Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 07, 2014

Ok, I get why the irresponsible dog owner is happy to avoid ‘patrol duty’, but why is the dog so happy?

^You obviously don’t have a dog that takes in much pride in himself as mine does.

I think the gentleman just wanted to have a sweet conversation (albeit by texting) with his wife. Can’t see what all the fuss is about.

Between full-strength dog urine causing nitrogen burns and the digging, not much live grass left in “dog-friendly” parks either.

Re last panel: who besides me encountered the word “jackwagon” for the first time in that GEICO commercial?

“Dang,” said the guy I once caught letting his dog plant a loaf on my lawn, “I forgot to bring any bags.”You should have seen him scoot when I offered to get him one.

pick it up in the little plastic bag, and then heave it into the bushes, or your neighbors yard, that way it lasts longe?r

Heh. I encountered “jackwagon” back in 1983 while vacationing the Marine Corps Recruit Depot-San Diego.

Okay, so it really wasn’t much of a vacation, but, it was highly educational. Learned lots of phrases and words which I can’t use in forum. heh

Put it in the grill of their car. But, then you won’t have any neighbors to talk to. A win/win.

dog one silly

Party poppers ruin it for everyone.

What I don’t understand is dog owners who pick up the poop in neat little plastic bags ( while the state is slowly making us buy reusable grocery bags) then they leave neatly tied off black plastic bags of dog poop either on the ground where it would have been absorbed, or they set it on a rock, or tie it on a fence! Seriously!? What’s that about? A hold over from disposable diaper duty?

I’d say close to 80% of dog owners don’t pick up poop around here.

I go to dog parks regularly and have seen “this” person a million times. They turn away and pretend they don’t see their dog pooing so they won’t have to pick it up. I know we all sometimes legitimately miss sometimes (it’s a BIG park), but to deliberately ignore it is just rude. Luckily, there are some “poop fairies” at this park who pick up extra all the time to keep it clean! :)

True Story —.Thirty years ago I lived in a small tourist town and decided to learn to ride horseback. One afternoon the trainer and I were out riding and decided to follow the pedestrian path along the Niagara River. At the point where we were to begin, a ranger came up to us and told us we could not ride there because the park rangers hated shoveling up after horses. .He then turned around and walked back to his truck. Tony, my horse, waited until he was halfway there and let go a good twenty pounds..We took off at a gallop, laughing the whole way.

To argythree and others too dense to understand a basic…. the dog is happy and running about because it found RELIEF…. it felt GOOD to dump

Pure and simple, no hidden meaningsIt is an animal

Sheesh,

Oops — the horse’s name was Toby, not Tony. Sorry old fella. You were a real character and I miss you.

So irritating it is not hard to carry a couple of plastic bags! I have for years and there are biodegradable bags available if you can afford them. Those irresponsible, entitled, childish idiots who don’t clean up after their dogs give all other dog people a bad reputation.

To Jim, Sparkle and the others who understand dogs…agreed; that feeling of relief is one where we can really meet our dogs. We’ve had three new ones move in next door, all males from what I can tell. We’re working out the shouting matches between their’n and our’n. But in the meantime, one of ours, the one who knows no fear, has taken to a cocky, strutting establishing of territory (on his side of the fence, of course) by an EXTREMELY vigorous kicking up of dirt/grass/snow/etc., for “covering” his poop whenever he knows they’re around. (I say “covering” because what he kicks up is nowhere near what he is ostensibly trying to cover.) He’s a riot to watch…“HA! Take that, you intrusive, poor-excuse-for-poopers, you! HA!”

Good one, Wiley. I LOVE the expression on the dog’s face in the second-to-last panel. We should all learn to rejoice in…umm…the little things like dogs do.

My friend and I were walking her dogs last week when we watched a dog do his “business” next to the sidewalk, then she just walked away. As she drew near to us, I offered her one of our empty bags and she just shrugged it off as “a little liquid, not worth stooping over for”.

Such a nice, bouncy, well fed dog. Happy pup. Cute.

“It’s not the dog “loaves” … it’s the fast food wrappers.”-————————————-My unscientific observations of roadside litter leads me to believe that consumers of the output of Micky D’s and the manufacturers of lite beers are the majority are the majority offenders.