Original Commentary

These two are so adorable, and yet so sad... although they almost look like father and daughter in panel three- which I'm sure is probably part of the problem for Dr. Paul and his feelings for her.

I recall hearing about there being volunteers needed to pet kittens so they will take kindly to humans later in life... I always thought that was painfully cute, and a great way to get volunteer work done.

Modern Commentary
Nowadays, I'm sure your animal shelter volunteers also spend time photographing the animals and maybe writing up a bit about them for the social media.

I mean, the shelters around here just list the gender and color and maybe a name. But you hear about folks who write up a bit about how amazing it would be to adopt this particular dog or cat - Terrence