Basil
Dork, used a few toons back, isn’t a strong enough word for these two…
… some toon-ology here and a quiz… Basil is a character from a short story of what celebrated writer whose birthday is today. What is the name of the short story from which I borrowed the dog’s name?
Grrr, no body better think they can let their dog chase my cat! When my roommate’s dogs are out of their room during the day, my cats have to stay in my room cause one of them is fixated on my cat and thinks its food. Most of my roommate’s who’ve had dogs have been well behaved around the cats, and my dog gets along well with them both…but to just bait a dog and tell him to chase the cat(especially when the cat is in a place it considers safe and isn’t expecting it), that doesn’t sit well with me!
About the House of Usher references yesterday, I knew it sounded familiar, I never read the Poe story, but I read a sci fi short story many years ago about a man who was rich and he built an entire semi sentient house with themes from Poe’s work and he called it the house of usher, and he invited all his friends/enemies to the house even though once they found out the house was semi sentient or robotic or something it would have to be destroyed…anyway, he invited them all out for some one time big party and then proceeded to kill them according to different Poe based characters in his stories. And I think at the end the house collapsed or something…goodness its been 10-15 years since I read that story. Good old Poe inspiration….
My teeny-tiny cat, who tips the scales at about 7 pounds, has never met a dog she couldn’t intimidate.
Finally. After all those years of tormenting Randy, Twinky gets whats coming to him.
Ugh… I hate kick dogs. So called because they are usually small, loud, and try to bite your feet or ankles instigating an urge to either stomp them into the dust or punt them over the neighbor’s fence. Not that I would actually do either of those things mind you, but I’ve been tempted more times than I can count. I have met very few small quiet non irritating dog.
We have a neighbor who has one of those that has really bad gas on a regular basis. It’s owner seems to be completely unaware of this fact or has no sense of smell. Last Christmas she brought the small, loudly annoying irritant into the apartment complex office for the annual Christmas party that they have.
Many people had to quietly complain to the office manager before she would get up the nerve to approach the woman holding the little dipstick (because it had tried to bite a child coming into the office to see Santa) and ask her to either take her dog home or she would have to leave the office. Our office manager hates confrontations so unless lots of people complain she won’t do anything about issues like that.
Thank fully the woman chose to go home taking her little precious poop stain of a dog with her. Once the dog was gone everyone asked the manager to open all of the windows and the door even though it was very cold outside as most of us were having trouble breathing with all of the methane that dog had released in the small office room.
“The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde, who’s birthday was October 16th, 1854. The character Basil Hallward was the artist who painted Gray’s portrait. (Yeah, I had to look it up, but I have leet internets skillz.)
Is that a dachshund? If so, then I call, “POINT OF ORDER!” Dachshunds are known for the affability – affability, I say! – with cats. Our dachshund, Miho, got along wonderfully with our cat, Thomas Stearns Eliot. The two would frequently curl up with each other and nap.
Of course, in this case it may be that Basil is a dachshund with good taste, and he’s chasing Twinkie not because Twinkie’s a cat but because Twinkie’s an impolite, distasteful boor.
So is Twinkie’s attitude just a facade? I too have never seen a cat that couldn’t kick a dog’s butt.
Oh, Twinkie, you’re so wrong…I wouldn’t call that “reckless” at all.
What I would call it is “karma”.
@ Pete – he looks at least part Dobie to me.
Twinkie, we’re ashamed of you. vicious little creep like you should be able to stand up to a dog.
Twinkie would be foolish to take on a dachshund. Although we think of them as comical and odd, they are actually pretty dangerous to animals their size. “Dachshund” is German for “badger hound”. Dachshunds are bred to go after badgers, in their holes, and fight them to the death. Pound for pound, badgers are among the most vicious creatures alive.
Doxies are loving and cute and oh so cuddly to those they love. To wild animals, they’re 20 pounds of hard muscle and 200 pounds of ego. They will fearlessly attack anything. (You have to be fearless to go in after a badger in its own underground home.) Our little twelve pound tweenie doxie is willing to take on any strange dog she meets and has cowed dogs eight times her size. Talk about Atty-tood!!
And yet they’re indifferent to house cats; and even get along with them. *shrug* Go figure. Take a doxie on safari, though, and it’ll take on a lion in a second. They’re the Klingons of the dog world. “Today is a good day to die!” 🙂
Heather… yes, Dog and cat relations have been the source of many a cartoon (especially those wonderful Warner Bros. toons)… my past pooches have all been okay with the felines… but at times, their patience was tested. In any case, tomorrow, we’ll see what happens.
Chilling story…
Chug… 7 pounds, you say? Sumo cat is ready to play!
Mas…. ah, you are in THAT camp, eh?
Pash…. I calls them “little chit dogs” myself. Perhaps that is the name you are more likely to go with given your story.
Pete… yes, it is a Doxie. ANd dang it! I got the order wrong! I was messing around this week’s toons when I was working on them (like a month ago) and got the day messed up. You are correct, Oscar Wilde’s birthday was indeed, yesterday. Boo. And you did get the reference to “Dorian” correct as well.
My Gram had a Dachshund… the meanest little dog I ever knew. Cookie would bite and chew on your hand until you were left with nuthin’ but a bloody stump. The little bugger was sent by my aunt to my Gram (New Mexico to Ohio via plane) … it was supposed to be “the sweetest” of their Doxie litter… something went horribly wrong on the airplane…. horribly horribly wrong. The devil showed up in it’s place.
Yat, Chug, Mage & Mary… toon in tomorrow.
Heather.
That sounds very much like one of the Ray Bradbury stories included in the collection The Martian Chronicles. If so, having settled on Mars to escape an anti-fantasy censorship agency on Earth, the protagonist learning the agency has opened a Martian field office arranges the “party” as a last gesture of defiance.
rat presumably knows grace fairly well. so he knows what she is capable of even under normal conditions. deliberately irritating her knowing that is either a legendary dumb move or epic level deathwish.
as to twinkie getting a deserved comeuppance, that is not what’s happening here. there is a big difference between earned retribution by your victim and being victimized yourself by some random person for no real reason.
as unnatural as it seems, i have to root for twinkie (and grace) here.
Beetles… I remember liking The Illustrated Man by Bradbury. It seems to me that I might have read The Martian Chr. as well… but don’t remember much about it. (and fixed the thing you mentioned seems it can only be done in ‘edit’… it’s silly sometimes- the word pressing).
anatman… an LDM? Legendary Dumb Move… hee hee. and you can root for Twinkie… there are those of you who do. Grace seems to have a following, so why not?
Not all dachshunds “yap”. My old one had a baritone bark that scared the hell out of strangers, and I tell ya, there’s nothing funnier than seeing a furious wiener dog keeping people at bay!