Story Arcs
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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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Have I mentioned yet how just much I love Fido?
Perhaps ;p
Alt text: “also why do these smell like lemons”
I do like the smell of lemons.
Yeah, but what does that supposed to mean?
What ARE those things?
They use everything but the moo.
Those are the coats of the last people who asked what those where.
could be hides of wild animals. Since they did serve raw meat before or deer meat. I don’t know.
He is the best!
Yeah, he is like super-awsome … he is suprawsome
He’ll stick up to Sabrina til death do he part is what i think, so yes, that’s a reason i like him <3
my bad ~ ‘for’ Sabrina o_O
yeah cause if he sticks up to Sabrina and makes her mad she “make him never born”
and that’s a quot
Judging from the blood in that speech bubble, Fido can sound pretty intimidating.
Cop Voice sends chills down even the most law-abiding spines.
it made king look taller xD
Joel/King says: Did you see the size of that font?!
you would be pretty intimidating/mad if you got interrupted like that
I remember, many years ago, during a party held at my mother’s place, when someone had placed against a door a sign reading ‘DANGER! 1,000 FISTS POWER IF OPENED’
Now I understand…
Hehe, not that I have heard ;p
Love how snarly he sounds though ^^
One word: Busted.
Why I think King wont reveal this … events: 1- He doesnt care 2- He is extremly intimidated by the K9 Unit, now even more
3 – It’s Sabrina, who knows HIS secret, if he blabs. 4 – King’s somewhat new to canid culture, and while he might know it’s odd for a dog and cat to be snuggling, he may not know it’s taboo…
ALso: Sabrina’s face in third panel: Priceless.
5 – King’s likely to assume that if a cop’s involved it’s OK.
6-He’s going to be in the hospital bed next to Bino if he tells.
7 – King will likely say to an extremely worried Fido that he actually finds this interspecies thing cute. Fido then feels like an idiot for not sticking more with King when Bino bullied him
Conversely, King may not realizes interspecies is taboo, and let it slip cause, who cares, right? Right…?! Oh s..
BUSTED!!!
Ok …. I did NOT saw that comming
Nor did I… O_o
Oh hey, neither did I!
Well it is a naked Christmas party (sorta) anything can happen right? lol
But they’re not nekkid!
True, they are wearing collars AND furcoats (activists everywhere disaprove).
Activists? Could these maybe be venison coats?
It would explain why they have them…. but not why they make them
I suspect it’s another of Daryl’s “secrets”
I know that
It was Mile’s idea after all lol! But you’re right hopefully more secrets will be revealed soon!
Oh those two lol! XD
Heheh nice interrupting the make out session
ooook?? dont want to mess with the k9 dog.
But I wanna see what happens next.
I’m not sure if you do…
AWKWARD!!!!
hey look, Fido has a new collar and death in his eyes.
XD Don’t mess with forbidden lovers
Run King Run! Unless you want to end up like Bino, Just Run! Also he just ruined the love mood, killjoy. I love Fido’s text circle, it’s bloodshot, all red, and looks like he would sound like the devil saying that.
Apparently it’s possibly for me to use the “Running Time!” joke three comics in a row… Huh. Never thought to use it here, but it can apply.
Demon Fido = RUNNING TIME!
It would appear as though Sabrina has gotten herself some new earrings.
Whoa there, Fido.
And King seems to remember not to mess with him.
Also, could someone explain the alt text? I don’t get the joke.
Well, I’ll just assume that it’s a refrence of the old “when life hands you lemons, you make lemonade”, other then that I don’t understand it either.
Given the situation that King walked in on, I suspect Rick is referring to the term for erotic fanfiction.
Makes more sense than the “life hands you lemons” option, at least.
Or I could be an idiot that forgot about the lemon references in Portal 2, which I’ve never played.
Don’t worry, I haven’t played either Portal, so wouldn’t get too many references from those.
Rick is smart, and he’s done trope references before. I think the lemo joke is, as you said, about the fanfiction term
Given the PG rating of the comic, though, the Portal 2 reference is more likely than the fanfic term.
There are ‘coats’ hanging up as in skins. Lemons Were sometimes used to soak skins and hides in inorder to ‘tan’ them into leather.
That still took a second for me to get. No part of the hunt goes to waste. Maybe that’s what Ponchos’, well, pancho is made of.
Haha. Love Sabrina’s face in the last panel
I totally agree. It’s like sabrina’s tounge gesture, is actually her signature move.
…*inch* *inch* *foot* *YARD!!* *YARD!!*
You win an Internet too.
After King’s awkward moment its still Rated G
Of all the dogs other than Peanut (who already knows anyway but we still don’t know if Fido/Sabrina know he knows), I think King is probably the least worst one who could have caught them. But Fido doesn’t know that.
what about Bailey?
If she saw it (and that is extremely probable) she might, just MIGHT tell Fox about it and that could unleash chaos… or not
Well, she’s from a more rural environment; if she has anything in common with the other rural animals we’ve seen, its pretty unlikely she will care.
The main danger here is one of them not realizing that -other people- might care and saying something about seeing them together/them being together.
I think the main danger is actually that someone just threatened Bailey’s boyfriend. We’ve seen what happens when Bailey gets mad; just imagine what could happen if someone threatened her boyfriend…
at least their collars are on ;p
Woah there fido! Calm….Calm…. No need to pull out the bloody text. X3
HEy, at least now King has something on Sabrina incase he has to go through anymore fate altering moments. But then again, i’m sure he wouldn’t do that even if he wanted to, unless he feels like Sabrina is taking too much of an advantage over him.
If he’s even aware that it is blackmail material. Remember he didn’t grow up in the pet culture, so to speak.
Sabrina can’t make you unborn.
Better not to tempt her.
Next spot!
King and Bailey need to find their own spot, this one is occupied.
Seriously?? Can King’s day get any worse? He’s now officially has an issue with almost everyone…… his poor little confused mind could crack at any moment…….
At least Bailey seems to be less ready to immolate him with a glare of death.
According with what we have learned trough this comic all this time, YES it can get worse
WAAAAY worse. Like more ways than the amount of the new Mass Effect 3 endings.
I TOTALLY saw that coming.
, The reaction of Fido is unfair, is not King’s fault if he can not find a good place for his “private practices” at least find a room that you can lock with a key especially if being caught can lead to unpleasant consequences
King’s got his own room.
Admittedly, it’s got this mysterious gold statue in it.
yanno that’s a good point. King /does/ live there after all. Which makes me wonder why he didn’t go with his room first instead of a coat closet
Does JoeKing have his own room, or does he have to share one with the cubs? If he shares one there’s probably about half a dozen wolf cubs in there right now.
I hope its snuggling.
This is SO going to have consequences for the future….
They just wanted a little snuggle together :p
This is so perfect. I love it.
it’s so cite how Sabrina looks perfectly at ease, while Fido is nervous as heck.
Makes one think if his fears of being outed are really that founded
I think its more that Sabrina doesn’t really care if they get found out or not. I just wonder if King knows to keep his mouth shut he might not think anything of this and just tell Bailey what he saw.
I doubt he feels it would be sensible to get on Fido’s bad side. Besides, he’s kept his own secret this long.
Sabrina doesn’t seem to care much about what dogs think of her, in general. Remember her dismissing Fido’s worries about her showing up at the dog club, in May 2011?
http://www.housepetscomic.com/2011/05/30/enters-the-hero-take-ii/
Come to think of it, I wounder what exactly happened to Kings fate anyway.
It was picked up by angels, apparently.
Always possible he keeps it in his room.
it’s still with him, in the shape of a fancy sport watch he keeps with himself at all time. Someone, someday, will come and take it back. By then King must decide if stay a dog or go back to humankind.
I both love and hate this one. I love it because its awesome but I hate it because now we have to wait even longer for their conversation. But mostly I love it.
Once again everyone at work thinks I’m a nut cause I laughed myself off my chair.
This was as perfect as it gets!
Boy, Sabrina looks awfully impish in this strip, moreso than usual
Holly shoot… I get the feeling that Bailey will clear the room O_O
…Or they will just choose an other room? Hmmm…
awkward….
Fido’s face implosion in 3…2…1…
Do I predict Fido asking King to keep quiet?
Might be interesting considering King has a bigger secret to keep.
Burn the house down with the lemons? Please tell me that wasn’t the reference. xD
The two are taking a bit of a risk in the closet like that.
Though why the closet? Doesn’t king live there? Has his own room and all? With a lock….
Just saying, seems a bit more logical for a private conversation.
Guess we’ll get there eventually.
Eager to see their conversation. (and now how Fido and Sabrina reacts later… wonder if she’d black mail King hmm)
it was A Portal 2 reference
Was afraid of that xD
But it seemed a bit obscure to be portal reference.
I’m sure there are other lemon references lol.
Sides don’t want the house burning down… you know… with the lemons
Sabrina’s face in that last panel….. <3
This could get really [1) funny 2) ugly 3) awkward 4) all of the left] really fast. Good one Rick!
did any one notice that Sabrina is wearing earrings.
TOA! Yay!
Rather funny, telling someone *at their own house* to get out. If King was bigger, he’d have every right to tell them to get out instead.
but if he was bigger he wouldn’t be as cute!!
YOU ARE CORRECT, SIR!
Talk about be caught in the act. Looks like king, and bailey are going to be in on the secret now. XD. Well sabrina has something on him even if no one will believe her.
This tends to happen when you host a collarless party, or at least MENTION the idea. HEY RICK I WONDER WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF BINO JUST HAPPENED TO SHOW UP THREW THE WINDOW CUZ HE WANTS TO LOOK COOL. WHAT WOULD HAPPEN THEN?
jk Fido + Sab :3
Bino is currently dead
I just realized that friday’s the “supposed” end of the world, and the post comes out then…
NOOOOOOES!!!
The end of HOUSEPETS?! COULD IT BE?!
…pfft…nah.
well yeah the world didn’t end
Wait just a second, why didn’t they just go to King’s room?
It woad seem bad
Why not the dark and unassuming room of… coat… lemon… things… Less likely to be interrupted.
Exactly what Fido and Sabrina were thinking? xD
Their relationship is supposed to be secret, so despite the rather non-romantic location, the closet is the best place for them right now. Implying absolutely nothing, of course.
So you’re saying their relationship is in the closet.
Huh, when I see this situation, I think of the quote “Honey, can this wait?”
Poor King can’t seem to catch a break
That’s what I said!
Also, I can see the dog tabloids now: “Fido caught in illicit inter-species relationship” X)
I’m thinking this arc should be subtitled (The one where King ticks everyone off.)
Heh-heh. The cop and the psychic. I forgot how much I loved that pairing.
Busted!
What did Bailey see, I wonder.
“You’re going to destroy Johnny, he’s VERY sensitive!”
I’m on vacation this week, and John Zaffis’ Haunted Collector has been playing on SyFy Channel in the background all morning. Lots of things saying Get out…
Another thought: I think, someday, Sabrina would like to get caught. ;3
love
Shes going to tell King she is going to have his puppies.
Or her look is one of “He’s working on it”
as of now, that makes twice that fido’s given king that look. the first being in the story arc:”A Sinister Shadow after Joel/King is tackled by fido and the dog reveals that the large PETA member nearly killed Fox.
Go Fido! Go!!
How come Sabrina is drawn with a dog-like snout here? It’s a bit long for a cat isn’t it? Well I guess it must be the new artstyle. Oh well. Carry on :3
“Lisa, you are tearing me apart!” Wow I was not expecting that. Looks like Fido has some ’splaining to do.
Did that title give anyone else a (so far) unwarranted sinking feeling? “No, Rick… don’t do this to us!!!” D: You know the author is good when you start fearing a breakup conversation for a 2-dimensional cartoon dog!
no-no-no, he’s still reffering to “Baby It’s Cold Outside”. The title is a liric that the woman in the song sings.
Dat voice, Fido. Epic.
I think this would’ve been a perfect time for Fido to have gotten red eyes, would’ve gone pretty well with the way the text looks.
…methinks the text works fine enough…
He’s not angry, just startled and defensive. I’m sure it would’ve come to that if King did any lingering.
Man, King can not catch a break!
…I’m also surprised. Only a few can make bloody text WITHOUT an uigi board.
Skinned carcasses and Demonic voice? Mixing Halloween and X-mas, aren’t we?
The demonic voice came from Fido.
…but those were my exact thoughts as well. At first anyway.
Easy to do, 25 DEC = 31 OCT.
i always wanted to know how those two got together in the first place
As I mentioned, I think Bailey is likely to kick some tail. We’ve seen what happens when someone gets her mad, and even though she’s mad at King, it would be a natural reaction to defend her mate/boyfriend.
Really just hoping they make it to his room and make it all less akward then talk about it later. But I could see that happening too, just want it to happen later.
Lol, don’t mess with a trained police dog when he’s mad AND embarrassed. I love Sabrina’s face in the last panel though. XD Now that I think about it, you’d think it would occur to King that Fido was with a cat. And you’d think Bailey would have freaked out a little herself instead of being completely, well, NOT THERE during those last panels. XD
This is adorable. What is up with Sabrina’s head fur? Still, really adorable. <3
That was totally unexpected, I didn’t know these 2 like each other, and King should run as fast as he can.
That Fido and Sabrina are secretly dating has been official for years…
Not everybody is as rabid a fan as some of us are.
And now… for something a bit more racy!
You’re new :3
I hope the title isn’t a hint at what’s coming next as that would be sad.
At least Fido left the mouse at home
You mean Spo? C’mon peeps lets not start to forget names.
Wow so totally unexpected. King run for your life o.=.o
Whoa! King, this never was your season, was it? Back it up now… and you didn’t see anything. Got it?
Sabrina and Fido going strong in the new style, I see! Very good. They’re still a great couple, too, and right now I’m loving their opposing reactions (Specifically: Amused Apathy and Channeling Rammstein). They’ll go far. This is truth!
sabrina looks more like a dog and i wonder what will happen to fox if king tells bailey will he find out by her or someone over hearing
If this ever gets voiced, Fido needs “voice of legion” on that line.
fido gonna kill king
I have to say, Fido is quite the player
Not really. Players aren’t looking for long-term monogamous relationships like what Fido and Sabrina have been shown as having.
Wow, King didn’t expected to find Fido and Sabrina in a place like that xD
Alternate line: “Take a picture why don’t ya!”
Has anyone noticed the titles have been for the song “Baby it’s cold outside”? Wha if the next one is “”this evening has been so very nice.”
Sabrina’s Look: “Well, hey, let’s not be too hasty, Fido…”
I don’t think Fido shouldn’t have told king to get so mean! And king should’ve respected Fido’s and sabrina’s privacy in a closet or coat rack room