NOTE: Multiple readers claimed that the mouse in last week’s puzzle looked like a teddy bear. (I maintained that it was a mouse, because that’s what the artist said it was, and I tend to be a stickler about these things.) Luckily for everyone, the mouse in this week’s puzzle is much more mouselike. See if you can find it lurking among the squirrels.
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Home sweet home
Bob's sister Hannah
Bob's sister Ada
Bob's brother Otto
Bob's sister Eve
Bob's sister Nan
A baby picture of Bob and his siblings (clockwise from upper left: Otto, Eve, Hannah, Ada, Bob, and Nan)
Bob's childhood home
Bob's mom and dad
Bob in his youth
Bob's cousin Alphonse
Bob's Uncle Ralph and Aunt Edna
Bob's cousin Archibald
Bob's stepbrother Herbie (who really needs to quit smoking)
Bob's cousin Chester
Bob's Great Uncle Norbert and Great Aunt Phyllis
Bob's cousin Saffron (who will do anything for a drink)
Bob's cousin Thorndike
Bob's brother-in-law Vinnie
Bob's cousin Orville, who loves the Green Bay Packers
Bob's nieces Lulu and Bitsy, the biker chicks
Bob's stepsister Eloise, with the twins, Rudy and Trudy
Bob's Uncle Henry and Aunt Rowena
Bob's niece Esmerelda (who likes to live dangerously)
Bob's Great Uncle Arthur up in Saskatchewan
Bob's cousin Louie, the grackle of grumpiness
Miss Screech, Bob's journalism teacher
Bob's nephew Winthrop, who loves sports
Bob's Uncle Seymour and Aunt Bernice
Bob's second cousin Schlomo in Brooklyn
Bob's nephew Baxter
Bob's cousin Darrell
Nigel, Bob's pen pal in New Zealand
Bob's sister-in-law Delphine, who volunteers at the animal shelter
Percy the Pickpocket, Bob's third cousin once removed (the relative no one likes to talk about... every family has one)
The Bluebird of Happiness™ (no relation to Bob)
A pair of boobies (also no relation to Bob, but included for readers who desire titillation)
A pair of tits (in case the boobies were insufficiently titillating)
Bluebird Bitter™, the beer they named for Bob
But those squirrels look a lot like kittens.
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That was my thought, too, HAT. Sure, that looks like a mouse (once I found it), but, those are supposed to be squirrels? They look like cats. 😀
Okay, they’re squirrels, because the artist said so and Bluebird is a stickler.
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After so many people thought the squirrels looked like kittens, I looked at the picture again, and they started to look like baby foxes to me.
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They’re squirrecats! 😀
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This whole discussion has gotten a little squirrelly.
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Humph! Nuts to that, I say. 😀
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Squirrels??
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Okay, try this:
Rodents with fluffy tails.
Yer welcome!
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Just when I thought I was going to have to give up, I found him.
Squirrels, though? Really? They look like kittens to me.
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But if they were kittens, they would have whiskers, and they probably wouldn’t have such fluffy tails (unless they were Persians).
And although kittens sometimes stand up on their hind legs, it isn’t their usual stance. That’s the tipoff that they’re really squirrels. 🙂
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Lol. Thanks. I think 😉
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Also, if those were cats, I don’t think the mouse would be smiling.
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You’ve got a point!
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It took me a minute but I found it! Cute drawing! I like all the small details of the squirrels doing different things and interacting with each other.
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I love this artist — his creatures are so whimsical and have so much personality. 🙂
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Found it! At first, I was all huh these don’t even look like squirrels, but then I focused on tails…
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Good strategy. 🙂
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Look for the rounded ears!
Easy-peasy.
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I would never have found it if you hadn’t said that! 🙌🏽😃
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Found it!! Yay!! 😉
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Got him! Wow. He blends. Totally.
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It took a while until I focused on the ears. Now I am suffering from eye strain (a slight exaggeration).
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I thought they looked like elephants, but I am drunk!
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But aren’t elephants afraid of mice?
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Yes. If you look now you will find they have stampeded!
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Found it! 😀 … love the skwrl with the top hat – puttin ‘on the ritz! 😀
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😀
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I’m inordinately proud of myself for locating the mouse. 🙂
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As well you should be. 🙂
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Happy Christmass to you all.
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The squirrels look like cats…
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