Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for May 23, 2022

Wait! Someone besides Puck is allowed to be cute? This changes everything!

This is a fairly common occurrence for my cats too. It’s usually the long-haired cat, of course.

Time for a little grooming.

Lupin is right! Awww! ❤

For Elvis, dignity is tuna flavoured.

Apt description of Elvis. He is so ‘awe’ some.

The question now is…who will dare to groom the Elvis?

Stop! Stop! I know when I’m licked…

Why aren’t they all jumping on Elvis to remove (and eat) this accidental gift?

Achilles grooms anyone who has food on them.

Sunday I was happy to get home early, so I opened the windows for my Purrsha to see outside. While I was still standing next to her, a BIRD flew right next to the top of the window and hung by the eave for a few seconds! Purrsha was real excited and we both were staring at it, until finally it realized “ACK! CAT! HUMAN!” and flew off, at which point my girl chirruped in an odd but excited way. It was a really neat experience! I’ve thought about getting a bird feeder so she can watch them.

OMC! Adorableness!!! ❤❤❤ And what a tasty turn of events. Lick that fur clean, gang! :D

Whenever I wanted to demonstrate “mutual cooperation” for cats and dogs, I would use this same demonstration.

I would plop wet canned cat food on top of the head of one of the cats. My cats could not stand being dirty. So, getting wet food plopped on their head was a most egregious act. The offended would look to their mates, and lower their heads, so that the others could eat/lick the food off their heads.

I would tell my young kids at the time, see, it helps Salem because he’s clean now. It helps Simba the dog, because he gets an extra plop of food. Both benefit, and both cooperate. The lessons took. Both kids are lawyers now. One works for the State and the other works for Political causes.

And he wears that kibble with, DIGNITY!!

Last time, it was wet food in Poody’s ear, it was amusing watching her try to get it out!

When Elvis says, Aw com’ on! That is Burt’s signal to mess with him!

Yes, Elvis, your friends will groom that cat food right off of your head, if you don’t get to it first.

Kitty Katz? Santana? How about one to the tune of “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair” from South Pacific? Pretty Please?

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Thomios: So Floofnet is planning on coming here to visit? That’s wonderful!

Puckmosis: That’s right. He’ll send word by scroll to let you know when he’s coming.

Thomios: I’ll be waiting for the Papyrus Cat every day!

Enter Elvis-Anum

Elvis: I suppose by the Papyrus Cat you mean Kat-Mandu.

Puckmosis: Well, those papyrus scrolls don’t deliver themselves. And you have met Kat-Mandu.

Elvis: Alright. There really is a Papyrus Cat.

Thomios: And there really is a cream pitcher. Elvis, would you mind bringing it in to the dining room?

Elvis: Not at all.

Sometime Later

Lupinium: Uh-oh. Looks like someone got careless with their cream tea.

Elvis: Not careless, just a slight miscalculation of the trajectory of the pitcher.

Lupinium Of course. You didn’t mean to grab the pitcher from across the table before Tillie got ahold of it.

Elvis: I do admit to being a trifle over-enthusiastic. Anyway, I had been planning to make an appointment with the Royal Groomers soon.

I remember reading an article a number of years ago from a cat servant who interviewed an animal-behavior specialist and wondered about her cat, who constantly stuck his head over the food bowl, causing the food to fall on his head as she dispensed it, and wondered why he didn’t learn. She was told, “But he has learned. He’s learned that if he sticks his head over his bowl and food falls on his head, he gets to eat.”

Even in this, Elvis is dignity personified!

And in an astonishing turn of events, the tidbit was allowed to stay there long enough to be documented on camera.

I’m getting old and a little clumsy. My fear is dropping a can of cat food on a cat. I buy the smaller cans but still, when they are milling around my feet just under the storage shelf, I have to focus my concentration on my grip.

Off-topic: I was eating outdoors at a restaurant on the dock in Morro Bay. A persistent seagull kept approaching on foot. I would shoo him away but he kept coming back. I finally threw ice from my water glass at him. He ate the ice!

And, yet another BCN strip which obviously was made up from whole cloth—such could never have happened in Real Life™.

AAAwww i wonder who will get the prize!!! Maybe Elvis will manage to get it himself!!!

Nothing a good grooming can’t fix.

Cat Rule of Life Number Seventy-three: Sometimes food falls from the sky and hits you on the head.

OT: In other news…SNOW IS BACK! YAAAAAYYYYY!

https://www.gocomics.com/snow-sez/2022/05/23

Glad Lupin thinks it’s cute. Hopefully they will take care of him as they did Puck and may it not result in a hairball.

I’m pretty sure The Good Boy has said this is a sacrament.

Where’s Goldie in the final frame? I don’t mean Burt’s clip within the final frame either, that doesn’t count. That’s a clip showing what usually happens so that’s a past tense Goldie. I’m wondering about a present tense Goldie cleaning Elvis’s head.

Nothing a bit of social grooming can’t fix.

OT

For reference, when it WAS Puck… https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2020/05/17