Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 13, 2010

Surely not Hobbes!

Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran and Kizzzy!

Luckily only ‘some’ !

“All they ask in return is a little kindness” … and some seafood.

As do all good souls …

……they comfort you when you’re sad…………

Annie is gone………………….Hobbes……………..do your comfort act for all us Annie fans!!!

Good morning, Mike, nice to see you here so early.

Good try, Hobbes!

GM, Marg, MLady & Mike.

Calvin’s last comment describes all the people that I like best. I love them but ….

Good morning L’wolf.

I work nights now so when I have a bight off I stay up all night anyway. I used to tape C& H comic strips to my refrigerator back in the 80’s, before there was an internet.

I gave up on Little Orphan Annie 40 years ago, but I fondly remember sitting on the front steps of Grandpa’s house on Sundays while he read me LOA and Dick Tracy. Say “Arf!,” Sandy!

I knew that The End Was Near for Annie, but it seems she’s comie and gone while I was off-watch.

Ah. Good. The panel is up.

marg wrote under it:

I have come to pay my respects to a great comic that gave us much pleasure throughout the years. It dies, yet dreck like DT remains…

I (like many, probably including marg) remember when Dick Tracy was not dreck, simply strange. Go figure.

Tuna bread is only for nice and friendly tigers!! If you want it all the time, you must be a very kind and sweet tiger!!

Some people ARE more like animals, Calvin. They seem to have no concept or concern about right and wrong, as we observed yesterday with the comments about break-ins and ransacking.

That’s why I always adopt my dogs from local animal shelters. I figure they need extra love and patience that not everyone is willing to give them to bring out their best qualities underneath. People forget the unconditional love needs to go both ways!

That’s putting it in another perspective Calvin. Surely, it isn’t that hard or worst. We just have to deal with it and work our differences….But its good to have friends though.

Kindness and the occasional tuna fish sandwich, Calvin.

I rescued both my cats and my one and only doesn’t understand why they come to me, not her. I’ve never even opened a can of tuna near either, I do have some leftover crab meat from last night.Hmmm? They would love me forever and a day.

Two rescue cats who adore us both, brother and SIL have three rescued dogs as well. Rescue animals are the best pets! But too many people are literally fighting over “etnicticities” and religion. Maybe if we got rid of religion we could all get along?

Good Morning Mike Firesmith and Loki. Hope the new hours are good to you.

A sunday walk in the woods with your best friend. It’s all good. But about that tuna sandwich …. I gave it to a stray opossum with a large family. I knew that is what you would want me to do.

Pets can be the best of friends.

Exchanging your friendship for a tuna sandwich is shameful, Hobbes!….Shoulda held out for a porterhouse steak.

Since I also stopped reading Little Orphan Annie years, can someone tell me if she ever spent some of her money to get her eyes dotted?

Lucas, featured in my photo, is a rescue. On August 14 of last year I picked him up off the road in the middle of nowhere. Starved, flea bitten, and covered with sores not to mention stinky, he rode in my lap all the way home without moving.

You readers who have rescues in your homes and hearts are kin to me in a manner than transcends simply genetics.

Thank you.

Make sure your pet is a lot like Hobbes, not the I will eat you some day kind . Our cat Tigger weighs about 16# if he was really much bigger I would be careful when giving treats.

Mike he is very pretty, or should I say handsome? All my animals but one have been rescues. All but two, right off the street. 2 from ROFF. (Resuce Our Furry Friends)

While I know my dog loves me (at least around feeding time!), she prefers my husband best.

But 6 years ago this past March, I was outside on a potty run with her. I was watching her from the deck and when I stepped down off my retaining wall to go “scoop”, I completely misjudged the height from there down to the ground (a good foot and a half at least) so that when I landed, I fell, badly spraining my ankle. Talk about a bad situation! I was laying there in a tremendous amount of pain, unable to get up and walk (or even limp), it was pretty cold outside, and my husband was inside talking on the phone long distance (so he wasn’t likely to miss me for quite a while). It took me a long time to drag myself back into the house and never once through that entire ordeal did my dog leave my side!!!!! She didn’t know what was going on or how to help me but she knew that I was hurt and needed her so she comforted me the best way she knew how. She’s a very good dog and I wouldn’t take a million dollars for her … even if she does prefer my husband best!!!!! :o)

mmmm…tuna fish sammich!

Our cat was “smuggled” home by our daughter from a county fair years ago. She’s a beautiful gray long-hair but she was a mess as a kitten–ear mites, etc. To this day, I’m about the only person she’ll tolerate. We also became parents of a blonde dog (part Lab?) about a year ago. She turned up at our neighbor’s house in the rain and when we couldn’t locate her family, she became a member of our house. I don’t think we’ve ever had to “purchase” a pet. Life is good!

Calvin and Hobbes seems to attract a good number of good people.

Our little “rescues” (Panda & Pandora) turned 8 years old today. Their momma (Mahissabelle) had them in a pickup truck next door and after 10 days of listening to her screeching & protecting them every nite, we decided that our old (18 years) tom cat couldn’t do any more harm to them than what was going on out there, so we took them in and locked them in the bathroom. The momma was too small to pick them up, so she dragged them all here from way down the street where she had hidden them in the rafters of somebody’s garage. We kept 2 kittens & momma. They are all now quite healthy, didn’t get attacked too much by the old boy – and momma is still doing far more than her share of grooming.

These animal stories are touching, but if more people treated other humans the way they treat animals, maybe we’d all get along much better.

Puddlegum2:

How do know you that us animal lovers don’t treat other human beings as kindly as we treat our pets??? I like to think I treat everyone with respect and I’m always hopeful that they’ll do the same for me!

It’s my opinion that the people who don’t treat animals kindly will also behave that way towards another human being. If they don’t/can’t respect the life of defenseless animals, then they couldn’t possibly respect the life of people either. I’ve always heard it said that serial killers start out torturing and killing small animals before they move on to people.

I don’t know if I would fall, for that technique,of trying to get something. It seems very sneaky, to me.