For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 07, 2024

If you’d just trim his nails, there wouldn’t be any scratches.

Uhm… if you’re trying to train him to bark when he wants to go outside… shouldn’t the scratches on the door be on the INSIDE?

From Lynn’s Comments: This strip’s punch line became the title for the collection book in which this story appeared.

So, if he is inside, wanting to go out, why are the scratches on the outside of the door???

Yet more proof that even if I weren’t still slightly nervous around dogs, I wouldn’t have the patience for one!

In panel 1, did Lynn finally learn how to represent a normal human gait?

Shouldnt the marks be on the inside of the door if he wants to go out.

I seem to remember that Farley learned how to ring the front doorbell

When my aunt and uncle were training their current dog they hung a loop with little bells attached to it around the doorknob and trained him to ring the bells. It was ingenious really. Encouraging a dog to bark more often rather than less sounds annoying and discourteous to the neighbors.

One of the reasons we never got another dog…

Wasn’t there a strip where Elly said she did not want any more pets in her house?

The Puns even reach here!!