Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for December 22, 2017

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    Rosette  about 7 years ago

    The final panel holds so much emotion!

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    MrsXandamere  about 7 years ago

    Happy tears!

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    bulldogmom Premium Member about 7 years ago

    Yay!!

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    Rosette  about 7 years ago

    Too bad Georgia had to pull out the “nibble nibble, I love kibble” panel. I loved that panel.

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    Rosette  about 7 years ago

    Tommy’s whiskers in panel 3 – so shocked!

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    ctlum  about 7 years ago

    Oh Tommy, you finally get to go home!

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    Hedgehog  about 7 years ago

    And she’s wearing The Blue Coat!

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    butler2jc  about 7 years ago

    tommy’s going home!!! :-D ((someone’s cutting onions again))

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    Kim Metzger Premium Member about 7 years ago

    The big reunion tomorrow?

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    poppet bear  about 7 years ago

    Yes those darn onion chopping ninjas are back. That last panel gets me every time I read this story :)

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    Sue Ellen  about 7 years ago

    That long panel where Tommy and his women see each other across the expanse of snow is my all time favorite. Just thinking about it makes me tear up, and I am not one who cries easily.

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    Lady Bri  about 7 years ago

    Oh!! Panel 4! I need the tissues!

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    Dirty Dragon  about 7 years ago

    Panel 3: MY WOMAN!!!

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    Gent  about 7 years ago

    Tommy is too smart for the old kibble in the cage trick.

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    Leanne  about 7 years ago

    All the feels! Toomy’s going home!!

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    Leanne  about 7 years ago

    All the feels! Toomy’s going home!!

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    Gent  about 7 years ago

    Alert! Unless you were in the neutering discussion on yesterday’s thread, don’t read the replies. You have been warned! Thank you. ( I don’t like going off topic on boards, but I feel I have to make something clear.)

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    DankMemes  about 7 years ago

    THE MEMORABLE SONG-Nibble Nibble i love kibble

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    lopaka  about 7 years ago

    Two individuals are about to have a Merry Christmas.

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    BWR  about 7 years ago

    We’re fosters for our local Humane Society.

    Back by the volunteer coordinator’s office there’s a pair of signs about the impact of not neutering/spaying. ‘How Do You Produce 2 million Dogs?’ and ‘How Do You Produce 80 million Cats?’ Those are the results of one pair of animals & their offspring reproducing for 10 years.

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    shaunnmunn  about 7 years ago

    Dear orbster buddies! Wishing you all a world of kindness in a world seemingly bent on hate.

    Please remember that we are trying to have a safe blog here, where people can come together in mutual support & love of kitties, critters & the people who love them!

    You have a right to your opinions, but to hurl accusations and innuendos doesn’t sound Tommy-like at all!

    Again, PLEASE! If you don’t care for something, simply don’t "like"it. If it goes outside the limits of propriety & seems wrong to you, flag it.

    No venom. There’s plenty of it in the rest of the world. We’ve been tested these last two days on a highly volatile subject. Let’s just take the Tommy approach. What would he do? >^.,.^<

    Orb bumps for the friendly & compassionate! Georgia, my orb is firmly behind yours! :-)

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    Grace Premium Member about 7 years ago

    Aw, Tommy’s momma is here to take him home! yay!

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    bermudamel  about 7 years ago

    This strip gets me every time! Also the real Tommy is on FB under Admiral Tommy Whiskerstache!!!

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    smorbie the great and beautiful  about 7 years ago

    He’s almost HOME! He and his woman will have a wonderful Christmas together. He will be warm and cozy, and sleep on the foot of the bed. He will hear what a very good boy he is as his woman scratches behind his ear.And he will have ham.

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    Tue Elung-Jensen  about 7 years ago

    Queue the slow motion running.

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    Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member about 7 years ago

    “She knows my name!”

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    Gloria Fleming  about 7 years ago

    I’ve been waiting for the last panel, one of my all time favorites, but now I can’t type, the screen keeps getting blurry for some strange reason.

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    nadinefd1 Premium Member about 7 years ago

    Thanks for the tears, Georgia, sincerely! I was waiting for that last panel.

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    T_Lexi  about 7 years ago

    Wow! That last panel is just SO powerful! Love, love, love… And Tommy’s woman’s face in the first panel – you can tell she’s seriously worried this might be a false alarm.

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    Denny Wheeler Premium Member about 7 years ago

    Spoiler Alert!

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    stairsteppublishing  about 7 years ago

    Tears are a good thing. They are a release of strong emotion whether sad or happy and in this case over joy happy.

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    Sabrina17  about 7 years ago

    Somebody is pealing onions in my cubical, and I am by myself.

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    Hex Goblinweb  about 7 years ago

    :,)

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    maestrabella67  about 7 years ago

    Even though I’ve read this whole saga on the BCN website, I still have to have my BCN fix every day! So happy to see Tommy reunited with his “woman”!

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    shaunnmunn  about 7 years ago

    Dear aMaizing, are you there? I miss seeing your posts & hope you will message. Georgia’s Mega Orb needs you and your deep compassion & kindness!

    I know you were hurt in the whirlwind yesterday. I was too, and stunned. Just stunned! Called Sis & we prayed hard before I went to bed.

    Please know I’m lifting you up! I want to hear from you. You are critical to the Mega Orb! Love you! >^.,.^<

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    shaunnmunn  about 7 years ago

    And I also want to let all you orbsters know how necessary you are! We have a peacekeeping and mercy mission we can’t shirk. We’ll work around obstacles until erosion wears them away or they roll off in the void. Love MUST win! Our orbabies are counting on us! Peace and solace, dear friends! >^.,.^<

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    arolarson Premium Member about 7 years ago

    I love this final panel too but it brings back bittersweet memories. 28 years ago I had a sweet kitty with wanderlust in his heart. One winter I was very ill and he managed to slip out and disappear. We were all distraught and those who could looked everywhere. Then one day he reappeared in the back yard! But joy turned to tears because he was now very sick. But at least he had a few more days of love, hugs, ear skritches and good boys before the vet gently eased him over the rainbow bridge. And, also comforting, we knew he had that time and we knew his fate. Continued uncertainty mixed with hope never realized is so much worse. So hurrah for Tommy and his Woman and good hopes to all kitties who need loving homes.

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    Edward  about 7 years ago

    I had imagined that the second panel would have taken two and the strip ends with panel three. Would love to hear Georgia talk about the choices she made in editing and pacing.

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    jadoo823  about 7 years ago

    …as I said in 2015…“panel 4 – Georgia’s rendering of the look on Tommy’s face – disbelief and hope all at the same time – absolutely brilliant…it put a lump in my throat…”

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    MarkTaggart Premium Member about 7 years ago

    I only learned of this wonderful strip when it started running in the Raleigh paper last fall, and soon after that, I became hooked! I am glad to find BCN here, because the small newspaper size does not do justice to this beautifully drawn and magical strip. I love it, and can’t wait for my Christmas present! (A Tommy pin!) :-)

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    ladykat  about 7 years ago

    May all our orbs bump together today in gentle harmony around our Mega Orbster, Georgia!

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    AngelaDunaway  about 7 years ago

    Wow… a comic strip made me cry… I need to get my meds check! ;)

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    Susanna Premium Member about 7 years ago

    Last night I watched a number of Christmas classics, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Charlie Brown, Rudolph and Santa Clause is Coming to Town, and read the three classic BCN Christmas specials. :)

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    scaeva Premium Member about 7 years ago

    The last panel reminds me rather forcibly of my experience with 8-ball, our Little Viking. Except for the snow, it’s almost identical to my finding him, over ten miles away, two months after he disappeared. I haven’t used the zoom on the page yet. If I had, I couldn’t type this. Aw doggone it, now the screen’s all blurry …

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    Alicelth Premium Member about 7 years ago

    I liked what Gent just posted about BCN should be a cartoon. But wouldn’t it be way cool if someday BCN became an animated film? Who do you all think should be the voices of the the three good boys? And the Woman and Man? And Tommy and – well I’ll stop there so as not to post a possible spoiler. Merry Christmas all!

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    Sue Ellen  about 7 years ago

    When the original strip appeared, that third panel was the reveal of Tommy’s name. Until that moment when his woman called out to him, he was just “that backyard cat.” I’m sorry that I was one of many who mentioned his name when he first appeared and spoiled that reveal for newcomers.

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    Maizing  about 7 years ago

    I just got a picture of Sunny and Tika in the same shot. I almost got Pingpong in there too, but she left before I could get my camera out and ready.

    https://imgur.com/A7Cym7p

    Please excuse my messy bed.

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    Seed_drill  about 7 years ago

    said Tommy the Cat as he reeled back to clear whatever foreign matter

    may have nestled its way into his mighty throat.Many a fat alley rat had met its demise while staring point blank downthe cavernous barrel of this awesome prowling machine.Truly a wonder of nature this urban predator.Tommy the cat had many a story to tellbut it was a rare occasion such as this that he did.

    Read more: Primus – Tommy The Cat Lyrics | MetroLyrics

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    Robin Harwood  almost 7 years ago

    What’s happening? The comics are more than an hour late.

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    KristineKuhns  almost 7 years ago

    Panel 4, unbounded by the black line, gives an impression of infinite space, a precious still moment in time.

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    Olive O'Sudden  almost 7 years ago

    Argh! It’s 4 a.m. (EST) and we’re all in agony waiting for the Saturday strip…

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    Gent  almost 7 years ago

    Hey what’s this, No Cat Caturday? So far, it looks like Garfield’s the only cat today.

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    Robin Harwood  almost 7 years ago

    Dammit, it’s 9:20 pm here. Go comics has dropped the ball.

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    Robin Harwood  almost 7 years ago

    C’mon, Go comics. Exdigitate.

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    Pet  almost 7 years ago

    Arrrgh! Georgia Dunn liked my comment and I was so excited and , and, snuffle, (wait for it) AND I ACCIDENTALLY DELETED IT!(This is me crying right here….)

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    Kitty Katz  almost 7 years ago

    No spoiler alert. Auggh!

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    arolarson Premium Member almost 7 years ago

    If you are a paid subscriber the Saturday strip is in your email along with a bunch of others that are also not updated on this site. I have sent an inquiry email to the site team but as it is Saturday and Monday is a holiday I have no idea when I might get an answer. Wish so much I could send it to all of you. At this point I don’t suppose it is too much of a spoiler to say it is a wonderful reunion.

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    Trespassers W  almost 7 years ago

    My e-subscription to the News & Observer (North Carolina) is paying off, as I can read today’s strip there!

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    cubfan826  almost 7 years ago

    You can also get Breaking Cat News at arcamax.com

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    Grace Premium Member almost 7 years ago

    Don’t know why gocomics is slow but here is todays 12/23 https://www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/breakingcatnews/

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    Gent  almost 7 years ago

    Time has frozen, as Tommy and his woman see each other. Their entire life together flashes before their eyes during this brief interval of time, which appears elongated to us external observers because of a strong disturbance in the space-time continuum. Yes, happy ripples can cause that, suggest the experts of the Cat Science Network.

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    oops Premium Member almost 7 years ago

    DEE K GC INSIDER 10 MINUTES AGO@GentWhy are you now trying to demonize me? Everyone here knows I’m far from being a troll…and let me remind you that you are the one who started all this—you are the one who called our orbster Elettaria a “hate monger!” Yes, YOU are the first one here who used the “hate speech” you claim to be so offended by! You owe me an apology.

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    Gent  almost 7 years ago

    @DEE K , There has been a lot of hate speech hurled at me since yesterday, which you also ignore conveniently. You are the one who has been trying to spread the most hatred against me by repeatedly making similar comments multiple times since yesterday. And now you have the audacity to rake up the matter again. I am not going to respond to you or trolls like you anymore, no matter how many times you copy paste and repeat your hate propaganda against me.

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    oops Premium Member almost 7 years ago

    Everyone here knows I am not a troll. You?…not so much…

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    JenniferBailey  almost 7 years ago

    When my Assistance Dog was much younger and we were volunteering at the church garden (an unfenced backyard of a house near the church that houses several programs) something happened that really scared my girl and she apparently ran straight back and out of her collar (which was fitted appropriately, she’s just a breed whose head shape allows it, and her current working vest is designed to work as a harness). Her fear had her running like the wind; my disability means I cannot run. One volunteer who is good with dogs took off running (I told the rest having a herd of strange humans chasing a Sheltie isn’t helpful) and, because it was also the weekend other volunteers were picking up litter, texts went out. Several recognized Chloe without the texts, and knew to at least try to get her towards the church if they couldn’t catch her, because the grey Sheltie in the blue vest was familiar. I remember the moment I fell to my knees, assisted by the woman who had followed me with my wheelchair, and who had noted I’d stopped hearing her (she didn’t know it, but I have Aspergers as well as a physical disability). I did suddenly hear “Jennifer- call her!” and looked to see that she was across the empty block (2 buildings in bad shape had been bought and torn down by the church, they are now more garden space). Chloe is a Sheltie. Shelties do not do well as strays- their breed standard actually mentions their shyness. When such breeds are tested for things like the AKC’s Canine Good Citizen the tester is to take into account that no, the dog is sitting for petting by a stranger only because their human is there and told them to. I could name the people who have not at some point lived in this house and aren’t vets who have touched her. Yeah, she’s a working dog, but regular visitors to the house are watched from a safe distance.

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    Charles Freeman Premium Member almost 7 years ago

    You do realize that people across the country – nay, the world – were holding their breath for twenty-four hours after that last panel above, don’t you?

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    starclaw  almost 6 years ago

    See, I think this moment works better with the new format.

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