Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for April 11, 2023

What two things?

What could they possibly be talking about?

(Relax, Puck. Things are about to become permanent.)

“A prison cell for Ora and a hotel room for Iggy.”

Awwwww! Look at everyone’s big smiles! Sometimes it’s nice to have good news without drama.

Foster Fail!!!

Another Iggy wave. Gotta love it.

HOORAY FOR THE FAIL! Ora Z has to be the most adorable spoon assassin? Puck trying to contain her and Iggy just being sweet.

There’s that little Iggy wave!♥

Puck, you can relax now.

Yay, now I can go to bed peacefully.

I hope Puck understands that the two “things” are kittens. He might not consider kittens to be things.

And so it begins.

FINALLY…though I also understand it. They had a lot going on compared to goldies fostering

@rs0204

I enjoyed the Easter Egg, but didn’t have a chance to comment until now. I assume you want to make it sound as English as possible, so I offer a couple of tips.

“ However, he soon discovered the quiet life of Blandford Forum, Dorset, England, wasn’t for him.”

The English way of saying this is

“ However, he soon discovered the quiet life of Blandford Forum, in Dorset, wasn’t for him.”

(People who don’t know that Dorset is in England are not worthy of consideration.)

And the term “billy club” was not used. The implement was called a “truncheon”, and elicited vulgar quips from housemaids.

Lupin is beaming. Iggy looks so happy in the last panel, getting petted by the Man. Ora is in classic tortie kitten mode: bonkers.

And where is Elvis?

A cattery!

Two more cats eh. Now that’d makes…lemme see…Six plus two more… Eight cats eh.

KandiasOverton called this a ‘Foster Fail,’ and I believe they are right.

I told all of you how we got Holmes…I was selling my books at CARE STL for their Christmas fundraiser, and during the evening, Marie and I met this exuberant orange kitten with one clipped ear, not quite done growing, who would run up to you and give nose kisses. One of the CARE staff noticed our continued treks into the cat room and suggested we take Holmes home as a foster cat. Marie and I exchanged a look and knew that fostering would be pointless. Once we had Holmes in our lives, we would never let him go.

I don’t know what I am going to do when I work on the next fundraiser. There is no addition to our house to open up for more fur babies.

Yes, yes, they get to stay! Hopefully. I love how friendly Iggy is, and I just know Georgia has the talents to balance this large cast of cats.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

At the Ceiling Can Be a Floor Culinary School

Elvis-Anum: That was a delicious meal, Floof. Your chefs outdid themselves.

Floofnet the Joyous: My pleasure, Elvis. We had some delicacies mysteriously procured for us from unknown sources.

Violet-Ifa: I’m sure it was coincidence that Alice and Agnes Ata were coming back from a cheesetaking seminar at Punn state.

Beatrixia: Where do you keep your recipe scrolls?

Floof: We have a library not far from our gold and jewels room where we keep our older scrolls.

Bea: How did you come across them?

Floof: There was a scroll room in one of the corridors. I think there may be others in places we haven’t explored yet.

Beaver Lee Cleary: So you’re saying there may be other scroll rooms in the pyramid?

Floof: Almost certainly. I think there may be some rooms that have been sealed up as well.

Ora Z: Can we go knocking down walls?

Iggy: I think we may need Burt-Ra and his crew for that.

Ora Z: But we can go look for them, right? (Takes off)

Iggy: We better go after her.

The suspense, the Drama, can we wait another day to find of what those two choices may be. Will the humans put in an adults only play room with toys, whips and other accoutrements? Will they humans create a theater room with dark lighting were humans and cats alike can act as if they are in the balcony of a movie theater? Will Elvis admit his undying love for Ora Zella? Will Lupin finally prove that the mailman exists? Stay tuned to discover the answer to these and other mysteries in the Big Pink House, on As The Litter Box Turns.

I hope that their minds are in sync and the two things they each have in mind are the formal adoption of Ora Zella and Iggy.

Now here she goes again, you know she wants her freedom

While Pucky tries to calm her down

It’s only right that she should play the way she feels it

But listen carefully to the sound of the voices

Soft and sweet, makes Puck glad

In the stillness of remembering what she has

And what she lost

And what she has

And what she lost

Oh, thunder often happens when she’s playing

Pucky would love to know that she is staying

Say, Woman, she has come and she can’t go

When the Man agrees with her, you’ll know

You’ll know

- Stephanie Nicks – Dreams

The way Iggy keeps waving to The Woman makes me think he has a bit of a crush on her. And Ora Z’s exuberant spoon brandishing and flinging (in spite of Puck’s diligent shushing) is just what I needed this morning.

Today is the day Georgia will have surgery on her hand. She posted this yesterday: “Tomorrow is hand surgery day! Thank you so much to everyone who suggested strips for reruns. I picked all classic strips from the original early days of the newspaper run! I hope you’ll enjoy them, I believe they will run in late May (since I work a bit ahead.) The Sundays should run in June, I believe! Thank you to everyone who has reached out with support and encouragement, and to the The Daily Cartoonist for their kind words here as well! (I forget somethings I share will become cartooning news! How surreal and sweet to see them wishing me the best, thank you!”

Awwww….Iggy’s little paw

It’s so sweet to see quiet little Iggy getting his pets after that adorable little wave. He’s such a good kitty.

Thanks, Georgia, and best of luck with the surgery today!

Assassin!

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…oh, it’s just Ora Zella.

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Assassin!

Iggy is such a good boy.

OT: Lou & TK updates

Can they all be any more adorable?!? I so want to move in with this family!

They’ll even have more space a d peace in the house once the kittens are gone. I’m all for it!

I love Iggy’s little wave!

She’s got a spoon! The Man is absolutely doomed!

Child #3 and Child #4?

TK Update: Ultrasounds!

They’re starting now! (9:27am TK time; 12:27am EDT)

An Oldie from Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose: Too Late to Turn Back Now

A good friend told me,

They said, “You must beware!”

There are kitties who need our love and they are everywhere!

They will steal your heart

It will no longer be free

Now since I’ve met these two little cats

I can feel it’s happened to me.

And I’m tellin’ ya,

…….

It’s too late to turn back now!

I believe, I believe, I believe I’ve fallen in love!

It’s too late to turn back now!

I believe, I believe, I believe I’ve fallen in love!

…….

I find myself hugging them at least ten times a day!

It’s so unusual for me to carry on this way!

I can’t sleep at night without a kitty by my side

Love has found me now, and I can’t ever go and hide!

And I’m tellin’ ya

…….

It’s too late to turn back now!

I believe, I believe, I believe I’ve fallen in love!

It’s too late to turn back now!

I believe, I believe, I believe I’ve fallen in love!

…….

I really don’t mind at all

Because I know they really love me to!

They have found their furrever home!

And there’s nothing I wouldn’t do!

And I’m tellin’ ya

…….

It’s too late to turn back now!

I believe, I believe, I believe I’ve fallen in love!

It’s too late to turn back now!

I believe, I believe, I believe I’ve fallen in love!

Lupin has a real trainee now.

Apropos of nothing, the image just popped into my head of Ora Zella riding the pendulum of a grandfather clock, singing “I came in like a wrecking baaaall….”. Of course, that’s impossible as The People have a cuckoo clock, not a grandfather.

I don’t think Puck is paying enough attention to the Man and Woman. He still looks worried in the last panel that Ora Z’s antics are going to cause her and Iggy to go bye bye.

“So after some consideration we can say:

Consider yourself one of us!"

Yea!!

Oooooh, what if they only keep one of the kittens? Bwahahaha!

Great news Georgia!

That’s great news! Thanks for letting us know. And thanks for this absolutely wonderful comic. I love it SO much!

Wonderful! I’ve had 9 so I know what that’s like. Also like you we started with one cat and somehow kept adding rescues. All the way up to 11.

Love how Ora is trying to hit the man with the spoon. And little Ziggy is waving. Think he’s smitten with a kitten.

Oh goody! 2 more cats!!!

Do what they tell you!!

Sending you healing purrs and head butts.

Today is Trevor’s woman’s birthday