Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for July 18, 2021

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Hey, Thimblefist!

Aww, that sneeze was enough to make Homestyle’s reply all caps, too. LOL.

Muf guft stts snfft.

Cracked up so loud on those last two panels. Aww Thimblefists the Shoutmunk just how much can you stuff in there.

You know, I’ve read that a lot of trees are planted because of squirrels burying nuts and then forgetting where they buried them!

Ewwww! :-)

How many trees are planted because an overstuffed chipmunk sneezed acorns?

SUNDAY FUNDAY TIME

Few people can really rock a sun visor. Tommy looks good in everything.♥ (Homestyle’s industriousness puts me in mind of one of my favourite viral animal videos, “Squirrel hides nuts in a Bernese Mountain dog’s fur”. Google it. It’s darling.)

Winter’s already here? Darn. Another year just went by and I didn’t knews at all.

Aww, Homestyle, Tommy wouldn’t tell anyone!

OT – a truly wonderful cat!

Nothing like preparing well ahead of time! Unless you’re already buying Christmas gifts, in which case cool it already, you’re making everyone else tired.

Why does Thimblefist live in a can? Somehow, I guess, I missed the origin of his life.

I didn’t know cats liked to drink pink lemonade. Or is that iced tuna water our Tommy is sipping?

And here you see the difference between a ranger and a barbarian

X marks the spot, the squirrels in my yard should be so smart, lol

Little tiny tin can suits! How adorable!!

Homestyle is a good squirrel. She helped save Bea last summer.

Where’s jules if it’s July?

Nilsson: Coconut

Homestyle saved acorns and nuts

She saved for wintertime

She explained it all to Tommy, she said

I got to bury the the summer nuts

‘Cause winter’s gonna come

I got to bury the summer nuts

I got to save me some

I got to bury the summer nuts

Along came Thimblefist, the cute chipmunk!

He said “Tommy, I save the nuts, can you tell”

He said, “Tommy, I stuff them in my mouth as well”

Tommy said, “Now let me get this straight”

Homestyle buries acorns and nuts to save them for the winter

Thimblefist eats up all the nuts and stores them for dinner,

Just be careful if you feel a sneeze coming on!

If you feel a sneeze come on, we must get out of the way!

If you feel a sneeze come on, we must get out of the way!

If you feel a sneeze come on, we must get out of the way!

I see that pun in the last panel Gloria!

Well they’re storin’ on up,

On the east coast

When those deluxe nuts fall from the sky

Storin’ on up

For the lean times

They’re busy collectin’ snacks in July

Homestyle don’t rest in the summer;

T-fist don’t know how to chill

Took a whole lotta tryin’

Got stretchy cheeks to fill

Now he’s up for a big sneeze

Nuts all blown just like that

As long as he lives, he’ll keep shoutin’, baby

There ain’t nothin’ wrong with that

Well he’s pickin’ them up,

By Tommy’s side

When his sneeze blew out his whole supply

Pickin’ them up

For the second time

A loud yet persistent little guy

(Jeff Barry / Ja’net Dubois – the jeffersons theme song – movin’ on up)

Thimblefist – gesundheit!

Homestyle has a charming poetical way of speaking.

“No one must ever know …” so I’ll mark it with an X.

It’s hard to cover your face with thimble fists.

I can’t remember who mentioned this, but whoever did, thank you. This is the first time that I have realized that Homestyle is a girl. And it is the little eyelash hint that clued me in. She looks very feminine and dainty today, I think, overall. So, thank you to the person that mentioned that the girl cats (and apparently any of the girls in the strip) had the little eyelashes on the sides of their eyes! Just one of the amazing details that Georgia continues to put into her strip.

Why are they wearing tin cans?

Today I shall greet everyone here with the traditional squirrel’s greeting: NUTS TO YOU!!!

We lost both of our bottle babies this morning. Not sure what happened, but Tyler died around 6 and Truman went about 9:30

Thimblefist, fire for effect!

Chipmunks are terribly cute when they sneeze. They actually get blown backwards by the force of the explosion.

Off topic: ApologyI made a comment on GSD Mom’s post yesterday that made her feel bad. I am so sorry. I have been lurking here since BCN was added to gocomics and feel terrible that I introduced a bit of negative into this wonderful space. I tried to make my post light hearted to prevent any such thing but failed miserably. I will go back to lurking now. Thank you all for brightening my day every morning. Again, I am sorry.

Nature isn’t always beautiful…

That tiny squirrel sized bucket is totally adorable.

Decades ago, when hubby and I were camping in Maine, I made sure to pack a gallon sized bag of gorp (enhanced with dark chocolate chips) to keep us supplied for our day hikes. One night my husband didn’t quite close the trunk’s hood all the way, and the next morning he spotted a chipmunk fleeing from the gap … much enraged shrieking on his part. I’m sorry to say our precious cargo had been reduced to a scant cupful. That little bugger must’ve worked the entire night to get it! And I’m sure he was chittering in the bushes, cursing himself — “I was so close!! I almost got ALL of it!” - but not as loudly as my husband was cursing all of rodentia. I was about to throw the remnants out when my still livid spouse snatched the bag out of my hand, and, to my everlasting horror, began to eat what was left. "Eww! Stop it! That chipmunk’s been rolling himself all over the -" “I don’t care! If we put it in the garbage, that little b*st*rd will get the rest of it, and I’m not going to let that happen!” I watched him fume and chew for a while and then … ugh … I plucked a fine wisp of white bit of belly fur from his black mustache … and I held it up for him to see … “I DON’T CARE!” He was pretty mad! It was a long time before he could laugh at that event … I wonder how many generations of chipmunks afterwards have listened to the Legend of the Master Bandit Munk, and how he filled a secret lair a Golden Horde of Enhanced Gorp …

Meanwhile, Tommy is mighty cute in that golf hat.

We have a HUGE skunk in our yard we call “The Compest” because she like to raid the compost bin. She looks like vast black and white bathroom rug being moved around the yard by 4 puppies hiding underneath. When she crosses the yard everybody else backs up, raccoons, squirrels, cats, dogs, foxes, whistle pigs (woodchucks), the entire animal community… No one interferes in her dinner plans. She digs holes that are almost perfect cones so she can eat grubs. She also eats buried treats hidden by the squirrels. Putor sit vera virtus!! (Stink is true power)

Okay that was gross and hilarious.

Homestyle needs a better hiding place. There are vile raccoons out there who would love to find those hiding spots. Especially when marked with a little X.

gesundheit

Glad to see Homestyle and Thimblefist again!

Gesundheit.