Little comic strip cats are cute, Miss Tink, but this idiot needs to go to the nearest soup kitchen and get himself a meal. To starve yourself in the middle of a city or a town is madness.
I don’t think 6 (is it 6?) counts as hoarding, especially considering they are plainly in excellent health and his house is clean.
I do plaintively wish we could get back to Walt and Skeezix’s family. Goodness knows there are enough of them that we don’t have to have a steady diet of Clovia and Slim. Paul1963, do you have any stories for the sidelines about, say, Chipper or Nubbin?
The probable reason that the focus has been on Slim and Clovia is that the focus has just about always been on a couple and their children- Skeezix and Nina, for example in the fifties. It probably seemed the natural progression to focus on Slim and Clovia as the parents and grandparents of today. Although we may find the idiot husband and shrewish wife annoying, it is, if I remember correctly, the same concept as Maggie and Jiggs and such early tv sitcoms as the Trouble With Father and Meet Mr. McNutley Or the variant, I Love Lucy and I Married Joan . Jim also solves the problem of Walt’s age and what I once read that the syndiicate does not want Walt to die. By not focusing on Walt or even on Skeezix’ age, as has been done recently, Jim has been able to avoid the problem. In essence, Slim and Clovia have become the present day Skeezix and Nina. Of course, there are the other characters you mentioned, but the focus has almost always been on one couple in a generation. For example, for many years, Chipper was ignored as the potential head of a family.
Rufus had Kitty since I’ve been reading GA, over 40 years now. How is she even alive, let along able to reproduce? Rufus, c’mon over, I have plenty of leftover enchiladas my daughter made.
arye uygur about 12 years ago
Can’t Rufus get SSI so he won’t go to bed hungry?
axe-grinder about 12 years ago
Is having so many cats a hoarding disorder, or pure kindness?
Little Miss Tink about 12 years ago
I don’t know about the rest of you, but this a cute story arc! Please don’t vomit, can I keep it if I like cute things?
flagfly about 12 years ago
Slim must have eaten the excess food by now…maybe for the first meal back home.
Buzza Wuzza about 12 years ago
Little comic strip cats are cute, Miss Tink, but this idiot needs to go to the nearest soup kitchen and get himself a meal. To starve yourself in the middle of a city or a town is madness.
harebell about 12 years ago
I don’t think 6 (is it 6?) counts as hoarding, especially considering they are plainly in excellent health and his house is clean.
I do plaintively wish we could get back to Walt and Skeezix’s family. Goodness knows there are enough of them that we don’t have to have a steady diet of Clovia and Slim. Paul1963, do you have any stories for the sidelines about, say, Chipper or Nubbin?
alleyoops Premium Member about 12 years ago
Most cities have an ordinance on how many animals can be kept in a residence. Somebody should call the pound.
Stevero about 12 years ago
The probable reason that the focus has been on Slim and Clovia is that the focus has just about always been on a couple and their children- Skeezix and Nina, for example in the fifties. It probably seemed the natural progression to focus on Slim and Clovia as the parents and grandparents of today. Although we may find the idiot husband and shrewish wife annoying, it is, if I remember correctly, the same concept as Maggie and Jiggs and such early tv sitcoms as the Trouble With Father and Meet Mr. McNutley Or the variant, I Love Lucy and I Married Joan . Jim also solves the problem of Walt’s age and what I once read that the syndiicate does not want Walt to die. By not focusing on Walt or even on Skeezix’ age, as has been done recently, Jim has been able to avoid the problem. In essence, Slim and Clovia have become the present day Skeezix and Nina. Of course, there are the other characters you mentioned, but the focus has almost always been on one couple in a generation. For example, for many years, Chipper was ignored as the potential head of a family.
Linda Solomon about 12 years ago
Didnt Rufus’s cat Kitty get with Boogie Woogie and those are their kittens?
rmbdot about 12 years ago
I second Linda’s question. I thought I kept up in my reading but last I remember he had 2 cats.
SofaKing about 12 years ago
Rufus had Kitty since I’ve been reading GA, over 40 years now. How is she even alive, let along able to reproduce? Rufus, c’mon over, I have plenty of leftover enchiladas my daughter made.