Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 11, 2024

How about running him over with a car?

Call Bill Murray. See what he can do with him.

Gophers can always find a job as Go Fers.

Rat is the resident expert at hitting things.

Send him to get lunch. Oops, wrong type of gopher.

I thought it might be Rat’s drinking buddy.

If he starts dancing to “I’m Alright,” let him.

that is a large gopher, even by comic strip standards

At least it’s not a giant sloth. Those prehistoric beasts had big nails.

just go pher it.

Hey Pig just go pher it!!

Getting Guard Duck to help would be the most efficient solution, but Larry would be funnier.

Just let Rat deal with it.

’Go-For" him yourself, Rat!

Imagine the hole he digs!

Big? It look like giant gopher.

Somebody from Minnesota to see you.

To quote a one-off character from “Looney Tunes” – “You do, and I’ll give you SUCH a pinch!”

I am imagining the gopher catching the shovel and throwing at back at Pig. Yikes.

a Big mistake

Had outside cats and would get groundhogs due to the woods behind the house. The cats left the groundhogs alone. A good idea.

A gopher that size would overpower them easily.

Yeah. Who needs a lawn?

You do it, Rat.

The cemetery where I serve as a guide has so many groundhogs that we guides are required to warn visitors about them at the start of each tour. The typical warning is; “The groundhogs make holes roughly the size of an adult human foot”. That gets peoples’ attention. And helps keep them safe.

Biggest game of Whack-a-Mole ever!

You have to choose your battles

I bet Crankshaft has a solution.

That’s a big gopher. Ask him what he wants, give it to him, and maybe he’ll go away.

A gopher is a mean vicious creature. Friends of mine had a cat that could catch and kill them. She had litters of kittens that she would teach that skill. It as always a show when she would catch and bring a live gopher over the fence for teaching purposes and turn it loose. The dog would get curious. The gopher would be after the dog in just a few minutes. It would chase the dog, gnashing and lunging around the yard. That was hilarious. Then mama kitty would sit and watch with her kittens, then she would walk over and pick it up. :-D You could almost hear her telling her kittens, “You see, children, how it behaves? This is the correct technique. Now you learn to do it the right way.” The dog was like “ I’ll be darned. How did she DO that?” ;-D

Scratch his back so he doesn’t get upset.

Get the crocs

He’ll leave quietly if you beat him at rock, paper, scissors. Best 3 out of 5

Sadly, there are people who would be so cruel to animals that dare inconvenience them with their mere existence. As if our lawns were the most important thing going. As if humans are the only species that matter.

People suck.

Send him on an errand. See what he brings back.

Rats cousin?

Somehow I find the fearless blank stare in the second panel very disturbing.

One of my security cameras picks up a groundhog family in the wee hours. Last night It caught sandhill cranes walking across my lawn and driveway … but, thankfully, very quietly.

I tend to agree with that feeling…..

Bigger shovel?

Prairie Dog shoulda turned right at Albuquerque

Looks like he’s after more than shoots and leaves.

This just cracked me up!

get rats baseball bat