For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 03, 2024

The paper was alot bigger back then.

The best thing to paper train a puppy is the Sunday NY Times—if that’s available in Canada.

What are those strange things that John is holding?

is it for the pee-pee poo-poo puppy?

April is no where to be found, typical

Train him with an E-book.

Our puppy was never allowed to pee on the comics page.

So now we know the truth ~ The invention of puppy pads were the true beginning of the end for real newspapers!!!

The Comics! They fit my Lifestyle best!!

Puppy poop placemats.

cute little Edgar!

Somehow the news, particularly political news, was so much better when your puppy provided his/her thoughts on the topic.

Get puppy pads. They work great. Put them in front of the door you would take he/she out to potty. They’ll understand that going outside is to potty.

Remember, Edgar was part of a litter. What happened to the other puppies?

I see Elle’s premonition is coming true – see who is cleaning up after the new pup.

And they call it puppy love!

Ah, the joys of housebreaking a puppy.

We used to use Silly Putty to make impressions of the Sunday comics, and stretch it to distort the pictures. What fun!

NOT the way to train a dog. We took our dog out every two hours and praised him up and down when he went. Took less than a month and he was fine in the house. You train a dog to on Papers and your training him to go in the house. Sure we lost some sleep, but so much better results.

“Puppy Life”

Training puppies means finding something else to wrap fish in…..

Out Out D@m÷ Spot

That’s one use for big city newspapers

The days when the Internet came in hard-copy

I’d say just buy a second paper for Edgar’s exclusive use.

Wait’ll the rabbit joins the party…..

Another reason to prefer cats. They litter-train themselves.

Elly sure is obsessed in the third panel. Look at her bug eyes.

Classifieds, John? Looking for an apartment while Elly goes through menopause? One can hardly blame you!

What do puppy owners use these days, since print newspapers are being phased out? Our local paper no longer sells single copies. It’s either by subscription sent through USPS, or electronic. With USPS, the Sunday edition, for example, needs to be printed by Wednesday, in order to be received on Saturday! So, we know it has the latest news when we get it.

Puppies do like to keep on top of the news.

I bet ya! They wish they had puppy training pads back then.

Reminded me of when my mom would rub the dog’s nose in his business – didn’t need the paper for long. Thank goodness our Mackie was trained when we rescued him.

Pooper papers…

Is he peeing while they’re laying down the paper?