![[0076] Caught Off Guard](http://www.sandraandwoo.com/comics/2009-07-13-[0076]-caught-off-guard.png "[0076] Caught Off Guard")
The current story arc started with this strip: Summer by the Lakeside.
- Hunter: I understand that you are concerned about your son, Mrs. Dean. But you can’t possibly mean that all animals in your forest should be killed. That’s against the law!
- Tanya Dean: {Hmpf} If you say so…
- Hunter: And anyway, if as many foxes and raccoons had rabies as you townies believe they would have gone extinct a long time ago.
- Hunter: Then again, in this case…
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Things are gonna get interesting lol!!
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Good… Lord.
Just a wild guess: They’re going to join the food fight, right?
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good, lord… this is bad, lol.
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They should have used fruits… except tomatoes.
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The whipped cream IS right there… perhaps they could figure it out?
You know, instead of shooting up the place?
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Oh noes Woo and Shadow D:
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Yow!
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I’m reminded of the president of the house owner’s association from Over The Hedge. Lovely background detail here, the forest looks great.
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Well, this isn’t good.
…well? RUN!
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All we need is for Woo, Shadow or Sid to accidentally speak right now…
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I sure know not the last time I saw a fox paw operating a nozzle on a whip cream spray bottle, before.
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Why does the final scene from Butch Casity and the Sundance Kid come to mind?
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Now would be a good time to run, guys…
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Ooooooh… this cant end well
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They just might speak on purpose to save their lives. “THIS ISN’T WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE!”
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I like the “OH SHIT!” look on everyone’s faces in the last panel,especially Shadow’s.I hope no one gets pumped full of lead in the next strip.
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OH. MY. GAWD! Rabid Can of Whip Cream!! RUN!!
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What’s the betting that she doens’t notice the can of whipped cream?
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That third panel is fantastic.
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Is that a leek?
I’m reminded of the president of the house owner’s association from Over The Hedge.
This is, of course, purely coincidental.
Why does the final scene from Butch Casity and the Sundance Kid come to mind?
I have never seen this movie (?), television series (?), … whatever it is.
Is that a leek?
Yes. If you look very closely you can already see it in the third panel of the last strip.
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I have to wonder if Sid has gone completely bonkers.
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Were I them, I’d start spraying the whipped cream at the humans. The hunter’s hand isn’t on his gun, whereas shadow is already holding his can. Aim at the hunter’s hands first so that his grip will be slippery, then aim for his eyes, and then run for it. Throw the leek at the lady for good measure.
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now is not the time for crazy behavior. crazy = mad rabid animal, regardless of cans of whipped cream lying about. Shadow sitting quiet and noble, ready to give himself for his family — let them get him, and test him, and find out he’s clean. The boy will identify him as the one that bit him. The danger will be gone. Even if they test him *posthumously*…his wife and kits will be safe. Perhaps the right thing to do is just to slowly, gently walk up and sit in front of the man with the gun, eyes down, and do NOTHING.
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I didn’t catch that at first, but yes, I see it now!
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The things one sees in the woods without camera in hand!
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+ Why does the final scene from Butch Casity and the Sundance Kid come to mind?
I have never seen this movie (?), television series (?), … whatever it is. +
A movie from the late 1960’s starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford as the title Western outlaws who end up having to flee bounty hunters hired by the powerful businessman they had been robbing.
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In the final scene of this Hollywood classic, Butch and Sundance are pinned down in the remains of a fort. They are totally surrounded by a far superior force. Knowing not what else to do and not willing to surrender, they make a desparate charge for freedom into the open spaces, facing down perhaps a hundred guns or so, armed with only a couple hand pistols, each.
@Sio:
A rabid, wild animal is far more likely to approach a Human then a sane, healthy animal. For some reason, it’s apart of how the disease works. As though it had a mind all it’s own, bent on surviving via the infection of others.
Sure glad I’m not writing the plot of this sub-sequence. I’ve no idea how to deliver our cast out of danger. After all, isn’t Sandra currently far away from there; at home?
@ jup-reindeer: That’s not necessarily true for raccoons:
Among the main symptoms for rabies in raccoons are a generally sickly appearance, impaired mobility, abnormal vocalization and aggressiveness. There may be no visible signs at all, however, and most individuals do not show the aggressive behavior seen in infected canids; rabid raccoons will often retire to their dens instead.
That’s the essence of one study about rabid raccoons and two articles written by raccoon researchers.
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ROFL at the leek! And everything else
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You just HAD to use whipped cream, didn’t you Woo? It couldn’t have been spray-can cheese, or spray-pancake batter (seriously, they make that stuff: http://www.chef2chef.net/internship/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/bb.jpg ), nooooo, you just HAD to use whipped cream!
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Is the leek a Pokemon reference?
Nice leek, anyhow.
No.