Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 07, 2022

I love Lupin’s enthusiasm

Agnes looks so fabulous in her stylish suit!

Soon we’ll have a follow-up report on the purported wetness of water.

(Kidding! I genuinely look forward to seeing how this week develops.)

Raccoons! Everyone’s doomed!

Including you.

Trash? This would indeed be news to my wicked-stepfather, the inveterate dumpster diver. He’ll be 80 in a couple of months, and he still continues to find treasures that others have cast off into dumpsters, skips, and on sides of the road.♥

Trash and trash pandas!

Did Floor Man and Dr. Scuttles throw out a lot when they moved or is the timing a coincidence?

Wow, you learn something new every day.

Agnes is bravely reporting from the dumpster, unfazed by those rough and tumble racoons. So glad they respect her PRESS badge.

The news. Forever telling someone things they didn’t know. It’s not usually the newsreaders though.

“And in other news, local bear seen heading into the woods with a roll of TP and a newspaper…”

Hi, Agnes! Always so nice to see you!

I wonder if any of them are named Oscar?

Good timing! I’m currently reading the newest book in my favorite Witch Cozy Mystery series, Magic & Marriage (Starry Hollow Witches Book 15) by Annabel Chase was released earlier this week. Her familiar is a wisecracking, talking racoon named Raoul. This one is a parody of “the bachelor” type shows.

I got an e-mail that Behind the Scenes With Burt has been delayed again. At this rate, maybe it will finally arrive for my birthday in June. Oh well, it’s worth waiting for.

New estimated delivery date:Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Heathcliff would love joins em raccoons.

How funny- I pressed random and it brought me to a raccoon strip.

Des’ree: You Gotta Be

Search each dumpster as you choose

Go report the latest news

Do your thing and try to be the best

Keep going until you prevail

And don’t be afraid to fail,

Always put yourself to the test.

…….

(Chorus) You gotta

You gotta be rad, You give it your all

You gotta keep going

You gotta search long, You gotta search hard

For all you’ll be knowing

You gotta speak up, and do those interviews

And promote understanding

And I know, and I know that love will save the day!

…….

Communicate, do interviews,

Keep up on the latest news,

Explore new dumpsters for treasures new

Keep on talking, make new friends,

Find the trail that never ends,

You can do it, you know you can!

…….

…….

Keep on learning, keep on growing,

Some days are dark, some are glowing

Cat, raccoon, mouse or human

We all run the race

Don’t be afraid, go your own pace!

…….

Search each dumpster as you choose

Go report the latest news

Do your thing and try to be the best

Keep going until you prevail

And don’t be afraid to fail,

Always put yourself to the test.

…….

(Chorus)

…….

Got to be rad, got to be bold

Give it your all, sometimes you’ll fall

Keep searching hard, keep learning all,

And I know, yes I know that love will save the day!

OT: Me

Do Raccoons get a bad rap?

Trash Pandas, Bandits…dumpster divers (OK that one is true) but given the encroachment on their habitat…whose fault it that?

One of my elementary school teachers had a pet Raccoon. That little guy was very smart. I really liked him, Ray Raccoon .

Ray could unlock his cage, walk around the counters, greet all the kids, get a treat, then go back and lock himself into his cage before the Break Bell.

He certainly made class time interesting. Nobody seemed to mind him, and he seemed to be well liked by everybody.

Yes wild raccoons can eat junk, they can have parasitic worms and can have rabies, so be careful of wild animals. But domesticated, they are pretty smart, and decent pets.

Oh, same teacher had a pet skunk, called Pepe. He was a nice guy, too. (Of course he was deweaponized, descented by a local vet.)

I enjoyed my time with both Pepe and Ray.

We got an outdoor camera for the cat shelter, mostly so we could see when Tux was in residence and avoid scaring him off. We discovered that besides Tux, we are also feeding two extremely large raccoons.

If we manage to catch them in the act, we yell at them through the camera to beat it. So now when they jump up onto the porch of the shelter, they look warily around to see if the black box is going to start making noise.

Agnes and Lupin! What a reporting team! And trash in a dumpster.. who’da thunk?

Raccoons like trash and dumpsters are full of trash! What revelations will come next on Breaking Cat News? Don’t touch that dial (as if anyone could with that big old Lupin smile).

Was that loud “thud” my world-view being knocked asunder? Or just a raccoon tipping over a garbage can?

Shocker!

I set up motion-sensing video cameras to figure out how the raccoon kept getting into the house through the magnetically-latched cat flap. The video showed the raccoon looking nervously over his shoulder as he snagged the edge of the flap with his claws and pulled the door open.

He got so bold about it that I had to take action. I put a vacuum cleaner inside next to the door and plugged it into a remote controlled switch. The next time I heard him rummaging around the kitchen, I shouted and flicked the switch. The roar of the machine probably happened just as he was clearing the flap on the way out. Didn’t see him inside after that.

The trick is being smarter than a raccoon, which is NOT as easy as that sounds. (The people who designed the cat flap latch were NOT smarter than a raccoon.)

♫ Anything dirty or dingy or dusty ♫

♫ Anything ragged or rotten or rusty ♫

♫ Yes, I love, I love, I love… ♫

Well, y’all know the rest.

They hit the mother lode. Dig in!

I live on 23 acres of land with other large properties surrounding me. We have all kinds of wild critters here. When I got up this morning, I saw four deer in my back yard. Last I checked, they were in the small clearing, laying down and chewing cud. We don’t hunt here so they feel safe.

oh, this could be better than big nate

10/10 always fun to review bcn

They’re just out there talking trash as usual.

Agnes looks cute in her suit.

Cue sinister music as Dr Scuttles’ secret dumpster hatch begins to open…

What really brings them out, starting a war with house cats and then making like their the innocent party.

Opened the lid of a dumpster once and there were at least a half dozen of them in there.

My home wi-fi is still out and I’m logging in from the public library, bless’em. I miss the Mega-Orb so much, you guys are the closest thing to a community I have. I’m looking for things to get out of the @*#1! house!!! (book clubs, that kind of thing) & not finding much locally even with the virus restrictions mostly off. I spend a lot of time at my new storage which I hope to reorganize and use as a girl cave (“she shed” sounds like a grooming place for Foxy & other fluffy floofs)… I’ll be back, running out of time here, see you soon!!