullying. But that seems to be the normal nowadays.

My dog politely exits the chair when I approach. He prefers the chair with a warm lap.

He has a wife and three cats . . . and he thinks it’s his house?

Note the tiered cat deployment.

True story.

Well, they’re cats, see? So just do as you’re told.

Yeah, because you’re not going to win.

My daughter’s cat likes to come and sleep with me until my daughter goes to bed. The cat will sit somewhat impatiently for me to lie down (I sleep on my side) and then she comes up onto my side (my arm is moved to the side so she had a wider, softer place to settle on) and falls asleep for 30 mins. to 1 hr. It’s kind of nice when she does it. Fortunately, she is a small cat (3.2 kg – about 7 lbs). Good thing it is not my mom’s cat – he weighs about 15-17 lbs. Oof. Trying to imagine him laying on me like that makes my sides ache.

As a puppy who was determined to lye on the couch, my dog Carmy was persistent and jumped up every chance she got. I would pick her up and toss her off and give her a scolding. This went on for a long time. I knew I was successful when we went to my wife’s daughters house. Her dogs were allowed on all the furniture. My dog and their dogs Got into a ruckus in the living room Of their house. They were chasing each other and their dogs were jumping up and down on the furniture and my dog stayed off. I felt the feeling of a job well done.

They only chose that spot to Nap because he left it nice and Warm when he got up to pee,

I knew a good cat once.