Well here it is. Originally I planned to strew (it's a highfalutin word for 'scatter.' And they say you can't learn anything new from comics) some cockroaches and sewer rats but decided against it for fear that people in the U.S. would blow things out of proportion and think that indeed we're overflowing with them things. Btw, that guinea pig looked at a lot like the first one that I got. I named it George (remember that episode where Marvin the Martian imported the Abominable Snowman from Earth? "I'm gonna hug him and squeeze him and call him...")

* This strip was published Sept. 24, 2003.