Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for November 26, 2023

If no one was going to translate, Ora Zella looks like she was going to eat it. Or possibly the crayon.

So Glad Ora Zella and Iggy could help. They are great purrrrrralegals! And it is a perfectly reasonable contract!

Watch those kids. That calligraphy is one of the first steps to interdimensional travel.

“Swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb.”

The Boy is a station associate and Expert!

Moon eh. Why goes ahead. Just not claims Mars or you be making Marvin very very mad.

Sunday Funday: Or any good news before Monday.

Pucky and Goldie toebeans! Can’t tell if they are showing on OZ or not….

I’m surprised Elvis didn’t sign immediately. That’s his Girl.

Ora Zella wrote her name on the back; does that count as signing?♥

Go ahead and sign. What have you got to lose?

Based on real life experience, I suppose.

Continuing the topic of the BCN version of that tragic tale of a decent man who is hounded into madness by ghosts, there are some relevant drawings on the BCN site. Go to “Freebies” and scroll down.

That’s classic.

Purrfectly reasonable. Especially the bit where she now owns the moon. A small price to pay for Christmas everyday and candy for the masses. (ﾐゝᆽ╹ﾐ)

Quick question: How will you celebrate Christmas?

Count on Detective Goldie to discover the facts: Those aren’t words!

Even a, Pucky Chart, would not explain this! Thank goodness for the resident translator!

I love the strips that feature the children; always a refreshing point of view and they are both so creative.

All right, every cat line up and put your paw print on it.

Both Iggy and OZ have pens ready.

Wow, angry Goldie! Looks like OZ and Iggy are ready to sign (before reading). And of course, Elvis is 110% behind the Girl’s contract.

OT: Gotcha Day!

I’d sign that contract in a minute.

Mouse is currently trying to tunnel through the front door, for some catly reason only Ceiling Cat knows.

No Sunday Fun Day for us. Hubs has a cold, we think. Doesn’t have the right symptoms for the C-virus, but, we can’t be sure until we can get some tests. (He realized he was sick too late to get any last night.) We had two of our friends over for Turkey Day. Gonna be two fun phone calls to come, even if it IS just a cold.

Elvis is a great attorney

Girl and cats must make a pact

To bring them candy by the sack

She’ll own the moon, but will prob’ly share (maybe share)

Cats reach out a paw to her

They want the Yule gifts that they prefer

Will sign their names because they care (much love and care)

It will fill their days with joy and laughter

Signatures, yes, Girl, are all she’s after

Apple pie means validity everywhere

With a lovely spice scent in the air

It’s stuck there to protect them (Yeah, baby)

With an unselfish love that respects them

After they sign, Christmas is there (Always be there)

- Hal Davis / Willie Hutch / Berry Gordy / Bob West – “I’ll Be There” – The Jackson 5

aw, just like calvin and hobbes!

This could end up at SCOTUS.

Come on Goldie, it has the apple pie-scented sticker of approval. What more do you need?

Quick little appearance by Iggy in Panel 8.

Every Cat and Child present and accounted for; even Pengo!

It’s more comprehensible than most contracts, really.

Thank you for translating her contract, Boy. I would sign it in a heartbeat.

O.T. – Marty Kroft

I know that this isn’t a big deal or part of the wonderful storyline, but I don’t understand Pucky’s clothing in panel 8 and it’s bugging me… Where’s his collar? Where’s his tie? The green that’s below the white and surrounds Iggy’s pen is the color of Pucky’s tie, but it doesn’t make any sense where it is… Help, please!

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Elvis-Anum: It’s good to see you, Mag-Lor. You have a very interesting story to tell.

Mag-Lor: I’m glad you can translate it from Tengwar into hieroglyphs.

Beatrixia: Your translated scrolls are in the Very Good Library.

Mag-Lor: And the originals I keep in the box Iggy created.

Bea: I remember that. He gave it to your father to keep the silmarils in.

Mag-Lor: Now it houses an even greater treasure.

Elvis: I found a Tengwar scroll I’m having a bit of difficulty translating. It appears to mention the moon.

Mag-Lor: So it does. This looks like a deed to the moon.

Bea: But no one owns the moon.

Mag-Lor: I would say we all do.

OT raccoons PSAWashington Post has an article today about a small kitten found as a stray in the Omaha NE area who was sickly when found and died but was tested for rabies because of her symptoms. She had a strain of rabies that is normally found in raccoons east of the Mississippi. A huge vaccination effort for raccoons in the Omaha area is underway and they are collecting and testing as many roadkill raccoons as possible. So far, the dead animals have all been negative but the live vax and dead testing will continue for some time. If it takes hold in the wild raccoon population it could spread to surrounding states within 5 years or less.

https://www.washingtonpost. com/health/2023/11/26/rabies-kitten-omaha-raccoon/As usual remove the space before com. I was logged in as a subscriber so I am not sure if it will be available but the newspapers often allow a free article or two so worth a try.

We have all been rooting for the BCN raccoons but this is a potential danger not just for raccoons but other wildlife like foxes and both feral and domestic cats and dogs. Many Orbsters work with feral cat colonies and wildlife rehab, so I thought it would be a good idea to pass this info along especially to all in Nebraska, Kansas, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa and other central Midwestern US states.

When my wife and her brother were 3 and 4 they had a serious argument as to whether “real writing” was squiggly lines or jagged straight lines. My wife argued for squiggly.

Quiet celebration with my SO and grown son. Well open the one gift we give each other, usually something njce. Both wanted Baerskin hoodies, we have an outdoor tree we cut from our fir grove, as an exercise bicycle now occupies that space. Nobody uses it. Then Prime Rib dinner

OT: Slightly. Ora Zella has been immortalized:

https://i.etsystatic.Com/17522452/r/il/5111a3/3442760389/il_1588xN.3442760389_28md.jpg

Baby FANGS!!!!! And the two kittens with markers….

The kittens (ok, small cats) are ready to sign regardless.

(Someone make sure they don’t eat the crayons!)

One of my favorite poems (which is now in the public domain, so I can share it.)

Silver

—Walter de la Mare

Slowly, silently, now the moon

Walks the night in her silver shoon;

This way, and that, she peers, and sees

Silver fruit upon silver trees;

One by one the casements catch

Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;

Couched in his kennel, like a log,

With paws of silver sleeps the dog;

From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep

Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep;

A harvest mouse goes scampering by,

With silver claws and a silver eye;

And moveless fish in the water gleam,

By silver reeds in a silver stream.

OT: Georgia on today’s comic “The Girl really did do this earlier in the year. Being older in real life than she is in the comic (she is eight now, if you can believe it!) she was able to express herself better, and claimed her scribbles were “a code.” She was annoyed when no one would sign, but finally her toy fox Pippa gave in. The Boy and I still don’t know what Pippa agreed to, lol!”

I adore legal humor. I’m going to try to show it to Steve G in heaven (who is probably very happy he’ll never have to do legal stuff again). If I hear back from him, I’ll let you know.

Look at how old the kids are! the boy can speak fluently! he must be what, 5-6? so cute!