Scientific analysis of the 5 second rule. One important conclusion, cookies are more likely to be picked up off the floor and eaten as compared to broccoli. I could have told them that without a Phd. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-does-science-say-about-five-second-rule-its-complicated-180960434/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20five%2Dsecond%20rule%20is,and%20gummy%20candy%20the%20least.
Wait. If said cookie fell onto, say, a cat vomit, would Earl still be munching it down even if he grabbed it up within the 5 seconds? Rosco has enough sense not to. I think, maybe he would though…
allen@home over 1 year ago
Roscoe around, Earl you got to be quick.
MichaelAxelFleming over 1 year ago
Does the five second rule apply when I drop my sandwich in the cat box?
Ratkin over 1 year ago
Now I’m hungry.
Templo S.U.D. over 1 year ago
so close, eh, Roscoe?
yoey1957 over 1 year ago
Due to supply chain issues some parts of the country are increasing the 5 second rule to 10 seconds.
C over 1 year ago
That’s how the cookie crumbles
enigmamz over 1 year ago
Opal, why? Don’t you mop the floor?
PraiseofFolly over 1 year ago
Dog thought: ((Once again I have to be satisfied with crumbs!))
akiprev04 over 1 year ago
The rule which has been proved wrong.
iggyman over 1 year ago
Roscoe, you sometimes kill me! Funny!
iggyman over 1 year ago
Here it’s the 3 second rule!
iggyman over 1 year ago
Check out Roscoe’s anticipation! Aw the letdown!
Acworthless over 1 year ago
Any dog I’ve ever owned would have been on top of it as it hit the floor — or grabbed it on its way down!
JoeStoppinghem Premium Member over 1 year ago
Around our house, “Once on the floor. It is no more.”
Ichabod Ferguson over 1 year ago
As kids we used to “Kiss it up to god” to ‘cleanse’ candy we’d dropped on the floor and wanted to eat —but not in front of our parents.
patricev70 over 1 year ago
Better not leave it to Roscoe if it was a chocolat chips cookie! Or raisins!
ANIMAL over 1 year ago
I subscribe to the ZERO second rule……. floors are NASTY..!!!!!!!!
rhpii over 1 year ago
Scientific analysis of the 5 second rule. One important conclusion, cookies are more likely to be picked up off the floor and eaten as compared to broccoli. I could have told them that without a Phd. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-does-science-say-about-five-second-rule-its-complicated-180960434/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20five%2Dsecond%20rule%20is,and%20gummy%20candy%20the%20least.
Redd Panda over 1 year ago
Pup must have arthritis, my old boy would have gobbled that, before it stopped moving.
rickmac1937 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Too slow Roscoe
walstib Premium Member over 1 year ago
Crane is a master at depicting Roscoe’s facial expressions.
Comics are the first thing to read over 1 year ago
With our dogs, nothing lasted 5 seconds on the floor.
assrdood over 1 year ago
In certain rooms, the rules do not apply. And, in certain rooms, they are strictly enforced. Sorta like our government.
kaycstamper over 1 year ago
Looks like chocolate chip cookies, best NOT to let the dog have it!
CharlesBaker over 1 year ago
I doubt it would have even hit the floor at my house!
Ed The Red Premium Member over 1 year ago
No chocolate chip cookies for dogs. Sorry, Roscoe.
forusingyt over 1 year ago
Roscoe REWLS. Best character in the strip.
Detroit Dan over 1 year ago
Our beast can’t count to five, so it would be gone by three or less…
Bookworm over 1 year ago
If my dog Max was still around, the 5-Second rule wouldn’t matter. A dropped cookie would never hit the floor.
JudithStocker over 1 year ago
As long as they’re not chocolate chip cookies then Roscoe could have them.
Zebrastripes over 1 year ago
Awwww, at least give him a bite. LOL
goboboyd over 1 year ago
Earl and Rosco can both be “Good Boys” by sharing and kissing the cook. Only Rosco get to use tongue. Pucker up Earl. Snuggles on the couch for all.
brian over 1 year ago
I love the 5 second rule. :-) You go, Earl!!!
MuddyUSA Premium Member over 1 year ago
Yeah Roscoe….it’s a poor dogs life?
daleandkristen over 1 year ago
Wait. If said cookie fell onto, say, a cat vomit, would Earl still be munching it down even if he grabbed it up within the 5 seconds? Rosco has enough sense not to. I think, maybe he would though…
ComicsBinger Premium Member over 1 year ago
No five second rule in homes with sheddy cats.
David Huie Green LosersBlameOthers&It'sYOURfault over 1 year ago
Takes me more than five seconds to get down there
Mary Sullivan Premium Member over 1 year ago
I’m surprised he had time to get it before Roscoe did. Most dogs I know are quicker than that.
zeexenon over 1 year ago
A young dog would have grabbed it in mid air and been gone.
dlaemmerhirt999 over 1 year ago
“WHAT A jerk!” – Roscoe
Bill Hand over 1 year ago
With my dog, that cookie wouldn’t have had a chance to bounce, much less survive five seconds
heathcliff2 over 1 year ago
Assuming Earl has a healthy immune system.
coffeeturtle over 1 year ago
There are only three types of people in the world….
The Quick
The Dead
The cookie-less
Nobody_Important over 1 year ago
Hard to have a five second rule here when we have a two second dog!
kab2rb over 1 year ago
I assume not chocolate, for our dogs they be faster, unless mom is around then she reacts.
ramonmister28 over 1 year ago
An old man who can beat a dog to food on a floor?
Either call Guinness to get Earl in the book or take Roscoe to the Vet for a check-up.
w16521 over 1 year ago
That’s an angry looking Roscoe in the last panel.
StevePappas over 1 year ago
Mythbusters busted that myth.
montylc2001 over 1 year ago
With a dog and a cat in the house…the 5 second rule does not apply…unless you really like eating hair.
einarbt over 1 year ago
Common dog, you need to be quicker than that.