Redbone- my best wishes to your mom and to you for a swift and complete recovery.
Has your mom seen the others ones Simon has done? Toooo funny. For when her eye is better.

My mom had eye surgery last Thursday, so she’s been laid-up. I showed her this and we laughed like hell together at it. Thanks for brightening both our days.

I wish Simon would do more dog-centric toons. This was hysterical.

This was an ad for the RSPCA? (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) The ASPCA (American …) definitely needs to borrow it. Cats with diabetes, seriously.

Love it. My boyfriend’s parents spoil their dogs horribly (and yes, the dogs do the chin-on-lap thing!) but I think I have finally convinced them that the dogs DO NOT need their own steaks when they barbecue (gah!). They’ve been more open to my advice since I started working at a pet food store. (And there I get to deal with hundreds of people who insist on low-fat, all organic food for their dogs, but can’t ever be the same kind twice in a row because “Sweetums gets bored”… GAH again…)

More “Cute-or-sad,” methinks.

At the beginning that pup was so much like our little dog Patch. *le sigh*

Great cartoon – this guy really knows his animals!

Noelegy, have your stepson watch a couple episodes of “It’s Me Or the Dog,” with Victoria Stillwell. If that don’t put the fear of God in him, I don’t know what will.

Needs to be filed under cute or sad?
Simon’s work is so cute, but this has a sad ending.
Poor pup.
At the beginning, funny how much it looks and acts so like my dog.

My shepherd mix girl does the head-on-the-knee-whimper thing when she wants food. Only she’s a gigantic thing, so her head fills up more or less your entire lap. Bit difficult to eat when it looks like your legs have grown a second head.
The Lab, on the other hand, is older and wiser, and knows that if she wants a treat, all she has to do is sit in the doorway and stare at us with her head hanging low until we give in.

Rocky, our 2-year-old Great Pyrenees mix, is quite obese, and that’s because whenever I’m not there to stop it, my oldest stepson feeds him people food. Constantly. The hard-won manners that were instilled in him after 6 weeks of PetSmart puppy obedience classes were quickly forgotten, because my stepson *encourages* Rocky to beg. I can NOT make him understand that even though HE doesn’t mind if Rocky stares at him and drools while he’s eating, totally violating his personal space, that others aren’t so forgiving.

My stepson moves out at the end of the month. I predict Rocky will lose weight. Stepson keeps insisting Rocky’s not fat. Think I’ll show him this cartoon.