The cat I had as a kid liked to hide the dog’s kibble under the couch. One kibble at a time, back and forth from the food bowl to the couch. My parents free-fed the dog, so there was usually kibble in his bowl.
Big Bad John, my childhood dearly departed Siamese protector cat, was a retriever. My dad smoked Camel unfiltered. He would fold the empty packs up when he had smoked them all, and toss them from the kitchen to the living room. Big Bad John would bat them around, then pick them up and carry them back to my dad to be tossed again until he grew tired of the game. We never really paid any attention to where they ended up. When a new refrigerator was delivered and the old one pulled out, we discovered dozens of empty folded up cigarette packs stuffed under it.
I love Pucky’s posture in panel 3. One “arm” behind his back, studying the mess. Georgia is the master of conveying thought and emotion through body posture.
Our little panther regards pens as worthy prey. But he doesn’t hide them under the couch. He proudly carries them from office to living room, loudly announces a successful hunt, and drops them on the floor. He then modestly accepts copious praise and pats leaving the pen for his elderly servants to trip over. Pens are hard to pick up with a grabber btw.
It isn’t usually pens in our home, but bottle caps. Woe to anyone who lays a bottle cap on the table for more than a couple of minutes.
OT medical update: had my two-week followup appointment yesterday and everything looks good, although I will still be using a walker for a while – much to The Girl’s delight, as she enjoys the noise I tend to make while walking across our hardwood floors with it.
I regularly move my sofa out and clean under it, just because I have hardwood and it a good place for cat hair tumble weeds to collect. But, there is always joy when I retrieve the big pink pompom. Joy in batting it around the living room only to lose it under the sofa mins later- again.
When I first read this early this morning with blurry eyes when I saw the 3rd panel I first thought they were the tent pegs the man didn’t need to use for setting up the tent in the living room.
Fake fur mice and colorful ping pong balls here, and not usually under the couch, because we don’t actually own a couch, but under the stove and the fridge and the gun cabinets and the phone and lamp tables.
My recently deceased wife and I had a Munchkin cat who played hockey with the caps off of plastic water bottles. She died a few years ago and I am still finding the caps under objects that haven’t been moved for awhile. After my wife died I was cleaning the basement and moved a shelving unit and found about 20 of them. There are probably more around just haven’t found them yet.
Just realized that Lupin’s name is not like the plant. It’s like the French gentleman thief. I feel dumb but better informed now. Is it pronounced with the French nasal?
What is The Man fastening the tent to? It looks like tent pegs you’d pound into the ground but it couldn’t be. I am not up on the latest technology at all.
If one thinks about why one does everything, when will there be time to actually do things? And don’t say ‘when one is in the hoosegow for doing things one shouldn’t have done’!
McColl34 Premium Member about 3 years ago
But no lost cat toys . . . er, other cat toys?
face.less_b about 3 years ago
Lupin is the doing type not the thinking type.
MysteryMan357 about 3 years ago
buzzy mouse!
DeerOrchid Premium Member about 3 years ago
The cat I had as a kid liked to hide the dog’s kibble under the couch. One kibble at a time, back and forth from the food bowl to the couch. My parents free-fed the dog, so there was usually kibble in his bowl.
face.less_b about 3 years ago
Elvis, as Chairman Miaow said: There is chaos in the living room and the situation is perfect.
deadheadzan about 3 years ago
Elvis….the old stick in the mud. Lupin…the cat of adventure! And good old reliable Puck…. Just reporting the news. And that’s the way it is.
Brian Premium Member about 3 years ago
“Seemed like the thing to do.”
WelshRat Premium Member about 3 years ago
Chaos works best without thought, Lupin. Don’t think about it…
Sue Ellen about 3 years ago
Big Bad John, my childhood dearly departed Siamese protector cat, was a retriever. My dad smoked Camel unfiltered. He would fold the empty packs up when he had smoked them all, and toss them from the kitchen to the living room. Big Bad John would bat them around, then pick them up and carry them back to my dad to be tossed again until he grew tired of the game. We never really paid any attention to where they ended up. When a new refrigerator was delivered and the old one pulled out, we discovered dozens of empty folded up cigarette packs stuffed under it.
Le'letha Premium Member about 3 years ago
I wonder where Lupin’s hat went during those middle two panels. I suppose if anyone could have a whole adventure in those moments, it’d be Lupin!
Le'letha Premium Member about 3 years ago
“Why?” Because it was there!
Aspen_Bell about 3 years ago
“My Cat is a Thief!”
Robin Harwood about 3 years ago
Furniture moved? Tent in the room? Elvis, these are signs of The End. You are doomed.
Gent about 3 years ago
LuPen. He’s got a penchant for that.
222jo about 3 years ago
Elvis is outraged.
Jungle Empress about 3 years ago
Pucky, Pucky, Pucky. You should know by now that it’s futile to ask Lupin why he does anything.
TampaFanatic1 about 3 years ago
Anarchy and chaos! I love it, looks like a fun time for the gang!
Ruth Brown about 3 years ago
Messing with Elvis’ order again. Not a good thing.
DennisinSeattle Premium Member about 3 years ago
Lupin: Because that’s what I do!
Santana about 3 years ago
Just take those old pens from under the couch
Cat of Adventure, Lupin ain’t no slouch
He does everythin’ with heart and soul
He likes that old time bat and roll
He’s glowed like a ball at a disco
He rode on Tortie and spun out on the floor
In ten minutes he was lookin’ for more
He likes that old time bat and roll
Everybody
Old time bat and roll
That kinda action just soothes his soul
He’s never pens-ive about the Bics of old
With that old time bat and roll
I love his old time bat and roll
(George Henry Jackson / Thomas Earl Jones III / Bob Seger – Old Time Rock & Roll – Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band)
ikini Premium Member about 3 years ago
I love Pucky’s posture in panel 3. One “arm” behind his back, studying the mess. Georgia is the master of conveying thought and emotion through body posture.
arolarson Premium Member about 3 years ago
Our little panther regards pens as worthy prey. But he doesn’t hide them under the couch. He proudly carries them from office to living room, loudly announces a successful hunt, and drops them on the floor. He then modestly accepts copious praise and pats leaving the pen for his elderly servants to trip over. Pens are hard to pick up with a grabber btw.
sugordon about 3 years ago
Once again this strip perfectly captures each of the boy’s greatest personality traits.
some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member about 3 years ago
That fourth panel is absolutely adorable.
JDP_Huntington Beach about 3 years ago
Lupin looks so cute and happy in the last panel.
So we solved the missing pen problem, and I bet we have a major clue to the missing sock problem, too! Maybe just ask Lupin…
So not under the couch, maybe behind the dryer?
Miss Mina about 3 years ago
The Hat of Adventure!
skipper1992 about 3 years ago
It isn’t usually pens in our home, but bottle caps. Woe to anyone who lays a bottle cap on the table for more than a couple of minutes.
OT medical update: had my two-week followup appointment yesterday and everything looks good, although I will still be using a walker for a while – much to The Girl’s delight, as she enjoys the noise I tend to make while walking across our hardwood floors with it.
Michael G. about 3 years ago
Existentialism is a part of feline philosophy.
Miri Tallstag about 3 years ago
So the mice aren’t the only ones who have taken the Man’s pens
diskus Premium Member about 3 years ago
Lupin seems to be drooling over the pens lol
kimmie260 about 3 years ago
I regularly move my sofa out and clean under it, just because I have hardwood and it a good place for cat hair tumble weeds to collect. But, there is always joy when I retrieve the big pink pompom. Joy in batting it around the living room only to lose it under the sofa mins later- again.
Susanna Premium Member about 3 years ago
When I first read this early this morning with blurry eyes when I saw the 3rd panel I first thought they were the tent pegs the man didn’t need to use for setting up the tent in the living room.
Granny Roberta about 3 years ago
Fake fur mice and colorful ping pong balls here, and not usually under the couch, because we don’t actually own a couch, but under the stove and the fridge and the gun cabinets and the phone and lamp tables.
Le'letha Premium Member about 3 years ago
If any of us are on Twitter, Georgia has some things to say about how the comic is made: https://twitter.com/GeorgiaDunnBCN/status/1407593531439415296
It’s going to be OK, Georgia! We believe in you and it’s going to look great! Look after yourself and do what works for you.
John9 about 3 years ago
My recently deceased wife and I had a Munchkin cat who played hockey with the caps off of plastic water bottles. She died a few years ago and I am still finding the caps under objects that haven’t been moved for awhile. After my wife died I was cleaning the basement and moved a shelving unit and found about 20 of them. There are probably more around just haven’t found them yet.
mistercatworks about 3 years ago
Frustrated writer?
myystic about 3 years ago
they see me rollin..
marilynnbyerly about 3 years ago
Well, the good news is all those pens are keeping Buzzy Mouse from being trapped under there like the last time the couch was moved.
panille about 3 years ago
Three plus cats and two kids and no one has looked under the couch in years for anything?
JDP_Huntington Beach about 3 years ago
Shouldn’t Tortimer have choked on all those loose pens under the couch?
Kitty Katz about 3 years ago
Meanwhile, Back on the Nile
Elvis-Anum: Anyone seen my brushes?
Beatrixia: Last I saw them they were on your top shelf.
Elvis-Anum: Has Lupinium had the Zoomies lately?
Beatrixia: No, he’s in Afar doing a show with the It’s a Wonderful Nine Lives Troupe.
Elvis-Anum: Then it must be the Royal Procurers.
Beatrixia: They are on vacation at Tea Springs.
Elvis-Anum: Alright! Then Who Took My Brushes!?
Enter Puckmosis
Puckmosis: Hey guys, want to come to the palace dining room for s’mores? Elvis-Anum, why the poof?
Beatrixia: He’s missing some of his painting brushes.
Puckmosis: Didn’t you lend them to Maat-Tilda and Sophititi for their tapestry?
Elvis-Anum: If course. I knew that along.
Beatrixia: Then why the poof?
Elvis-Anum: Poof? Me? That was just my show of concern.
Puckmosis: Well, missing out on s’mores is a real cause for concern. Let’s go!
artchick530 about 3 years ago
In typical cat fashion, yesterday Elvis was suggesting a tent could be set up in the living room. Today, he sees it as the worst. thing. ever.
Teto85 Premium Member about 3 years ago
And the people now have a surplus of pens for the next few years.
Catmom about 3 years ago
O.T.
DorseyBelle about 3 years ago
Sure there are pens under the couch. But there are also always hamster-sized dust bunnies!
NWdryad about 3 years ago
Poor Man. I seem to recall that he uses specialized pens for his work.
me_the_polish_gull about 3 years ago
This is why Lupin is my favourite character of this strip.
willie_mctell about 3 years ago
It’s not Lupin’s to reason why.
willie_mctell about 3 years ago
Just realized that Lupin’s name is not like the plant. It’s like the French gentleman thief. I feel dumb but better informed now. Is it pronounced with the French nasal?
Jayfbird1969 Premium Member about 3 years ago
I never really expected Lupin to think about while creating chaos. He just does it.
Font Lady Premium Member about 3 years ago
If we move ANYthing in the house, the cats go nuts because it’s obvious that everything has changed.
SunflowerGirl100 about 3 years ago
What is The Man fastening the tent to? It looks like tent pegs you’d pound into the ground but it couldn’t be. I am not up on the latest technology at all.
C and O 2666 about 3 years ago
If one thinks about why one does everything, when will there be time to actually do things? And don’t say ‘when one is in the hoosegow for doing things one shouldn’t have done’!
Natarose about 3 years ago
calm down Elvis. The furniture is still available for your use.
about 3 years ago
My cat always plays with pens.
sceadugenga1 about 3 years ago
He seems a bit pensive…
Bluestar about 3 years ago
Oh Lupin…….So funny