Five years past Stephan Pastis published this Pearls Before Swine cartoon unknowingly presaging the Covid pandemic. As 2025 approaches I can feel the same apprehensions we might have felt then, had we known what lay ahead, as we do now.

Sadie and her Ol’ Roy toy

Aww, our Sadie, now 6 years old is also a rescue who rescued us in 2020. Our rescue day is December 8.