Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for September 09, 2020

Beware! Cats can be spiteful. Watch wear you step.

If you smack Arlo with the paper as an example then maybe the cat will take the hint.

There you go, using logic again. It’ll just get you in trouble.

This is the reason my cats aren’t allowed in the livingroom or bedroom when we are not home. They have their own room and attic to eat, sleep and play then.

And punishing a cat or a dog after the fact is cruel. They don’t understand why they are being punished, they just learn to fear you.

Why do you think he’s cuddled up close to Arlo, Janis?

Cats do not require punishment; just intelligent owners. Not cool to show any form of violence against a cat. Thumbs down on this one.

LOL. I wish Janice’ logic applied. We have a “no cats on tables or counters” rule, but are smart enough to know that it only really applies when we’re not around. That vase of flowers on the nice table will be perfectly fine throughout the day, but it will likely get knocked down during the night.

Hoo boy, Jimmy! You’re gonna catch it from the pet-o-philes today!

(wonders about the “HE” mentioned in the last panel of the cartoon)

I used to set small mouse traps around the house where the cat was not supposed to go. The cat jumping up on the surface would set the mouse trap off and startle the cat. He eventually learned to stop jumping up on those surfaces and instead jump up on others. He never got his paw caught in the trap, but he always looked to see where I was when it went off.

So can dogs. When my first wife left, to live with her lover, she took the Yorkie. The Yorkie, bless his little black heart, took to peeing on the lover’s pillow. Guess who got the Yorkie?

Violated the lemon law?

Despite my allergies, my spouse had a couple of Siamese cats. These cats loved to chew noisily on the telephone cords in the bedroom in the middle of the night, waking me up. I got a spray bottle that could shoot a steady stream of about 10 to 15 feet and kept that on the bed table.

That didn’t work. Those cats learned to chew quietly.

The only way to control a cat is with a cage. Anything else is pointless.

When we leave our cat alone he gets the kitchen dish towels and drags them in the living room

Is he smarter than a child? If you walked up and slapped the fool out of a kid hours after his crime, would the child get it? For that matter, would you get it?

ROFL! Punishing a cat! LOL! Bwahahahahaha! That way lies madness!!!

I know it’s a comic and not real life. I was told by a vet, NEVER hit a cat. For a multitude of reasons…

Bounce is advertising dryer sheets that Supposedly make your clothes repel pet hair. As the mom of four cats, I’m tempted to try the product.

My cat made me a better housekeeper :)

LIFE 101. Never try to reason with a cat.

Intelligence comes in many forms. Poor innocent cat may not correlate the two.

Poor Luddie. He loves his people, but he’s bad to the bone, and, being a cat, he’s not going to change.

Arlo looks as afraid of the newspaper as Luddie does!

Nooo! Don’t advocate for hitting animals!! Please! It isn’t okay, ever!

Kind of ridiculous to think that an animal understands human priorities. He has no concept of fur on a place mat being bad.