Judge, 1929-06-15 · page 18 of 36
Judge — June 15, 1929 — page 18: what you’re looking at
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This is a humorous advice column by Dr. Seuss from *Judge* magazine offering absurd "solutions" for vacationing pet owners. The satire works through deliberately impractical and ridiculous suggestions: **"The Seuss Rumble Seat"**: A car modification that comically crams every possible pet (canary, goldfish, hounds, rabbit, rattlesnake, ostrich) into an overflowing contraption—mocking the idea that pets should accompany vacationers. **Kittens in mothballs**: Dark humor suggesting storing cats like winter clothes using an impossible ratio ("one mothball to five hundred cats"), obviously lethal and absurd. **Guinea pigs in accordions**: Using an expandable instrument to transport animals, playing on the word "expansion." The point: vacation pet-care is genuinely complicated, and the column ridicules both overly-sentimental pet owners unwilling to leave animals behind and the impractical alternatives. Seuss uses exaggeration to highlight real vacation dilemmas for pet owners—boarding, kennels, and pet-sitters being inconvenient and anxiety-inducing.
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Vacationists! Are You Taking Your Pets Along? Some Summer Hints to Pet-Possessors By Dr. Seuss Off for the Holidays! What's a vacation if you les your pets behind you? With your canary and goldfish languishing with your landlady, your hounds board- ing in some forlorn old kennel, your rabbit ina rabbitry, your rattlesnake in a snakery, and your ostrich wan- dering mournfully about in Uncle Stanley's three-room flat—the whol family seems woefully torn asunder! Why not take them with you? The Seuss Rumble Seat will solve your vacation’s knottiest problem ! Packing Your Gui inea Pigs In transporting guinea pigs, the man of fore- sight will not use an ordi The proper thing is an old as it does for infinite expansi ry hand bag or grip. ccordion—allowing ion. JUDGE Are You Leaving Your Kittens at Home ? If your cats are too numerous to take along with you, put them away for the summer in moth balls! The proper proportion is one moth ball to five hundred cats. 6 comicbooks.com