Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for March 04, 2019

SPOILER ZONE

The boys are such good parents! I love Beatrix’s little fangs and tongue sticking out. :D

Awww. You’ve got that right, Burt. Nothing cuter than a kitten who has plum tuckered out. Those little baby fangs are too cute! Looks as if she’s having a sweet dream.

The Good Boys are whispering so they don’t wake her. So cute!

Just when you thought kittens couldn’t get any cuter.

Toofs (that’s baby talk for more than one tooth) are too cute!

Beatrix is just having a power nap. She will be back wreaking havoc shortly.

So precious! That’s exactly what kittens do – zoom to flop in no time flat! (Works the other way around, too…) And look at those good dads she’s acquired, ready to do all those dad things like not waking the baby, cooing over her, and taking embarrassing but adorable pictures to be dragged out at all family events from this point forward!

You might want to be careful bringing up the subject of baby books, Elvis. One of your fellow reporters might come up with a related story on a certain someone’s pirate ballerina baby pictures.

I’d make a comment here, but I’m just overwhelmed by the terminal cuteness.

Uncle Elvis is such a good (best) boy!♥

Elvis is keeping the Baby Book as a favour for Puck. He isn’t interested in such sentimental slop.

What a darling little baby cat.

Love it when kitties fall asleep with their little tongues sticking out! My sweet Whiskers used to always do that!

Such pride. Such cuteness. She’s loved by all her 4 Uncles (Including Burt.)

And here’s a competitor for the ‘cuteness’ trophy. Well, a 2nd placer anyhow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyQrdJ5iiAY

Loving the new moments!

There are times I wish I could do that.

Nap attack!

3 Cats and a Baby… hmm… would make a good movie…

They sound proud.

Remembering that we have orbsters who are bravely trying to smile in the midst of physical and/or mental pain.

Dear ones, you are still clustered in the heart of the Mega Core, right beside Georgia’s, where love is radiating strongest. You’re staying there until — and ONLY until, you’re ready to roam in the Boop Zone.

The Boop Zone is the area where orbsters meet, greet, share & concentrate boopage for distribution, and provide the structure of the Mega Orb.

You’re in safe paws! /○.○\ >^.,.^<

Look at the polydactyl paw prints on the cover!

YAY – just got the notification from Amazon that my copy of “Lupin Leaps In” has shipped!

Oooh, sorry. Must be quiet around the sleeping kitten.

On the subject of kittens, I have been trying to trap a pregnant mama for the past 3 weeks. She is smart and will not go near the trap not matter what tempting food I put in it. HELP, any suggestions?

Three Cats and a Baby? Three Cats and a Kitten?

Be careful, Cuddle-Puff’s lure you in with a fuzzy tummy and then all five pointy appendages can get you!

My Finlay is 9yrs and still parks his 18 lbs of tripping hazard right in the middle of the floor. Yes, on his back feet up, out cold.

Attention all Paws: Cuteness levels are at all-time high. You many go “awwww” at your pleasure.

Squee level at Condition ‘AWWWWWW’.

Someone touch that tung. We don’t want it getting all dried out.

Happy Funday, everyone! As I type this, Yum Yum is meatloafing behind me, grumbling moodily at the outside, which is still snow-covered. She’s also waiting impatiently for Spring, and for it to be warm enough for me to leave the door open so she can wander in and out.

There is definitely a cuteness overload in the strip today. Cute little kitten fangs and little tongue sticking out, with a twitchy paw to balance everything out.

At least she isn’t dressed up like Elvis was.

Everyone, I’m sorry to inject a sad note into the conversation, but on this cold Monday morning, please spare a thought for one of our family cats, Carla, who will not make it through the day.

Carla is a beautiful little dilute calico (calico patches over white) who has been with us almost all her life. She came to us as part of a kitten fostering program, as a “teenage” mother (only a year old) with five kittens, too many to look after alone, and so she was named Carlotta Perdita after two animal mothers in literature: tough and beautiful queen Carlotta in Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s “The Great Escape”/“The Healing of Texas Jake”/“Carlotta’s Kittens” and lost young liver-spotted Dalmatian mother Perdita in Dodie Smith’s "The One Hundred and One Dalmatians. The kittens went to good homes; Carla stayed with us until her milk subsided, and then she stayed forever.

She has been with us for nineteen years, going on twenty. She has been the sweetest cat, who loves having her ears scratched and will kick/thump at the barest touch to them. Having been a mother cat once, she acquired and never lost the habit of licking her humans as if they were kittens to be groomed. She lost her hearing in her later years but never let it stop her from “shouting” for attention. She has been a dear friend to my mom, whom she stayed with as my brother and I went to our respective colleges and moved out, and a constant companion to our other foster fail of eighteen years now, grey tabby Leah.

Unfortunately Carla has been having kidney and bladder problems. This morning she passed a lot of blood and is no longer purring. My mom has done, and has authorized the vet to do, absolutely everything short of exploratory surgery – absolutely not recommended for such a supersenior cat. We believe nothing more can be done and that she is in pain, and so the dreaded final vet appointment has been made.

Please keep Carla in your thoughts today.

Thank you all.

“Experts agree she is hella cute in this stage”

Kittens also go from nap to pounce in a New York second. I learned that the hard way. Many years ago, when the now late Sarah was a kitten, I was under the covers and she was napping at the foot of the bed. I went to adjust my “equipment” and, by the time I had down that, she was in mid pounce. I think that you know how this ended. Yes, tears were involved.

Kittens cause trouble even when sleeping, careful

This just in…our cuteness meter just exploded…back to you, Elvis.

Awwwww. This one is sooo adorable!

From a movie … Three Cats and a Baby !! ;)

Someone over on ArcaMax comics asked this question and I thought I’d ask over here – Are they keeping or just fostering the new kitten?

“60 MPH to nap in 3 seconds,” LOL! Anyone else remember this? I loved it when I wasn’t much bigger than Beatrix myself.

“A Kitten”

He’s nothing much but fur

And two round eyes of blue,

He has a giant purr

And a midget mew.

He darts and pats the air,

He starts and cocks his ear,

When there is nothing there

For him to see and hear.

He runs around in rings,

But why we cannot tell;

With sideways leaps he springs

At things invisible.

Then halfway through a leap

His startled eyeballs close,

And he drops off to sleep

With one paw on his nose.

—Eleanor Farjeon

Awwwwww!

Prayers to you and your kitty…so sad to see them age…

Off topic: cat update.

Purring for Carla, her sad journey to be Bridge, and for your hearts.

So sorry for your loss. No matter how old our fur baby is, they will be our baby.

It’s our version of 3 Toms and a kitten.

Is anybody else experiencing a problem with using the delete key? If I hit delete to correct an error at the exact point an ad is changing, I lose the whole post, and the whole page as I get sent back to the previous page. I’m also tired of losing the “cursor” when an ad changes and having to click back into the page to be able to continue typing. It’s getting beyond annoying!

For those who have been keeping tabs on Jasper. He’s ALL BETTER! Finally, no more leash 24/7. Jasper is now as close 100% as he will ever be. He is running and jumping and chasing and being chased by other dogs again. I will have to give him glucosamine for the rest of his life because he will have arthritis in that leg, but the pills will help. Jasper doesn’t care about the pills they are beef flavored so he happily eats them. I’m just happy he can run and play again.

Hmmmm, cuteness aside, Ferrets can go from 65 mph to nap in two seconds.

AWWWWWWWW x 10,000.

Beatrix has excellent napping skills. I love the fangs.

Very sorry to hear that. We have had so many cats over the last 42+ years that I can’t list them all without writing them all down again, but Carla’s passing is similar to at least 3 of ours, Smokey, Missy and Kit. Most made it into the senior cat years, but tow died young, and we have never figured why.

The most recent was BlueBell. She wasted away despite our major efforts medication and hand feeding her for the last 5 months. She died overnight last spring, which was a shock as she seemed fine the night before.

3 kitties running the place now, Honey (inherited from college housing in 2005), Diva (the counter cat at the music store who came home with us in 2006) and Snickerdoodle (a deaf Tordie we brought home from the shelter last March). A house is not complete without a cat or 3…

Dealing with cuteness overload, when we lived at Lake Satsuma (an apt complex which floods) years ago I did my writing and hobby work in the living room so I could watch my child. I heard something weird at the front door and when I opened it I found a small orange kitten wandering the porch going ‘meow-MEOW, meow-MEOW’. I told it something like ‘Your mom’s not here, sweetie’. And durn if it didn’t stop the circling, looked up and meow-MEOW at me a few times and walk off towards the bushes, apparently to find momma. I have never heard another kitten or cat do that double meow. I still wish I had scooped it up and brought it in, but I was coping with a two-year old and I didn’t want him to be ‘Georgie’ to the kitten. That’s a Bugs Bunny cartoon if you can’t place it.

I’m so sorry!

I love Georgia’s drawing of Baba reading “Lupin Leaps In” to Beatrix, Natash and Violet on the BCN Twitter page.

https://twitter.com/breakingcatnews

I forgot to post this earlier:

Last night, as I lay in bed, Tika was curled up just behind me (I lay on my side and had my back to her). Even though there were inches between us and we were not touching, I could feel her purring pulsing against my back.

Soft kitty, warm kitty/little ball of fur/happy kitty, sleepy kitty/purr, purr, purr.(thank you to The Big Bang Theory)

May I please click the heart 400 times? Please?

Awwwww Sleeping Beatrix is the cutest.

We’re going to need a new cuteness scale.

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Aw, on the Baby Book, the paws prints in the corners have about six toes each!