Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for September 30, 2020

“Anyplace in peeticular?”

Rover and Phideaux have never forgiven the Swensons for getting a cat.

Oh, yeah, I bet we can turn those leaves yellow!

I knew it!

Oh good heavens, they are ganging up. Oh woe, all is lost….

Put it on the porch and set fire to it.

You guys must have missed what happened yesterday. It’s Chip that you want to get revenge on.

Scan for IP addresses in the Local Area Network.

I hear there’s a chipmunk living in the hedge; he’s always on the lookout for nuts.

What did Swenson do to them?

Don’t do it Scooter! This other dog is just an Eddie Haskell! (Applicable Arcanum: The Moon and The Chariot.)

Phideaux says, “If you can hold Swenson down long enough, I’ll soil him too. Just because he’s a vet, it doesn’t mean he ought to have been able to do that to me.”

Sounds like a plan.

“Pee me a mail.”

“Mine”

What is pair of soiled brats.

Soil? Don’t you mean KILL the bush?

Soiled; that sounds dirty to me.

It could mean they’re gonna dig up the yard and “throw” dirt all over the hedge, rather than carefully place samples of their DNA all over the hedge … … or both… ☺

This is the first example of animal dialog in this cartoon I remember.

Oh Oh.. Ballard St has been taken over by a ruthless gang.. no hedges will be safe from this deluge.

So that’s how dogs communicate.