Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 07, 2024

Best to rub his belly in ignorance.

Since he didn’t hear anything in the first panel, it means the cat’s stomach wasn’t grumbling. He made the right call, the next move would be the belly rub.

Be very careful you don’t over do it.

My cats bite me if I try to rub their bellies. They like back rubs.

Oh, cats gotta do what cats gotta do. You realise that you’re only there to feed them, and occasionally give them a rub behind the ears, don’t you?

We put a bed in our garage for a cat that apparently was left behind when we bought our house. She put a dead mouse on the bed and we moved her inside after that. Express yourself!

It reminds me of a dream Hobbes would be having with Calvin.

You can take the cat out of the jungle, but you can’t take the jungle out of the cat.

“I think it is safe now” is probably part of one of Wiley’s tombstone comics.

Imagine what your cat (or dog) might be dreaming.

Putting a dead bird or mouse on your pillow means that they like you. They’re giving you a prized gift.

Neighbor’s cat used an open window for access during the night. One night he got up to close window after cat came home and thought he stepped on a sock. Later in a.m., he found a pulverized rodent on-in his carpet.

The joys of pet ownership are not always apparent.

Cats will kill anything smaller than themselves. I’ve been told that when they look happy they’re imaging you being four inches tall. I think that’s the background for this comic.

Our first cat would usually leave her offerings on our front step. But there was one time she left a small bunny ear on my wife’s pillow. I thought it was pretty funny, but when my wife came in the bedroom to see it, she did not see the humor. She asked how I’d like it if she left it on my pillow instead, and I told her if that had happened, I would have just swapped our pillows before she looked at it.

Nice kitty.

It’s been my experience that attempting to give a cat a belly rub will result in said cat closing over your hand like a Venus Flytrap. In other words, you’ll pull away a bloody stump.

Cats are wild animals that live in your house. YOUR house not mine, I have four dogs.

What the wife really meant to say: “Are you a man, or a mouse?”

Our old orange Fluffy purrs so loudly and for so long that when he curls up next to my pillow, I can’t sleep. At the vet he purrs nonstop (likely stress) and the doc can’t hear his heart.

Mouse head? He must really like you. Mouse heads are a feline delicacy, along with squirrel heads.

So, they like the cat, or they don’t like the cat? It’s not purrfectly clear.

LOVE panel three!

Actually, head rubs and cheek rubs work better and there is less of a chance of getting hurt.

Let’s just hope a thousand cats don’t share the same dream.

If I had two dead rats, I’d give you one. A cat’s idea of true love.

We once found a rather unusual lizard in our bathtub. It’s the thought that counts

Cats: self-propelled mass murder machines who will sometimes allow their slaves to touch them.

Accidently closed the cat in our bedroom one time. It wasn’t a mouse head that the cat left on my wife’s pillow. At least it was covered up. Wife was not amused.

Cat dream written by Richard Matheson.

One of my cats could have belly rubs for hours.

I think the future is going to be a fight between AI and Felines for world domination

Gratitutude is gratitude in all its many forms.

The look of love. Conditional as it may be.

these people have newspapers.

Love the artwork especially the huge orange tabby going PURRRR…

To a cat, the head is the best part.

Cats and the Mafia have things in common.

I’ve never had a cat who could take a belly rub for more than 5 seconds. Next comes the nip lock, nipping, and rabbit kicking.

Now it just needs 999 more cats to have the same dream…

If I try to give my cat a belly rub the claws come out real fast

Cat dreams, human nightmares.

I’ve got one who prefers back rubs but doesn’t always get my attention until she exposes the irresistible belly.

See today’s “Peanuts” strip -

address (hope this will work – remove all the added spaces)

w w w. go comics. com / peanuts / 2024-04-07

Wiley drew inspiration from Neil Gaiman.

Planet of the Apes – uh, Cats!

DOGS like belly rubs. Cats HATE them.

Cats enjoy being tickled behind the ears.

To think that they once hunted us…