Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for January 03, 2023

Excellent place to keep keys! (I should start putting mine there.)

So many keys!

Cats – they have the key to our hearts…

Lupin needs to chill. Homeownership requires more keys!

Very safe place for keys!

When you’re dreary

Feeling sad at all

When tears are in your eyes

These cats dry them all

They’re on your side

Oh, when times get rough

And friends just can’t be found

It’s like a fridge over dozens keys, yeah

Where they keep them down

Like a fridge over dozens keys, yeah

Where they keep them down

When you’re down and out

When you’re on the street

When you see the door falls hard

They’re comfy in there

They’ll take your spare parts

Oh, when darkness comes

And you’re still out around

Cause the fridge’s over all your keys now

Where they keep them down

Cause the fridge’s over all your keys now

Where they keep them down

Slip on silver keys

Slip on by

Your time has come to hide

And they twinkle on their way

See how they shine

Oh, if you need a key

You stand outside without, I see

Cause the fridge’s over all your new keys

And that blows your mind…

(Bridge Over Troubled Water / Simon & Garfunkel)

If they can get the keys from under the fridge, The People can finally explore the mysterious walled off section of the house, and discover the horrors that were locked away there.

Let’s just hope the people have a nice thin yardstick to help retrieve the keys from under the fridge—assuming that they know the keys are under the fridge.

So we’re gonna be hearing some complaining from Sophie about being stuck in the car for the transfer? She’s looking a bit nervous back there. I’d be more worried about how she’d adjust to the move if she hadn’t already been at the BPH and at least tolerated her stay.

Everyone’s keyed up.

Good grief! How many keys do you need for one apartment? (I’ve never lived in any multiple dwelling unit larger than a duplex, to which I had one, count it, one key.)

When they fish the keys out from under the fridge, will they find Lupin’s missing bell?

Lupin, if they can’t find the keys they’ll all have to live with you. Are you ready for that many humes?

Breaking news: people are breaking cats just to annoy ASPCA and PETA.

Sophie – those are not found objects for you to turn into an art project.

Lupin knows the keys to happiness is always closer to the fridge.

Lupin always has a key’n interest in batting things so that you has to go locking for them later.

Better the keys under the fridge than the ream of papers out of order.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Lupinium: I’m working on a new move to teach my Advanced Thwump class. Want to see it?

Elvis-Anum: Does it involve any office supplies going missing?

Lupinium: No, your pens and brushes are all safe.

Beatrixia: Just make sure there’s no one around to startle.

Louie-Nour: No problem. Bring on the thwump.

Lupinium: Right. Now I need a few gemstones.

Bea: I can get some from the treasure room.

Elvis: Glad someone found a use for those.

Lupinium: Now, I start by juggling the gems, then I make a giant leap, catch them in the air, and end with a tremendous THWUMP!

Elvis: Very good! Now how about we go to the kitchen to demonstrate how to make tea and scones disappear!

I am curious that Tabitha is addressing Puck in panel 2, who does not appear in the strip. I am wondering if perhaps the keys for the current BPH residence go to the addition, so they do not have to use the hammer method. Also, we are one step closer to seeing the downstairs apartment!

It’s nice to see Tabitha and Fig again and hopefully more now they’ll have new neighbors as they’ve kinda fallen out of focus. They’ve shown up more since this storyline, but generally only tend to show up when all the cats get together. I get why as the cast has expanaded, I just miss them sometimes.

Also Sophie’s expression in her and Tommy’s panel… I never thought about this before but I worry for our cat with one good eye going into this move. Sophie is an introvert on a normal day, and while she’s become friends with the cast and let them in, it’s still a brand new place that’s liable to be scary for her. It dosen’t help that most of the OG Trio.. didn’t have the best interactions to moving. While Elvis (Sophie’s possible boyfriend in my eyes, I wear my ships shamelessly), wanting to live under the Bereau now was unsuprising, even gentle Puck whose normally more outgoing.. did NOT want to leave his carrrier. Now take that and add it to someone who hates leaving, and people and generally anything but isolation and I worry for her.

He bats the house keys in

You fish the house keys out

He bats the house keys in

As he shakes ’em all about

Iggy smiles okey-dokey

As you yank your poor hair out

That’s when it’s time to pout

And you’re shoutin’ “holey moley”

As you’re late for goin’ out

That’s what it’s all about

- Larry LaPrise – Do The Hokey Pokey

I guess they closed on the Big Pink House. Which means The Woman doesn’t have to worry about how many cats she has.

I love that the sets Lupin and Tabitha are reporting on match – their People are getting access to the same new spaces – while the same set is visible among Tommy and Sophie’s new keys. It’s a great detail.

A little bit off topic from where the story line has moved today (back to the sale of the BPH). Due to some travel I have coming up, I took the Christmas tree down yesterday evening while our kittens were eating dinner in their room. It took Comet (the tuxedo male) until after Christmas to start trying to play with the garland and lights and batting at a few of the lower ornaments and he seems to have trained Neptune (virtually all black female). The lower ornaments needed moved higher and we just had to deal with resetting the garland and lights. I didn’t think any climbing had occurred, but when I was dismantling the tree (yes, its artificial), I discovered a few branches with some unusual bends in them, suggesting at least one attempt at climbing (or stretching) up the interior of the tree. Overall, not too bad (no one singing Ora’s version of Hi Ho) and no lasting damage to anything.

Lupin, please don’t bat keys under the fridge. You’ll give the Woman and the Man grey hair.

OT: heading back to mom’s…

I do a lot of crossword puzzles and if I don’t put away the pencil, my calico Miwa will hide them. We once moved the coffee table and found 21 pencils under it.

Boy, that sure is a lot of keys.

OT: WOWZERZ! 4 days in a row of Snow! =SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!=

And of course Snow is absolutely right about his contribution to peace on earth!

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

https://www.gocomics.com/snow-sez/2023/01/03

Asking a rhetorical question here – Are the People clueless???

Why would they leave a set of keys unattended? Have they met Lupin?

Thoughtful Lupin keeps important things in a safe place for the humans.

One main concern: If the Humans retrieve the keys from under the fridge, will they also find Lupin’s bell? And will Elvis have a monumental puff?

Lupin instructing Iggy on how to cat. LOL!

Off-Topic

Don’t listen, Iggy. Now you’ll never get out of the kitchen. And the Woman won’t be able to go get you the good kibble so you’ll have to settle for the bad kibble the man will buy thinking there’s no difference.

If everyone has a complete set of keys to the BPH, are they setting up a commune?

Yup, keys, hair ties, twistie wires, plastic eggs, pens, … all these go under the refrig. Take notes, Iggy, if you’re going to be a house cat.

Now who has the brand new pair of roller skates?