Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for December 20, 2018

YAY! Buzzy is back.

Lupin keeps his enthusiasm for life even while being hogtied.

And foot toe beans!

So Lupin is doing a pseudo-handstand while grinning like a loon and apparently quoting the movie Se7en, all while Violet ties him up. Seems normal to me.

Puck’s look of joy is a wonderful thing to behold.

Natasha really does look like a Mouseketeer.

Be careful, Elvis, her needle is very dangerous.

Thank you, Agnes!

So.. Buzzy mouse got sent back,Elvis is threatened by a needle, and Lupin grins while being tied up. Okay.

Did Agnes use a little mouse saw to cut her way through the plastic “bars” of the laundry basket?

It’s the magic of Christmas!

Bullied, threatened, tied up by mice! Boys, you are an embarrassment to cats everywhere. No wonder you’re doomed.

Love “Hello pin cushion.” That puts Elvis in his place.

Only Lupin, with his sense of adventure, look thrilled being tied up like a Christmas ham! Ha!

Oh, sweet relief! Buzzy is safely back home. But where is Agnes? I hope she didn’t get trampled in the stampede.

Rodent Ruffian! Haha – I love it.

There is going to be a memorial service today for my friend who died. Since she lived in Texas and I live in Oregon, I will not be able to attend, so I thought that I would share some thoughts and memories of her here with the mega-orb.

I first met her in Wow. If I remember right, she had an old cat then. When her cat died (as old cats tend to do), she went to a shelter to adopt a new cat… and came home with 4 kittens. I teased her about having picked up the Crazy Cat Lady Starter Kit, and welcomed her to the Sisterhood of Crazy Cat Ladies.

On Facebook, I looked through her pictures, and almost all of the ones that I saw as far back as I went were of her cats. One of the people who has posted on her Facebook page since she died mentioned something about making sure that her fur babies are taken care of. I know that she would want them to have a good home with someone who loves them as much as she did.

I introduced her to BCN. I don’t know if she ever made a GoComics account, but she did follow Georgia on Facebook.

Pucky is so happy! Love him smile!

Check out the new “Heck Yeah It’s the Holidays” Pucky ornament.

For a cat of Adventure, being tied up is the whipped cream and cherry on top, of the Sundae.

Good morning, and happy Purrsday, orbsters and orbabies. I’m so glad Buzzy Mouse is back and that Agnes has escaped. Maybe now the boys and the mice can have a dialogue of sorts so we know why this was done in the first place.

You know, I swore last week that I would not stick my nose out the door except to check the mail and every day there is another errand that I have to run, either in conjunction with Paul or by myself. Today I need to pick up a few things for the festivities at my mother-in-law’s. Tomorrow there are some last minute groceries to pick up. Grrr…I really don’t like stores at this time of the year.

Check out the Kliban cat on the site today….the exact opposite of Lupin’s situation.

Do readers have a tie bean fetish? Enquiring cats want to know!

Puck’s look of pure joy with his beloved Buzzy Mouse says it all. I have a feeling Agnes is behind this!

Trussing lessens, anyone?

There’s still five days till Christmas. What other exciting, dramatic, toe-bean-involving moments could happen!?

Panel 3: Looks like Elvis is taking some alliteration dialogue cues from our message poster, Gent! – Yes?!

No no no no no no! C’mon! You cats got beat by those rats? Geez! Pounce upon them already! Eat those propagators of plagues!

I’m rather confused by today’s strip, but who cares? The important thing is that Buzzy Mouse is back!

I’m so happy that Pucky has returned from the Dark Side.

Is that a fencing mask on the mouse in panel 3?

I actually bought a “buzzy mouse” in a supermarket, years ago, because it said on the package, in English, that it ran. I tried it and it doesn’t. The French labeling was truthful and just said it vibrated. Since real mice rarely vibrate, my cat had no idea what to do with it.

“Hello, pincushion!” Bahahahaha! That Natasha sure knows how to twist the knife (needle).

To share with the Orb: My very own Tommybaum! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2432325106781799&set=a.753682477979412&type=3&eid=ARCcNoE1mU-xiZokXNfdyiMUbc4KY_p4d88yV72QUS8g1VUucqerPXJgKuBfDrdN80wegMm8iBh1HH8G

All is starting to be well. Buzzy is back in the arms of Puck. Lupin is his usual happy self even if he is tied up at the moment. Elvis well he is confused as is normal for him.

I’m concerned about SkyKey…. hope you’re OK where ever you are dear friend! (( ((huge engulfing bear hugs and thoughts and prayers going out to SkyKey)) ))

Lupin. Bound to be happy.

This strip is so funny——every panel is a gem!

Working on my Tommybaum:

Since I am not a fan of the natural orange color, I have painted it green, then sprayed a coat of diamond dust glitter blast spray over the green. It looked really neat! Unfortunately, I made the mistake of touching it while it was still tacky (the paint takes longer to dry when it is as cold as I have to keep my home), and this broke the layer of paint, allowing the orange underneath to show through the cracks. So I had to respray the green base color. Then I needed a new can of the glitter blast (since I had used the entire can the first time around). I have now decided to paint some decorative white “scoops” around the sides (to kind of look like it has “branches”) before I respray the glitter blast.

I think I want to do something around the base of the cone too.

Oh Tommybaum, Oh Tommybaum

You shine such a bright orange.

Oh Tommybaum, Oh Tommybaum

You shine such a bright orange.

Your lights shine with such appeal

Who’d ever know that you’re not real?

Oh Tommybaum, Oh Tommybaum

You shine such a bright orange.

“What’s in the box, Elvis?”. He asks happily as he’s being tied up.

Yusss. Beatrix storyline should be coming up soon.

The story really doesn’t get old.

And the wise shall intervene.

Ah, Lupin!One of the various medicaments I’m taking in my tottery old age is a small white pill with a tendency to leap off the sink, roll under the counter, and go invisible against the white tile. I’ve started calling it “The Lupin pill.”

I think maybe Lupin somehow got a cup of catfeined coffee.

That question, “what’s in the box” has been bothering me. Seemed such an unlikely thing for Lupin to say, all tied up like that. So I started googling and it seems there’s a famous line to that effect in a thriller called Se7en. I’ve never seen the film and apparently noone else here has either, or someone would surely have mentioned it, especially the doom crowd. What was in the box in the movie would have given a frisson of horror to Lupin’s question. Georgia, am I right that you were alluding to that film?