FurBabies by Nancy Beiman for January 02, 2024

Sirius, pandas don’t get in cold water, polar bears do though. But it’s a safe bet that people who jump in cold water start choking when certain delicate parts immediately migrate right into their chest.

I remember doing that. I was even sober. Milwaukee is cold in January.

Blue backsides are more of the province of mandrills than polar bears.

They have FROZEN bottoms! Olaf would be proud!

It takes guts to jump into cold water in the winter months.

i cringe just watching people do this…brrr.

No thank you, that isn’t for me.

Not usually, Sirius!

This is a thing?

Doesn’t Floof get a walk, too?

Well, heck, Stella has a blue bottom!

Shawn is so elegant. He and Stella are such an attractive couple.

This sort of pandas do, Sirius.

I thought about taking the plunge. Or I could stay home and read a book by a cozy fire. Guess which one I picked.

Definitely a hangover kill or cure!

I did that a few times, especially when I was younger.

When I was in the army, I was going to be an usher at a friend’s wedding.

His fiancée was Finnish, and they had some kind of custom/tradition thing where the groom’s men go into a sweat house for an hour or so.

While we were in the sweat house, other folks went out on a pier into a lake and broke up the ice to form a hole.

Then, after the hour, we left the sweat house, rolled in a snow bank and then jumped into the hole in the ice.

The most exhilarating thing I have ever done, and when I got out of the lake after a few minutes, and dried off, I felt more alive than ever before or since.

I love how Shawn is smiling in the last panel. Sirius’ joke makes him so pround.