Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for January 18, 2020

Well, sorta. IRL, I believe this is how acceptance started, napping in the same general vicinity.

[puts a big COEXIST sign (you know the one) over the last panel]

Love the last panel. When it comes down to it. All a cat needs is his/her 20 hours of sleep. There they are, Lupin and Goldie, sleeping peacefully together on the couch. Cuteness.

Did anyone else have a flashback to Dave & Maddie on “Moonlighting” just now?

They don’t exactly look relaxed in the last panel. But it’s a start. Frenemies might be a stretch at this point.

The Woman tends to err on the side of love and hope. One reason we love her but I agree that frenimies is a stretch at this point.

Moonlighting Theme by Al Jarreau

Some run by night

Some nap by day

Nothing can change that

Cats who don’t want to play!

…….

There is Lupin and Goldie

They meow to their own tune

The Woman watches them

Sharing the Red Couch

…….

We’ll run by night,

We’ll nap by day,

Cat fighting strangers

Working it out on the way!

Goldie reminds me of Baba in that last panel. Considering Baba’s numerous offspring, could Goldie be a great, great, grandaughter?

Mutually Assured Distrusting.

Still a long way from a proper resolution.

Anger (and guilt) wears you out. It is possible that they will slowly drift into a relaxed sleep, until one of them wakes up…

They’ll be friends by Monday. I just know it. :)

Still, they have actually exchanged reasonable – albeit hostile – words. This might lead to Lupin explaining his position, Goldie apologising for stealing the recorder, and Lupin admitting he handled the situation badly. Then they could resolve the problems on the basis of Strict Justice, instead of The Woman’s soppy gushing.

I can only hope. I’m really, really fed up with this.

Progress!

Nice that they’ve remembered to fold their front paws away tidily. A loaf for loafing about.

Kitty loafs!

KA-FRIENEMIES! Oops! Sorry, wrong comic strip!

Equilibrium has been achieved.

Now where is Puck and is he okay?

Our two old girls are about 16 and 17, they’ve lived together for nearly 10 years

None of our girls got along until we had to let the third one go about a year ago

Over the last year Titten and Wicked have become frienemies; they share the couch with as little as a foot between them, play chase, and only occasionally smack each other

Well, it’s progress!

It’s a start!

Well, this seems familiar. We we had a stray, there was a major war when we were around. Our take was to “let them duke it out as long a the furniture remained intact.” Then we snuck in quietly and found them sleeping holding paws. I KID YOU NOT!! That was also the end of the war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsBI5Q9ljGU

Goldie and Lupin are s-l-o-w-l-y- leaning towards tolerance of each other.

An honorable peace is better than a dishonorable war.

“If I can’t see you you’re not there”. Cat tactics

Hopefully, when they wake up, they will both be in a better frame of mind to communicate. Goldie still needs to understand why Lupin has been so upset and to offer a true apology for her part in it.

I still think Elvis and Puck should admit that they were wrong about the giant orange cat, too. She is real and she lives with them now!

Sofa as DMZ? It’s a start. Just like the 38th Parallel?

At least they are “speaking” to each other now and not fighting.

What is The Woman’s hand gesture?

If Lupin closes his eyes then says “Fine” then he gets the last word as he can then neither see nor hear any response Goldie makes.

Wait until they wake up and find themselves snuggled up together.

Happy Thesaurus Day!

Robin, since your Australian Thesaurus is the last of it’s kind and may be feeling a bit blue and lonely, give it a hug from all of us. At last count, that’s 11,661 hugs …

They will get along eventually.

I have a friend who had indoor/outdoor cats. One day, the biggest cat decided to nap on a flat rock in the sunshine. At the same time, a huge black snake decided the same thing. They eyed each other and realized both were two big to hurt the other with hurting themselves so they each took a far corner of the rock and went to sleep.

Just wait till 2AM when they begin fighting again.

it’s hard not to nap.

Peace at last! (well, maybe)

When the radius of personal space is under two feet it doesn’t matter too much how they feel about each other. It’s kinda like mutually assured destruction. :-)

This, a Warm Couch! … The actual setting for a COLD WAR! …

Annnnd we will be BACK on CN, with FURTHER coverage of our latest News Special:

Davenport Détente !! :)

I see Lupin’s already given up on never coming out from under the couch again.

“All we are saying, is give peace a chance.”

HISSSSZZZZZzzz…

My cats Cara and Tar were always at odd with one another. When Elsa died in September, Cara was at a loss since they were best friends. But now, Cara and Tar are sleeping together, cuddling. It’s nice to see. Cats will take what they need when they need it. It will work out.

Hi! New user here. I just discovered Georgia Dunn and her bevy of news cats. I love it! I went back and read all the archives and think I’ll be reading a lot more about the BCN crew from now on. My cat Stormy is a 25 pound fuffapopilis—ten pounds of kitty and 15 pounds of fur. We think he’s mostly Norwegian Forest Cat with maybe a little bit of feather duster tossed in for good luck.

And the rest, as they say, was history. Of course, there is always a WHOLE LOT of meat on the bone in a good history book.

Mreow, SLASH, snarl….alrighty then.

OT: Owls

Comment on Facebook from Georgia: “Yes, this really happened. In real life this stare down was most of an afternoon, we finally just let them stare-it-out, and eventually they both fell asleep. As much as they do not entirely get along—they are still each other’s number one nap buddy, and constant companion (I think in part because they still do not trust each other to be out of sight? Wherever one is napping, the other will be 3-4 feet away also napping.”

And now the healing begins…

Cats have to spend non-threatening time in each others sensory-space, if they are ever to get along. That’s why “cat-sperts” recommend introducing a new cat behind a closed door for 24-48 hours, so they can interact, smell and hear each other without threat. DON’T just hand your new cat a tape recorder and microphone and toss them onto the broadcast set.