domestication
Original: domestication on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (title banner): THE DOMESTICATION OF THE DOG
A robed person standing in a forest, reaching a hand toward a wolf: "COME, NOBLE WOLF. WE WILL WORK AS ONE, THE BEST OF FRIENDS FOR ALL TIME."
Panel 2 (title banner): THE DOMESTICATION OF THE CAT
A man in a forest, gesturing toward a small cat: "WHOA! HEY, ARE YOU EATING ALL THE VERMIN FROM MY GRAIN SILO?!"
Cat: "THAT'S NONE OF YOUR GODDAMN BUSINESS."
Votey:
The cat, drawn loosely, speaking: "IT'S COOL IF I SHIT HERE, RIGHT?"
A robed person standing in a forest, reaching a hand toward a wolf: "COME, NOBLE WOLF. WE WILL WORK AS ONE, THE BEST OF FRIENDS FOR ALL TIME."
Panel 2 (title banner): THE DOMESTICATION OF THE CAT
A man in a forest, gesturing toward a small cat: "WHOA! HEY, ARE YOU EATING ALL THE VERMIN FROM MY GRAIN SILO?!"
Cat: "THAT'S NONE OF YOUR GODDAMN BUSINESS."
Votey:
The cat, drawn loosely, speaking: "IT'S COOL IF I SHIT HERE, RIGHT?"
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic contrasting how dogs and cats were domesticated. Top panel, titled THE DOMESTICATION OF THE DOG: a robed person stands in a forest reaching toward a wolf and says, "Come, noble wolf. We will work as one, the best of friends for all time." Bottom panel, titled THE DOMESTICATION OF THE CAT: a man gestures at a small cat and asks, "Whoa! Hey, are you eating all the vermin from my grain silo?!" The cat flatly replies, "That's none of your goddamn business." The joke: dogs were lovingly recruited as partners while cats showed up, ate the pests, and refused to be accountable. Votey (a single extra panel): the same cat, sketched roughly, asks, "It's cool if I shit here, right?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.