Shoe, 3/10/25

Man, it would be concerning if you were a bird parent from a species that primarily ate fish and your son didn't want to eat fish, especially considering that, bird-wise, the main way you get fish for your kid is to eat it yourself and then barf it up for them. I can see why you'd write a pleading letter to the editor of the local paper, though it's pretty funny that said editor would just be like "ditch your ungrateful kid and get with a cat instead." This may be affected by said editor's species: Shoe is, as helpfully pointed out by a surprisingly comprehensive table on the Shoe (comic strip) Wikipedia article, a purple martin, a largely insectivore species in contrast to his fish-happy employees Cosmo Fishhawk and Loon. Everything else aside, domestic and feral cats are also one of the main predators of bird species, but the purple martin's current conservation status is "Least Concern," so I guess he's not too worked up about that either.

Heathcliff, 3/10/25