Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for November 15, 2022

He’s been through so much in his short little life. I’m so glad Angus was there to lead them to a safe place. Now we just have to convince little girl kitty to trust the people and cats. I can’t wait to hear her story.

I guess chinchillas hop around?

Chinchillas are certainly riveting rodents, not unlike a certain tempestuous tortoiseshell. ♡(ﾐゝᆽ╹ﾐ)♡

I hurt for them all. There is a dark tortie that was here when we arrived 3 years ago. We immediately got 1 Siamese from the neighbors (“We’re not taking him with us when we move”) and another that showed up “YOU are my PEOPLE!” but the tortie existed on the edges of our lives with some neighbors taking her in when she had kittens and promising they’d have her fixed afterward. Their little girl named her “Mister Ocelot” until she had kittens, then she became “Mrs. Ocelot”. Of course they didn’t fix her and she’s had another litter and now is coming into the back yard at night when I lock the 2 outside kitties into the safety of the garage with their food and heated beds. I finally got to pet her the other night. Getting kitties fixed is expensive and we aren’t rich, but I fear this is another one I’ll have to take on.

Happy and hoppy…

I need that kitten energy.

OT, hubs update

For all who missed the announcement yesterday…the BCN 2023 calendar is available on Zazzle!

https://www.zazzle.com/bcn_2023_tarot_calendar-158021237561598144

And today it is 50% off!!!! Those of us who leaped to order yesterday got 20%. But who cares, at least it is here….yay,

OT: Roll Call

Have Chinchilla conquered the problem of gravity as well?

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young: Our House

I’ll talk with Bea

You run and jump

Enjoy our friends

That we met today

Keeping safe and warm

For hours and hours

While the Humans help out

You gotta love them

They’re here

For us

Always for us

…….

Are we home now?

Now we can rest for more than five minutes

Everything is fine

In this purple room

The windows are illuminated by the evening

Maybe we could learn

To love it here…….

With you

And our new friends!

This house

Is a very, very, very fine house

With four cats and a yard

Life used to be so hard

Now everything is easy

Here with you

And our

La la, la la la, la,

La, la-la, la, la, la-la, la-purr

La, la-la-la-la, la-la,

La, la-la, la, la-la-la-purr

La-la, la-la-la, la

La, la-la, la, la, la-la, la-purr

La, la-la-la-la, la-la, la

…….

Is a very, very, very fine house

With four cats and a yard

Life used to be so hard

Now everything is easy

Here with (all of) you

…….

I’ll talk with Bea

You run and jump

Enjoy our friends

That we met today

I knew her return would be explosive, glad there are just kittens in this strip so she has no people to bite or crash into. They seem to be looking into the camera in panel 2, which is just great. Soon they will learn of all the other cat friends they can meet in this house.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Ora Zedd: Did I do a good job kneading the dough?

Floofnet: I’d say you pounded it into submission, Little O.

Ora: What’s next?

Floof: We mix the kibble filling. We got all the flour, the seasoning, and my special ingredient: Tuna water.

Puckmosis: Have you seen Lupinium? His tumbling class was participating in the Afar competition.

Floof: Yes. I understand they’re in the team finals.

Ora: I had such fun tumbling. I’d love to do it again.

Puckmosis: Why not? You’d be a natural for the individual competition.

Ora: I just need to work on my final THWUMP!

Puckmosis: I’m sure Lupinium can help you with that.

OT:

I like happy face Iggy much better.

It’s so nice to see Iggy smiling and Ora Z. hopping around like a moderately deranged bunny rabbit!

In case you haven’t seen today’s “Texts From Mittens”, he may meet some Torties soon:

https://www.gocomics.com/texts-from-mittens/2022/11/15

I would’ve guessed “tribble on a coffee jag”, but, eh….

In the kingdom of the blind, a bouncing kitten is a chinchilla. (with apologies to F. Pedro de Vega)

Chinchilla the rodent, or Chinchilla Persian?

Awwww poor guy. It is nice to see my boy with a big toothy smile. Or fangy smile I guess?

Also yeah I can believe that you adorable murder chinchilla you.

OT: Fifi’s li’l stinkers…

I’m glad your eye feels better, Iggy.

O.T. Cindy Lou

I could see Ora Zella as a Chinchilla.

Amazing vet how sweet the meds / That saved a stray like me / I once was lost, but now I’m found / Was blind but now I see

How do they even know what a chinchilla is?

O. Z. as a chinchilla. Not as far fetched as it might seem. When our granddaughters were preschoolers one had a birthday party at a local nature center. In the room where the kids got to interact with animals our daughter got blind sided by a chinchilla that leaped into her lap. We have a picture of her expression.

Now he knows you’re a werewolf.

I have a tortoise shell… she’s not hyper.. she resents the accusations.

Well, is anybody going to watch the Artemis Moon Launch?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrW8ifZ1iWc !!!

Dr. Scuttles is back!

Nov 10

Bring on the frosts, that I might finally hunker down in the kitchen in my own environment (a huge 1970s playpen That Man found at a thrift shop), beside a space heater and a small bowl of potato chips.

My beautiful and brilliant species did not survive the meteor that took out the dinosaurs (—though I have it on good authority it may actually have been ALIENS—), to languish in a kiddo pool under the torment of an eerie warm breeze in November.

It has been unseasonably warm, which I intensely dislike. Though, yes, it means more time in the giant plastic kiddo pool—it is unnatural and my internal rhythms are millennia old. I do not expect non-prehistoric folks to understand, you simply must trust me. It’s icky.

If she’s a chinchilla, I want to see her take a dust bath. ;-)

OT, kinda