Surviving the World

A Photocomic Education by Dante Shepherd

Lesson #871 - Radiation Therapy

One of our cats, Shiv (named after a character in an Ian Rankin novel), is headed in for a treatment today. It's got a 95 percent success rate, so we're not that concerned. But it's unfortunate that she's a cat, to be honest, because all of these great nicknames are going completely over her head, because, again, she's a cat.

But if the opportunity arises to bestow a great nickname like any of the above, you may as well use it, know what I mean?