Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for June 24, 2012

The Sunday comics are done on a completely different schedule than the daily strips. That’s why the story lines never seem to continue through Sunday. Sorry.

There are seagulls at the seashore so the cat won’t get any relief.

There’s something to look forward to; Ludwig on The Boat!

Should he be saying “WW1 was started was started because of something like this.”

…finally! Haven’t seen Ludwig for a while…

Had a neighborhood cat that had been attacked like that.After a few of those he laid down on his back and waited.The bird made one last swoop and he grabbed it.He let it go after a couple of minutes, but the bird KNEW not to mess with Kitty again.

das boot?

Mockingbirds were the bane of my cat’s existence. He would duck from the boat to the trailer to the grill.

We had a cat that didn’t mess with the birds that dive-bombed like this. He caught them and ate them!

Only idiot birds dive at cats….BTW, I don’t have a clue about his comment about WWI…………maybe he just woke up from a nap…was dreaming?

Sorry, but I couln’t reply to smalltownbrown’s comment yesterday, and yet I can’t let it go without a response: no one—myself included—posted anything ‘calling Mary Lou “damaged goods”’. You might want to look into General Semantics, specifically its notions of ‘purr words’ and ‘snarl words’ and the error of responding to individual words and phrases as if they were things while ignoring the context in which they appear.

Darren Blair, thank you for the comments. I would, however, suggest that what you say ‘used to be’ is, unfortunately, still with us in some quarters; I was referring to those ‘way too many people’ in the present, not the past.

I believe it was World War TWO that had an air attack Arlo.

and as I recall WWI was started because of alliances and mis-communications

A cat is a hole in the water you thr…

Dang.

I thought it started when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an ostrich because he was hungry.

World War I was started because the Western world entered the 20th Century believing that the highest expression of national identity was to wage war against other nations. The treaties were just the mechanism, and the assassination of Franz Ferdinand was just the charge that put the machine in motion. Plus, everybody had these nifty new weapons they were dying to try out.

Those bluejays are bullies…

To: prrdh – Women, with or without children, are not commodities.

A surprise attack: both for World War I and the cat.

^_ ^

I wonder if it’s nest-building time. Cat fur should make a comfy nest…

One day I saw two crows holding a cat at bay on a porch. Then I saw a scraggly young crow walking about a few houses down. Then the crows noticed me and started chasing me away. Just today I walked past the cat’s house again, and I noticed the owners put up a sign saying “Attack Cat.” Not likely.

I once knew a mockingbird who did a fair imitation of a cat being called to eat (a sort of high kitty kitty kitty sound – kestrels sound similar). When the cat came out, the dive bombing started. Neighbors said the bird had lost nestlings to the cat and that was preventive action by the bird. Nestlings were irrelevant; it was still defensive.

Yikes! That reminds me of this one crazy robin that would ALWAYS come after both my dad and myself whenever we went out the front door for nearly a month until the mama bird made him sit on the nest. Bad birdie!

Hooray it’s Ludwig drawing Arlo into his conflict with the bird. I love the look of annoyance on his face.

mstgater, that’s funny….best comment so far…..

One of my cats got a quarter-sized chunk taken out of her side by a cardinal. She jumped into the birdbath where one of the babies was splashing, and momma cardinal took offence. She also got a little soggy. All-in-all it was a humiliating experience.