May 5, 7:30 am - final results:
Thanks to the 60ish generous supporters who gave during this event, we raised $7,575! That, plus the Challenge Grant match, totals $9,848, or about enough to pay for a week's worth of our typical monthly veterinary expenses.
And now a May 3 strip frpm May 3, 2015 ... Mutts, with the debunking of an old saying:
Our second May 3 toon is Rhymes With Orange from last year. Who says birds don't believe in fast food?
We're going to start the month with three May 3 strips in a row. (Sometimes it just works out that way.) The first is an old pre-color Free Range from 2013 featuring a wanna-be standup comedian and an audience that includes two less-than-impressed birds:
Wrapping up the month with a standalone toon, origin unknown ... but definitely understandable by any of us with companion birds.
Today's Speed Bump, from one year ago, is a lesson for us all. I think.
One of our favorite strips with recurring characters is Mutts, whose creator, Patrick O'Donnell, is a big proponent of animal welfare and rescue groups. Today's strip is from 2012 and proves that it isn't just human aircraft that get grounded due to weather:
Haven't tossed in a captioned Cheezburger photo in over a month, so here's a hummingbird emulating a giant box of crayons ...
Loose Parts from one year ago today. Pretty clever chickens (and pretty dumb farmer).
A third installment of the 2013 spring cleaning by Stupid the Bird from Diamond Lil, from April 26 of that year turns up some 80's retro.
(I'm not sure why I didn't save the Wednesday, Friday or Saturday strips from that arc.)