Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for October 19, 2024

Puddles!!! Bad Dog!!! Don’t eat that!

I can’t imagine the puzzle piece tastes any good. And at what point was Puddles able to take a piece off of the table to chew on it?

Too late! Always immediately look for missing pieces. For me, it’s the younger grandkids who bang on the table and send pieces over the edges. So I stopped playing puzzles and am waiting for the youngest to outgrow the lets-send-everything-over-the edges phase.

Puddles. Puzzles. Really there is not much difference. Just exchange the z’s for d’s.

I was right yesterday when I said Puddles would be the next participant.

As I said a few days ago, the puzzle must be completed, so negotiate a trade with Puddles for something tastier than wet cardboard pieces, get some glue and clear tape and do the NASCAR thing. Don’t stop.

That’s what happens when you won’t buy any chew toys for poor Puddles!

I had a cousin that would swipe a couple pieces of a puzzle, and produce them along with a wild story of them being lodged in their shoe or some such rubbish.

Years ago, I spent a great many hours making a jig saw puzzle out of a photo of an antique car, glued to a very thin plywood backing. It was about 18" X 24" and I cut it very intricately on an old Delta jig saw. Once completed, I took it to my parent’s home to put it together for the first time. Got it finished, except for one piece. There it was, on the floor being chewed by my Grandmother’s nasty dog. Man, I wanted to kill that pooch.

Ah.

Poor Pud probably thought the puzzle piece was an animal cracker or a chew toy or something.

But if Nancy truly wants to relieve stress, next time try COFFEE.

Works for Me……., ;-)

Huh! My comment here and at ArcaMax have been deleted. I guess retirement is prohibited speech.

Dogs will be dogs.

Called the Puddles appearance yesterday. Perhaps next week we’ll actually seem the strip’s namesake all week. A Piro arc will be revived.

Yeah… You may not want the piece back…