Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 27, 2012

This week, Pig guest-stars on Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Abandon.

Guard duck will take Dinky under his wing.

This storyline is really kind of depressing when you think about it.

What is Dinky’s dark secret, that Momma Duck runs from him so quickly with the rest of her brood? Do we really want to know?

That was Dougie, his brothers and sisters, and his mom. They had to run cause they know the awful truth. Dinky’s mom had to abandon Dinky cause she just became Peking Duck. Shhhh, don’t tell Dinky.

Your the ugly duckling…face it and press on.

In the spring there are lot’s of little ducklings on the lake. They slowly disappear as the days go on, turtles, hawks, big fish….10 little, 9 little 8 little ducklings. ….7 little, 6 little……..Nature baby!

Mother Nature is a ravenous two-faced bitch. And one day, as with all the rest of us, she’ll get hers. I take the ’toons lightly. Comments, not so much.

Guard Duck could take him under his wing.

The Duck must had done something terrible!

It could mean that Dinky is the runt of the litter.

Is this a flashback? How pig got Guard Duck?

Awww… this is sad

I think he was the noisy one….always quacking away…..quack, quack, quack, quack,quack, quack.

pig, its hopeless

who let the ducks out! hoo! hoo! hoo hoo!

avarner said, about 2 hours agoIs this a flashback? How pig got Guard Duck?

Lovecraft said, about 2 hours ago@avarner There seems to be something similar going on over at “Lio.”

That is what I am thinking. Seems these strips like to run alone the same theme a little to often

Sadly, family isn’t always all it’s quacked up to be

Cue Rodney Dangerfield’s “No Respect” routine.

How does Pig get down off of a bar stool?

Dinky actually looks bigger than his siblings.

He should get some training from Guard Duck. Then he could go “hunting” for his family.

And to think, they cancelled All y Children.

Maybe it’s not Stephen who is writing the strip…but it’s another one of RAT’s BOOKS! This time using a duck instead of the Hippo!

Whoops…meant to say elephant!

Guard Duck is NOT psychotic. Guard Duck is anybody with reason and means. There are more every year, look at Arabic Springtime…It’s like the balance of predators and prey…a few, versus many hundreds of fortunately objectionable and expendable billionaire Sherriffs of Nottinham versus a few plucky capable Robin Hoods to take ’em down. I have high hopes to be entertained by watching Wall Street and quite a few fat pasty .04 per centers go down under True Quack Foo

Anybody remember,“If Ihad a rocket launcher…some sob would pay…?”

A litle bit better than, “If I had a hammer I’d…”,

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Awwwwwww!

Pig should look after the little duck.

He would be great.

But I wouldn’t trust Rat.

LOL xxx

I had to slam on the brakes 2 weeks ago visiting my sister when a mother duck and her ducklings waddled right across the road. The last one stopped in the middle to preen himself I think just to show me who’s boss. Glad he didn’t pull out a bazooka.

@bevgreyjones – I was hoping someone wouldn’t resist.

I’ve told this one before somewhere, but when I was a kid visiting Granny’s farm, I noted that when Granny’s mother cat brought her kittens from the barn to the house, one was missing. So I searched around in the hayloft and found a pathetic little orange kitty. Carried him to the house, with his little claws clinging to my front (#ouch) and put him with his siblings. Well. He grew up to be the biggest, laziest, sorriest cat you ever did see. He’d try to nurse his mom after he was way bigger than she was. (Abandonment issues?) Maybe she’d known something that the rest of us didn’t.

omg this is so sad :’(

Maybe Little Guard Duck will adopt him & take him as his apprentice!

Oh, wait, I’ve seen this one before. Dinky grows up to be a swan!

Did that need a spoiler alert?

As I said yesterday; ducks run in Dinky’s family . . . . ♪♫Run, run, run-away . . . ♫ . . . ☻

Looks like dinky has some serious issues.

I hope not. Rat usually ends up eating Pig’s adopted friends.

Well, this is a lame and depressing story arch. When do we get to the part where Guard Duck adopts him?

The way it’s acting I think it may be a crocling instead of a duckling.

OK.that was cruel

awkwaaaard….