Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 12, 2023

How many rats did shark eat?

another sad truth from PBS!

I’m sure sharks wouldn’t want to eat something as bitter as Rat.

It is absolutely horrendous how many sea creatures are killed.Humans have already decimated the king crab population, and they are foolish enough to think that a one or two year moratorium of NO harvesting is going to restore the population

Rat is sort of right. The problem is figuring out which 10 sharks those are. When a shark attacks a human, authorities seem somewhat lazy about figuring out which specific shark that is. With drones, it can be done.

How you can tell there’s a rat in the water: “Daaaaah-DUM . . . Daaaaah-DUM . . .”

Read BC and take comfort in Land Sharks.

Sad fact, most sharks are killed to harvest their fins for shark fin soup!

Watch out, Rat, ‘Jaws’ is gonna gitcha.

Don’t think sharks eat that many rats. Rat should be safe.

The sharks would leave him alone, professional courtesy!

If shark is eat Rat then shark is die of plague.

Goat is such a good friend.

Stay out of Sherman’s Lagoon, Rat!!

Between 2011 and 2017, 259 people died while taking a selfie, as opposed just to just 50 shark-related deaths in the same time span.

Funny.

I agree with Rat.

Sharks have more to fear from us than we do from them.

I have had a shark swim by me within 20 feet while snorkeling, it’s a bit disconcerting

Hope Rat didn’t read this morning’s BC =:0

We need a shark character in Pearls.

Rat’s leaving a sinking ship.

No shark would want to eat or be able to digest a disgusting filthy rodent like Rat. If anything, he’ll kill them before they have the chance to kill him.

They are no where near extinction though

Under ordinary circumstances, I would also wish that they eat him. However, we need Rat for the humour that he provides.

I have heard that vending machines kill more people per year than sharks.

Forget shark-infested waters. Vending machine-infested waters are the true danger.

We are not the top of the food chain while in the ocean. That is a cautionary warning. Rat will not be eaten by a shark, because he is avoiding the ocean.

The Spielberg Effect.

We don’t just kill them. We “fin” them. We catch them, cut off the fins, and then throw them back in the water, alive, in agony and bleeding, where they will die slowly of blood loss, infection, or starvation. Starvation occurs because they can no longer swim properly and therefore cannot feed well. We do this somewhere between 75 and 100 million times a year. We are such a sweet species!

Shark is delicious!

There’s no reasoning with Rat….he only hears what he wants to hear.

Seems to be “Shark Week” on PBS. It was a little unnerving to see that sharks had been sighted where we routinely went on our family vacation.

Goat, your “stats” are inflated by 99,000,000 just to fit your narrative. But that’s ok because nobody ever checks these things and blindly accepts everything you say.

check out any of the Netflix “Our Planet” documentaries to learn how and why we must do better to save our planet, including the oceans within the next 12 years or it could be too late.

Seems like “peaceful protestor” math.

I worry more about the plethora of nearly invisible things in the ocean that can kill or cause great distress

Rat’s not even a shark palate cleanser. And I doubt Rat and Goat killed any.

We can only hope, Goat.

In 2022 there were almost 43,000 people killed in traffic mishaps in the US alone, but no one thinks twice about getting into a car & going out on the road.

What about land sharks?

100 Million Sharks???? Really?

This really tickled my funny bone — LOLOL

Wait. One Hundred Million a year? Seriously? Yep, I looked it up and it appears to be true.

But rats aren’t people, are they? :D How many rats do sharks eat every year? :)

Maybe not 10, there could just be one really hungry shark

Go ahead…give ’im a good shove…

that is the truth too

I’m not losing any sleep over that!

But how many rats do sharks kill each year?

Even moralistic Goat can be driven to murderous thoughts by Rat’s correct response!

Shark are people too.

The sharks aren’t keeping up their part of the bargain.

they would want someone sweet like pig

More humans have eaten sharks than sharks have eaten humans.