Questions about particular animals are sometimes answered by the strip's other characters, Rosko the cat, Mouth the myna bird, and Slippy the flying squirrel.

The strips generally featured a joke of some sort about the subject animal in addition to providing an accurate answer to the day's question.

(For example, one strip answered a question about hamsters storing food in their cheeks and then compared it to a human carrying their money in their mouths.

His Shagg E. Dawg character was used on information cards about endangered species that were included with kid's meals from Wendy's fast-food restaurants in 1993.

[4] Guren launched his first Ask Shagg website in May 1996 and began putting the site's address in the newspaper version of his strip.