last year my wife and i were on vacation in Delaware early in the season. Two women had their retriever with them and were trying to get the dog to fetch by throwing stuff into the COLD water. the first time the dog’s paws hit the water he balked and the owners had to keep wading out to recover toys. After 2 hours he had his people perfectly trained to fetch
My Wife and I used to have a beautiful Female German Setter named " Radar " after a Military Police Dog our good friend had in WW2 in Germany.( No not after Radar in MASH.) We lived 10 miles from the Blue Ridge Parkway in N.C. on an old tobacco farm. Radar loved water and fetching anything. We took her camping all the time in the Blue Ridges. When she hiked with us we usually had her on a lease as if she detected water she would look at us and take off to find it,then bark to let us know where to find Her. We would always find her jumping in and out of the creek,pond or whatever it was,like a little puppy. She would then find a stick or something and bring it to me to toss preferably into the water so she could dive in and fetch it.One time I told my Wife I was going to play a trick on Radar. I took a good stick and tied a piece of fish line securely to the middle of it and the other end securely to a small long shaped rock,just heavy enough to hold the stick barely under the water in a small pond by our camp site. I then got the stick with the rock called to Radar and told her to Fetch as I tossed it into the center of the pond. Radar took off,jumped in,got the stick and tried to start back,the rock kept catching on other rocks and would try to pull it out of her mouth,she could not figure out why she couldn’t just bring it back to us. She was so excited but puzzled,would look at us,then the stick floating,grab at the water and barking the whole time. She finally just stuck her head under the surface got a good grip and brought the stick with the rock dragging behind to me, dropped it by my feet and started to bark excitedly at the rock pulling at it then looking at me as if asking"Daddy,what’s going on,I tried to fetch it?" It was so funny with her puzzled expression on her face.I know you had to be there.Radar was a Loving Lady and we deeply miss her. You-all have a Great Day and Be Safe!( Sorry so long. ) We Hope You-all Had A Good 4th of July.
I could write several books about my golden retriever at the beach. My mom had a beach house so we spent many weeks there playing in the sand and ocean. My dog was as comfortable in the ocean as she was with the creek at home and the lake at my brother’s house. A fetching fool whatever the weather although she never went in after Thanksgiving. After watching Molly play, some vacationers were trying to get their non-retriever out into the water and were screaming at it because the poor thing was afraid. I went down and gave them a good talking to and explained that Molly was a retriever, she’d played on the beach and in the water since she was a baby, and she CHOSE to go into the water, I never forced her. Thankfully, they understood me and stopped trying to torture that poor animal.
I saw a movie about a boy and his dog…set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with the boy having a telepathic bond with his smarmy canine. It featured rape, an android dressed in farmers clothing and white clown make up, a seemingly utopia biosphere, artificial insemination in a distinctly unpleasant way, and other wacky doings.
This movie would be three years in the future from this particular strip, but both may reference Albert Payson Terhune and his novels and movies sprung from his novels..
Templo S.U.D. almost 5 years ago
besides Snoopy, who wouldn’t want to watch a movie like that?
orinoco womble almost 5 years ago
Sorry Charlie…beagles aren’t retrievers.
hariseldon59 almost 5 years ago
A dog and his boy.
therese_callahan2002 almost 5 years ago
Well, it obviously wasn’t the one with a pre-Miami Vice Don Johnson. Charlie Brown will always be too young for that.
jagedlo almost 5 years ago
Snoopy starring in the remake of “Men of Honor”…
Patrick Hunt Premium Member almost 5 years ago
The movie about a boy and his dog that I know starred Don Johnson….
Droptma Styx almost 5 years ago
I searched for movies about a boy and his dog. The one I found had nothing to do with sticks.
BiathlonNut almost 5 years ago
Harlan Ellison comes to mind. I heard that his story “A Boy and His Dog” about Vic and Blood was made into a movie. Isn’t that the one you mention?
Amra Leo almost 5 years ago
“A Boy and His Dog”…not quite the way I remember it. The movie or the story. No sticks, but Burnpit Screamers…
Wizard of Ahz-no relation almost 5 years ago
last year my wife and i were on vacation in Delaware early in the season. Two women had their retriever with them and were trying to get the dog to fetch by throwing stuff into the COLD water. the first time the dog’s paws hit the water he balked and the owners had to keep wading out to recover toys. After 2 hours he had his people perfectly trained to fetch
Space & Kitten almost 5 years ago
My Wife and I used to have a beautiful Female German Setter named " Radar " after a Military Police Dog our good friend had in WW2 in Germany.( No not after Radar in MASH.) We lived 10 miles from the Blue Ridge Parkway in N.C. on an old tobacco farm. Radar loved water and fetching anything. We took her camping all the time in the Blue Ridges. When she hiked with us we usually had her on a lease as if she detected water she would look at us and take off to find it,then bark to let us know where to find Her. We would always find her jumping in and out of the creek,pond or whatever it was,like a little puppy. She would then find a stick or something and bring it to me to toss preferably into the water so she could dive in and fetch it.One time I told my Wife I was going to play a trick on Radar. I took a good stick and tied a piece of fish line securely to the middle of it and the other end securely to a small long shaped rock,just heavy enough to hold the stick barely under the water in a small pond by our camp site. I then got the stick with the rock called to Radar and told her to Fetch as I tossed it into the center of the pond. Radar took off,jumped in,got the stick and tried to start back,the rock kept catching on other rocks and would try to pull it out of her mouth,she could not figure out why she couldn’t just bring it back to us. She was so excited but puzzled,would look at us,then the stick floating,grab at the water and barking the whole time. She finally just stuck her head under the surface got a good grip and brought the stick with the rock dragging behind to me, dropped it by my feet and started to bark excitedly at the rock pulling at it then looking at me as if asking"Daddy,what’s going on,I tried to fetch it?" It was so funny with her puzzled expression on her face.I know you had to be there.Radar was a Loving Lady and we deeply miss her. You-all have a Great Day and Be Safe!( Sorry so long. ) We Hope You-all Had A Good 4th of July.
marilynnbyerly almost 5 years ago
I could write several books about my golden retriever at the beach. My mom had a beach house so we spent many weeks there playing in the sand and ocean. My dog was as comfortable in the ocean as she was with the creek at home and the lake at my brother’s house. A fetching fool whatever the weather although she never went in after Thanksgiving. After watching Molly play, some vacationers were trying to get their non-retriever out into the water and were screaming at it because the poor thing was afraid. I went down and gave them a good talking to and explained that Molly was a retriever, she’d played on the beach and in the water since she was a baby, and she CHOSE to go into the water, I never forced her. Thankfully, they understood me and stopped trying to torture that poor animal.
frequency270 almost 5 years ago
I saw a movie about a boy and his dog…set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with the boy having a telepathic bond with his smarmy canine. It featured rape, an android dressed in farmers clothing and white clown make up, a seemingly utopia biosphere, artificial insemination in a distinctly unpleasant way, and other wacky doings.
This movie would be three years in the future from this particular strip, but both may reference Albert Payson Terhune and his novels and movies sprung from his novels..
WCraft Premium Member almost 5 years ago
What stick?
nostrebornod almost 5 years ago
I hope it wasn’t Jaws. Poor Pippet.