Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for January 06, 2021

I hope these panels were as fun to draw as they are to look at. Those faces!

This is priceless!

Lupin, get in there and bop Elvis’ tail again.

A nice game of ‘smack bat’ might be in order. One good boy bats the other, then he gets smacked by his opponent. My boys play that a lot.

This is a slow news week?

Double toe beans in panel 2!

I think my cats read this strip!

Prime spots on the bed have fluffy blankets. The corners are favored. But the one closest to the door is the absolute best. My senior cat, Spider, (17yo) likes the spot… because she gets a bit of a pet when I go bye. But tonight… the other old lady, Luna, (15yo) had the spot first. Spider leapt up and glared at Luna. Not moving. Spider (who has no teeth from age) tried to bite her to move. Not moving. Spider then tried batting. Not moving. In a huff… Spider came to me. I petted and cuddled her in sympathy. Then… Luna needed to use the litter box. ZOOM! Spider has been in the prime spot and is not planning on moving!

Since I printed what stuff is theirs with CAT on those items… I wonder if it is my fault! I should never have taught them how to read! (Grin!)

I remember seeing this many times when I lived in New York. Georgia really got the sounds right.

And they keep calling owls too.

Poll – best of 2020

Yep! I’ve heard all of those sounds.

They go low, and they go slow! They’re playing limbo!

One of my kitties used to peep or meep. Sort of high and with a question mark: Meep?

Lupin had better be careful….Elvis and Puck still haven’t figured it out, but eventually Elvis will come to understand with Puck in FRONT of him he couldn’t have bopped his behind. Then watch how noses outclass invisibility every time.

go to sleep you two !!you are going be all year long in kitty’s house !

How slow can you go? Hiss hiss! How slow can you go? Click click! How slow can you go? Growl growl!

My cats do that strange clicking sound when they see birds in the yard.

Puck tongue! (not quite as cute as the “Santa letter lick” tongue) and Elvis tongue!

♪"Born to paw-slap, baby, born to paw-slap, baby – yeah

How slow can you go, how slow can you go, how slow can you go, how slow can you go

Higher, higher, higher and higher

Now can you paw-slap, Pucky, oh can you paw-slap, Elvis

Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, born to paw-slap, oh yeah"♫

(Grease – Born To Hand Jive)

Thank you all for the kind words. The Doctor called last night and gave us an update. Dad is battling. His blood pressure came up a little so they were going to try to dialyze him. They also got some food into him. His lungs are a little wet from the fluids his body can’t expel but there isn’t any pneumonia. The next 24 hours are critical.

Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

The Eagles want you to Take it Easy

Well I’m a-hunkering down the road with a real angry frown

Accused of something I didn’t do

Elvis, without fail says that I booped his tail

That accusation is just not true!

…….

Take it easy, take it easy

Making a lot of growling sounds sound so crazy

Lighten up while you still can

Guys, just try to understand

You do not have to take a stand, just take it easy

…….

Well, I’m a standin’ at the news desk, looking at all the unrest

A disturbing sight to see

Is that Woman, don’t know what she’s holding, although

A squirt bottle it seems to be!

…….

Come on, guys, please, don’t make her squeeze

There’s gotta be a better way, to work things out, see!

You’ll both lose and no way to win, why not just take a nap again,

So just chill out, no fight begin just take it easy!

…….

Well I’m a-hunkering down the road with a real angry frown

Got a world of trouble on my mind

Hunkering down real low, but we just don’t really know

How this all will end this time!

Take it easy, take it easy

Making a lot of growling sounds sound so crazy

Come on, guys, please, don’t make her squeeze

There’s gotta be a better way, to work things out, see!

Oh, we got it easy

We oughta take it easy

Perfect time to open a can of tuna

Can’t be all bad if we get toe beans….

This contest looks to be in limbo.

This is why I share my life with one kitty at a time . . . the ones I take in tend to be the sort who only interact with others in this way.

Limbo?!! … Tae Bo?!! …

In the Big Pink House, it’s all the same!!! :)

I thought yodeling indicated that barfs are imminent. That’s been my experience.

From one of my favorite groups of the late 70’s/early 80s – Blondie:

Slow motion, you can stop on a dime.

Slow motion, you ought to try it sometime.

Take me back on another track.

Take me back, take me back.

Slow motion, you can pick up the beat.

Slow motion, you can stop on the street.

Take me back on another track.

Take me back, take me back.

“Lower” is usually submissive, but it can also be the precursor to a spring. My female cat confuses the neighbor’s male cat by going low to the ground in a submissive posture before bopping him in the chin.

Those low growling noises are Phase One, Verbal Abuse in Cat Fu, the ancient martial art of cats. I had one cat who was so good at Phase One, he never, ever had to fight.

Wait – are those Puck fangs in the last panel?

One of our cat’s used to do whale impressions when she was ticked. “MMMMMMMgrrrrrrrrrr. Mmmmmmmmmgrrrrrrrrrr.” I’ve never heard that particular sound from any other cat.

And then one of them flinches, or blinks, or whatever the trigger is, and KABOOM. The slow chase instantly erupts into a high speed hissing yowling pursuit. Up and down stairs, over furniture, innocent bystander cats, toys and humans.

When the dust settles, all is normal and quiet. 2 cats washing and ignoring each other. It did not happen and we shall never speak of it.

♫”Now if you spend your days talkin’ to a machine

You might forget you’re a human being

Don’t let them make a fool of you

Remember all you have to do

You gotta get down, a little CLOSER TO THE GROUND

That’s all you have to do”♫

(“Closer to the Ground”, Joy of Cooking, Berkeley 1967)

https://youtu.be/bOFTRyNZ1Ro

1-11-2020 Always makes me laugh out loud.

Low to the ground is vital to the process. It shows the other cat that you are well anchored and mean business.

And the slowest CHASE is: the PAW patrol cop figure who lost in the Drake relays, since Salmon Chase wasn’t very slow. My Quebec ecole assignment for today was to investigate the cat skills.

I’m new here. Which cat is the PUCK?

We should probably get in the habit of pinning our favorites so we can more easily make suggestions next year

HAHAHAHAHHHAHA! I have three girls (2 torties and a Siamese I am POSITIVE is related to Elvis) and you have NAILED the slow chase, and the “I hate you but I’m just a little afraid of you” gargling noises. LOL!

Then comes the stage where they lie facing each other with their tails able to reach the other, and they slam those down a few times. After that, they tend to forget what the fight was about, so one of them will sit up and hold a paw in the air for a looong time in the strike position, culminating with a teeeny tap.

This looks like what we call the “Mow a Wows” at my place.

Can you add a Claypool party favor for the chase scene at hand?

♪♫ How slow can you go ♪♫

Watch out guys. The nap attack may just be waiting around the corner.

As for trying to pick a favorite, I vote for all strips from the very first one until the very last one. Sometime in the far, far distant future. Or better yet, never end.

Those noises are hilarious and accurate.

Thanks for the info, Lupin.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this!

Wait until they find out it was Lupin all along.

Any relation to hauissh?

They’re practicing Krav Maclaw.

OT

I’ll have to look through again. Something showcasing Georgia beautiful artwork and lively expressions on characters, I am thinking.

Anyone else hearing the song “Low Rider” by War running through their head? You all may be too young; it was from 1975. The last panel made me think of it.