Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for August 22, 2021

Ooh, I’m first! Happy Sunday!

Eww! People-tea!

Elvis! That is NOT dignified!

Continuing Sunday story. I think a first for the strip.

Our female cat waits outside the bathroom to lick bathwater off my partner’s shins. Never mine, just his.

[falls over laughing] This, like you wouldn’t believe. I have plants outside on a rolling stand. I pour water in, some of it comes out the bottom, and Foxy drinks it. This cat gets fresh filtered water every day, TWO bowls’ worth, PLUS what I have to mix in her wet food to make extra gravy because she’s a gravy licker.

I had a cat, Asia, who would sit on the side of the tub and drink my bath water as long as it was clean. I used to tease her about wanting “mommy soup.” She also let her tail droop into the tub.

Sunday Funday

One thing I’ve learned about cats – “yucky” is a matter of individual taste, and has no relation to what Humans view as “yucky”!

Im sure Elvis drinks his people tea in a very dignified manner; with his dew claw extended thusly.

Burt is providing sneaky Elvis sabotage material from the archives again, I see.

Yet another reason my cats are not allowed in the bathroom.

So much useful information from this report! Garbage can lid water has extra nutrients. It is safe and natural to drink condensation from a toilet tank. Goldfish have lawyers who send cease and desist letters.

It also leaves us with questions. Whose people toes those are rising just above the surface of the water in the photo? Knowing Elvis, I assume they belong to the woman. More importantly, who is that shady cat? Puck won’t even give us a pronoun hint!

We call it People Soup. Same Idea.

Our first cat, Carmella, would waitmformus to get out of the shower, and then lick the water off our legs.

That is a measure of Elvis’ love for his most special people: woman and girl, I would venture.

Poofage in panel 5, toebeans in panels 3 and 8, and has anyone noticed Goldie has green eyeshadow that matches her eyes?

Cute tongue alert. It’s the curly tongues that I like.

People-tea. Puck never fails to crack me up. :D

Everyone has to cross water sometime.

My boyfriend says that in actuality, the condensation on the toilet tank is safe to drink, as is the water in the cistern. He says it’s all clean until it gets to the toilet bowl. He says that in a nuclear attack, that would probably be the safest water to drink in the house. ;p Who’d of thunk it?! Lupin and a certain belly-rub-loving anonymous source aren’t wrong after all! :D

Whether or not condensation is a crime depends on the local jurisdiction. In some places it may be a very serious offence.

People tea is good for you.

I laughed from first panel to the last! Great follow up to last week’s special report!

Yucky, yucky, yucky, I’ve got water that’s mucky

And I feel like a-lovin it

Oh, you’re such a sweet thing, good enough to drink thing

And that’s just a-what I try a-bit

Ooh, love to sip ya

Ooh, love to swig ya

I love it – even from the loo-tank

Ooh love, but you’re sweeter

Out of the bathtub

When you’re havin’ the people’s-tea tang

Both my current cat and her predecessor consider(ed) an occupied bathtub a primo water source. Neither ever did this to my husband, just me.

SO many toe beans!

Never, ever tangle with piscine lawyers. Make them mad and you really will be swimming with the fishes.

In panel 8, is Lupin horrified or admiring?

Come on, Elvis. With a good PR agent you can still spin this even though there is (purported) evidence of your “people-tea” drinking habits.

Aha. You is caught red pawed this time, Elvis. There’s no denying it.

OT: Oh-Cat-Homa

Enter Puck, with Tortie

Puck: Morning, Aunt Goldie and Uncle Elvis, and howdy, Lupin and Bea. How’s things?

Elvis:* We’re doing fine, Puck. It’s good to see you.

Bea: Cousin Sophie’s here as well. She needs a date for Tommy’s barbecue.

Puck: That’s great. Think she’ll go with me?

Bea: You’ll have to ask her. But I think she will.

Enter Cousin Sophie

Puck: Howdy, Sophie. Would you like to take a stroll with me?

Sophie: I think that would be nice.

Sometime Later

Puck: So you’ll go to the barbecue with me?

Sophie: I’d love to Puck.

Puck: How about bein’ my gal?

Sophie: You’re real sweet. I just feel there’s something I have to do first? I have my artwork to do, and I feel like I have to do The project.

(Continued Below)

People-tea? It’s time to bag it.

My dearly departed Maine Coon loved bath water, especially if it were oatmeal bath in the winter. Our crazy ginger has been known to get in the shower and bath tub with us and just hang out.

Thirsty!

Now when I want to insult someone, I’m going to call them a toilet cat.

My little Selene would climb into the shower when I was finished and (flicking her paws with every step), delicately lap at the wet floor.

Didn’t want to gloom up Sunday Funday, so I’ll put it here. I had a Funday PLANNED with my sister—She would drive over and we would pickup expensive picnic packed as a fund-raiser by local nature preserve. But nature preserve moved the pickup to Saturday and Monday, and closed themselves for Sunday as we await Hurricane (or maybe Tropical Storm)(or maybe just a bit of rain) Henri. And my sister won’t reschedule her visit until we find out what Henri has done. So I’m missing my Funday, and I might have to console myself by eating this entire picnic alone.

Or leave it out unguarded for bears (not that there are any bears here, just gentlemen) to appropriate.

Hey kitties its all good. Now dogs, that can be gross

If Elvis drinks bath water, he does it in a digni—no, no he doesn’t, that’s stretching a point too far.

That is just as gross, if not grosser, than locking up toilet condensation.

Is your bowl being cleaned properly?

Do your people respect boundaries?

Is your tank partner’s Ick icky?

Problems with the cat?

We are Gill & Gill, attorneys at law, and we have your dorsal fin covered. It may be coy, but we swim with the sharks every day to win your case. We out mussel our adversaries.

At Gill & Gill, we take our opponents to school. It does not get any betta than that. So don’t be one of the grouper, and swim over to Gill & Gill.

And at Gill & Gill, we don’t swim if you get flushed.

OT:

All I can say without TMI, is that LucyLu loves to take baths….

People-tea! LOL!! <3

I love the cease and desist order bit from the goldfish

Acts all high and might, but there is proof he does worse.

Elvis! You don’t know where she’s been!

Soapy people-tea is an emetic.

I have 2 rescue cats. One LOVES the condensation on the outside of drink glasses. Whenever he sees one he makes a beeline to it and starts meowing like it’s tuna. Then he’ll sit there, eyes closed and purring, for a good 20 minutes, licking and occasionally turning the cup with his paws.

There is E. Coli in the air of a bathroom, especially after every toilet flush. That’s why toothbrushes should be covered. The condensation on a toilet tank is pure distilled water – until the next flush. Fortunately, cats have evolved a remarkable immune system that should keep them safe. Humans, however, should not lick toilet tanks.

“people tea”, hehehe.

That’s the kind of hard hitting investigative reporting I need.

This is asrialfeeple reporting from hospital to tell you hospital good is gummy and i gave my compliments to the chef

Yummy

Now the claim that toilet cats (a very accurate name, especially for the following) only lick condisation off the outside of the tank is FALSE FALSE FALSE. Smokey has the very disgusting habit of drinking out of the toilet bowl.

Elvis: “That’s not me! That photo was clearly photoshopped!”

Abby (still miss you, baby) was almost exclusively drinking from the watering can on the plant shelf in the dining room using the “bear catching salmon” technique at the end of her life. She also chewed the watering can spout to the point that it became an unrecognizable flattened mess. She ignored the fresh biowl of water in the kitchen. SIlly cat.

Rosie (in this respect) is amazingly normal.

who’s that?

Our cat Dell used to drink from the toilet, because Dad was unable to put the lid down. Dell was a bit miffed when the lid started staying closed all the time. He would also drink the water remaining in the shower after a person had finished that strange water torture they insist on.

Sparky recently discovered how tasty shower water is. Since we have hardwood instead of carpet outside of the bathroom in the new house, Mom is periodically panicking over the weird wet spots on the floor, which are, of course, paw prints. And there have been multiple times when Sparky’s hopped up on my lap with her wet little paws.

You are so busted, Elvis.

Is that Tommy in the Window?