Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 19, 2022

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    BE THIS GUY  about 2 years ago

    The dog doesn’t want to spend time with you.

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    BasilBruce  about 2 years ago

    Shih tsu.

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    ronaldspence  about 2 years ago

    Toy Fox Terrier thank you! (please see avatar)

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    eromlig  about 2 years ago

    Old football players get a wide retriever.

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member about 2 years ago

    I’m 65 and I have no dog. Am I doomed?

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    Nobody_Important  about 2 years ago

    I’ll enjoy my goats for as long as I can.

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    Robin Harwood  about 2 years ago

    Aging isn’t all that much fun, but I can’t work up a lot of enthusiasm for the alternative, either.

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    blunebottle  about 2 years ago

    My neighbour, who raises goldens, has a warning sign: WARNING: My dog can lick anybody!

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    Gent  about 2 years ago

    Ageing, the natural and inevitable process of wear and tear on the body.

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    Sanspareil  about 2 years ago

    Ageing makes wine and cheese better, why can’t humans be like wine and cheese!

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    iggyman  about 2 years ago

    Clever Rat, clever!

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    cdward  about 2 years ago

    …or you find it’s just you and the people who dress you, feed you, and take you to the bathroom.

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    MayCauseBurns  about 2 years ago

    Be the person your dog thinks you are.

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    bittenbyknittin  about 2 years ago

    I was just thinking how my 2 dogs and 2 cats are the best company.

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    colddonkey  about 2 years ago

    For a real dog a Siberian Husky. Only two places needed then, either home or the nut house. Like Jack Nicholson said in the movie, “You can’t handle the Husky.”

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    SusieB  about 2 years ago

    Or your cat

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    ajr58(1)  about 2 years ago

    In my case, the Covid shut downs have amplified the effect.

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    Croc Holliday  about 2 years ago

    As I age, my fuse, much like my telomeres, keeps getting shorter.

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    HOTLOTUS1  about 2 years ago

    not so bad after all

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    Lee26 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Death helps you whittle that list down, too. I have lost my whole family and my best friend. At least I still have my wife and cats.

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    BadCreaturesBecomeDems  about 2 years ago

    And when I die, the dog gets one last meal…

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    Ellis97  about 2 years ago

    Rats only have four or five years to live, so Rat’s already entered his golden years.

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    mrwiskers  about 2 years ago

    I lost my first and only best friend to suicide. We were both 17 at the time. I haven’t reached out to make a friend since then. I like folks and folks seem to enjoy my company, but I don’t let anyone get too close. I don’t want to go through that grief where I can help it. Now at 73, I look back and it still bothers me that our yearbook committee put his senior photo on the very last page. Uggg!

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    Goat from PBS  about 2 years ago

    I lived with a pit bull for almost 13 years. The first 11 were fine, but his last year was…unforgettable, in all the wrong ways.

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    rhpii  about 2 years ago

    I can’t get any better than your last friend being your dog.

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    The Famous Eccles  about 2 years ago

    Tempus edax rerum.

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    Croc Holliday  about 2 years ago

    Golden years is a pretty decent David Bowie song.

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    Ignatz Premium Member about 2 years ago

    We don’t “whittle them down,” they die.

    My God, I just got more depressing than Rat.

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    roydiehl1  about 2 years ago

    Labradoodle Days!

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    aerotica69  about 2 years ago

    The Silver Tabby Years. (In my original attempt to reference a certain large, lovable Cat that is named after the state of Maine, I discovered that a part of its moniker is on GoComics’ banned list. But tabbies are just as preferable over humans.)

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    larslarson  about 2 years ago
    My two Circus fleas, Mick and Vick. But that includes the dog they live on. They are musical and love to sing “Home, home on the mange” every night.
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    Zebrastripes  about 2 years ago

    This almost true , Rat! Only you have to include kitties

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    snowedin, now known as Missy's mom  about 2 years ago

    Boston terrier and a Chihuahua.

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    William A Short Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Or the Flat-Coated Retriever years.

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    oish  about 2 years ago

    You never hear anyone say Dog in a way that rhymes with Log/Fog/Bog/Nog. I usually hear it pronounced as Dowg or Dawg

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    198.23.5.11  about 2 years ago

    Dogs for men,cats for women.And hamsters for rats

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    raybarb44  about 2 years ago

    And then there was one….

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    Ceeg22 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    *Cat

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    zeexenon  about 2 years ago

    The co-pay years … and the rest is not a pretty sight.

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    KEA  about 2 years ago

    just me, myself and I, actually

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    John Jorgensen  about 2 years ago

    Lately I’ve found I’m less interested in socializing regularly, and it does make me feel older. Or at least it coincides with feeling that way.

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    cactusbob333  about 2 years ago

    We have had 2 golden retrievers, and they certainly gave us many golden years. In our old age, we have a much smaller shih tzu. Much easier for us to handle.

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    willie_mctell  about 2 years ago

    I’m a cat guy but I get the idea. Our younger cat, whom we got as the successor to the 17 year old who has dementia, is a golden. Well technically she’s a golden ticked British Shorthair.

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    Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Dogs.

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    Moonkey Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Beagle days here! I think in equalized ages, she is probably older than I am now.

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  about 2 years ago

    Rat makes getting older sound unpleasant.

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    Sisyphos  about 2 years ago

    If only! Unfortunately, dogs don’t live long enough (in most cases). I’ll go with aging rather than being whittled down….

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    AndrewSharpe  about 2 years ago

    Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. — Groucho Marx

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    Pony99CA  about 2 years ago

    Our current dogs are three dachshunds (one short-hair, two long-hair), a chihuahua mix, and a chiweenie (chihuahua/dachshund mix). I won’t go into our past (passed) dogs.

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