Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for June 10, 2021

I bet Tortimer comes out of all this wearing Lupin’s hat.

How DARE you suggest he learned anything!

Well, Lupin’s also very honest.

YEE HAW! YaHOOEY! Roomba Rodeo. Get ’im, Cow Cat!

He’ll die with his boots on!

I’m getting dizzy just looking at that!

Puck will gentle him with kindness as he always does.

I’ll go down swinging. With lotsa lasso, Va Roomba, and lotsa mad mad spinning.

But did he stay on for 8 seconds?

OT: Personal Loss

At least Lupin is honest with himself. And, he’s having fun.

I’d love to see a video of Georgia drawing Lupin spinning, it looks soooo cool!!!

Elvis, is that optimism or sarcasm?

Ride ’em, cowcat!

Great Cat! That is one, upside-down, folded-over cat! And I’m not sure we’ve ever seen Elvis’s ears slicked down so tight!

Better start putting up videos….

We’ve been waiting to see Tortimer in a little hat. I have a feeling he’s going to be riding off to the docking station wearing Lupin’s cowboy hat!

Oh, no jellybean toes.

Is Elvis upset because he’s too “dignified” to ride that lil’ doggie? Lupin’s got great form!

Lupin ….great job with your lasso.

Local cat is also aware of his inability to learn his lesson.

My life motto.

Upside-down Lupin. Wow. Just…wow.

Brilliant! Simply Brilliant. Especially the Roomba tornado…

It just takes practice, Lupin! You’ll ride Tortimer yet!

On his next ride, maybe he should grip the rope in his teeth (to hold it tight) once Tortimer’s caught, and then dig his claws into the circle of rope @ 4 points around the circumference for a better/longer hold???? (Though that wouldn’t prevent the spinning…)

And hooray for Lupin-fangs!!!

You know what they say, Lupin. If you get thrown, “Get back on the vacuum.”

You know as soon as the room stops spinning that Lupin will be raring to get back on.

Music for Lupin to ride by – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v40IjawyW2k

Round and round and round he goes. Where he’ll stop …. well, actually we can see that.

Lupin – “I regret nothing!!”

Lupin, you make that look like a lot of fun. If I were a little younger and a whole lot smaller, I’d consider joining you.

Sung by Johnny Cash and others: Ghost Riders in the Sky

The robot vac was runnin’ by doing his job cleaning the floor

When along came a cowboy cat a-sneaking through the door

The cowcat had a rope it seemed, and Tortimer could see

That Lupin was gonna hitch a ride,

But that could never be!

…….

The robot vac was feeling hurt, because what Elvis said,

He just wanted to clean the floor, no need to be misled,

And now along comes Lupin, the hardest thing to take

And T made up his mind to show,

Lupin made a big mistake!

…….

Yippee ay—aye Yippee ay—oh

Vac rider on the floor!

…….

Tortie ran all up and down, but Lupin stayed aboard,

Then he went around and round, and it went all untoward,

And finally he did succeed, and Lupin he did throw,

Did Lupin learn his lesson? The answer we all know!

…….

Yippee ay—aye Yippee ay—oh

Vac rider on the floor!

Speaking of not learning from the past.

Our dog, Iko, met a skunk in our back yard about four years ago and lost. At that time, our daughter, Alexandria, let the dog back into the house despite the smell. Jumping ahead to last night…yeah, you know where this is going…Iko vs. skunk Part II. And, again, my recent high-school graduate ( FourA’s, Three A+’s, 3.67 cumulative GPA, and on her way to college in the fall ) let the skunk dog back into the house. I was in bed, sound asleep, and the odor woke me up. Have you ever washed a skunked dog on the driveway at midnight with a garden hose?

The result? I overslept my alarm this morning, and that hasn’t happened in years. Furthermore, our house is sporting a fabulous bouquet of wild, mid-west Mephitidae. Finally, we are two days away from Alex’s graduation party, with a houseful of guests expected.

On the other hand, I do have a funny story for the next book…

Puss n Boots

Lupin’s getting better at it. He stayed on longer this time!

Education can be painful.

Yee-hah!

Called it. Bets on how long he goes before attacking it again? Mine is 2 days

You’ve really outdone yourself today, Georgia!

I can’t ‘time’ his ride in the strip viewpoint, but I’m sure Lupin did NOT reach or pass the Eight (8) Second mark for ‘Roomba Riding’ !!

It’s all in “Da Rules” !! … After all, I AM C-t-E !! … ;)

I would share the cautionary advice of … ’Don’t Try This At Home’! … BUT …

… This IS Lupin … (and we KNOW where he lives)! … :)

Maybe Lupin and Tortimer can come to some sort of agreement. Lupin doesn’t try to ride it when it is doing its job, after all who likes to be disturbed when they are busy working, and Tortimer lets Lupin take rides after it is done cleaning.

Most cats have a natural fear of objects that move when they step on them (probably has to do with snakes and cucumbers). In fact, I had a cat that purred so loudly at the vet’s, he put her on a wobbly scale to stop her purring. However, the one thing The Cat is known for is exceptions. I had one cat, Vivekat, who would greet me from the roof when I came home. One day I held up an closed, empty cardboard box. She stepped onto it and rode it down like an elevator. It became part of our homecoming ritual.

the lasso-n (haha pun) was to don’t lasso a speedy, uh, vacuum thingy.

Maybe there will come a time when all the cats come to an understanding with Tortimer, and gentle rides will be freely given…

singsong what did IIIIII tellll youuuuuuuuu

“I’ve learned nothing and you KNOW it!”I have a new motto!

Lupin knows himself. Living proof that insight is often useless.

I really want to be able to use Lupin’s line one day… I did get to use the line " A llama told me.." on someone asking for directions once. They just looked at me rather confused while I cracked up laughing.

Frame missing : [BARF!]

Lupin got thrown but he kept his boots on! What a cowcat!

OK Georgia, we need a YouTube video.

Called it! :)

Lupin looks hilarious in the last panel.

By the time I get here, there are too many comments to read through, so if someone already pointed this out, I apologize. Elvis has his back to Lupin, how does Lupin know what Elvis said?

Silly Elvis, you should know that Lupin wouldn’t learn anything. He will probably go back at it later.

in the last panel, are those boots or socks on Lupin’s feet?

I was thinking w/ the hat gone too, he might have gone lull blown “yard sale”.

Good job Lupin not learning anything, it makes BCN very interesting.

(In response to the spinning image on the right side of panel 2 … )

WHEE! Faster—faster!

Fun.

Yee-haw!

“I’ve learned nothing and you know it!” Brilliant.