Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for March 25, 2021

I dont get it

It’s going to take quite a while for Elvis to live this down…

“Oh, the shame of it all…”

Ah, the joy of a one-way conversation with a talky cat who’s trying to tell you something…or possibly just making noise because you are.

The man is unreliable….Elvis knew only too well. Getting a Big laugh from Puck’s feverish attempt to Get Help!

Now do you understand why Elvis told you to GO GET THE WOMAN?

This is why you Get. The. Woman.

The Man finds himself to be hilarious. Get the Woman!!

Clearly what this situation needs is MORE VOLUME. Sing it, Puck.

He cracks himself up! :D

That was Joel whose bosses shot him into space (even though he did a good job cleaning up the place.)

I’m surprised Puck realises it’s a cultural reference. Perhaps the fact that there was no Timmy around helped.

On a related note, and another cartoon, not done by our beloved Georgia Dunn, Timmy who yes is down a well tells Lassie to get help. Lassie runs off and goes to a therapist. While laying on the couch Lassie tells the therapist something like this " I love this boy and I take good care of him but he keeps falling down Wells and mine shafts and he keeps getting in trouble. It’s driving me nuts"

This is no laughing matter, Man! Timmy—err, Elvis—could be falling into a well right now!

Puck should do what dogs do, pull at the man’s pants. Meowing at the man would not be understandable.

Puck’s a lad, not a Lassie!

OK, Puck – go find one of the kids, tell your ‘tale’ and let them translate into ‘hooman’ then Dad will understand. The cats and kids understand each other.

OT: elbow reinforcement – is it a thing?

I don’t always get ankle reinforcement. Instead, I kneel on the floor to feed Missy. We have a little ball we put the dry cat food in and she has to roll it to get out the food, however, as I do so she nudges my elbow and the food spills out of the scoop.

Why does timmy do eerything

Just wait until Puck figures out that the man is laughing at him. There. Will. Be. Blood. (Or at least nothing but back until the man apologizes.

The Man used a dog reference! Shame on him!

We’re gonna need another Timmy! ;-)

This is just so funny on so many levels!

He loves to laugh

Loud and long and clear

He loves to laugh

Not knowing why Pucky is here

The more he laughs, the more he fills with glee

And the more the glee

The more he ignores cute Pucky, it’s embarrassing

And the more bad jokes ’bout Timmy

He loves to laugh

It’s too much, we fear

He loves to laugh

We hope that Elvis can’t hear

The more he laughs

The more time Elvis ain’t free

And the more not free

The more grumpy Elvis’ll be

(Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman – I Love to Laugh/Dick Van Dyke, Ed Wynn, Julie Andrews)

Seriously! What’s that from?

Puck, Elvis told you to get the Woman, not the Man! He even said he will bite the Man. He didn’t mention shredding the Man’s face with his claws, but that is assumed.

Didn’t you ever watch “Lassie”? Timmy was always falling into a well.

You all realize that I say the same thing to my cats when they walk up, look at me, and meow.

I thought I was being clever. not that I was perpetuating a cliché.

Puck, you may have to resort to removing a chunk of flesh from the man’s ankle in order to get him to focus.

Good news is, Elvis’s attitude towards the man couldn’t sour any more than they are now.

My partner was dropping a friend off at her house when a big white cat ran up to him and began meowing urgently. Of course he said “Has Timmy fallen down the well?” The cat ran a little distance and meowed some more. He followed the cat only to eventually realize they were walking in a big circle — he was following the cat and the cat was following him. And that’s how Albert A. Cat found his Man.

Strangely, My Cat tries to tell me about Timmy all the time. Coincidence? I think not. ;-)

I’m American but watch primarily British/Aussie tv shows. None of my friends get my references. :-( I remember watching Nick at Night in High School—Lassie was not one of my favs, but I loved me some Zorro!!! I even named my second car (a speedy black Acura) Tornado.

Maybe that’s why Elvis wanted him to get the woman…the man doesn’t have the awareness to realize that there is a problem. The woman would probably be more sensitive to Puck’s cry for help.

But then again, how dense do you have to be, to NOT pay attention to poor little Pucky!

There was a cartoon captioned “what if Timmy owned a cat” , where he is in trouble and begging the cat to go for help, and the cat is sitting there washing its paws.

Har har. Lemme get my camera.

True story: When I was a kid, we weren’t allowed to watch Lassie because it gave my sis nightmares. Yup, she’s a total softie that way… ¯\(ツ)/¯

I know this is a cat Orb, not a dog Orb, but I have to vent. Mickey is getting on my finest nerve. He play-bites constantly and, not terribly unlike the Great-Niece and Great-Nephew in Ohio, literally everything from Chapstick to paper clips to his own leash ends up in his mouth. I love this dog, but I feel like I’m devoting more of my workday hours to pulling him off the counter or the table, pulling things out of his mouth, and telling him to leave Maverick alone than I am actually working. (Side note: Maverick isn’t helping. He is clearly knowingly antagonizing Mickey at times.)

On the positive side, he does seem to have the housebreaking thing down pat. (Also positive: he is remarkably tolerant when I go fishing in his mouth to find what he’s chewing on this time.)

OK. End of rant. Also, my avatar is me on the Easter Bunny set. I’m wearing the ears because otherwise, you can’t see me from the other side of the counter with the computer screens in the way. Unfortunately, the picture is too small for you to see the Bunny Himself over my shoulder.

Hoo-ahh!! Easy solution: curtainectomy! Yep, clippers to the curtains, and littler clippers to cat toenails later! Yep: bing, bang, bosh! >^.^<

He’s a three-legged cat named Puck, not a charismatic border collie named Lassie, Man.

LASSIE !!! What a beautiful dog…

One of the obvious reasons Elvis didn’t want the man is he’s so dang patronizing. He’s making fun of Puck who is in genuine distress. Just because he doesn’t understand the problem doesn’t mean it’s not a problem. Grrrrr!

I remember Skippy! It was syndicated in the US and aired on our local non-network affiliated TV station. I am ashamed to say I still remember the words to the theme song and I started to sing it in my head when I read this comment.

“HA! I kill me!”

Poor Puck, stumped by an outdated cultural reference! I’ve never met him, but in real life “Timmy” is my second cousin. His mom came for a visit once when I was a small child but I had little interest in her because she neglected to bring Lassie with her (we actually had a collie and I wanted him to meet Lassie).

Poor Puck. He tries but the Man just doesn’t get it.

I do this to my cat all the time. She doesn’t get the reference either, but my husband does.

Time to put Lassie down, she knows too many secrets.

“Lassie, how do you think Timmy keeps getting into these situations? Times are tough, girl, and we can only afford to feed one of you! And frankly, you’re more useful and less annoying.”

Dear Puck, This is why you were supposed to go get the WOMAN!!!

Puck, you need to find that button under the desk that Lupin found. You know, the one that makes the Man scream.

Ha! the “did Timmy fall down the well?” question is pretty much a given in my house- when a cat comes around “meowing” for attention. Sometimes just a few “stomping” back and forths between rooms is enough to for me to ask the question (no audible meows necessary). The Annoying Little Animal would come around meowing and then once your attention was on him – he’d start walking towards were ever he wanted you to go. he’d stop and meow over his shoulder to ‘reinforce’ the Follow Me! He’s one of the cats I miss the most.

I use this same wording when the Big Gray Kitty is talking to me…

I never got used to Timmy. I’m in the Jeff generation. Cloris Leachman played Jeff’s mom.

When I was a kid, my family had more dogs than cats. In the early days when the road was a narrow tar and gravel country road, the dogs were free range. One day JoJo and Brownie went exploring the hundreds of acres of fields across the road. Awhile later, JoJo came back, but Brownie didn’t. JoJo kept barking and running towards the field then back to my dad. My dad followed him all the way to the tree line behind the fence on the far side of the field where he found Brownie with his front paw caught in a steel trap. Because the trap was relatively small and Dad got to him so quickly, Brownie did not sustain any permanent damage. I shudder to think of what would have happened to Brownie if my dad hadn’t followed JoJo’s lead.

I’ve always found Timmy should be on a leash or harness.

It’s curtains for you, Elvis! CURTAINS!!!

I used to perform in a commedia dell’arte troupe and while our plays had written plots (often complex ones), the lines were improvised. Our Arlecchino lost his voice before one show and we decided he’d pantomime his lines and the actors opposite him would interpret what he was “saying”. So, Arlecchino rushes on stage and begins gesticulating with urgency. One of the actors said “What’s that? Timmy needs a margarita?” It’s become a catch phrase ever since.

People paid attention to this amazing dog!

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/lucky-clover-family-dog-stops-traffic-in-ottawa-neighbourhood-to-help-owner-during-a-medical-emergency-1.5354739

My cat and I do the same thing but all he ever wants is more food

Cats don’t scour the Internet looking for “Lassie” reruns. Timmy has fallen into the well of defunct tropes.

“Elvis is stuck on the curtains” should be the new “Timmy is trapped in the well”.

He should’ve listened to Elvis.

I’m surprised no one has mentioned the Man is pounding his knee in the last panel. ;-)

OT: Outpatient is back in

This is so awesome! LOL When my cat gets all frantic and trying to meow me into the room he wants me to go to, I ask him, “What is it, Lassie? Does Timmy need his foodies?” LOL

I’m always surprised when the youngsters in my Aikido class understand “wax on, wax off”. They might not know where it comes from, though. But I get blank looks when I call them “Grasshopper”.

Reunited after 5 years:

https://news.yahoo.com/cat-went-missing-kentucky-five-221653863.html

Timmy sure could get into a lot of trouble. Lassie’s original ower, Joe/Roddy in Lassie Come Home, never had such misadventures

MINECRAFT REFERANCE!?