Housepets!

Welp, there goes the deposit.

How it feels not only to see an explosion but knowing that the spa is finally gone.

I'm curious how this is meant to make anything better. Now he just destroyed a spa and caused a bunch of water damage to the neighborhood. He could easily still go to jail for both.

Huh... so it did had a self destruct feature. I hope you give them a 5/5 star review Keene

IceKitsune wrote:I'm curious how this is meant to make anything better. Now he just destroyed a spa and caused a bunch of water damage to the neighborhood. He could easily still go to jail for both.

Well the K-9 unit could've been trapped in there and they got blasted off from the explosion.

The next strip will probably be Ralph soaking wet, staring down at him while Keene gives some flimsy reasoning for how he is NOT going to jail for this.

Seriously, all those pets but not a single human. How did not a single human go into the spa even out of curiosity? I mean a spa was parked in the middle of the neighborhood and all the pets were there. I would have gone in there just to see what was going on.

Is that Itsuki in the fleeing crowd (second from the right in the foreground)? For people trying to pin a timeline on this, I would like to point out there is no snow on the ground whatsoever.

Alright, I think the next stop for the K-9's investigation needs to be this spa company, if they literally have a self-destruct feature built into their stuff.

The biggest waterbomb in the whole world
is one way to make things go off, Ka-bloosh.
It deals with the parking problem right off
and annoying Ralph is the Cherry on top –
and that one just happens to be a Kirsch.
After the time in the spa, they’re all wet
and confused, waiting for what will drop next.
We see them all escape, well, we do hope…
Maybe there was someone swimming under
who’ll rise up dizzy and all perplexed?
Anyhow, Ralph, Keene’s moved the spa on,
unblocking a street no-one was using;
One thing rings clear in all this palava
as you pursued him with a Fine desire.
You found out that he’s not used to losing.

Never trust anything Keene buys anymore.

Hope he saved the warranty.

I thought he was renting that. Well I guess when you're Milton rich you're not too concerned about getting your deposit back.

At least Keene dealt with the traffic blockage caused by the gigantic mobile spa.
So he doesn't need to pay a fine for that

HundKatzeMaus wrote:At least Keene dealt with the traffic blockage caused by the gigantic mobile spa.
So he doesn't need to pay a fine for that

Now he's guilty of littering

Not the way I expected the spa to end, but ok. Keene's always inventing new ways of breaking the law

Hold on a minute...in the last strip Ralph was just standing around instead of running away..was he caught up in the explosion?

Gotta say, this strip (specifically panel 2) reminds me of the Tom Hanks movie 'The Money Pit'.

Okay, this spa was way bigger on the outside than I was thinking.

So anyone find the silhouettes you can tell whose who a little funny? Jessica’s looks extremely annoyed rather than scared. I know the idea of a spa service putting in a self destruction sequence is ludicrous, but I’m suddenly realizing if it was built with it as s feature it might not be illegal for Keene to detonate it in the Housepets universe... Ralph now has more of a reason for getting handcuff happy, but still, something neat to think about

Gameb18oy wrote:I know the idea of a spa service putting in a self destruction sequence is ludicrous, but I’m suddenly realizing if it was built with it as s feature it might not be illegal for Keene to detonate it in the Housepets universe... Ralph now has more of a reason for getting handcuff happy, but still, something neat to think about

That or the spa company just caters specifically to the Bruce Wayne grade of obscenely rich eccentrics, for whom stuff like self-destruct buttons are par for the course, terms like "overkill" and "practicality" are unheard of, and "legality" is considered a nebulous concept at best.

Wait, I thought Keen was just renting this place.

Nobody wrote:Wait, I thought Keen was just renting this place.

They were foolish if they thought they’d get a building back from the Miltons. The only reason they haven’t likely exploded the mansion is sentimental value

To the parking ticket, add littering - over the entire county; also illegal water discharge, operating fireworks without a permit, and probably excavation duties given the crater that explosion must have left. Poor Keene - but not very.

… and it was a heck of a crowd scene, Rick!! Wowsers, fella.

Well, it's not blocking the street anymore.

The collars!!!

So, would all the pets now be arrestable for being outside without wearing a license?

Gameb18oy wrote:

Nobody wrote:Wait, I thought Keen was just renting this place.

They were foolish if they thought they’d get a building back from the Miltons. The only reason they haven’t likely exploded the mansion is sentimental value

I’d like to think Jeeves has something to do with that. Plus all their stuff is there.

Douglas Collier wrote:So, would all the pets now be arrestable for being outside without wearing a license?

I doubt it. I don’t think anyone would actually care enough to bother to try anything and they are on private property.

The animals could also argue that they were in fear for their lives because of the alarm Keene pulled so they didn’t have time to grab their collars. I think the most Ralph will do is either call or have them call their parents/owners or other responsible party so they can be be picked up. (Such as the Sandwich parents for Maxwell and Tarot or Mr. Byron for Sabrina.) As for Keene, he isn’t, you’ll pardon the pun, out of hot water, yet. Ralph could charge with endangering the lives of the animals at the spa, and destruction of property, if he leased the spa.

Wow! That wasn't a fire alarm, but a water bomb detonator... The spa owners will be really angry at this, and will let you pay more than imagined, Keene... And, looks that there was even an hundred of pets in it. The missing collar is the last of the problems right now...

This is exactly why you're supposed to cuff them with their hands behind their backs, Ralph.

I just got the joke in the title. Keene has a thing for destroying buildings with explooshions.

Now I REALLY hope that there is no way that Keene gets off unless Ralph decides that there is no more spa so no problem he has to deal with.

Still, Keene still could be liable for the property damage when the wreckage rains down and flooding the streets making them icy and more likely for people to trip.

From spa to skating rink … the lad's an architectural genius. and a menace.

"Raaaining, rain from the skies … Raaaaining, tears from my eyes … over eyouuuuuuuu, raaaining. Raaainin' on prom night, raaainnnnnn'" Okay. I'm better now...

If the owners didn't come out and wonder why there was a spa blocking the street, then I hope they will come out and wonder why debris has damaged their property.

I’ve given up all hope for the owners at this point.

fenrirblack wrote:I’ve given up all hope for the owners at this point.

They probably aren’t gonna show up until either the arc before the coin appears, or just when it does. That thing isn’t gonna have any impact if it changes some rando into an animal

At this point I'm thinking it will be some rando who gets it. Be easier to create a entirely new character instead of dealing with the consequences of having a recurring character changed.

Unless everyone ate those pizzas already... RIP Pizzas.