Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for July 25, 2020

I’ve had days like that…

This may be the most relatable BCN report ever. Puck’s logic is incontrovertible!

This is why my mother always says she’s coming back as a cat.

And, Elvis, you’re a cat. Cuddle puddle time!

Puck is simply EXHAUSTED!!! I, too, can relate. That sunspot should have moved, sometime in the Long afternoon.

I feel this one in my poor, tired bones.

Elvis’s tail is twitching with self-righteous indignation.

Big Bad John, my dearly departed Siamese protector cat loved to sleep belly up while flat on his back.

Pucky whiskers and toe beans all in one pose. Pucky perfection!

It is 100 degrees and he found a sunbeam in an airconditioned house.

He’ll wake up right in time for the 2AM sports events.

I wish! I have so much to do today! Not sure when I will be able to visit my pillow!

That’s why they call them cats.

I got up yesterday…. That’s a cute phrase befitting Pucky.

Puck may be a spirit animal for many of us. I know he is for me. Well…….also the sloth.

Every good boy deserves a lazy day.

Has Puck read that Dr. Seuss book?

A classic rejoinder; ‘I got up yesterday’.

Pucky BoCC!

OT: daily hugs for ladykat. Here’s mine. Add yours.

I see Lupin must have been given a bath by the Woman after his feast yesterday.

If I were in the Big Pink House, I’d be rubbing that belly now. And there would be chin skritching.

Reminds me of my daughter Amy, a definite night owl as I was was back in the ‘80s when I was her age (she’s an undergrad at FSU up in Tallahassee but stuck with the parents since March). I admit its futile but I do try to get her to do a late morning excursion now and then and you can guess how that rates in the 20 year old girls’s way of thinking; hmmm way below average comes to mind….. One notable exception this summer was the trip to Lowry Park (known to most outside this area as Zoo Tampa), that morning she almost left the old man in the driveway for dragging his feet at 8:00 AM, the park is 20 minutes away and opens at 9:30 and we had bought tickets on-line, guaranteed entry as long as we shown up by noon….. Myself, her and my wife were almost the first people in the park. It made me smile because I was exactly like that as a kid and college aged young adult when it came to the zoo whether it was Lowry Park, Audubon in New Orleans, Birmingham Zoo, the Miami Zoo, Lion Country safari, Grant Park in the ATL or any other great zoo and wildlife park. I enjoyed that day but its been a scary summer for me and many I know…… Tampa is not Miami or South Texas but the Corona is making a definite presence and its almost time for young Amy to start her junior year at FSU. Fall semester is coming and I am a bit worried about classes in person in Tallahassee or heck just about anywhere else. Not sure if its the right time to go back with what is going on right now…… My daughter wants to go back to campus but says she understands if she has to do another semester online. Crazy, crazy times, y’all!

Pucky cancelled the day

they sleep in days and night all over in house !

Today is cancelled on account of nap.

Currently trying to skritch chin while black cat sits in the sun on my footstool, read GoComics, balance My iPad and type! Failure to skritch elicits meows! LOL

To be literal/realistic (while admitting this is a comic strip, where normal rules don’t apply) – it’s highly unlikely that he’d be able to stay in one place, AND have the best sun spot all day. Since the sun moves throughout the day, the location of its spot on the floor moves, too. He’d have to move with it!

Sounds like Saturday to me.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Elvis-Anum: Your Majesty, a new passage has been discovered at the Great Pyramid.

Queen Catshepsut the Golden: What is in this new passage, Elvis-Anum?

Elvis-Anum: It is empty, but at certain times the sun shines beautifully throughout it.*

At the Great Pyramid

Beatrixia: According to the scrolls, Pharaoh Catfu added many hidden chambers when he had this built, including the Sun Chamber.

The Queen: This is a most momentous discovery. We must summon the Royal Court to determine what to do.

The Queen: We have discovered to legendary Sun Chamber. After much consideration, I think we all know what we must do.

All: Zzzzzzzzzz…….

I don’t see how he could hog the best sun spot for hours. The sunny spots move all the time.

From Georgia’s Instagram…homage to the July Bug. https://www.instagram.com/p/CDCcM5EpIjW/?igshid=1canbmhxjtdw

Posting in case the Twitter link below changes later today.

Sis’s boss Onyx loves it when sis opens the front door in the afternoon, because it’s her chance to flomp down on her back à la Puck in the sun puddle in front of the storm door & bake her arthritic bones to her heart’s content. Even better, it’s a west-facing door, so the sun puddle doesn’t move all that much. She’s living her best life!

Today we have a lot on our plate: Today is Culinarian’s Day (That means cooks, chefs, bakers, etc.); It is also National Hot Fudge Sundae Day, National Wine and Cheese Day, and the Feast of St. James. So go stuff yourselves like a starving hobbit. (Side note: It’s almost a shame we named MrrrCavity. His eating desires and habits make “Hobbit” a perfect name for him. He is also short, and round. The Practically Spherical Cat.)

It is also National Drowning Prevention Day. Best defense: Teach or learn “survival stroke.” It’s a cross between treading water and a very slow breast stroke/frog kick. It allows the head to go under water between each stroke. You exhale under water, inhale on the upstroke when your head clears. Even someone in poor physical condition can keep this up for hours, leaving hypothermia as the biggest danger.

National Hire a Veteran Day: They wrote a check to all of us “up to and including their lives.” If you have a business, paying their paltry salary (by comparison) is the least you can do.

International Red Shoe Day: Basically, “invisible Disease Awareness Day.” Invisible diseases are things like Lyme’s, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, etc. Otherwise known as living hell.

National Carousel Day. I’ve never been thrilled by carousels. Let’s change that to Carousal Day, and celebrate National Day of the American Cowboy in a manner fitting for the end of the drive and payday. Cue “Rawhide!” Alternatively:

“It’s bacon and beans most every day,

I’d just as soon eat prairie hay!

Come a ty yi yoopee yoopee ay, yoopie ay

Come a ty yi yoopee yoopee ay!"

Many hugs, purrs, boops and ankle support, dear ladykat.

Typical cat behavior. I wonder if Puck is doing intermittent fasting.

Nothing beats a good nap.

Almost the opposite of Warren Zevon’s “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead”: I’ll get up when I feel like it, probably around 2 a.m.

Sun Spots are known to be very strong gravity wells. Getting up against that is VERY HARD.

Hey @Denny Wheeler – Stella & Twinkle are going to their furever home today! They’re on Caramel & Salty’s channel.

Ah ha! The truth always comes out. Elvis isn’t interested in Pucky’s napping style, he’s only in it for the sun spot!

Puck is refining his skills. He’s working on backsleeping at the moment.

Puck is right. Getting up today is overrated.

“He is Pucky-Cat and he’s okay.”

“He sleeps all night AND he sleeps all day!”

With apologies to Monty Python. :-)

Okay…I was up today at 5:30 to run 3.5 miles before it got too hot to exist outside. Yes…I agree…The hooman is certifiably crazy.

This is my new watchword: “I’m not getting up. I got up yesterday.”

Puuuurrrrfect strip for my first day of vacay….yeah, Pucky, tomorrow (maybe) ;) !

Yeah, Smokey has four spots she really likes to lay in too. Drives the dogs crazy as she’ll beat them up if they try going by her in two of those spots. Well, drives George and Riley crazy (drives Riley crazy in three spots), Josie depends on her mood on if she wants to dare Smokey. Two of Smokey’s favorite spots block the pathway back to the kitchen and the water fountain. And for Riley, a thrid spot blocks her from a hidey hole (though as Smokey was using that spot for years before Riley came along, I suspect Smokey does it on purpose as a bit of revenge for stealing one of her spots).

My Kiki’s favorable sun puddle is the dining room window. That’s also her favorite CatTV window.

Me on basically every saturday: