Nate thinks of this as a humiliation because he is constantly proclaiming that dogs are superior to cats yet this time he needed Pickles to save him. Between the last panel and the penultimate panel, Nate must’ve been vacillating as he was in a quandary; he could either not accept Pickles help and still say that dogs are superior or he could accept the help of Francis’s cat and be humiliated should anyone ever see this and bring it up.
Nate thinks of this as a humiliation because he is constantly proclaiming that dogs are superior to cats yet this time he needed Pickles to save him. Between the last panel and the penultimate panel, Nate must’ve been vacillating as he was in a quandary; he could either not accept Pickles help and still say that dogs are superior or he could accept the help of Francis’s cat and be humiliated should anyone ever see this and bring it up.