Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for December 09, 2021

Goldie, what do stars taste like? Inquiring minds want to know …

Deck the Halls with boughs of Holly …..darn I can’t make musical notes take on my comment!

Puck looks fabulous!

I sense glitter just waiting to pounce. And vintage glitter, at that. Experienced glitter. Glitter out for revenge…

My first ‘only belongs to me’ cat ate tinsel from the tree. Fortunately it wasn’t the old metal kind, but it was plastic and it bound him up. I took him to the vet who said that he was too weak to operate on and told me to take him home and see if he would eat. I took him home and he went at ONCE to the litter box and pooped out a (not exaggerating) foot long, hard poop that was mostly tinsel. Clear tinsel, his gut had removed any color from it…but he recovered after that and lived a looong life. Lesson learned…no tinsel on the tree, and only soft, fabric decorations down low. Fortunately, I never had a cat who knocked a tree over by climbing it!

Of course Puck loves it when the garlands come out!

I would also suggest that anyone with cats who is putting up a tree should anchor it to the ceiling to keep it from tipping over.

Definitely too dangerous. First it coils round your neck. Then it begins to squeeze. You are doomed, Puck.

And Puck looks faaaabulous!

Have yourself some tasty little garlands

Let the chew be light

From now on

Your hunger will be out of sight

Have yourself some tasty little garlands

Make the Yule-tide yuck

From now on

You’re troubled ’cause that thing got stuck…

Well, I know that Judy GARLAND’s real name was Gumm but garlands stuck in the gum?… Not so yumm-yumm

I believe it’s Goldie’s first christmas with the station.

Pucky is fashionable as always!

You look fantastic, Puck! And Goldie, don’t eat the decorations……bad kitty, no, no, no! Bad for you!

Yeah, Puck, ‘Dangerous’. We believe that’s why you’re not eating it don’t we..?

Wreck the Halls

Wreck the halls and steal the ribbons.

Fa la la la la, la la la la.

Christmas time`s such fun for kittens.

Fa la la la la, la la la la.

We like to help you with the wrapping.

Fa la la, la la la, la la la.

No fair do it when we`re napping.

Fa la la la la, la la la la.

So many gifts beneath the tree.

Fa la la la la, la la la la.

Is there a present just for me.

Fa la la la la, la la la la.

Rip the wrap to sneak a peek.

Fa la la, la la la, la la la.

Is it a fuzzy toy I seek.

Fa la la la la, la la la la.

Too dangerous to eat, and may I say, totally dangerously fashionable for you to wear, Puck! ;D

So, it just a matter of time until the great tree climbing events begins.

Jerry Herman, Performed by Johnny Mathis and others: We Need a Little Christmas

Haul out the boxes

Look for the tree in pieces and the outside lights

Play all the old tapes

Hang up the antiques

We need to make the Pink House quite the Yuletide sight Now!

…….

We need some Cozy Christmas Chaos

Right this very minute!

Stacks of cardboard boxes

Cats ready to sleep in it!

Yes, some Cozy Christmas Chaos

Right this very minute

We haven’t had this for nearly a year

But we’ll get there, never fear, so

……..

Bring out the garlands

Wrap up in tinsel make a

Fashion statement now,

Eat all the dried fruit,

It may be a bit sticky

But it’s tasty and how!

…….

Now we’ve grown a little festive

Grown a little Yule-ish

Running all around now

Acting rather foolish

And we find it so exciting,

Christmas is so coolish,

We need Cozy Christmas Chaos

Now!

…….

Yes we need Cozy Christmas Chaos

Right this very minute,

Boxes to hide and nap in

Can’t wait to get in it!

And we need to dress in garland

Ornaments to toss out

We need Cozy Christmas Chaos

Now!

Look at Lupin’s little tail twitching with excitement!

I can’t believe Lupin has managed to restrain himself and stay at the news desk.

Hamilton, PCI. Chapter III – Death wears a collar

I woke up, or more accurately, I regained consciousness. A human might say it was waking from a nap. I would say I was waking from a coma. My mouth tasted like three-day-old rat droppings, and I was stuffed into the cat house.

The last thing I remember was following Belle around the corner and then running into two brown tree trunks disguised as legs. Those belonged to a knuckle-breaker named Iko, Belle’s dog enforcer. Might have known. Iko is not what you would call a deep thinker, but she is musical. She pounded on my head like Ricky Ricardo playing the conga drums and made my ribs her xylophone. I was a one-cat band for her.

As I lay there, counting the bruises, I noticed a message left for me:

“Hi sweety, SHE wants to see you.”

What’s the old saying? Going from bad to worse? There was only one “She,” and that was Mittens, The God Mother of crime and leader of the syndicate. Mittens personally ran the mouse mafia out of business by inviting the leaders of the Five-Families to a dinner meeting; only the mice didn’t realize they were the dinner. Yeah, you gotta like her style.

Loan sharking, smuggling, gambling, Mittens wetted her whiskers in everything. And now she wants to see little ole’ me. I better leave my client a description of what I’m wearing, easier to identify the body at the morgue that way.

Tomorrow, Chapter IV – An offer I can’t refuse

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too dangerous to eat?

or too glamorous ??

Maverick and Ember both long ago learned to ignore the tree. This year, the problem is Mickey, who as far as we know is celebrating his first Christmas – we are told that he would have only been a few weeks old last Christmas.

We put the non-breakable ball-type ornaments on the tree, but he sees them as a ball that he can run off with and chew on for a bit. We’re afraid to put any of the more sentimental ornaments on the tree (shamrock with the Irish blessing printed on it, the “first year in our new home” ornament we got last year, etc.) until he learns to ignore those.

My first cat did the same, but no vet visit needed: She pooped out clear plastic tinsel and suffered no ill effects from the silver stuff she ingested. But from then on, no tinsel on the tree ever again. Years later, two cats pulled down the tree and smashed some ornaments, so I had to attach it to the wall with fishing line. Eventually, between kittens and puppies, I stopped putting up a tree. Just other decorations out of harm’s way.

Maybe popcorn garland this year? And every year hereafter….

After the wildest New Year’s Eve party I ever attended, I woke up the next day with extra-large glitter stuck in my teeth.

Nowadays, I usually go to be early on December 31, hoping to get some sleep before the neighbors start shooting guns in the air.

Pucky’s garland is also too fabulous to eat.

Is Mommy’s Special Boy off someplace looking for Marley’s ghost?

OT: Ruke and crew

That’s a nice “peaceful” shot of lupin in the first panel. Now I want hot coco for some reason.

Not to mention too fabulous, Puck!

Puck looks fabulous!

O.T.

Nice stole you have there, Puck. Get some shades and you’re all ready to rumble.

Just heard Bob Seeger singing Old Time Rock n Roll on the radio, and who came to mind? Tom Cruise??? Oh heck no!! It was sweet, adorable, sexy Lupin and I started to sing about vases being kicked off of the shelf. Best moment of the day so far! Here’s one of all time favorite strips: https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2019/05/12

Tomorrow’s strip takes place at the vet?