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- 01. Imaginate!
- 02. The Game
- 03. Cat Tail
- 04. The Raccoons
- 05. The Adventures of Spot
- 06. Fido's Return
- 07. Mouse Mouse Revolution
- 08. Thematic Arc of Questionable Quality
- 09. The Zoo
- 10. The Grove
- 11. Housepets Christmas
- 12. The Yarn Ball
- 13. The Further Adventures of Spot
- 14. The Vet
- 15. A Mouse Named Spo
- 16. Zap!
- 17. Fall of the Pridelands
- 18. The Continuing Adventures of Spot
- 19. A Sinister Shadow
- 20. Roadtrip Woo
- 21. Down At The Farm
- 22. Money Sharks
- 23. n-ple Date
- 24. The Uncanny Adventures of Spot
- 25. The Visitor
- 26. Oops I Arced
- 27. It's A Wonderful Dog's Life
- 27.5 All the King's Men (prose)
- 28. Ocean's Two
- 29. Imaginate, Too!
- 30. The Present
- 31. Spot McCloud Presents Comics
- 32. Dog Days of Summer
- 33. Theme Park World
- 34. The Adventures of Stripe
- 35. Movie Night
- 36. Scaredy Cats
- 37. Noob Tube
- 38. Hope of the Pridelands
- 39. We're Snowed In!
- 40. The Preeminent Adventures of Spot
- 41. The Arc Specifically About Being Naked
- 42. Not All Dogs
- 43. The Great Water Balloon War
- 44. Let's Imaginate Macbeth!
- 45. The Interview
- 46. The Case of the Aztec Gold
- 47. A Respite In The Country
- 48. Spots and Stripes
- 49. A Holiday at the Zoo
- 50. Housepets Babies!
- 51. Show Business
- 52. What Money Buys
- 53. The Mall
- 54. The Critical Review of Spot
- 55. The Trial in Heaven
- 56. Let's Imaginate Guys and Dolls!
- 57. Testing Grounds
- 58. Taking Cover
- 59. PsyCon
- 60. Getting Physical
- 61. PsyCon2: PsyConner
- 62. The Retroactively Continuous Adventures of Spot
- 63. Temple Crashers
- 64. All Hallow's Ween
- 65. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being A Dog
- 66. One Cat's Treasure
- 67. Love And War
- 68. Jack Of One Trade
- 69. The King and I
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Sapient ferrets with thumbs will rule the world! Or take it apart, whichever comes first. :3
More likely the latter. Ferrets are cute, furry, and eternally energetic engines of mass destruction.
seconded
Emancipated pets?!?!
Ooooooohhhhhhh boy.
i know theres cats dogs mouses rabbitz and a very confused dog whats next insect frogs birds ?
You don’t know what emancipated means, do you?
Also, pawed mammals are sentient and bipedal. Other mammals, birds, reptiles and large fish are sentient, but not bipedal. Check the forums!
Why am I reminded of the Aristocats?
Same here!
Saw that yesterday with my girlfriend
X3
HEY IT’S ME! 0_o i c wat u did there…
Wait, who died?
yeah who died?
yea who died?
someone died?
I guess someone died.
Pretty sure someone died.
Then someone did die?
It was Milton. Milton Died.
Luckily, he was loaded.
this is officially creepy
Someone died?
At this point its not THAT someone died, its Who? WHO?!??!?!??
some rich named milton who liked his pet ferrets
Lucky ferrets.
Rich pets in Babylon?
Oh snap! What if the Pets hired Pets?!?
OH GOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE MAN! Giving ferrets thumbs AND 15 billion dollars! Are you mad!……….
…………
On second thought seeing this go down is soooo going to be interesting.
Totally ditto.
Ferret Power!!
Permit me to go on record as saying…
SQWEEEEEEEEE!! BOX O’FERRETS!!!! /dive
*ahem* Please resume the posts as normal.
/first-post-dance
Dude! Ferrets are so cuuuute! Awesome!
And to my beloved nephew Thomas, and my wonderful niece Celia, the two who cared for me, loved me, and only wanted what was best for me, I leave… A boot to the head!
I thought that exact same thing when i started reading this lol
The Grammar Nazi in me compels me to tell you it’s “niece” not “neice”.
Ferrets with thumbs?! CATASTROPHE!
Next you know, Dogs and Cats will be living together….. Errr… Too late. Okay, time to go straight to Mass Hysteria, or Hilarity. One of the two.
LOL, cool! I was wondering when we’d see ferrets!
Please tell me Milton left Tomas and Celia several boots to da heads!?
“Oh, there seems to be a bit more. ‘To my beloved niece and nephew, who loved me and took great care of me in my final months I leave…’ Excuse me for a moment, I’ll be back with a box.”
“What could it be? Maybe a box of money? The old fool was going senile and yo-*Whack*
“Arg, what was tha-*whack*
“‘I leave them a box of boots, which will be thrown at their heads. The entire box, and they must all connect with their heads.’ Well it was his wish, here Lana have a boot.”
“Thanks!”
*whack*whack*whack*
Ah, that would be very amusing to see.
oh my! rich ferrets! RUN!
Ferrets with thumbs + Money = ?!?!
Ferrets with thumbs+money = World Domination.
man i really want to see what happens next to peanut god why are you torchering me T-T
…Is torchering even a word? You COULD say “tormenting” instead.
I think he meant “torturing”
Even so.
In an alternate universe, pets aren’t sapient. In that universe, things like this still happen.
I could NOT agree more with your subtext, lol
Just like those that give them WINGS …. a scary thought
Ferrets? oh dear.
NYYAAAARRRGGHHH!!
Rick, you are some vicious artist!! You can’t leave us suspended like this, I…I…*foams, gurgles*
On the other paw, billionaire ferrets IS quite an interesting item. Yay!
suspended indeed ;but I almost got 15 billion dollars… ALMOST! O_O
They look adorable, but I know: Ferrets stink to high heaven.
y’know, I met people who had a pet ferret… Not one of them used to stink, nossir. They rather smelled like dry hay.
I’ve owned ferrets for 20+ years. They do not stink. Their poop does… but doesn’t everyone’s? LOL!
Not true. I’ve heard that, suprisingly, skunk poop is oderless.
lol awesome, ferrets with to much cash
and is it me or were the two adults there planning on giving those ferrets away? What with the box that they’re sitting in
ayup! and the bad hummins got a biiiig surprise for free, instead
argh! what happened to peanut?
yay ferrets ftw
Now we just need a Housepets/Sluggy Freelance crossover. Kiki would end up losing all of her money to Bun Bun though…
LOL XD
i must know what happens to Peanut and Grape XD
…As I use to say… “Game Over.”
lucky ferrets :3
LMAO I love the Captain N Reference.
LOL OMFG YES x3 they look so cute
Lana and Duke (if he’s the masked one standing before her) are my favorite ferrets. CUUUUUTIES!
The Captain N reference makes this strip twice as awesome!
I think this is just a way for the dead guy to force his family to take care of his pets.
DOOK!
Those ferrets are suddenly going to become very popular the the Wrong reason.
(“Zomg they are sooo cute”, for instance, would of course be the right reason. :3)
I second the Sluggy-Housepets crossover.
Alright! Got one supporter! C’mon, let’s see SluggyPets!… or would it be Housey Freelance?
What are the legal rights of pets in this universe?
I mean, technically, they ARE able to use and manage the money…
But are they allowed to legally?
I think it’s actually been done in our own universe. That aside:
They’re technically family, so if there were nobody else, they would theoretically inherit all of his possessions. Even though there are at least two other such heirs, I’m assuming whatever the will says, goes. Besides, the ferrets probably have a really good lawyer.
If anyone reading this hasread any Dragonlance: I think ferrets may be a bit like kender. FTW.
AHAHAHAH if you want something when a family member dies you better give them a resin to do so when there alive.
This is where a truly cruel artist would drop the previous story-arc and make a brand new one!
Sadly, I believe that is going to be just the case, Tsuji. I expect that Peanut’s crush will come up again in a later arc, but it will lie more or less dormant for a while, with occasional feelings of jealousy. Perhaps Grape and Max will get together, perhaps nothing will come of their “date,” but either way Peanut will be so disheartened that he will give up for quite some time.
Hopefully, however, I am completely wrong about this, and the previous story arc will resume after a short run of this one.
… And that’s how Wikipedia was started!
Reminds me of this lady in Ballston Spa NY, who was LOOOOOAAAADEDD….[[Wonder why she lived in Ballston Spa? One of the only true 'Ghettoes' of NY.]] who died and left everything to her Cats.
And it reminds me of Catscratch.
I’m in love with the alt text.
YAY! Ferrets! I wish I knew what they wrote and had scratched out, though. Heheh. I hope we get to see more ferrets!
Dawwwww… Cute, energetic ferret pets. Scratch that – RICH, energetic ferret pets!
I predict a lawsuit in the future.
Yay ferrets!…Rich ferrets at that
Oooh! A Box of Fuzzy! <3
this is all the funnier for me because i used to have ferrets….and they were named Rocky and Roxy Rockefeller ><;
Heheheehhh, that was PERFECT. The greedy got what they deserved: Nothing.
Oh dear, I know I’m gonna enjo… Wait! Someone died!?!?!? Is this gonna be… WHAT?!?!
Can you do that?!?! A comedic arc at the expense of someones life?!?!?! Thats not right!!! That’s the most terrible thing I’ve ever heard. How horrible to do such a thing!!!! …
Where was I? Oh yeah… I know I’m gonna enjoy this!!!
*applause*
this reminds me from that scene in the Aristocats where the rich lady tells her lawyer that she wants to leave all her property to her four cats.
Something tells me that may have served as inspiration for this particular strip, lol.
i love that movie
Oh, sure, Rick… keep us all hanging on the Peanut/Grape story arc-affair, will ya….
Rofl, I kid… but this strip certainly raises new questions concerning pets and legalities. Brace for incoming questions on the forums! =P
Addendum: Is it just me, or does the ferret on the far left in panel 4 resemble someone’s avatar/fursona? (Thinking Tahoe for some reason, but could be mistaken.)
You’re right! It does look a *lot* like him!
It looks a lot like mine, too. Let’s fact it, a LOT of ferrets look like that. :3
LA LA LA LA LAA LAA LAAAAA
FERRTSCRATCH!
Again, I’d like throw out the idea of the Sluggy Freelance/Housepets crossover.
I read the whole archive of this comic and yet I still don’t get this XP
I don’t think we’re meant to yet. This is either the start of a new arc, or a filler until we see Grape and Peanut again.
It appears that before the ferrets came into this windfall, they were going to be given away. I believe that the ferret-obscured words are “Free” and crossed out below that is “For Sale”… not anymore!
was thing something randomly thrown into the arc or will it hold some significance to the story later on? I’m confused but either way it’s cute and funny lol
Can anyone say: “Filler Comic”?
I know that this is probably due to wondering what the next part of Housepets is, but, What does this have to do with the actual storyline at the moment?
maybe rick is coming up with something uber awesome for us. and its taking him longer than normal. have patience.
Give me peanut or give me death!
*gives death*
wile we are getting into unique pets, i think it would be interesting in seeing a pet alligator, (my dad owned one)
Or, maybe a pet snake or lizard or turtle. any of those would be both unique and cool.
Or they might just look the same. They can talk, though.
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Heh, looks like they were planning to give away the cute little things, now they’re forced to keep them.
Well played Milton, well played!
Milton probably knew they wouldn’t like that much. Yet, besides, they couldn’t give them away. If the hired help should falter, they might need those two for changing light bulbs and the like.
…Wait, did you mean the ferrets or the grubby relatives?
Hahaha… just who will be keeping whom NOW?
Did no one notice the ferrets were named after Captain N characters?
What’s Captain N?
It was an 80/90 cartoon that ran for about a year. (I forget the year.) It was more or less a gamer cartoon, with main video game icons (Duke,Rock=mega man, A princess peach wanna be) Being the lead characters.
…Heh heh, funny…It’s a shame you didn’t include the “Boot to the Head” joke.
I soo thought he was gonna go there XD
aaaaannnd…boot to the head.
I love ferrets!! :3
I had two of my own once. heh, even though they’re really not allowed in California.
Ferrets with money! That’s a new twist on an old classic if I ever saw one!
As for the budding reputation as a filler, I say nay. One must imagine all the nutty new hijinks the Babylon Garden pets will be wading through once our brave heroes return! To speak to the nature of the cul-de-sac, everyone will- literally- be living across the street from billionaires!
Peanut: “Hey, did they change the sign?”
Grape: “‘Mustelid Gardens’? What’s that supposed to mean?”
Joey: “Oh, that? Some really rich ferrets moved in. They bought everything.”
Peanut: “Oh. I guess it makes sense, then.”
Grape: “It does, but you’d need some familiarity with carnivorous taxon.”
Joey: “…or access to Wikipedia!”
Grape: “That too.”
Everybody who gets not the reference: Read between the lines.; it’s subliminal!
XD that’s great.