Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for April 24, 2018

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    David 42  over 6 years ago

    Cats floss? Who knew?!

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    Adiraiju  over 6 years ago

    Problem is, he doesn’t ever remember what happens next. Something shocking, no doubt.

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    Dirty Dragon  over 6 years ago

    Listen to Burt! He knows from experience!!

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    Robin Harwood  over 6 years ago

    I think Elvis should get a second opinion on any safety tips from Lupin.

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    cat19632001  over 6 years ago

    Robin Harwood – what you said yesterday about becoming a glowing skeleton in a silhouette. I see it coming.

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    MrsXandamere  over 6 years ago

    Bert, please tell my toddler this. For some reason cords are her favorite thing.

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    cat19632001  over 6 years ago

    Noooooooo…. Don’t do it Elvis! Listen to Burt. Listen to Puck.

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    cat19632001  over 6 years ago

    A Kevlar vest? Sure .. if they have little scimitars laying around the house in the same closet with the kitty whip and fedora, they must also have a Kevlar vest.

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    poppet bear  over 6 years ago

    Whenever my friends are both out of the house at the same time they have to lock their cat up in her bedroom (yes she has her own room) because she can’t be trusted not to chew on electrical cords. They’ve caught her nibbling a few times, luckily before she hurt herself

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    Lady Bri  over 6 years ago

    Then you can bite the cord yourself, Lupin! lol Poor Elvis, it’s unfair. As always, Puck is the voice of reason.

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    Rosette  over 6 years ago

    I love how confident Lupin is – his little pose in panel two, gah!

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    Rosette  over 6 years ago

    Burt, the AV cat, likely knows from experience how unsafe biting cords can be!

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    Olive O'Sudden  over 6 years ago

    When I adopted my sweet Milo, he was a cord-chewer. Luckily he never got hurt. Computer monitor cable, speaker cables, three lamps and two irons were easily replaced — whereas he is precious and irreplaceable.

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    cat19632001  over 6 years ago

    Now I’ve got that kitty-under-the-chair scene from “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” in my mind.

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    Grace Premium Member over 6 years ago

    My darling Buddy (the one who lived to be 21) had a cord obsession but not electrical.. it was telephone cords! I can’t even remember how many we went through but pretty often we’d pick up the receiver to find the cord had been chewed through because someone forgot to throw it over the top. (Before cordless phones were affordable, which was before android, yeah, I’m older than dirt)

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    alliegator  over 6 years ago

    plastic coated phone charging cords only last a few hours around here, and occasionally Christmas tree light cords… and lamp cords. Oh, and landline cords and the occasional piece of lego…. his name, get this, his name is Lucky Joe. Big, hairy, solid black cat found in the middle of the highway, with semis zooming over him, when only a few days old.

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    keltii  over 6 years ago

    I love how each warning banner gets bigger and bigger

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    ladykat  over 6 years ago

    Good morning and a happy Bluesday/Mewsday to all orbsters and their orbabies. My daughter once had a pet rabbit who was very fond of ALL cords – electric, computer, coaxial, phone – nothing was safe from Bopper, the killer rabbit! On the home front, we found out yesterday that Paul needs hearing aids. If it isn’t one blasted thing, it’s another!

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    Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 6 years ago

    Never, ever, EVER do this.

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    Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 6 years ago

    For a period of time i had thought about getting a House Bunny, until i found out that bunnies love the taste of the insulation on power cords.

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    la_momcat  over 6 years ago

    Luckily, none of my cats have ever been interested in chewing cords. Cricket, however, loves to rub her chin against plugs in walls. Often she’ll rub until it becomes unplugged. Especially the vacuum plug. Thanks to BCN, now I know why.

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    Denny Wheeler Premium Member over 6 years ago

    Good morning, Mudd and Gweedo.

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    Teto85 Premium Member over 6 years ago

    Hooomanz, get a Roooomba! My kittehs love it.

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    cesateristen  over 6 years ago

    I love strips that show their distinctive personalities <3

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    Queen of America  over 6 years ago

    One of my first cats did that. He chewed (and swallowed) EVERYTHING. That “free” cat cost us several thousands in vet and surgery bills. We had to hide every cord behind those things you can stick on walls so cords don’t show. We had to put plastic bags with bread, etc, in the nuker. We had to keep the trash can in the guest bathroom. He even figured out how to open an armoire so he could get in eat my husbands’ t-shirts. We had to arrange furniture so he couldn’t get behind certain pieces to eat the cords – like the computer cabinet. But I loved that cat with all of my heart. He was my baby.

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    KL  over 6 years ago

    BWAHAHAHAHA! Thanks again, boys—and Georgia!

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    SheMc  over 6 years ago

    WE had a cat once, she jumped on a high cupboard & bit thru a light cord, her mouth was burnt but the vet said she couldn’t do anything, it healed up fine but Daisy never went up there again!

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    scaeva Premium Member over 6 years ago

    I’ve noticed that many cats have an antipathy to anything snake-like. I also think that the plastic used in cords has a scent and taste that attracts them. There is also the texture which they may like.

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    Colorado Expat  over 6 years ago

    Some decades ago, my cat Smokey had a fixation on speaker wires, chewing through them on a weekly basis; I noticed that he left the 110 volt power cords alone, so I replaced the speaker wiring with the same stuff used for the 110 volt wires… Didn’t work, he continued to go for the speaker wires while ignoring the ones carrying power. I can’t prove it, but I strongly suspect that he could sense the electro-magnetic field associated with 110 volt AC current and avoided those wires… (Early on, he did bite into a 110 volt cord – once.)

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    FrannieL Premium Member over 6 years ago

    The two letters, was a distinction. I remember where I worked…in 1957, the telephone number was GA2580. The GA stood for Garfield.

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    FrannieL Premium Member over 6 years ago

    Susanna, sometimes you had to call the operator and ask her to break in the call, if it was an emergency.

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    johovey  over 6 years ago

    Had a few cats, but none of them ever chewed cords or anything else in the house. Had a few dogs (one was curious about frogs and real snakes, but that didn’t last long thank heavens) and none of them chewed anything crazy (except the labby, who chewed through toys and beds like mad as a puppy, he grew out of that.) Bunnies will chew cords, and some don’t. I had one bunny that was an angel and never did anything bad at all… and I had 2 who had Bugs Bunny as a role model. Every little fur critter is different. All you can do is your best to raise them with rules and hope they will respect them… sometimes they will and sometimes they will be bunnies from hell. lol

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    Erin Pierce  over 6 years ago

    Linus canNOT resist ear bud cords…we always have to have a couple of packs of new ones around because eventually, inevitably, someone will forget to “put away” their buds when their done, and….well, you know.

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    Andrew Sleeth  over 6 years ago

    So, Lupin, what are your thoughts on rubber bands?

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    Brein43  over 6 years ago

    Boy, panel 4 took the words right out of my mouth. Safety advice ? From Lupin? Bwaaa haaa haaaa

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    miscreant  over 6 years ago

    I had a cat that loved phone cords. It would take about 2 days of the phone not wringing at the house for us to figure out that the cat had chewed through the cord again. Now I have one that loves ear buds so I put them away. It’s not the plastic so much as the copper in side. I do scrapping, so when I am watching TV I will unwind electric motors and my girl will be right there trying to play with them eat the copper. I always win but it’s a good thing I don’t get paid by the hour.

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    bluegirl285  over 6 years ago

    Love the disclaimers on the bottom of the panels.

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    Serendewi  over 6 years ago

    Embarrassing childhood moment: I lost a baby tooth to a telephone cord when I was in elementary school! We had one telephone on the wall of the upstairs hall, and it had a very long spiral handset cord so you could carry the handset into the bedrooms for a bit of privacy. For some odd reason I took it into my head to start chewing on the spiral cord while my mother was on the phone. She didn’t see me doing it, and hung up while I was still chewing! Took some time to live that one down.

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    FrannieL Premium Member over 6 years ago

    You have to love a comic strip that generates 133 comments and goes from one subject to another. A lot of great stories. Thanks to all.

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    Ruth Brown  over 6 years ago

    IF Lupin has a sword, why doesn’t he cut the cord after Elvis unplugs the vacuum?

    My rabbit would not chew on cords that were unplugged. He had a scorch mark once after biting the cord to the digital piano. We had to replace a $200 part. Despite being stunned, the rabbit still bit cords when he could get to them.

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    kittylover.truitt  over 6 years ago

    Thanks for sharing:) Enjoyed reading the stories

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    BillJackson1  over 6 years ago

    Get a bunch of thoughtful, creative, decent people in a group and all kind of good things happen.

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    BureauCat  over 6 years ago

    One of them distracts the monster; the second one deals with the cord; and the third one stands off to the side to live-blog the adventure.

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    Omniman  over 2 years ago

    I don’t understand what’s unsafe about chewing a cord that’s not plugged in. There are lots of reasons not to chew cords, but I don’t see how they are likely to hurt themselves without swallowing a bunch of it.

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