I have a great idea, send rat into retirement and give the characters that are funnier more space. The crocs would make excellent replacements for rat. Perhaps you could start a new strip featuring the crocs and I could then read it and skip Pearls.
Please get off the Ghost Cat kick. It has gotten way past being funny. It is now approaching the stage where I quit reading the strip daily and check it once a week to see if it has gotten back to the cuteness it had before.
It’s been so long since the crocs appeared that I thought they had retired. They are the best chacters in this strip.