Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for May 31, 2019

I love Beatrix on the dog’s head. So sweet and cute.

Love that last panel. It’s even more vibrant this time around than in the original. The first time around, this week’s strips were all in one long single strip. This is my absolute all time favorite “stand alone.” Can’t wait for tomorrow!

Fur persons deserve joy.

“Christmas light bugs” should be added to the phrase list:)

(Almost) everycat all in one four-panel strip! A triumph! I see that Lupin and Sir Fig are pajama-pattern buddies.

They’re trying to recreate Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”!

Very appropriate, I saw the first lighting bugs here today.

Of course Lupin prefers the Christmas light bugs. He can see them. He can’t hear the peep toads.

The scenery is even more marvelous with peep toads. I would like to join them.

Where are the Robber Mice?

LibraryVal. Hello everyone. I have been reading BCN for some time, but have never dared comment before. At the moment I share my home with Oliver, a young cat who was starving, frost bitten and trying to eat oats out of a startled horse’s feed dish out at the barn. He adapted very nicely to being a house cat and living under the rule of my elderly tortie Ronnie. I wanted to share a tale from a friend of mine whose cats would catch and eat lighting bugs. Later on, of course, the chewed up bugs would be thrown up. But, she said, the nice thing was, the throw up still glowed in the dark making it ever so convenient to locate the mess and clean it up.

Those things fascinated me when I lived in the US. One time my wife and I went out for a walk at night just to look at them. We saw one cluster and went towards it, but it receded a bit. We followed. It receded a bit more, up a dark, narrow sort of path between some trees. We followed. The cluster of lights receded a bit more. Then we realised (a) this path was some sort of driveway to an old, dark, house, and (b) the bugs were probably luring us towards a hideous doom.We turned back.

Elvis just wants the curtains closed…

Night lights for a camp out?

I never get tired of seeing Beatrix perched on Mr. Dog’s head. It’s so adorable!

I miss fireflies! We don’t have them in WA. When I lived in VA I was enchanted by them. :)

Wouldn’t it be nice to see the world getting along as nicely as these cats, kitten and dog are doing?

World peace achieved through hot beverages.

Enjoying Nature’s light show, and for a brief time, all is well with the world.

Years ago were I was living at the time we had a large evergreen and at night there were so many fire flies that it did look like a Christmas tree lit up

I think my favourite part of this strip is Beatrix sitting on the dog’s head.

As I understand it, the Christmas light bugs are male and the glowing tail is their way to say “Come on baby, light my fire!”

My heart is with SheMc today, as she buries her beloved Jan. I am sending her positive vibes to support her and envelop her in love.

We cannot believe our eyes,

There’s ten million fireflies

Lighting up the sky like Christmas Eve

…….

Flying through the open air

Bringing joy everywhere

At the window we all in awe just stare!

…….

’Cause we all know and we believe,

In our world, we’re all friendly!

Though things may get rough

We know we have a place that we can go,

And we can have our thoughts and dreams!

Owl City: Fireflies

“Makes you wonder where they’re going.”

“Yeah.”

Lupin wonders for the adventure. Puck wonders for the cosmic significance.

Elvis wonders how much electricity they’re wasting.

We called them lightning bugs when I was a kid living near Kansas City. There aren’t any in California, and I do miss them. But on a trip to the Amazon, we saw synchronous fireflies - they all blinked at once in unison. Amazing! And I just now learned that same phenomenon occurs in the Great Smoky Mountains, apparently the only place in North America. Field trip --?

Of course Lupin prefers the light bugs; peep toads would be pretty boring if you couldn’t hear them.

Are those Sir Fig toe beans?

I just love to see kitties standing up on their hind feet to reach for things. I don’t know why but I do.

Las luciérnagas están fuera esta noche.

In real life, I would be very worried about a cat who keeps getting out like Beatrix.

They light up their evening.

When we moved to PA, The Miffed Maine Coon had his first encounter with fireflies. Or as he believes, Glowing Man Eating Ninja Bugs. And the next day, our bedroom screen had it’s first encounter with Maintenance.

OT: Check out today’s “Non-sequitur.” Wiley is obviously one of us.

For those with little ones of the human variety in their lives, find a copy of the picture book SAM AND THE FIREFLY by PD Eastman. It’s really charming. Also, be sure to get some copies of the BCN books while you’re at the bookstore for everyone else.

Peep toads and fireflies! How perfect together!

An Aerial display

By the Firefly Brigade

Dancing to tunes no one knew

In Twilight Time…. Moody Blues, “Twilight Time”

OT: Diego

“Christmas Light Bugs” is close to “lightning bug”, which is what we called them when I was a kid."

Can’t love this one enough!

I miss them too… I love living where I do now, and wouldn’t think about heading back, but I do miss fireflies…

My sister grew up in Georgia with our dad, but she’d often spend summers with my mother and me in Massachusetts. But in all that time, she never saw a firefly until she was almost 20. She looked out the door one night and saw them in the backyard, and she sounded very worried when she said “Uh… Kevin? There are a bunch of lights in the back yard… what’s going on?”

This would make a GREAT t-shirt!

Makes sense that Lupin prefers the Christmas light bugs, since he can’t hear the peep toads, but he can see these!