Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 19, 2014

Rat is creative.

After seeing who the new doctor is, Paris Goat will need a few Foster’s.

Dr. Rat is starting to remind me of Dr. Nick Rivera from “The Simpsons.”

Hey, it is Doc Rat.

Can anyone read that eye chart? I get “E total fraud” before it gets indistinct.

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Check out the eye chart.

Proginoskes…. and engineer…there’s an A, too….

So….below the big E, I think it says “A TOTAL FRAUD SO WATCH OUT” followed by 2 even more indistinct characters.

Wonder where the diploma is from?

If you like your Rat, you can keep your Rat

That isn’t an eye chart… That’s Rat’s diploma….

uh oh. i can see somthing aweful brewing.

So, how is he going to find out how to do a check-up on a corpse.

Rat thought about specializing, but decided he was best suited to open a general malpractice.

At least you get Rat. If it were Guard Duck your doctor would be a real quack.

Dr. Rat reminds me a lot of Dr. Slugo (Mr. Bill’s physician, “OH NO…He’s gonna hurt me!!!)

Amazing! This kartune’s been on line for at least 9 (nine) hours, & no one has yet linked it to “Obamacare”!!

If Rat were a proctologist, would he call himself “Doctor Ben Dover”?!?

If I were Stephan, I would have made the Croc the Doc. And the eye chart would have said E AT AGOATNOW

If goat “sees” the new Dr, there must be something wrong with him . . . ☻

DO NOT bend over and cough!

RipleyKGarfield: Check out the comment by jbmlaw.

oh oh.

I recently got a Root Canal from a Dr. Hurt. I figured it would probably be better if I didn’t make any jokes about his name…

Doc Rat looks cute in his medical costume. And in this case clothes make the doctor.

true, clothes do make someone look official. Just ask our Pres.

The nurse has a sunscreen if you “mouse over” the toon!