I don’t remember the date of strip when Monty first began in GoComics, I just know that I’m about halfway through and still have 13 years of strips to enjoy before I catch up with today. :-)
The ever-smaller puppets remind me of what has been said about fleas: “Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ’em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.” Surprisingly, Fleshy is quite flea resistant… they have no place to hide! ;-)
Species dysphoria? Or maybe distemper? I’m afraid Timmy is one sick puppy…