Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for January 25, 2020

Good question for a book store cat to research!

Lupin has a point.

Spiders have fangs, I think?

Good pass, Puck.

“My dog has no nose”

“How does he smell?”

“Terrible!”

Georgia posted a question the other day on Facebook asking for people’s favorite comics from 2019 because she needed to pick out 8 to submit for the 2019 NCS Awards. She has already picked these 8:

https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2019/01/13

https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2019/01/20

https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2019/02/22

https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2019/04/30

https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2019/05/23

https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2019/08/11

https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2019/11/03

https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2019/11/28

But I thought it would be interesting to hear from everyone what their favorites were for 2019. I am glad she included the Sunday with Sophie strip because that is one of my all time favorites.

I don’t think you want to know how they bite, Lupin. It creeps me out just thinking about it.

I like spiders. They capture bugs that I don’t like in their webs. I had a spider as a pet years ago. It made it’s home in my bathroom. Not many bugs would find their way in that room so I wanted to help the spider live. I would catch moths and bring the live moths to the spider. She would race across the web and take the moths from my fingers. She lived for weeks, laid her eggs in her sack, the little ones were born and you know how the little spiders get their start if you’re familiar with the book or movie Charlotte’s Web.

Puck doesn’t know? They drive their fangs into you, inject venom, and then, after you die, suck up the juices and flesh that is decomposing as a result of the venom. Just the thing for a chart!

Here you go! Enjoy!

https://animals.howstuffworks.com/arachnids/spider7.htm

love Rose is Rose today https://www.gocomics.com/mycomics/1206437

Puck apparently needs to talk off-camera for a bit. And, as he knows Lupin won’t listen, he needs to be EXTREMELY CLEAR on this. In Lupin’s face, so to speak.

Spiders have tiny daggers

Nom Nom, Spider Treats-Buy our snacks- Eat em’ now- Before they all bite back!

A few years ago, I accidentally left my garden gloves in a bed of flowers. I shook them and put them on but, a few seconds later, I felt something pinching my hand. I peeled the glove back and there, inside, was a large white spider! I did not scream or try to kill it… I like spiders and wanted them in my garden. So I lowered my hand so that the spider could crawl out and onto a rose bush. It only bit me hard enough to let me know that it was in there!

Good job, Puck. Keep it moving.

Teeth, stingers, tiny daggers. Details, schmetails.

I know that spiders are useful, but I still have arachnophobia. I leave spider catching to Paul; he puts them in a tissue and releases them outside.

Lupin Toe Beans!

we need a chart of some kind to clear this up!

Quick Boys, check under the frig to see if there’s anything else to play with.

♪ Spider Treats, Spider Treats, the treat the kitties all like to eat.

Tasty and delicious, too.

No teeth or stings like the bees all do!

Look out, let’s have some Spider Treats!

…….

In the running at night, just around 2 am,

Like a streak of light,

A refreshing snack cats demand!

…….

Spider Treats, Spider Treats

Tasty and delicious to eat!

Do the cats all demand,

The Nom Nom flavor from arachnid land?

To them, after they have a nibble,

After a bowl of kibble,

They want their Spider Treats!

O.T. Plwismom, yesterday, you said you’re celebrating your 70th Birthday this weekend. I just wanted to belatedly wish you a Happy Birthday. When I turned 70, I decided to brag about reaching that age. It’s an accomplishment to live for 70 years!

I’m sure Elvis will have the answer. He’s the Top Cat in the pink house.

Someone asked earlier how I’ve mainly gotten over my fear of spiders. Family members who are terrified of them need to be rescued, and I’m the elder so that’s me, lots of proximity to them as a gardener, and I made the inside of my house a spider-free zone so I’m not constantly on alert or surprised by them. Everyone needs a safe space. My niece lived with me for several years because of a new job and the local cost of housing. One morning, I woke to find a plastic container on the kitchen floor with a Post It note on top telling me that she’d let in a spider when she’d come in from work. I sighed. Like weenie mother, like weenie daugher.

Spiders give me the heebie-jeebies.

Another question for Cat Science.

And Happy Chinese/Lunar Year to any Rats out there! My Year (Pig) just ended.

Spiders bite, Lupin is right.

Puck realizes the ‘No Win’ sitch here! "I got nuthin’, Elvis! TAKE IT !! " :)

Lupin good question. They do bite so how?

Happy Opposite Day, and Happy Lunar New Year! Does that make this Old Solar Year?

Thank you to all for the Happy Birthday wishes yesterday! It was a nice day of celebration to be continued today and tomorrow. So grateful for the Orb and all its caring Orbsters! ♥

They use their chelicerae (yes, I had to look that up, I was expecting fangs or mandibles)

Our chart of dangerous spiders was on February 18, 2018. Remember: it is the spider way…

Best group photo of the Fab Four Felines ever!

https://www.instagram.com/p/B7wM0IrJhdN/

No answers? Throw it back to Elvis!

(Though really, they should consult Beatrix of the bookstore!)