Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 09, 2021

I see no way this carefully contrived plan can possibly go wrong.

The 2nd panel looks like she will get married

Nail polish and cat hair is never a good combination….

I love the robber mouse using the jeweler’s loupe to inspect the ring. Wonder what she might be up to…

The mice are living out in the open now?

Puck is downright GIDDY with joy! The prospect of helping the woman prepare for a date is too great an opportunity to miss. Then there’s Natasha putting finishing touches on her own makeup.

I think Natasha is likely to be more helpful than Lupin in the beautification process. More attention to details. you know.

Nothing like the help of a cat to make things take three times as long.

Natasha…..jewel thief extraordinaire!! She knows her way around a loupe!

Opening the jewelry box and finding Natasha really threw her for a loupe! :-)

Wonder which cat will be first to suggest “wet your lips”.

Oh—oh my Cat. Just look at all that joy on Pucky’s face. That is the greatest thing I will ever see.

What is Elvis digging for in that open drawer?

Coincidence, we have Cinderbasset on Cleo and Company:

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy

Reality never matches up to fantasy.

From Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Cinderella: Impossible

Impossible

For the feline companions

To style their human being!

…….

Impossible

For a cat of adventure

To help plan an lovely evening!

…….

And one white mouse

Knows nothing about fine jewelry!

Such goings on are nothing more than

Tomfollery!

It’s impossible!

…….

But the world is full of humans and cats

Who aren’t content to leave it that

And won’t believe what common sense may say,

And because these cats and friends, you know

Are not content with the status quo

Impossible…!

Things are happening every day!

I love Cinderella. One of my favorite scenes is the one Georgia depicted in panel two. The little critters singing “We can do it” in their cute little voices.

Puck, I’ve seen Disney’s Cinderella. There is only one cat, and he doesn’t help. He tries to eat the mice. (Which is what a cat should do.)

It looks like Natasha is giving the Woman a free jewelry appraisal, how considerate! Looks like Elvis is all in on helping the women in the 4th panel and Puck looks so stoked!

Georgia, with many cats over the years, you must have good ‘claw snag’ stories. We’d love to see them here. My own ‘snag’ story: We have Boer goats. Long ago, one doe was a good jumper and left the pasture now and then. One of her grown kids followed her over the fence, and in jumping back in, he didn’t quite make it and got a hoof caught in the fence. He was hanging upside down. I happened to see this shortly after it happened, hubby was at work, I am disabled, and it took 15 minutes to track down a neighbor to go with wire cutters to let him loose off the fence. No harm done, he was fine. He never jumped out again.

OT: FlynnHe’s back from the vet and is feeling better. Doesn’t like the kidney diet, but will eat it and make faces. And we’ve had our first subcutaneous rehydration session which went well although I have enough tygon tubing to tie up a boat to a dock. He didn’t seem to mind the needle stick as much as he minded getting a little wet when I failed to shut it off quickly enough at the end. I think this is a “we can do this!” too.

Ohhhh nooooos! I can just see Lupin getting into the nail polish! (covering my eyes) I can’t watch!

In the chart, Cinderella/ Woman has a MOUSE in her hair, and the mouse has a TINY HAIR DRYER. OMC, the adorableness is unbearable!

I feel pretty, oh so pretty! But the cats are all slappy and sappy, I say! And I need to get dressed, so I have to temporally send them away! Mow mow mow mow meyow!

Elvis looks just like our black kit on one of his forays into my dresser. For reasons of his own, he enjoys tossing socks to the floor. At least he doesn’t continue to batting them under the dresser…the dryer does a good enough job of hiding socks, it doesn’t need any help.

“Cat Eye for the People Woman.”

This is Pucky’s moment! He’s such a fashionista!

Huh. My kitties never cared for nail polish. I assume it was the smell that put them off. I confess I sometimes amused myself by “letting” my first gato, Andy, of blessed memory, sniff a cotton ball loaded with nail polish remover…and then get a kick out of the actual furrowed brow and wrinkled nose she sported. Kind of a “ugh, Mom, you actually put that *&%$ on your hands?!” reaction.

In panel two, is Natasha the Fairy Mouse Mother with her needle wand?

I’m imagining Lupin with an open bottle of nail polish …. oh, dear.

Lupin and liquid colorants … he has a very bad history with liquid colorants of various sorts.

https://www.breakingcatnews.com/comic/someone-has-paint-on-their-paws/

For that matter, Puck has a bit of history, too!

https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2020/12/19

Cats are very intuitive to moods of their people. When Mom passed and then Dad passed last week, our cats came up to me when I was in my chair and gave me many purrs and repeated ankle reinforcement. Normally, they aren’t that gregarious.

Pucky and Lupin know the Woman is got something special planned and they will use all their cat-abilities to make sure it is perfect. The only problem is their exuberance can quickly turn into a Painted Pucky and a Glitter disco Lupin.

I wonder if the Man is upon all this. In my case I would likely be clueless and get the look of disappointment at the appropraite time.

Don’t worry, Woman! Your posse has you covered from head-to-toe. Literally. You lucky gal! :-p

The mention of Cinderella made me think of this strip:

http://www.breakingcatnews.com/comic/puckys-purrfect-christmas-tips-part-four/

“Paint your nails, but not with this stuff!”

So much for Calgon, ‘taking her away !!’ … :)

“Cinderelly, Cinderelly….”

The tricky part is hooking the mice up to the pumpkin.

In panel two I’m imagining birds chirping, mice squeaking, a tiny hair dryer blowing …

I woke up to a Winter Wonderland. We have 8 inches of snow on the ground. I know I posted this already. I thought I posted it at the end of the comments. Maybe it ended up as a comment in another thread.

Puck I think you need to coordinate the Cinderella Situation.

Once again cats leap into the breach. Mice too. They love to help.

my kitty girl has a habit of going into the bathtub when I’m not here.. I keep trying to encourage her NOT to by running the water, but she keeps doing it (I find evidences when I’m home later) .. any suggestions?

Should it be point out to them that the animal companions of Cinderella were foiled by the stepmother. Yeah, sure ithe step-sisters ruined the gown they made, but who was it that got them started?

Ultimately it was the fairy godmother that helped the most. With a little bibbity bobbity boo. Rather than a whole lot of we can do it, we can doo it.

This is the right place to leave this.

https://www.shelterchallenge.com/shelterchallenge/Shelter/Detail/1122536

watch out for the robber mice

Can’t wait to see how this turns out.

Zoom trial feline related oopsie!

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rod-ponton-im-not-a-cat-legal-zoom-meeting_n_6022e4a8c5b6f38d06e7a1de

Good, just be careful. I did this for a while for my dog in a cat suit*, Fergal. He flinched when I was getting ready to stick him and nailed my thumb with the 18 ga needle. We were able to hold him out for two years before it progressed to where he was uncomfortable

My sweetest boy, one of the things that helped is he loved his harness and leash, rides in the car (he’d go from window to window like a dog). And he adored the lady vet! He also like walks.

Notice mouse gurl is a jewelry appraiser now!

I saw the tweet below — 10 years of Pucky!!! Congratulations little guy! 10 years ago you were about to get your forever home!

Help. Riiiiight…