Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for August 04, 2018

That’s when she borrowed Scooter from next door. And then the fun really began….

Where’s the dog? Ballard Street dogs are legendary, and no dog would tolerate a squirrel in its house. It’s like a blood feud or something. It goes back for millennia.

Eugene is just looking for some warm cuddles. Arlene, would you prefer that he look to higher mammals?

Arlene should be concerned about what else Eugene might be bringing.

I think she brought it on herself.

She’s nuts, and she knows what they do to nuts.

Can’t abide those squirrels.

Silly tree-rats are always coming down from their high towers and sniffing around my bushes.

Catching a falling squirrel and put it in your pocket, save it for a rainy day.

She knows her husband’s nuts.

The squirrel looks like it belongs in the comic “Spectickles”.

Can’t blame Arlene.. that squirrel has shifty eyes

I usually don’t suggest changes to a gag, but it wouldn’t it have been funnier if it said, “It was the squirrel that FIRST brought discontentment to Arlene?”

That’s one big squirrel ! Looked like a beaver with a bushy tail, to me. Maybe if the colorist hadn’t used brown…..

And not a little apprehension when she discovered that Eugene had named him “Rocky”. Now she’s worried that “Bullwinkle” is not far behind…

RoKet J SkwiRReL… he GotS a RoKet inHiz PokkeTT…. (he wont Fine enny Nutz in THEir…!!!

Arlene will have the last laugh, I think those squnity squirrel eyes means he is dropping a load.

No, Eugene. When they said to get a pocket protector, they were referring to that plastic thing.