Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 18, 2012

I’m gonna miss ol’ Ludwig when Arlo and Janis set sail on the…

WELL, SHIVER ME TIMBERS, THEY HAVEN’T NAMED THE SCHOONER!

That’ll be a week-long story in and of itself. Will they name it after Janis, or after one of Arlo’s clever turns of phrase?

Finally on Friday, Meg will blurt out the perfect name and that’ll be that. Saturday’s strip will have some beach artist painting ithe new name on the stern, much to Meg’s (and everyone’s) joy.

Where’s his little kitty TV tuned to animal planet? Come on, he’s got a little kitty lawn chair for Christ’s sake! TV too much to ask? I don’t think so….

You can also wipe down cats with a damp washcloth if it’s hot. They might look at you funny the first few times, but they come to appreciate it.

Our little 7 pounder has the ASPCA on speed dial. Last week the air conditioner wasn’t keeping up and she busted me on it —so $3000 later she’s living the dream. We wouldn’t trade her for the world!!!

I’m guessing Luddie will be right there on the schooner, acting the role of ship’s cat…

Luddites assemble!

I have only seen one cat pant. That was in Phoenix on a 116-degree day.

I’m not getting the strip. I get (32-hexit hexadecimal number)?width=900. Anyone else have this problem?

I don’t see it either, trying the magnify button or the ‘print comic’ button doesn’t help.

My Maine Coon likes to stretch out near the air conditioner. My other cat, a domestic shorthair, curls up in front of the refrigerator so he can catch the warm air the compressor pours out. Two completely different reactions to the weather.

That explains why they like the basement so much. Even when it gets hot down there, the floor is always cool.

I opened my fridge once and found my 20 lb yellow female happily curled up and yawning on the bottom shelf!

Thanks for the comments, folks. Yesterday I started being unable to get the comics easily on Internet Explorer (we don’t have Mozilla Firefox), and thought it was just my computer. Also when in Gocomics.com, the computer’s url bar at the top and status bar at the bottom disappeared – had to hit Ctrl, Alt, Delete and call up Task Mgr. for the bars to reappear. Just started getting comics ok when using AOL.

Thanks for the comments, folks. I thought it was just my computer – trouble started yesterday. Sometimes I could get the comics by going back to earlier ones and sneaking up on them, today not at all. Also yesterday the url bar at the top and the status bar at the bottom would disappear when I was at Gocomics.com (had to hit Ctrl, Alt, Delete and call up Task Mrg. to get them back). Today after I turned the computer back on, they were there, but couldn’t get comics to run (comments ok). Finally went to AOL and comics are fine (my last comment wouldn’t submit, though).

When they look like they are panting they are really pulling air over their Jacobson’s organ.

I’ve put in two comments already, and they’ve disappeared. (Wasn’t rude, vulgar, or anything.) I said that starting yesterday I had great difficulty getting the comics via Internet Explorer (also the url bar at top and status bar at bottom disappeared). We don’t have Mozilla Firefox. Today had better luck via AOL, but it’s gotten really slow and I’ve gotten at least one little red “x.” Wonder where my comments are hiding.

Comics in IE in Vista stopped working, but I intentionally have Flash and Java uninstalled on that browser to avoid being bombarded with ads. Now you need those things to see the strip. It’s been so long since I’ve seen the Go Comics ads that I found they play audio if you happen to hover the mouse over them to bookmark links. So now I have to mute audio just to read comics. sigh

HEY!! I FOUND MY COMMENTS! (Sorry, didn’t mean to yell, but I was excited.) They’re not showing on the AOL Gocomics comments, but they’re showing up here on Internet Explorer Gocomics comments. That is so surreal.

Our cats will take a rather quick dip in the ditch with the dogs:)

Cats were once a registered members of the crew. As long as a crew member is on board, it has not been abandoned. The inevitable rats provided the food until recovery.

If you want to find a cool spot in hot summer weather, just follow a cat. I learned this from the cat I had when I was 8 years old.

I miss ol’ Wally. He tried to get in the fridge every time it was opened.

Our Tiger cat was panting the other day. It was 110* out. I wish this heat would break!