Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for May 27, 2019

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    BillJackson2  over 5 years ago

    peep toads

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    Susanna Premium Member over 5 years ago

    I can’t wait for the last panel of this one.

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    Jungle Empress  over 5 years ago

    Their expressions say it all. Lupin and Tommy are so happy, but Elvis just looks grumpy, as usual! Heehee.

    Also lovin’ Tommy’s flamingo shirt!

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    Le'letha Premium Member over 5 years ago

    “Nature’s car alarm” is a gorgeous – if tongue-in-cheek – description.

    I’m not sure what to say about Tommy’s flamingo feety pajamas, except maybe “Look at the flamingo feety pajamas!” What kind of pajamas do you think your cats would wear? Diesel would wear something comfortable and easy to get up and dash to the kitchen in, yet good for snuggling – maybe much-battered sports wear? Raven deserves something as sleek and silky as he is, plus a robe with pockets, because pajamas don’t have to match.

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    Strob  over 5 years ago

    This must be near Battey Meetinghouse Road and Peep Toad Road which are “Scituate”-ed in RI, although it could be in Mass:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scituate,_Rhode_Island

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    awgiedawgie Premium Member over 5 years ago

    I can testify that they are deafening. I was driving home from town the other evening. I play my music rather loud in my truck, and I could hear the peep toads OVER my stereo, with my windows CLOSED!!

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      over 5 years ago

    I really admire the background. It’s simply beautiful.

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    Sue Ellen  over 5 years ago

    This one just makes me HAPPY!

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    Charliegirl Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Oh, my cat. Just look at Tommy’s flamingo jams! roflol

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    Robin Harwood  over 5 years ago

    If peep toads are like car alarms, I’m glad we don’t have them here. And it would explain why Elvis’ tail is twitching.

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    ikini Premium Member over 5 years ago

    “Their beauty is deafening.” Worthy of inclusion in best quotes, or too obscure without context?

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    Gent  over 5 years ago

    Peep toads eh? The ones here only go BREKK-KOAXX and BRIBBITT-BRIBBITT !

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    Gent  over 5 years ago

    Stupid toads. Dontcha know it’s not polite to peep?

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    Biskits  over 5 years ago

    My pepper would say, “let me lie around thiss center of the action, watch the moves, and You watch me do one performing last strike just to win!!”

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    RayWebster1  over 5 years ago

    The June Bugs cannot be far away. Be prepared!

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    Ruth Brown  over 5 years ago

    I’m with Elvis.

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    dadoctah  over 5 years ago

    I’ll take your word for it that they set each other off, because we don’t have them out here in the desert. Now, coyotes, on the other hand, are definitely up for a chain reaction. And when I used to go out in the country at night for astronomy class, if they weren’t already singing, I’d start ’em off.

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    WelshRat Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Elvis doesn’t like being awake at night. And love the Tommy PJ’s.

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    cat19632001  over 5 years ago

    Lupin’s grinning because he can’t hear a thing.

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    cat19632001  over 5 years ago

    We have massive bullfrogs in my neighborhood.

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    cat19632001  over 5 years ago

    I love the Boys in their jammies!

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    TammyHarris-Dearhouse Premium Member over 5 years ago

    I need a flamingo onesie. I love when Georgia gives us a nighttime scene! The colors she uses are so GORGEOUS!

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    Ignatz Premium Member over 5 years ago

    When I first saw the phrase “peep toads,” I thought it was a little candy marshmallow in the shape of a toad.

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    asrialfeeple  over 5 years ago

    Keep the children away! They’re giving a … wait for it … peep show.

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    tatempleman  over 5 years ago

    I live on a peninsula jutting into Percy Priest Lake in Nashville. Now that spring/summer is in full swing, peep toads, tree frogs, and bullfrogs make a wonderful evening chorus, with occasional solos from a whip-or-will.

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    ladykat  over 5 years ago

    I love Tommy’s onesie!! Now I’m going to have to hunt for a summer nightgown in a flamingo pattern!!

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    dcn819  over 5 years ago

    I’ve never heard them called peep toads before. Is that a New England thing?

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    SusieB  over 5 years ago

    Love that pink flamingo shirt. I just ordered one myself

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    Wichita1.0  over 5 years ago

    We uses to have toads in the occasionally marshy field behind our house. Then they built duplexes. I miss the sound at night.

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    Code the Enforcer  over 5 years ago

    Reminds me of the mean ol’ bear from the classic cartoon trying to hibernate. … “If I hear one more PEEP outta you!! …”

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    belgarathmth  over 5 years ago

    Why does Elvis always look angry? That’s just his nature, I guess. Sort of like Grumpy Cat?

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    bluegirl285  over 5 years ago

    Loving Tommy’s flamingo PJs!

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    Display  over 5 years ago

    And we all know that a frog pond is knee deep, knee deep, knee deep.

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    anomalous4  over 5 years ago

    I had to Google “peep toads.” Found this interesting video about them (AKA Spring Peeper frogs) by a naturalist in CT:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBUXYrUA2pw

    I remember seeing TINY frogs at a local pond when I was a kid, but don’t remember hearing them. May have been too late in the year.

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    BillJackson2  over 5 years ago

    OT: Diego

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    Gigs  over 5 years ago

    Frogs are a primary indication of the health of your ecosystem. So be happy if you have them.

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    willie_mctell  over 5 years ago

    Years ago there was a creek near my father in law’s house. There were treefrogs too. Then it got covered in concrete (domed) by the county for mosquito abatement. Sad, no more frogs.

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    Kelliekatlady  over 5 years ago

    Peep toads!!!

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    banjinshiju  over 5 years ago

    Down in the Gulf South, we have tree frogs. After every warm weather rain you would here them calling out for hours looking for a girl friend for the night.

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    Solarbear Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Love Tommy’s flamingo shirt!

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    miscreant  over 5 years ago

    Where does every kitty get their clothes and who does their laundry? They all have great outfits they must need to be laundered.

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    Erin Pierce  over 5 years ago

    I admire Lupin’s enthusiasm…he can’t really participate in this story (although that may be a blessing in this case), but he’s all in! A true Cat of Adventure, even if it’s vicarious!

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    DennyWheeler  over 5 years ago

    Presumably Lupin was handed this story, or it’s on his TelePrompTer? We know he can’t hear the peeping.

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    la_momcat  over 5 years ago

    Elvis’s angrily twitching tail!

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    Strob  over 5 years ago

    “Crickets call, courting their ladies in star-dappled green

    thickets tall, until the morning comes up, like a dream..”

    - Joni Mitchell, “I Don’t Know Where I Stand”

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    up2trixx  over 5 years ago

    My favourite sound. Means Spring has finally come. We call them “Spring Peepers” here.

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    Banjo Gordy Premium Member over 5 years ago

    Where we lived in a location with many trees with a small spring fed creek at the bottom of a valley in Overland Park KS, we could hear an amazing sound in early evening that would be perfect for a SF movie sound track. Very weird!Then later in the Summer we had tiny [nearly unseen] tree frogs adding to a night symphony of cricket backgroundrhythm section. One night I aimed a powerful flashlight into an oak tree I finally share a tree frog WOW!

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    Font Lady Premium Member over 5 years ago

    It’s too dry to get toads or frogs around here.

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    I AM CARTOON LADY!  over 5 years ago

    Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal!…Oops, I mean…PEEP!!

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    PatsyL.Paul  over 5 years ago

    Luv Tommy’s flamingo jammies!

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    tigerdg  over 5 years ago

    In Hawaii, they’re known as tree frogs. And they are surprisingly easy to go to sleep to.

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    Aslan Balaur  over 5 years ago

    Not sure if they are the same type of frogs, since I am still new to this county, but I have a pond to my north, a creek to my south, that turns and goes right through my property to the pond, and a goldfish pond that is giving safe sanctuary to at least one frog. I hear frog peeping and crickets from all sides. After too many years of city life, thank Cat for being in the country! I love listening to the frogs.

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    bngooby  over 5 years ago

    Love Tommy’s flamingo shirt!

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    57BelAir  over 5 years ago

    peep toads….cute name! Never heard that.

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    Hedgehog  over 5 years ago

    Indoor-Outdoor Flamingo footy pajamas.

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