Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for October 17, 2022

I don’t think Elvis should help with this interview anymore. XD

Let it go, Elvis…..Beatrix has a handle on it.

“Look. Elvis, a spray bottle…”

I love how Elvis is holding his tail in the first panel. He’s so worried for Bea’s safety. I’ve known dads who react like this when they fear their little girl is in danger.

Uh, Elvis…. Take a clue from the kid and chill, okay?

Elvis, you’re beginning to look undignified.

Umm, Elvis? Beatrix is a cat. I think she knows about the whole “make yourself big and jump around sideways” thing. I’ve seen kittens that are still so young that they can barely walk do that.

I would say that if you truly think she might be in danger, telling her to get out might be better advice . . . but, you’ve already done that and she ignored you, so don’t expect much reaction to this advice, either.

I’ve been recently, in the past month, watching tiny kittens doing just that same move with each other. :-)

Elvis’s back in the last panel shows me that he’s an expert in archery…

That may be the poofiest Elvis tail in the history of poofy Elvis tails!

And that is why scared/angry cats are so funny. Thanks for the example, Elvis! :D

Ah the old makes yourself big and scares away the other cat trick.

Good tactics, Elvis, but perhaps not what is needed right now.

Obviously Elvis knows that one should not trusts pirates. MeowArrrrr.

Puck and Iggy can make a pirate team now. Three legged cat and one eyed cat. All we needs is a peg leg for Puck. The Pirates of the Cat-ibbean. Yo ho ho and a lot of meow. Avast ye scurvy cats. Prepares to walks the plank.

I love the “stop, drop and hop.” Is there a cat handbook of techniques? The arch, bristle and stare, for example?

Elvis don’t corrupt today’s youth.

Oh Elvis, pay attention. The little guy is already scared. Remember Bea as a tiny, lost kitten!

Poor lost baby. I wonder what the little guy means by “live here”? So despairing of finding the way back to the shelter that just giving up and accepting dry but dreary as the best that can be found? And where is the little tortie buddy?

Elvis that is so cat! you could be on Tik Tok with that move. Too funny

How would Elvis know if it’s a lie? Bea has a better situational awareness because she’s there to get all the info, especially scent. (My cats are sniffing each other a lot with Monroe here, especially sniffing him and Monroe reciprocating. Honor is especially intent on sniffing the baby.)

Something appears to have caught Puck’s attention in the last panel.

Poor Elvis is so stressed that he’s clutching his tail!

Since the addition houses the shelter offices, it’s entirely possible the escapees have been there. Maybe the poor lost cats are confused and think they made it back to their (current) home. Or maybe there is a spookier reason…

So many panels in which to see Pucky’s white floof patch.

Where is Ora Zella? A second unknown cat will definitely push Elvis over the edge.

We have been getting some amazing Elvis expressions the past few days! Based on Puck’s expressions, I think more sympathetic heads will prevail. Hopefully things move forward with our new addition in the new addition.

Elvis youre not one any longer old kitty

Elvis, you know in the long run you will welcome this new cat with open paws.

Yes, watching kittens do the, Intimidation Dance, is beyond funny!

I know we’ve all been warned against reading BCN whilst drinking our beverages, but how come nobody warned me about reading BCN whilst eating peas and corn!

When I read “Make yourself big and jump around sideways” I nearly snorted a pea up my nose!

Poor Kitty! Do I sense a Kitty rescue coming??? I bet I bet I do, our people are heros! When they own the pink house there will be no limit to kittens to be saved!!

Even a ‘King’ can have a ‘Hissy Fit’!! … :)

Elvis, that’s your answer for everything.

If you want to see what this looks like outdoors, turn down the volume and watch this 18 second video of my cat Kirby after he smelled something like wildcat urine in the redwoods.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/s9gyyu6nxe9eynm/Kirby%20smells%20something%20%20humps%20up%20and%20runs%20sideways_1920x1080_alqs-2.mp4?dl=0

What Bea is attempting demands a delicate approach !! … For it is a …

First Contact Mission !! … :)

Crab Puffs!

Paul McCartney: Let it Be

There is a small cat in trouble,

Needing rescue, can’t you see?

There is still an answer,

It is Bea!

…….

There is another kitty hiding,

One that we have yet to see

There’s someone to help them

It is Bea!

…….

It is Bea, it is Bea, it is Bea, oh it is Bea

There’s someone to help them

It is Bea!

OT: Monday is Snow Day! He knows how to keep warm:

https://www.gocomics.com/snow-sez/2022/10/17

Elvis is just too cute! He can be so extra sometimes.

Stop, drop and hop! Love it!

Don’t be silly, Elvis, he just needs a nice place to call home.

Panel 3: I just noticed that Elvis is co-opting Puck’s microphone by pulling it over to himself.

Elvis, time to extend Dad Cat mode to the new kitties. Don’t be s-p-i-c-e-s!

Oh, Elvis! In the immortal words from the opening scene of “Singin’ in the Rain,” “Dignity; always dignity!”

Those who ignore Elvis’s advise is d——d.

Feral cats in the addition? My experience with feral cats has not been good. usually they resist any close contact with humans. you can feed themand usually pet them, but avoid trying to pick them up. I’ve had the bites and scratches to prove it.

Other Cats, are they from hell?

And puff up your face like an enormous dandelion!

Poor little kitty, so lost. Love how Elvis is holding on his tail.

Elvis is definitely overreacting.

The glasses down on the nose and the pjs detract somewhat from the Dignity of Elvis’s stop, drop ,and hop!

“Make yourself big and jump sideways!” My new emergency course of action…

Poor Iggy is breaking my heart. And Puck’s expression in the last panel—a circle, two elipses, two triangles, yet a perfect expression of his emotional state. Genius.

That’s so Elvis!

Who all noticed Georgia’s use of the Oxford Comma? I seem to smile way too much when I see it used.

stop, drop, hop, is that Tuck & roll in cat???

OMC, Stop, Drop, and Hop. This has me giggling like a giggly thing.

I think this is one of the “Newer” characters that Georgia revealed at her talk in seattle a month or so back.

Okay, I tried the Stop-Drop-And-Hop at work today.

Does anybody know of anyone hiring?

He is so lucky he never met Stupid II. Extremely friendly to people and his pride, that particular Pid was the most viscious to other cats I’ve known. Elvis’s “Stop, drop, and hop” would have been “Stop, drop, and die.”

Awww! That last panel and Elvis dance :)

Elvis is a bit of a spaz

Side effects I had with long term steroids were, insomnia, weight gain, mood changes (very short tempered), kidney stones, and beginning cataracts. I was on them for three years with occasional IV steroids for my relapses. When on the IVs I couldn’t stop talking.

He had a couple of strikes against him right from the start. His mom was a (too) young stray brought to the shelter pregnant. He and his brother were born and the whole family promptly contracted pneumonia. His mom and his brother did not survive. He got better, was bottle fed until he wasn’t, neutered, and then just about the time he was ready to make his debut (a little late) in the kitten room. BAM!, another bout of pneumonia. But he survived it, and made his public debut at 6 months in the adoption room. We met there. He was timid, but a snuggler. We had picked out another cat too, a long and lean house panther about three years old. They were introduced in the adoption room, got along fine, and then came home with us to meet the boss lady, Lucy. Everyone got along swell (as long as they did what Lucy told them), and the Terrible Trio, Lucy, Linus and Charlie Brown were created. Charlie Brown (the kitten) was thus named because he had a zig-zag on his head, he was really round (d/t steroids as a kitten) and he didn’t have the best luck starting out. He did have some seizures when he was young, and he was so near-sighted he’d run right into you walking down the hall. He was a sweet, snuggly stuffie, and he died this morning, following the rest of the Trio over the Rainbow Bridge. RIP Charlie Brown (aka Chubawumba, Chubs, and Buddha Kitty).

My cats never stuck out their tongue while spitting. But, in this case, I get to see another of Georgia’s cute tongues.