He was taking care of business on a laptop open to a newspaper’s web site??
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Force of habit. He was probably paper trained as a pup and the “newspaper” lying on the floor caused him to need to, well, you know. Like the sound of running water does to some people. And, yes, I know someone who will leave his tablet lying around on the floor, on the sofa, etc.
laptop.. or a tablet. The new Kindles are waterproof.
More likely a tablet, but, yeah. Grimmy’s not usually that dumb, but that is the brainfart he made.
It’s surrealism. The actual logistics don’t have to make sense. So, yes, There was an electronic device open to a newspaper. In surreal abstract comic exisistentialism: An electronic device open to a newspaper = online newspaper = newspaper = dogs do business on newspapers = dogs do business on electronic devices … with disastrous results. Part of the humor *is* that it can’t actually make sense. Well, maybe not be I think the absurdity, if anything, enhances rather than detracts.
Kamino Neko, I was thinking laptop because they’re more more likely to be plugged into a wall outlet and therefore go ZZZZZZZZIITTT when Grimm mistakes it for a newspaper.
@CIDU_Bill, lithium batteries will sometimes burst into unstoppable flames even without dog’s-business hitting them ….
I’m still in a quibble mood over the “at last we get indoor plumbing” (I. E. Xmas tree) from a cartoon in the last couple days. (Maybe Grand Avenue?)
THAT’s been on Holiday cards for years; I’ve received several, for some unknown reason.
That’s true, carlfink, but irrelevant to a dog doing his business on the device.
Jokes about newspapers being read on electronic devices and not able to be used for: lining birdcages; hitting dogs (NEVER should be done anyway); paper-training a puppy are so old now, I think every permutation of the above has been done. To DEATH (oh, no jokes about HIM/HER and . . .).
I have one cat who’s a pee-er. (I knew it when I took him in – it was either that or the shelter). I *never* leave anything on the floor that’s not pee-proof.
Male – belly band (I’ve had one dog in a bb for 15 years; same reason as you for taking him in)
Female – diaper (I have a two-legged dog whose brain and bladder don’t always communicate)
Keeps us sane and the house clean, altho we have all tile floors anyway.
But I don’t s’pose c*ts like being dressed, do they . . . never mind.
@Andréa, It’s definitely behavioral, he’s marking his territory. I just paper the floor in newspaper, on top of a plastic sheet.
My male’s issue is also behavioral, which is why he’s named RicoBadBoy. Anyone else would’ve had him put down years ago (he attacks us), but I would never do that. http://alldogssite.com/rico1.html
@Andréa, Does he attack you all the time, or just occasionally? Mitts only attacks me when I try to pick him up or brush him. If he wasn’t so stinkin’ cute, he’d be in real trouble.
“If he wasn’t so stinkin’ cute, he’d be in real trouble.”
That’s the motto in this house ‘-)
He attacks for various reasons, but since 1) using a cookie sheet to deflect his biting; and 2) turning 16, with severe arthritis, he just threatens. And I’ve been able to read his body language and know when to back off.
Couldn’t the dog in the comic have bit the ‘newspaper’ rather than peed on it? Aren’t dogs trained to fetch them?
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Force of habit. He was probably paper trained as a pup and the “newspaper” lying on the floor caused him to need to, well, you know. Like the sound of running water does to some people. And, yes, I know someone who will leave his tablet lying around on the floor, on the sofa, etc.
laptop.. or a tablet. The new Kindles are waterproof.
More likely a tablet, but, yeah. Grimmy’s not usually that dumb, but that is the brainfart he made.
It’s surrealism. The actual logistics don’t have to make sense. So, yes, There was an electronic device open to a newspaper. In surreal abstract comic exisistentialism: An electronic device open to a newspaper = online newspaper = newspaper = dogs do business on newspapers = dogs do business on electronic devices … with disastrous results. Part of the humor *is* that it can’t actually make sense. Well, maybe not be I think the absurdity, if anything, enhances rather than detracts.
Kamino Neko, I was thinking laptop because they’re more more likely to be plugged into a wall outlet and therefore go ZZZZZZZZIITTT when Grimm mistakes it for a newspaper.
@CIDU_Bill, lithium batteries will sometimes burst into unstoppable flames even without dog’s-business hitting them ….
I’m still in a quibble mood over the “at last we get indoor plumbing” (I. E. Xmas tree) from a cartoon in the last couple days. (Maybe Grand Avenue?)
THAT’s been on Holiday cards for years; I’ve received several, for some unknown reason.
That’s true, carlfink, but irrelevant to a dog doing his business on the device.
Jokes about newspapers being read on electronic devices and not able to be used for: lining birdcages; hitting dogs (NEVER should be done anyway); paper-training a puppy are so old now, I think every permutation of the above has been done. To DEATH (oh, no jokes about HIM/HER and . . .).
I have one cat who’s a pee-er. (I knew it when I took him in – it was either that or the shelter). I *never* leave anything on the floor that’s not pee-proof.
Male – belly band (I’ve had one dog in a bb for 15 years; same reason as you for taking him in)
Female – diaper (I have a two-legged dog whose brain and bladder don’t always communicate)
Keeps us sane and the house clean, altho we have all tile floors anyway.
But I don’t s’pose c*ts like being dressed, do they . . . never mind.
Speaking of dogs wearing diapers (thread drift, to the max!)
https://www.gocomics.com/poochcafe/2018/11/30
https://www.gocomics.com/speedbump/2018/11/30
@Andréa, It’s definitely behavioral, he’s marking his territory. I just paper the floor in newspaper, on top of a plastic sheet.
My male’s issue is also behavioral, which is why he’s named RicoBadBoy. Anyone else would’ve had him put down years ago (he attacks us), but I would never do that.
http://alldogssite.com/rico1.html
This is an old one, too, along the same vein as ‘finally, indoor plumbing’ . . .
https://scontent.ftpa1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/67866_499593010073946_1773127481_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ht=scontent.ftpa1-1.fna&oh=986c187ac3feed0c5a85d24546e729e0&oe=5C63E6CA
@Andréa, Does he attack you all the time, or just occasionally? Mitts only attacks me when I try to pick him up or brush him. If he wasn’t so stinkin’ cute, he’d be in real trouble.
“If he wasn’t so stinkin’ cute, he’d be in real trouble.”
That’s the motto in this house ‘-)
He attacks for various reasons, but since 1) using a cookie sheet to deflect his biting; and 2) turning 16, with severe arthritis, he just threatens. And I’ve been able to read his body language and know when to back off.
Couldn’t the dog in the comic have bit the ‘newspaper’ rather than peed on it? Aren’t dogs trained to fetch them?
The problem is, a dog wouldn’t do this on a newspaper, either . . .
https://www.gocomics.com/theothercoast/2018/12/08