Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for April 27, 2023

Ew, ew, ew.

FYI, nicotine can kill birds if they inhale or consume it, but some wild birds have learned to make use of nicotine’s toxic properties in discarded cigarette butts.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/birds-harness-the-deadly-power-of-nicotine-to-kill-parasites-152456999/

Another nail in your coffin…

To seal your fate.

This brings new meaning to Dogsation…

Hare today, dog gone tomorrow.

Few of your comics make me laugh aloud, but this one did!!

…humpf…

…you’d think dogs would chew…

…taking a smoke break in-between rounds of poker…

…watching the Dogfather for the first time scared the spots right off Rover…

…well, you know what they say about dogs that smoke…

…that they like to howl at the moon…

…[wink-wink]…

…the bathmat factory encourages its watchdogs to smoke…

…it makes their bark worse than their bite…

Who is giving them matches?

Then there is that Far Side cartoon about the real reason dinosaurs went extinct…

Grilling and smoking dogs are a harbinger of summer.

So when’s the poker game starting! Cough cough

Anyone else getting a judgmental vibe from the silhouette dog?

Today’s Frog Applause™ and Close to Home have 2 things in common: They feature dogs and my verbal, analytical, and orderly left brain doesn’t get either one.

(She is probably right brained – I envy that about Her)

But … but … they all have medical nicotine cards …!

https://www.sourcewatch.org/images/thumb/2/26/Smokingbeagle1.jpg/220px-Smokingbeagle1.jpg

One of these things is not like the others

One of these things do not belong…

That hoity toity little terrier in the tuxedo better watch his back in this neighborhood.

These dogs received a package offer.

The tough dogs, in the prison yard at Canine Confinement, Inc., a private penal provider.

Actually, the cigarettes are mostly an affectation, since dogs don’t really like to smoke: they just want to look hard.

Poor little Silhouette Doggy is here on visiting day to see his incarcerated daddy-dog….