Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for October 25, 2018

At last! That maniac Woman notices her boys are missing. Thank you Fredie via the bunny cookie jar.

Freddie! So good to see you again.

It’s Miss Freddie!!

Welcome back, Freddie!

Where’s Happy, happy, happy!!! Oh well, I’ll fill in. BUNNY!

Freddie! Please give The Woman a hint of what’s going on so she can help save Pucky!

Oh, this is going to be a fun comment section day… Freddie not only shows up but starts sneaking snacks.

You’re looking beautiful this morning Freddie, so good to see you again! The poor Woman has no idea what she’s in for this morning, so better have a 2nd cup!

Hi, Freddie! :D Though, I guess even ghosts need a cookie boost every once in a while, huh?

And wow, the Woman could rival my yawns. I’m so not a morning person.

If Freddie can open the cookie jar, can’t she open the trunk and get Puck out?

When things are too quiet something is going on.

I knew it wasn’t just The Woman making that cookie bunny jar rattle! (But now I’m a bit confused, as the cookie bunny looks like a ghost cookie bunny, and we know that it is not from earlier this month. Although, it is painted with a different shade of green than Freddie, so that would suggest that’s it’s indeed very real. https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2018/10/02)

One of the boys is trapped in the attic. Another is struggling up the dumbwaiter shaft. They are totally doomed.

Proof once again that ghosts can affect physical objects. Really begs the question I asked a week or two ago of why Tillie needs to get someone whose alive to rescue Puck.

The Boys and Tabitha better wrap up this rescue before the Woman realizes they’re using the dumbwaiter to visit the attic. Have to keep their new discovery a secret.

Freddie reminds me of the characters that Georgia drew in her other strip, the one on GoComics now.

So then, is it a cookie jar, or a spookie jar?

And don’t say a spookie cookie jar…=-O

i’ve tried being creative about the kind of cookie a ghost would eat, but my brain is saying it’s 3.30 a.m. and youI need some sleep so you can be at work by 8. I didn’t even watch Boston beat the Dodgers so I could get a good night’s sleep, but…..the best laid plans, etc. I hate insomnia!! (sorry i went off on a tangent there, but i’m back on track now) SO, I’m asking all of you wide awake people, What kind of cookie would a ghost eat from a spookie cookie jar? What kind would you like to find in your jar?? Mind would be soft white chocolate pecan, or soft toll-house choc chip with walnuts. Happy Thursday everyone!

Hey! Where’s Freddie’s locket?

It’s good to know there are cookies in the afterlife. And I’ll bet that jar never runs out.

I’m mostly curious as to why Freddie appears as an elderly adult to the Woman, Lupin, and Sir Figaro, but as a teenager to Tillie and presumably to Elvis. Or did she appear as an elderly woman to Elvis as well, or did he only see Tillie? And does Tillie always see her as young, or did Freddie revert to old age once they were united? It seems that Agatha, Angus, Carl, and Tillie are fairly static in appearance; I wonder if cats/mice and humans are different in that way, or if maybe all ghosts just appear as they were last seen to the entity who sees them. Which really makes me wonder whether Elvis saw Freddie when Freddie and Tillie reunited and, if so, which form he saw her in.

Only 5 days till Halloween. Time for all the story threads to start winding together to the triumphant denouement…..a rescued Pucky!

I absolutely love the expression on the Woman’s face when she yawns, and the fuzzy edge robe. You can tell Georgia draws from life.

(Sound of Morse Code in the background)…Hello Spirit Cats and all the Ships at Sea. This is RCO-Radio Cat Oracle, Your Ghost Cat News Network…

News Flash: Freddie Quinn is back and Spirits do eat cookies!…Never again will the mostly live have to defend themselves because of missing macaroons, disappearing danish butter, astray almond or lost lady finger cookies. The living will point out that spirits enjoy the cookies as much as the rest of the family.

So stock that cookie jar with sumptuous Snicker Doodles. Put out Piroulines or offer up Oatmeal cookies. The Spirits will be content and your family will understand.

This is T-Tucker* the tumultuous tabby saying good day to the living and not so live everywhere. (Sound of Morse Code in the background fading out).

*T-Tucker was my wifes and I first cat we got when we were dating many years ago. He was a huge tabby cat and was into everything in our house. He passed over almost 16 years ago and I still call his name to the other cats sometimes.

Like any other kids. If you don’t see them for long enough, they’re up to something.

Now to go check how many other people already said something something similar. I’m dropping in late.

If you have got to live in a haunted house, it’s nice if the spooks are pleasant.

Good morning and happy Thursday/Purrsday, orbsters and orbabies! I wonder if Freddie is planning to manifest to the Woman to warn her that her boys are in trouble. Elvis is stuck in panic in the dumbwaiter shaft, Puck in the trunk, and Lupin is up to heaven knows what in the laundry room. All of this is leading up to a wonderful Hallowe’eny denouement!

Shaunn, I hope your birthday yesterday was wonderful.

Do ghostly cookies have calories?

You know somethings wrong when you have three cats and it’s quiet.

On the subject of cookies … the Boy’s best friend from Colorado arrived in town last night to visit for a few days. I asked the Boy to give me a list of things they might want in the pantry so I could make a grocery-store run.

I reviewed the list and had to hand it back to him to request that he add items with some degree of nutritional value.

…a ghost…that MUST be the explanation for why all the cookies in my house keep disappearing…

I have heard it said the way you react to others yawns can help determine how empathetic you are. So the fact I yawned at the drawing of the Woman’s yawn mean I’m super empathetic? Or incredibly tired?

Tired. I’m going to go with tired. Need more caffeine…..

The Woman has a marabou trimmed robe.

Normally when I feed my boys in the morning I have lots of ankle reinforcement especially from Sammy – he’ll even stand up and reach onto the counter top to make sure I’m doing things properly. This morning he was perched on the back of the love seat curtain twitching and not only didn’t come “assist” but he didn’t leave his post when I put the food done until I went over to get his attention. I had a look out to see what had so preoccupied him – just a few feet away was one of the wild bunnies that live in the area nonchalantly nibbling on the lawn. Both boys went back to bunny-watch as soon as breakfast was eaten and were still there when I left for work :)

If I wake up with out a cat either on my hip or ribs (Miscreant) or on my arm and hand (KK) I know something is amiss. If Jasper isn’t right next to me or across me something is wrong with me. It’s really hard for 145lbs to get out of a creaky bed without being noticed. Especially now that he has that pronounced limp on the hardwood floors.

I went back and reread the entire Oct 2015 Halloween Special. http://www.breakingcatnews.com/comic/breaking-cat-news-halloween-special-part-one/ I am pretty sure that I have seen a few people posting this link in the past, but for those who missed it, you have to read this. The story goes through the entire month of October. Wow. Just wow. Kudos to Georgia for this.

ghosts in the cookie jar explain soooooo many things in my house…thanks, Georgia!

So who makes coffee in a percolator anymore ? Maybe she is a ghost as well.

As long as we’re on the topic of dumbwaiters – Our house was built in 1922. It’s two stories and has a dumbwaiter, but it only goes from the basement to the first floor kitchen, I guess for retrieving root vegetables? There’s also a coal bin and an odd round device mounted on the wall in the kitchen. There’s what is obviously a thin loop of chain around it bu both ends disappear into the floor. There’s a lever marked “Check draft”, and I guess it’s to control airflow from the furnace through the ducts.My wife bought the place in 1979 from the original owner/builder’s widow. None of these devices have been used since then, and probably for a good while before.

Hey there all!! Things are a little extra nuts here, so I’m afraid I’m just here to ask for some support. While travelling with kiddos, stopped at a rest stop. A ginger and white kitty was obviously abandoned there. My kids were awesome, patient, and SI concerned, but I had ONE chance to get a finger on him (coaxed with half a hot dog!) I blew it. He (she?) would still take food from me, but there was no way I’d get another chance. Also, I had no carrier with me. Wrapping kitty in a blanket to ride in my open van with 2 young kids would only work if the kitty could be coaxed to LET it work. Thinking about it, I realized I was lucky to have not been bit for my enthusiasm. I had to leave the kitty there. The rest stop is 2 hours away, and it is REALLY hard to get there and back within my other duties here.

Now, good news …. kitty seemed PERFECT for live trap (is that what it’s called?). AND, there’s a cat rescue practically across the road from the rest stop. Kitty (calling it “Cloud Dreamer” btw) will probably not wander far from the food source, and seemed to have already been there a bit. Poor thing, also kept looking at new vehicles like “Is THIS MY People?” God! Anyway, I called, and will keep calling, to make sure they know about Cloud, and if there IS anything I actually CAN do, I will.

Bumps, Boops and Prayers, PLEASE!

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-KOKO

Awfully quiet does make you concerned when you have cats (unless it is sleepy time, of course).

Shaun, I think I missed your birthday. Sincere if Belated happiness! “You go, girl!”

So, is a ghost cookie jar what happens to a well-loved cookie jar that gets broken?

And who’s guarding the house against the falling leaves outside the windows?

Relieved to see that Tillie’s Woman has the situation in hand.

Georgia posted a photo on the website of the real, live bunny rabbit cookie jar! So she intended it to be real and full of real cookies. Of course, that raises the question of how can a ghost eat a real cookie?

Oh, that weird silence that comes from the cats being absent. A sure sign that something’s amiss in the house.

Freddie must come visit my husband and I because our cookie jar seems to ALWAYS be empty, even when I have just bought (I fully admit that baking is NOT my strong suit) cookies for in it. And yet neither of us ever eats the cookies so I have no clue where they go. * shrugging and looking around innocently *

This one just makes me laugh.

Is the old lady a ghost?

I love the yawn in the 1st panel! That’s how it is.