Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 19, 2024

Well of course Ora Zella is getting in on the pirate action, but I love Iggy popping around from behind The Boy with his little sword!

Sign me up, I want to join their crew!

Yar!

Raiding the laundry means that they’ll really clean up on the high seas…

Extra style points to The Boy for those heals as well!

Iggy needs an eye patch!

It took me awhile to understand what The Boy was holding in his hand and why. The hanger is his hook hand although it represents something much less savvier.

Captain Coat-Hanger-Hook? with Smol Smee?

Iggy the secret weapon!

Oh, cute!

A pirate’s favorite letter isn’t R, it’s the C.

TOE BEANS TOE BEANS TOE BEANS! Panel 2 has Toe Beans times 3!! SQUEEEE!

Shades of Johnny Depp and Keira Knightley .

“Yiss!” Cross between Yes! and Hiss! I love it! I might just have to start using that.

Cats are natural pirates with murder mittens and all. Naturally they only attack foes and shadows and rogue mirror images.

Cats are born with cutlasses.

Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of tuna water.

It looks like in panel 4 one of the pirates is napping? Unless her eyes are closed in blissful contentment.

Avast ye scurvy cats!

Traditional: Soon May the Wellerman Come

There was a ship that put to sea

In a basket that was full of laundry

They embraced a life of crime on the high seas,

Oh sail, me hearties, sail!

…….

Soon may the lunchtime now come

With sandwiches, snacks and treats!

One day, when the pirating’s done

We’ll take our leave and nap!

…….

The children have their two smol cats

Ora Z and Iggy are ready as that!

And later Ora will take a quick nap,

Oh sail, me hearties, sail!

…….

Soon may the lunchtime now come

With sandwiches, snacks and treats!

One day, when the pirating’s done

We’ll take our leave and nap!

…….

And that’s the tale of the children of the sea

Sailing with two of their favorite kitties

It’s time for lunch, where’s the grumpy Siamese?

Oh sail, me hearties, sail!

…….

Soon may the lunchtime now come

With sandwiches, snacks and treats!

One day, when the pirating’s done

We’ll take our leave and nap!

All we need is for Goldie to dress up as Princess Buttercup. As you wish!

Let’s hope they don’t find the Black Pearl! But on the other paw, they could probably charm Captain Barbossa into submission and break the curse. :D

That is big news! I love that the Boy just basically decided to get as close as he could to the Disney Captain Hook.

Of course, this can’t possibly be based on the children in real life…

Must be a large laundry basket for them to fit in. And why is the boy wearing high heel shoes?

Ora Zella is so cute as a baby pirate!

The high carpets will never again be safe!

Not the box of ‘chicken tendies’?

That much was obvious just from the footage, Puck. :P

Yo ho ho and a bottle of Sunny D.

Three of us afloat in the meadow by the lamp,

Three of us aboard in the basket on the lea.

Winds are in the air, they are blowing in the spring,

And waves are on the carpet like the waves there are at sea.

Where shall we adventure, to-day that we’re afloat,

Wary of the weather and steering by a star?

Shall it be to Africa, a-steering of the boat,

To Providence, or Babylon, or off to Malabar?

Hi! but here’s a squadron a-rowing on the sea—

Cats on the couch a-charging with a roar!

Quick, and we’ll escape them, they’re as mad as they can be,

The table is the harbour and the kitchen is the shore.

Fun strip today! I wonder if it is a one-off, or if it will continue all week.

Is it proper to call a cat pirate a “scurvy dog”?

Sixteen claws on a dead man’s chest,

Yo ho mew and a bottle o’ nip!

The Children make awesome pirates! This will be a fun week.

Only the dreaded golden retriever sock thief is a bigger threat to the laundry basket.

OT: Lincoln and cats by Georgia: “Happy President’s Day! Recently I learned that Abraham Lincoln was over the moon for cats! Did you know? (I didn’t!) He’s even believed to be the first president to live with cats at the White House! Lincoln loved cats so much that when Mary Todd was asked what her husband’s hobby was, she answered “cats.” He was gifted two lady cats from his Secretary of State, William Steward. Lincoln named them Tabby and Dixie and pampered them lovingly, even feeding Tabby at the table during a formal White House dinner! Legend has it that when Mary Todd suggested feeding his cat from the table at state dinners wasn’t the best idea, Lincoln replied, “If the gold fork was good enough for former President Buchanan, I think it is good enough for Tabby…” Another story tells that Lincoln once remarked “Dixie is smarter than my whole cabinet! And furthermore she doesn’t talk back!” …Dixie sounds like Puck or Burt, lol!Lincoln was known to sometimes take in stray cats or come to their aid. In the last days of the Civil War, as Lincoln visited General Grant on the battlefield, Colonel Porter wrote about the president taking in three motherless kittens he heard crying outside the tent. He wrote of Lincoln’s gentle kindness to the three kittens, sitting with them cradled in lap. A direct quote from his writings describes the scene with warm respect, “He would wipe their eyes tenderly with his handkerchief, stroke their smooth coats, and listen to them purring their gratitude to him. …at an army headquarters, upon the eve of a great military crisis in the nation’s history, to see the hand which had affixed the signature to the Emancipation Proclamation and had signed the commissions… from the general-in-chief to the lowest lieutenant, tenderly caressing three stray kittens.” [Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Volume IV, p. 146.]”

Arrrrrh! Der be Purrites!

Ora Zella fast asleep in the pirate girl’s arms and Iggy peeking out with his tiny sword"! Just wonderful art work!

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Queen Catshepsut the Golden: Welcome back from Afar, my friends! What did you learn from their illustrious librarian?

Puckmosis: Your Majesty, Beaver Lee Cleary has graciously lent us several original manuscripts written by Erma Bombosis. I hope Elvis-Anum has time to transcribe them for our Very Good Library.

Elvis: For such an important project, I have all the time I need. And I’m sure the Artisans will be willing to lend a paw if needed.

Queen Cat: Excellent. I’m sure a trip to Afar is in the near futute.

Beatrixia: We also stopped at Floofnet’s Ceiling Can Be a Floor Culinary School. He has donuts for everyone.

Queen Cat: That is great news. We can serve them with tea as a late night snack.

Bea: But we need to keep them safe from dessert pirates.

Puck: Don’t worry. Lupinium and Ora Z will be at the oPyramid until later tonight.

Our granddaughters made laundry basket trains.

I like that Iggy and Ora Z are included among the Kids!

Well, shiver me timbers!! Yohoho, and a bottle of sencha!!! I got enough peglegs already.

Nice stilettos, Boy! Red is your colour. ;D

Yarr, fiddle dee being an pirate is all right with me!

OOOHHHH, the kittens look SSSSOOOOO CUTE!

Denny Wheeler, please email me, address in my profile, I can’t find you in my contacts. Thanks!

Pirates are an excellent thing to be! (I know I’m commenting late, but today’s my birthday and I was off-line all day (except to read BCN) and it was glorious!)

Aw, did Ora Zella instantly fall asleep? Or perhaps she’s pretending to be treasure or just loving the adventure <3

Never give a cat a cutlass…