Nine Far Side Strips Where Cats Play the Villain

This list highlights nine Far Side comics in which Gary Larson portrays cats as villains or victims. The strips show cats ignoring owners, destroying property, and attacking people, contrasting with Larson's more sympathetic depictions of cows. The article argues that cats rarely appear as heroes in the comic.

The source notes that Gary Larson’s Far Side often presents cows as lovable, even when they scheme against a farmer. By contrast, the article argues, his cats appear only as wrongdoers or sufferers. The nine selected strips are said to represent one for each of a cat’s traditional nine lives.

Examples include a cat ignoring its owner, a cat that dynamites a birdcage, a cat attacking its household, driving cats, gangster cats shooting a doghouse, mice trapped in a gumball machine, a dog tricking someone into rescuing a cat, and a declawed cat returning to an eager dog.