Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for October 05, 2022

But they’ll be baaack! And we can’t wait for them to get here.

Well, of course it’s gone! If I saw Goldie coming at me with that expression on her face, I’d be gone too!

Aw, Lupin’s all puffytail….

Considering where tails are attached, Bea’s description is accurate.

Hasn’t Burt got a “beep” button?

Beatrix’s adorable bottom fangs, and that catcher’s mitt lined with TOEBEANS!

Three eyes! I think we might be getting ready to meet Iggy and new torti (I forgot her name) You know 1+2 eyes =3

We’re at Danger Level Adorable Kittens. Be on your guard. Unless their already IN THE HOUSE. Ooooowweeeoooo. Or The Woman just brings them in because she’s a kind carring soul who will gladly take in all the mow mows.

No, Burt, Beatrix was correct. That is the correct term.

No butts about it, this tail is being told, fang you very much…

And you have one week to prepare.

That face! Angry Pucky does not appreciate vulgar language. Shame on you, Miss Beatrix!

Enlarged to 400 and using a magnifying glass: The top one looks like Tommyʻs smile and below, a front on view of a cat with one eye open and the other closed and with fangs ( i really donʻt want to call them canines.) It may be a halloween mask?

Elvis’ shriek was so loud it even got Lupin on alert!

The Girl looks worried.

Uh-oh, Puck’s Angry Eyebrows are back! Where did Beatrix learn that kind of language?

She meant what she said.

Seems i remember Goldie was a mysterious cat out side the window once.

Is it a dark and stormy night?

I appreciate Burt’s censorship. Unlike Goldie’s introduction, it seems everyone saw it, even the Girl. Goldie needs to solve this mystery before Elvis reaches heretofore unknown levels of poof.

After that shriek from Elvis, the Man and Woman should be in to investigate what’s going on in the nursery.

bad weather, 3 eyes? two fangs? buttload of tails? Here come Orazella and Iggy!!!! Yeeeessssssssssssss!

No no – Not the Three eyed Tail monster!!

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

At the Boat of the Water Cat Brothers

Freshwater Cat: Looks like another successful fishing trip, Salty.

Saltwater Cat: Let’s see if Thomios would like to make a fish dinner tonight.

At the Royal Palace Kitchen

Thomios: That would be great. I can prepare some grilled vegetables and potatoes to go with it.

Fresh: Do you have enough vegetables in the pantry?

Thomios: I’m sure we do. I just heard giggling in the background.

Meanwhile, Back in Rhode Island

Tommy: And to this day, food items appear mysteriously. Or disappear, as the case may be. So if you hear giggling in the background, you can be sure that some mischief is apaw.

Elvis: That has to be a myth. Who would take and leave things just as a prank?

Natasha: We’ll never tell!

Two cats I think, piled on top of each other.

I wonder if they will somehow follow the mysterious monster into the addition? Georgia hinted at getting to see more of the addition spookily soon or something like that, so it seems like probably in October sometime. Though that could be an unrelated storyline.

There’s something happenin’ here

what it is ain’t exactly clear

there’s a creature with three eyes, two fangs a real terror

so we got to beware

I think it’s time we stop, children what’s that sound everybody look what’s goin’ down

there’s battle lines being drawn

nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong

young cats speakin’ there minds

getting so much resistance from behind

it’s time we stop

hey what’s that sound

everybody look what’s goin’ down

what a field day it’s a treat

a couple of kitties out in the street

singin’ songs that they carry inside

mostly say hurray for our side

it’s time we stop

hey what’s that sound

everybody look what’s goin’ down

there the fear strikes deep

into your life it will creep

it starts when your always afraid

step out of line the cats come to save the day

We better stop

hey what’s that sound

everybody look what’s going down x2

We better stop

now what’s that sound

everybody look what’s going down

We better stop

children what’s that sound

everybody look what’s going down

Are we talking a metric buttload, or an Imperial buttload? I can never remember the conversion formula.

More interesting trivia for the Orb: The traditional Japanese “nekomata” (a sub-type of “bakenekko” cat monster) has two tails. Older cats who grew very large were said to be in danger of this were-cat transformation. Because of their prodigious appetites, it was feared that they might devour their owners.

OT: rs0204 and Marie

OT:

We just took in another stray cat. We now have 4.

I much prefer buttload, it’s way funnier.

How many tails will fit on one cat butt?

Today is my dearly departed Jasper’s gotcha day. It was 24 years ago today that a half grown tabby jumped through my classroom window and into my life and my heart. He’s been gone for 6 years now, and I still miss him every day.

OT: Happy Forest —> TinyKittens

fuzzy shadow nursery monster (Purple People Eater parody)Well, I saw the thing lookin’ in from outside.It had two skinny kitten tails and three glowing eyes. (Ooh!)Elvis poofed out and shrieked and howled,“Looks like a shadow nursery monster to me!"

ChorusIt was a 3 eyed, two tailed fuzzy shadow nursery monster.3 eyed, two tailed fuzzy shadow nursery monster.3 eyed, two tailed fuzzy shadow nursery monster.Shure looks spoopy to me. (3 eyes?) I’ll try to come up with more verses as the tail poofs out over time (never actually tried doing this before)

Buttload? Next thing Bea will be using the plural of spice.

Little ceramic jack-o-lantern with a lit tealight should scare it off. Almost as powerful as a real jack-o-lantern with a lit candle in it and two thousand times as powerful as any kind of jack-o-lantern with an electric lit of some kind in it. Unfortunately, the Boy and Girl are too young to be trusted with a lit candle. They are in SO MUCH trouble when the undead kitty and their Renfield servant come back.

testing the filters with “buttload”

Polydactyl paws. In the evening our cat watches the reflection of the TV in the living room windows. She bats at it and stays on high alert.

One of my daughter’s middle school friends used to commonly use the word buttload when she meant boatload. It sounds similar after all. Literal-minded person that I am, I explained that she should think about how much (and what) would be loaded on a boat vs a butt. I don’t think I ever heard her say it again.

Was Beatrix watching Finding Nemo? You know, the part where Nemo touches what we all know to be a boat?

And yet no one pointed out that a “buttload” is actually a unit of measurement. Its use depends on whether you’re dealing with liquid or dry measurements. For liquid – specifically wine – a buttload is 126 gallons. For dry measure, a buttload is 48 bushels. And that’s a lot of tails, Beatrix.