For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for July 23, 2020

I’m going to quote Persona 5 here: “Take your Time.”

In the meantime, Dawn Enjo, feeling as though she has accomplished her good deed for the day by keeping Elizabeth from killing Farley with a ball and a game of Fetch, goes home and leaves Elizabeth with a sleeping Farley and hopes that she has convinced Elizabeth not to use her power to stop time.

Somewhat similarly, I had always thought my maternal grandfather would live to be one hundred; he was four years short back in 2007.

Dogs prepares children for their parents one day – what they will see when their parents get old and prepares for what will come.

You get a dog or a cat and that animal soon transforms from being “just a pet” to a member of your family. I understand that very, very well.

Since this comic is a rerun,I think Farley will be read SOON !

My wife’s chihuahua Foxi is 12… that’s 72 in dog years… she’s a sweet soul, bless her.

I dread my animals’ passing as well but wouldn’t miss it since it is part of the stewardship I voluntarily took on when I accepted them. When animals are aged is when we, their humans, are most important to them (and as babies but that is not the issue here). The security that comes with long term relationships should not be broken when there is so little time left for any of us.

You can’t stop time…but you can re-run the entire series, which is almost as good!

This is exactly why immortality is a curse. Lessons learned from raising, loving and losing a dog are hard.

I know what’s coming and I’m not sure I can go through that again.

This is one of the saddest story arcs in comics….

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

We have a pair of Corgis, litter-mates, that have been with us since they were 8 weeks old. One is not doing well. I really want to find that brake lever.

Lynn really knows how to tug on the heartstrings.

If only….

Loved ones and loved dogs. :(

Well, I wept when Farley died the first time, I’m sure I’ll weep again. Hate this story line but it’s a necessary one.

This is too familiar. I remember the day I went from thinking of my dog Tasha as an active healthy dog to an old dog. Like Farley, she quit playing fetch. Up until then she would outlast me. It was so sad to see her mortality finally catching up to her. She was 12. She lived 2 more years.

Oh man! This is the start of the arc where Farley dies, isn’t it? Curses on you Lynn Johnston, making me cry like that.

For many of us, if we could have one wish it would be that our dogs could live with us forever.

As the Statler Brothers song says, I’ve never lived this long before.

When I was looking up pet cemeteries, I came across several human cemeteries that allow you to have your pet buried with you. Pictures showed many beautiful monuments with the pictures of the deceased humans and their pets.

I really miss my dog. T_T

Once school opens, Elizabeth, time will go much slower for you.

I hope Lynn doesn’t follow the same time line as she did previously. I don’t want to go through the sad times for the family again.

Oh this is so sweet and wonderful…..we wanted ours to live forever too. Same goes for my dad, grandma and grandpa…..very sad times….

Time and tide wait for no one. There comes a time we must all say goodbye.

Love this strip. Thank-you Lynn Johnston!

You can’t slow time, but you can slow down.

I know this is old but I lost a dog just last week to kidney failure and have another close to death. For me, it’s just not the time to think of such things.