Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for January 09, 2013

Oh the horror of it all!

I must be dim, ‘cause I don’t think I get this one either. Did the dog have a wee at the snow catman? Is it a live cat covered in snow? What’s the significance of snowless bit of road surface, or the Bolshevik and the levitating dog? Arlo looks outraged, rather than shocked, so my first assumption of a road accident is probably false.

Dammit, this is approaching Cow Tools territory levels of incomprehensibility for me.

Arlo is shielding the cat from seeing the death of the snowman cat as it melts. The patch of road is to show that the snow is melting.

Poor snow cat, I’d have thought that the dog was adding insult to injury.

Apparently some of the more naive readers have never heard of the adage that dog piss is poison. That applies to snow cats as well as to lawns.

I thought the road and sidewalk were just to show the proximity of the snowcat to insulting passers-by. Didn’t realize anything about poison and melting.

Zipper the wonder dog, my chocolate Labrador, wants to leave his calling card on every tree and fire hydrant we walk pass.

According to today’s Red and Rover it’s a sign the dog really liked it.

I would go with the dog marking his territory on the snow cat...Thus Arlo covering Ludwig’s eyes.

I love Arlo & Janis, but it seems like lately, I don’t understand the strip.

That snow cat is really pissed!

..“.and please don’t eat the yellow snow”…F. Zappa

From the look on Arlo’s face in the last panel, I’d say the dog is peeing on the snowcat and so he is shielding Luddie’s eyes from the horror. The comment about the Bolshevik and the levitating dog made me LOL. :-)

If there is anyone who understands this comic every day, there is something wrong with them. Half the fun is trying to understand the day’s message to us.

Lets be clear about it, Every dog person out there knows that dogs leave ‘pee-mail’ ;)

My take:

Panel 1: Shot of the snow catPanel 2: Camera pans back to show snow cat on sidewalkPanel 3: Man walking dogPanel 4: Arlo covering the cat’s eyes probably because the dog is “marking” the snow cat.

…wonder what the ears are made of?

If it takes this much analysis and explanation, it isn’t funny!

“Tis better to be pd-off than pd on”

Aww, the snow kitty was really cute — too bad about the meltdown.

tacky keep it up I enjoy you strip

My take: the snow cat was already melting, and then the dog completed the indignity.