Close to Home by John McPherson for September 24, 2020

I’d like to have that.

Snowflakes.

So, you’re going to be seeing NOTHING but puppies playing.

Oh, yeah? Those puppies will be old enough to mate soon.

The puppies must be on all the time.

definitely going to need this after the Breonna Taylor news stories.

I went through a spell of insomnia during an especially stressful time in my life when I just could not fall asleep because I could not stop thinking

None of my usual tricks to fall asleep was working and one night I just tried picturing puppies and bunnies

It worked for that night and a few others, sleep overall didn’t improve until everything else did

How about an app that changes the channel to a news story when the 3 minute commercial showing orphaned dogs comes on?

They want to live in a Pollyanna world. Ain’t gonna happen.

I watch a cable show, “Animals Unscripted”. It’s videos of pets doing funny stuff. Very relaxing.

Now if it would switch to Gunsmoke reruns, I’m in!

You can’t be stressed out while watching a cat sleep.

I want one. Wait, I only watch sports and movies on television. Well, I still want the puppies app.

Even better, puppies playing with kittens! :-D

So that’s the only thing you ever see on the screen, huh?

Make it kittens and I’m in!!!

Lovely idea!

There’s an app on Chrome that will substitute pictures of trump with pictures of kittens: “Make America Kittens Again”. Personally, I’d like to get an app that substituted his voice with music.

How can i subscribe? Hope they’re big on cat videos

Ah yes. The calming affect of adorable. These days pretty much all news should be diluted with a large dose of puppies.

Careful there Bleeb don’t catch “Cat Scratch Fever”

Must be on that channel all the time.

“Yes, Agnes, I find that adorable animal videos work for me, as well. Puppy videos are cute, cat videos work, too. Speaking of cats, um, there is a weird little yellow alien bug looking thing about to scare the crap outa your cat! Now, I dunno about you, but I’m thinkin’ that’s gonna be friggin’ hilarious… and we should DEFINITELY get that on video!”

“OHHHHHHHHH-Holy crap!! There it goes! Did you get that… did you get it? Wow… how is that cat still stuck to the ceiling!?”

It’s called DogTV.

They will make a fortune……

“Or disturbing puppies. I never can remember which!”

I wish mine would do that…

And she hasn’t watched the news in months.

We used to have a device called TV Guardian that would read the CC signal and whenever there was a curse word it would cut the audio and display the CC text with a substitute word. Worked great except it didn’t understand context. We would get things like the closing theme song to the movie Cats & Dogs – “What’s new pussycat?” as “What’s new wimp?” and Caillou would be playing with guts instead of balls.

Must stay on puppies for days at a time…

Don’t tease us with a needful product that doesn’t exist.

you must be watching puppies all day now

’Cuz gods forbid anyone should get disturbed at all the injustice and inanity.

Sounds good, maybe they could do that when politics comes on as well!

I would prefer the disturbing news story!

Sign me up for that service!!!

What, not kittens? I object!

So all puppies all the time?

I have that. It’s called YouTube.