Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for August 28, 2017

A hole that they can’t look into. Oh, the frustration!

like trying to catch the red dot, only this stands still

Must. know. more. about. doctor appointment. :(

One of ours once spent two hours trying to get at a push pin high up on the wall. He must have thought it was an insect.

Uh oh. It’s the mysteriously mysterious black hole! A rip in the space-time continuum..! Careful with that, kittos! You don’t seem to know the gravity of this situation..!

And you know, it’s not limited to cats. Virginia Woolf’s first published story, “The Mark on the Wall,” is a stream of consciousness meditation by an individual who notices a spot and in wondering what it might be roves over questions of perception, reality, and the human mind’s interaction with the physical world. The “surprise ending” involves an abrupt and humorous revelation of what the mark actually is. And if you’re curious, here’s the story…l

http://www.bartleby.com/85/8.html

Why isn’t furious Elvis all puffy?

A friend of the family when I was little had a cat that had fixated on a spot on the ceiling. And when I say “spot”, I don’t mean a mark, it was just one particular undistinguished random point on a featureless ceiling. But somehow if you said to the cat “go find your spot” he’d sit on the floor and stare upward at it for hours.

When one of my cats fixates on seemingly nothing, I think they see things of which our paltry senses are unaware — like ghosts!

Yum Yum frequently stares vacantly at nothing in particular.

Our Scooter would stare at the corner of the hall ceiling and cry. Then we discovered he was a termite cat. When he started staring we called the termite man.

My cat frequently stares off into the middle distance, muttering to herself.

Awww, we didn’t get to see Elvis get examined. But the black dot beckons!

Put a step ladder up there and let them “catch” the hole. They’ll get bored with it in ten seconds. Either that or bat at it all day.

One time, our cat was staring at the wall, towards a framed picture. Could not distract her. Suddenly, saw a bug crawl from behind it down the wall. Not sure how she knew it was there, but then we killed it. I think she was disappointed.

the need to catch the hole is in direct proportion to how inaccessible it is.

We had a cat who would attack light switches, and occasionally turn them off. The refrigerator is also missing the screw cap because current kitty could not stand the bump on the door.

8-ball used to go after plain, round refrigerator magnets. We’ll find them all when we get a new fridge.

I just have to say again how HAPPY I am that the watercolors are back. It is a unique charm intrinsic to the beautiful stories Georgia’s cats tell.

Thirty years ago I lived in a haunted tenement. One day the cat I had then sat and stared intently at the middle of the bedroom doorway, which was partly open. Then she got up on her hind legs, grabbed the door with her forelegs, and opened it all the way.

kitties see more than we do, even if “nothing’s” there (that we can see, anyway).

I love the Kliban cartoon of a cat in the meatloaf pose staring at an empty corner and imagining an empty corner.

Is it a hole with a crack or an unknown Picasso masterpiece? A piece of trompe-l’oeil? Or is it a bit of wire sticking out of a hole? Criminey! This is driving me “up the wall” with the Boys! (Also looks like a profile of a very surprised person!) Aaaaugh! I gotta wait ’til tomorrow?