Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 03, 2018

Is the horse’s name Snowflake?

Okay then… mount up, Bob!

um… how long had that horse been standing there when Rat and Bob were having that argument?

Sounds like Rat needs to pommel Neighbor Bob.

Has Stephan done a “get off your high horse” joke yet? If not, he’s overdue!

Neighbour Bob has Rat droppings coming his way! :D

Hello, Wilburrrrr……er, I mean Neighbor Bob.

Don’t Horses eat Kumquats? (Kumquat: My new favorite Scrabble Word!).

“No horses were emotionally damaged in producing this strip.”

Thank you very much for covering the “F-bomb”, Pastis. You get five stars.

The horse should have said, “Bring it, Bob!” I’m sure Bob would have been slow on the follow through.

I expect Rat’s horse to drop a few kumquats in Bob’s yard.

Apparently equines are sensitive. In “A Fistful of Dollars”, Eastwood’s mule was upset because he thought the bad men were laughing at him, and Clint thought the men should apologize. They didn’t. They should have.

No nonsense, just “Horse Sense”.

LOL!!!! That horse is going to require some therapy.

The horse is going to leave some “kumquats” of his own on Bob’s lawn.

And by the way, I want to see a drawing of Rat actually riding in on that horse.

Panel two….Awkward!

Just kick him where the sun don’t shine, horse

Mr. Ed?

I never heard that expression… I must not hang with the same crowd as the neighbor!

I never understood what people had against the poor horse in that saying.

I believe the swear-word Neighbor Bob used was the same one posed by Leonard to Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory episode when Leonard asked, “What would you be if you were attached to another object by an incline plane wrapped helically around an axis?”

“I’ve lost that fetlock feeling…oh, oh, oh”

I remember a whole theater-full of sweet little old ladies wildly cheering and whooping and applauding when Angelina Jolie said it to the crooked asylum doc in “Changeling”.

Neighbor Bob is being pretty feisty for a redshirt kind of guy. Plus, he’s pissed off both a rat and a horse. His life (as long as it may last) will not be a bed of roses; nor even kumquats….

“You saw me crying in the staaable…”

Stop horsing around, Stephan. You could be unstable.

Stephen’s horses are even less anatomically correct than his other characters.

the horse could eat the kumquats

The horse is emotionally unstable and he’s gonna go cry in the stable.