Marmaduke's Owner-Lady is showing signs of awareness for the first time in years. She will need to be reconditioned in Marmaduke's House of Horrors.

Marmaduke, affectionately called Marm by Owner-Lady, has lost Owner-Man on the daily walk. Owner-Lady wants to know where Marm thinks all his Owner-Men come from because she has to clone him everytime Marm kills him or cripples him and leaves him to die.

Marmaduke waited to eat his Barfo brand dogfood so as to annoy his owner's to the fullest.

Isn't he just the most devious dog there is?

Marmaduke has been mistaken for a human criminal by the police and judicial system in his town. At least they got one part right.

Marmaduke plans on taking a new route for his daily drag Owner-Man hour, aka walk. Owner-Man fears that the new route will take them deep into the ocean and that the Coast Guard should be notified if they do not return. But Marmaduke isn't so stupid as to endanger his own life, he's merely taking Owner-Man to a secluded place where things shall be done. Only Marmaduke knows for sure what they might be.

Or

Marmaduke's Owner-Man is exaggerating how much it is raining.