Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for July 03, 2016

now who gets to mop the floor after Luann bathes puddles?

She’s an expert at manipulation. She’ll make a fine wife some day.

too bad Luann didn’t wait for puddles to jump in first!

puddles can only say on thing: “oops!”

I hate the Sunday comics. I wouldn’t have come here if I’d remembered that tomorrow was a Sunday. Hard to keep track of the days when you’re retired.

Poor Puddles….or, in this case, Puzzles (as Shannon likes to call him), since he’s probably feeling like that, after getting betrayed by his own stomach, and bewildered by the fact that he shouldve known there just had to be a second resson they got that extra can opener… besides as a backup…-And, too, he can’t hide all that dirt…unfortunately, he’s in all the wrong places, at the wrong times….-Ah, well! It’s a dirty job….for both sides, that is…..

“Pitch A Vit-tles”“The Bath Of Least Resistance”“Bait And Switch”“Won’t Get Food, Again” (♬)“Trap Session”“Clean On Me” (♬)“Setter Up For Failure”“An Automatic Retriever”“Pointer, In The Wrong Direction”“Lather, Rinse, Retreat”“Shampoo For A Bamboozled Pooch”“The Mission Is Scrubbed”“Ticked Off”“Flee…..Collared!”

or“Grub You, The Wrong Way”

Basically, this is a horror movie, for dogs….though with a good ending!- You’d probably have a bunch of dogs to howl at the screen: “No-wohroooooh!” “Don’t go for that grub! It’s a trick!”

Pavlov would be proud.Pavlov didn’t think dogs thought, thou.Luann and I think they do, even if imperfectly.

Luann is super cute…

Subterfuge. I have to use the same tactics on my dogs.

How far in advance do the Evans write the comics before newspapers publish them?

Let’s hope that thing is plugged into a GFCI outlet.

“Well Okay Fine, Then. YOU take a Bath. And AFTER You’re DONE Bathing Your Cute Little Derriere, Could You please find the time to Open Up a Can of K-9 Nutritional Supplements for Me, Since Our Wise and Benevolent Creator Decided to Draw Me without hands, AND If I don’t Eat Something SOON, I may be Compelled to Use that Scrapbook of Your Last (GAG) ‘Boyfriend’ You’ve been Hiding and Crying Over, as a CHEW Toy!” - A Hungry Puddles Who has Decided Right Then and There, to BITE His Way Thru Life.

Bath time for Luann.

That is a dirty trick in more ways than one.

Toilet humor?

1) Luann’s massive primate brain overcomes the primitive canine cortex. 2) This is the very last time this trick will work.

“She would stand him in front of the toilet, ring the bell loudly, and it would cause him to go instantly. This is a problem that plagued him throughout his adult life. Whenever he heard a bell…”.I have noticed it is possible to hold still for hours but find difficulty doing so whenever near a toilet, sometimes not near enough.Durn, you Pavolov.

Tricked again!

Why do they have two can openers?

Now that was just SNEAKY AND UNFAIR! LOL

ROFLOL. Wouldn’t that be awful if it were true?

Works for me.

Boy, would that be hell if he went into a doorbell store.

We said we wanted to see “puddles” again— today we get BOTH kinds. Remember to tell them “thank you”.

And let’s hope, in all the excitement, Puddles won’t make any yellow puddles.

Luann does something clever! I am almost astounded….

Luann show the innate signs of Maturity…It is a wonder how Teen girls become caring mothers…I see them all around in the stores and parks…There is hope, yet still….I bet even they don’t know how it happened!

This is strictly Pavlov’s dogs, stimuli to a known reward, a conditioned response to the stimuli, with the little twist that she had a second can opener which led the conditioned Puddles to the bathtub. Guys marketing theory does this basic behaviorism all the time, from having candy near a check-out line, to political dog whistles in Presidential campaigns. That operant behavior in the Presidential campaigns is most scary because conditioned voters just react to the right stimuli, but do not have good old ego and super ego based critical thinking involved. There you go with Psych 101 for today!! -:) I will resist casting which, if not both sides, has the most dog whistles in the current cycle.

Fool me once, shame on you…

I use the can opener when I want my cats to come. only thing that works without fail

Awww…that’s just mean.

Sunday cartoons are okay…………sort of a 7th. inning stretch.

Spoiler? Maybe not since i do not know quite what they are doing. Is Luann getting crafty?

SPOILER 2.5

If she had listed a different set of supplies, I would have decided that she did learn something from that art class on life masks….

Busted!

Love it! Going to try that on my dog.