He slipped on cat pee and fell on the floor. Being Arlo he figured as long as he is horizontal that’s always an opportunity. So he mentions the tile is a pleasant temperature hoping that will be an incentive. Being Janis she’s rather disgusted by the cat pee and Arlo gets the stink-eye for three days.
That’s not it but what the heck. No-ones going to read this as it’s going into moderation.
It’s usually my dogs that like to lie down on the cool tiles. Cats generally find someplace warm
Oh… I guess chipchristian has it.
Arlo saw the cat lying on the floor, thought that looked like it might be comfortable so tried it. Janis sees Arlo an his back and is terrified it was a horrible accident. Finding out he’s just goofing around she’s exceedingly angry he gave her the scare.
That makes sense…. and I never would have gotten it.
This is from July, so yeah, Arlo saw Luddy sprawled out to beat the heat and thought he’d try it himself. It’s definitely going to be less obvious when you look at it six months later when you’re wondering if you can fit on another layer of clothes to get warm.
My cats would frequently lie in front of the refrigerator door when the weather was hot. Our dachshund would do the same. He’d also lie in front of the wall heaters when the weather was cold.
When the weather is warm, my car likes to lie in-between rooms so his body is on the cool tile and his head is on the carpet. Oh, to live such a life.
My cat!
My cats seem to try out different locations and alignments from one day to the next, under weather and window conditions that seem to me fairly invariant.
The last panel threw me off. Seems to me that if Arlo did indeed get “in serious trouble”, Janis’s reaction must have been a little over the top.
Cats are creatures of comfort. If it is cold, they will find a warm place. If it is too hot, they will find a cool place. You could show me a photograph of our cat sleeping, and I could tell you the approximate temperature of the room based on where the cat is sleeping and what position he is in. Sprawled out to his maximum length on a tile floor? It’s above 80 degrees. In a tight ball in his cat bed or snug to a corner of a soft chair? Less than 70.
There was a Frazz cartoon some time ago in which cats were compared to thermometers: like the mercury column in a thermometer, a cat’s length (while sleeping) seems to vary with the temperature.
During the dog-days, I sometimes sleep on the cool kitchen tile, too.
“Seems to me that if Arlo did indeed get “in serious trouble”, Janis’s reaction must have been a little over the top.”
She saw Arlo lying on the floor and not moving. She was terrified. When she found out the cause of her terror was for a *trivial* reason, she was angry.
I sent this one in.
Wouldn’t it have been clearer if we’d seen Ludwig on the floor WITH him?
My cats would frequently lie in front of the refrigerator door when the weather was hot.
My latest refrigerator has covered coils, so it circulates air over them and exhausts that from the front near the floor. An animal there would get more warm air than cold. I don’t have any pets at this time.
Yeah, I was puzzled by the comic myself as well.
CIDU-Bill’s title line reminded me of this obscure ’70s song:
….but of course prior to that , The Music Man.
Yes, it was indeed a Music Man reference.
“She saw Arlo lying on the floor and not moving. She was terrified. When she found out the cause of her terror was for a *trivial* reason, she was angry.“
I can understand her being a little upset, but I think of “serious trouble” with one’s spouse as stemming from something more sinister. Now if he had done it intentionally as a prank, then…. maybe.
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Oh, what the heck….
He slipped on cat pee and fell on the floor. Being Arlo he figured as long as he is horizontal that’s always an opportunity. So he mentions the tile is a pleasant temperature hoping that will be an incentive. Being Janis she’s rather disgusted by the cat pee and Arlo gets the stink-eye for three days.
That’s not it but what the heck. No-ones going to read this as it’s going into moderation.
It’s usually my dogs that like to lie down on the cool tiles. Cats generally find someplace warm
Oh… I guess chipchristian has it.
Arlo saw the cat lying on the floor, thought that looked like it might be comfortable so tried it. Janis sees Arlo an his back and is terrified it was a horrible accident. Finding out he’s just goofing around she’s exceedingly angry he gave her the scare.
That makes sense…. and I never would have gotten it.
This is from July, so yeah, Arlo saw Luddy sprawled out to beat the heat and thought he’d try it himself. It’s definitely going to be less obvious when you look at it six months later when you’re wondering if you can fit on another layer of clothes to get warm.
My cats would frequently lie in front of the refrigerator door when the weather was hot. Our dachshund would do the same. He’d also lie in front of the wall heaters when the weather was cold.
When the weather is warm, my car likes to lie in-between rooms so his body is on the cool tile and his head is on the carpet. Oh, to live such a life.
My cat!
My cats seem to try out different locations and alignments from one day to the next, under weather and window conditions that seem to me fairly invariant.
The last panel threw me off. Seems to me that if Arlo did indeed get “in serious trouble”, Janis’s reaction must have been a little over the top.
Cats are creatures of comfort. If it is cold, they will find a warm place. If it is too hot, they will find a cool place. You could show me a photograph of our cat sleeping, and I could tell you the approximate temperature of the room based on where the cat is sleeping and what position he is in. Sprawled out to his maximum length on a tile floor? It’s above 80 degrees. In a tight ball in his cat bed or snug to a corner of a soft chair? Less than 70.
There was a Frazz cartoon some time ago in which cats were compared to thermometers: like the mercury column in a thermometer, a cat’s length (while sleeping) seems to vary with the temperature.
During the dog-days, I sometimes sleep on the cool kitchen tile, too.
“Seems to me that if Arlo did indeed get “in serious trouble”, Janis’s reaction must have been a little over the top.”
She saw Arlo lying on the floor and not moving. She was terrified. When she found out the cause of her terror was for a *trivial* reason, she was angry.
I sent this one in.
Wouldn’t it have been clearer if we’d seen Ludwig on the floor WITH him?
My cats would frequently lie in front of the refrigerator door when the weather was hot.
My latest refrigerator has covered coils, so it circulates air over them and exhausts that from the front near the floor. An animal there would get more warm air than cold. I don’t have any pets at this time.
Yeah, I was puzzled by the comic myself as well.
CIDU-Bill’s title line reminded me of this obscure ’70s song:
….but of course prior to that , The Music Man.
Yes, it was indeed a Music Man reference.
“She saw Arlo lying on the floor and not moving. She was terrified. When she found out the cause of her terror was for a *trivial* reason, she was angry.“
I can understand her being a little upset, but I think of “serious trouble” with one’s spouse as stemming from something more sinister. Now if he had done it intentionally as a prank, then…. maybe.