Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for December 21, 2012

Ooh! Peekaboo’s got a present IN the Tree this year!

(Let’s see how long Rose’s garlands last with their new ‘House Guest’!)

One day, years ago, my husband had the feeling that something was “amiss” in our apartment. I couldn’t figure out what, so figured that he was just being paranoid or something. All I noticed was that our 2 cats seemed to be eating a little more than usual. Then a few days later we came home and a hat that was on the table moved & “chittered” at us. It turned out that a squirrel had gotten into the apartment, and BOTH cats let it stay and even let it eat some of their food! (We also found evidence that it was sleeping on our bed with the cats!)

SQUIRREL!!!!!!!

Wonder whether Rose knows he’s there.

Just re-read the first 7 Rose is Rose collections. The strip these days does not compare.

Hope they don’t freak out like the Griswold’s did.

One day a squirrel got into our house somehow (never did figure out how). It was frantically running from back to front and back again – amazingly enough my (then three) cats didn’t chase it, but just sat back and allowed it to run. I opened the front door and a back window, and eventually it found its way out.

I once wrote an estimate on a Jeep with tears all over its interior and an odd round hole in its top. A squirrel had somehow gotten inside and then it ate through the top to escape.

He ‘squirreled’ himself away in the tree.

reminds me of a Mickey Mouse Christmas special in which Chip and Dale end up in Mickey’s Christmas tree (and terrorize Pluto).