Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for May 15, 2020

That’s a really big spider!

I feel you with the silent scream Woman. I freeze. No fight or flight here.

I’d scream too.

Is it wrong to be glad the spider escaped?

well, it doesn’t seem to be Lupin’s fault that the spider got out since he looks very surprised

Well, on the bright side, it can’t be in the house if it’s escaped the fourth wall!

The silent scream! This does not bode well. :S Look out lest the spider find his way to the ceiling again and decide to bungee jump from the rafters! Oh the felinity!

Oh – and we’ve solved Puck’s question from earlier this week! In the second panel, we can see that the Spider has four arms (two raised, two on its “hips”) and four legs (on the ground). It seems to be more two and six in panel 3, though…

Ahhhh noooo… They be doomed…doomed I say.

Although, in my house, ’twould be the spider who would be doomed. A tasty protein snack before it could be whisked out of the house (or thrust in a dark corner to earn its keep).

Flashback to Lucas The Spider! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isvqg90LhqM

Next time, put a brick on it.

Four-armed is forewarned?

Anyone know of or remember the Pearls Before Swine panel walking story arc?

PSA time: Please don’t move house spiders outside-they’re not equipped to live outside.

Watch out, it’ll call the ACLU — Arachnid Civil Liberties Union!

I hope the spider isn’t climbing to the upstairs apartment. I doubt Tabitha would go running away with poofed out tail. She’d have that spider for lunch!

Well, first he was imprisoned, then it’s revealed as a frame job…

Just took out the trash, One category here is kitchen waste/yard waste for the municipal compost facility. Apparently the compostable bag leaked, and the bottom of the pail was covered in some kind of wriggling larvae, the size of pine nuts. I wonder what the Woman and the cats would make of that? A tasty snack in some parts of the world.

That is one clever spider! In my newspaper it would appear that Ms Spider is heading for a comic strip called The Other Coast.

Last night I had the strangest dream

I trapped ya in some china

When I returned I couldn’t find ya

And you said you couldn’t stand my silent scream

Didn’t want no one to hold you, what does that mean

And you said

Ain’t no one gonna trap-a my hide

Nobody gonna slow me down, oh no

I got to keep on movin’

Ain’t nothin’ gonna break-a my stride

I’m running and I won’t touch ground

Oh no, I got to keep on groovin’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8pL7a0Qzjs

Break My Stride – Matthew Wilder

Songwriters: Greg Prestopino / Matthew Wilder

Let it go outside? No, no, you don’t let em go. You gotta SPLAAAAT em!

Another case for Goldie.

Is this a spider prison break?

Woman palm pads!

Is this the first comic where Georgia has drawn outside the frame? I love the whole expressive looks on everybody including the spider. (Will the spider be getting a name?)

Fun fact. Cats and jumping spiders have a funny thing in common. Laser pointers as a source of frustration.

Jumping spiders will stalk and attack the famous “red dot.” They think it’s prey, apparently. Strangely enough, they pursue blue and green laser pointer dots even more vigorously. And yes, there are videos out there.

They have multiple eyes, different kinds with different capabilities, one pair functioning like binoculars.

Their eyesight is as good as a dog’s or a small child’s. They can resolve subtle gradations of light and dark… and if they ever looked up at the moon, they could distinguish the bright/dark patterns on it’s face.

The Woman and Elvis share the same type of horrified Silent Screams.

I am so glad she’s not going to kill it.

We often get wolf and grass spiders who wander into the house, and we’ll catch & release them back outside.

Me after discovering the spider has escaped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FHw2aItRlw

Lupin, you let your fresh Yum Yum Kitty Spider (or shall we describe it as “SPIDER”?) treat escape.

I will make a deal with any spider. I will not interfere in its life outside and if it is inside…It will never know what hit it.

I will make a deal with any spider. I will not interfere in its life outside and if it is inside…It will never know what hit it. One second crawling on the wall/ceiling, next second greeting its ancestors.

WOMAN!!! don’t leave yo mouth open like that!!!!! you may swallow it

Just kidddin’. But please reply if you think that swallowing spiders in your sleep is true

I’ve been killing spiders since I was 55! :-o

Hon? Why are all the glasses and mirrors, breaking?

A Zits comic: Scene: Jeremy’s room. Sara says, “What’s this empty jar for, Jeremy?” Jeremy: “It had this huge hairy spider in it. I thought it was dead, so I took the lid off. Then this morning it was gone.” Last panel: Jeremy alone in his room, staring down from his open window with the drapes blowing out.

In the third panel, there are little motion lines on one side of the cup and the spider is pushing the cup with two legs. Is that little dude moving the cup over to a place where it can wriggle out from under?

I say we take off now and nuke it from orbit—it’s the only way to be sure.

It’s got to be Lucas the Jumping Spider.

The Spider broke the Fourth-Wall of the Comic page. Funky Winkerbean and Charlie Brown are Doomed.

Off Topic but in a good way.

Before we went to the shelter yesterday I had semi-narrowed it down to three special needs cats on the website. I thought we could go in and get our successor cat and be out in maybe fifteen minutes. We were there more than an hour and fifteen minutes, and at one point we were seriously considering taking all three cats from the cage one of my three possibilities was living in. Two of them were male, which BladeRunner would probably hate. Plus we didn’t actually need THREE More cats.

Anyway, we finally came home with a five year old tabby-and-white tripod, and a ten-year-old tabby with no teeth. Currently they are both hiding under furniture in separate corners of the house. Also, Blade nervous, but Blade is always nervous.

The tripod is probably going to keep her name Paprika (Rikki maybe?) and I keep thinking I should give the other one a dragonish name, because while we were discussing her in the shelter I kept calling her Toothless. (Is that rude?)

It’s probably time to open up some goooshy food and see if anyone’s interested.

Breaking the fourth wall seems to be a thing lately.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Maat-Tilda: Arachna? How did you get trapped under the goblet?

Arachna: I don’t know. I was just sitting here minding my own business when this goblet came crashing down on me.

Sophititi: Has anyone seen the goblet I was decorating? It was here just a minute ago.

Tabith-Isis: Oh, were you decorating it? I thought it just needed a certain je ne sais quoi so I got some red dots to add to it.

Arachna: Did you know you put the goblet right down on top of me?

Tabith-Isis: Oops, sorry. My bad.

Arachna: This cannot go unavenged! Prepare to meet thy doom!

Tabith-Isis: Oh no! Not the…!

Arachna: Exactly! Tickle, tickle, tickle!

Tabith-Isis: OK! I’ll promise I’ll be more careful.

Arachna: We’re good. And now I have to weave some special fabric for Maat-Tilda to make into a special garment.

Sophititi: Oh, what are you making?

Maat-Tilda: A jacket for a warrior. And I need some cactus needles.

Sophititi: Who are you making this wonderful coat for?

Ta-Natash: That would be me!

How can I put this delicately ……… oh, the heck with it:

TODAY IS CHOCOLATE CHIP DAY!!!!

Not only that, but we have something like thirty pounds of weapons grade chocolate chips in our freezer.

My name is Scaeva. I’m a chocoholic … a proud, unashamed, unrepentant chocoholic! LET THE CHOCOLATE CHIP WAVE ROLL!!!

I should also mention that when it comes to chocolate, I’m distinctly dragonish.

Daring escape.

She forgot to put a heavy book on the glass!

Paul catches and releases any spiders we catch in the house, to prevent me from hysterically screaming while I stomping on them.

OFF TOPIC: PAUL: Paul had his last radiation treatment today. We then met with the oncologist. He feels the treatment went well, and told us the tumour has shrunk a bit. In six weeks, he will follow up with us by phone and schedule a CT scan. If Paul has gained more weight and is stronger, we will discuss the possibility of chemo, if needed. Thanks so much, everyone, for your continued support.

I once found a massive house spider in the laundry room. On a whim I decided to convince my siblings that I had got them an expensive pet that we were going to let free range. They really got into it. But then Grandma found out and order the spider disposed of. But by then the children had bonded with the spider and destruction was no longer an option. So I had to find a safe home for her in the barn. (Her name was Charlotte.)

I appreciate the role spiders play in eating other insects. I don’t mind cleaning up their webs. But I HATE the ones who bite and give me big itchy welts. The trouble is I can’t tell which ones they are. So for now, all spiders in my bedroom are fair game for relocation.

AHHHHHH! I didn’t notice till now that the spider had broken the fourth wall! Clever girl!

Oh joy. They are messing with the site code again. I have a nasty suspicion they are going to limit the size of posts, as well as messing other things up beyond all belief.

Spider factoid of the day: The venom of the daddy-long-legs is stronger than any other common spider. However, it’s considered harmless to humans because the fangs are too small to pierce the upper layers of the skin.

Not only that, but it gave us one of the greatest musicals in moviedom.

My good news can’t wait until Sunday.

I had my mammo and ultrasound Tuesday and they found a cyst in the “good” breast. They aspirated it and it collapsed, which I was told was good. Then the radiologist said the color was bad and it had to be sent to pathology. 4-5 days for results. She called this morning and told me everything is OK and I can (finally) go back to yearly screenings since it will be 5 years in August since I had the cancer removed.

Woo-hoo!!!!

HEY, SOME ONE DEAL WITH THAT SPIDER!!!! It’s broken out of the panel. It’s not allowed to break out of the panel. What’s it plan to do next, break the fourth wall?

She messed with the wrong spider.

we have a new player in the game! I love spiders, and this gentleman seems to be more than a match for BCN and the Woman. I look forward to seeing new story arcs with him!

I had an arachnophobic coworker in one place I worked, up on the top floor of the building. He started freaking out when tiny spiders would drift down from the ceiling on their strands of silk. I told him “Don’t worry about them, worry about what it is they’re finding to eat, 11 stories above the ground.”

OMC! This is one of the funniest story lines ever! Just love how the spider got out of the comic frame! I know I repeat myself, but : “BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”

Once when I was a kid, I felt something on my eyebrow. When I brushed at it, I found it was a small spider that had anchored its line to me. I got it off me and fastened it to a fence. I can live with spiders but I draw the line at having them on my face. BTW, it didn’t seem to notice and wandered off about its own business.

I did not even notice the spider crawling up the side of the panel until someone mentioned it and I had to go back and look.

I love the spider dialogue – “Not Cool!”

In a word – Tough

I guess the board wonkies aren’t quite fixed. I tried to remove a reply that ended up in the wrong thread and got this message:

“500 Server ErrorInside every server there is an internal error, just waiting for its time to shine. This one’s ours. We vow to cease its infernal shining ASAP.”

Random thing I was wondering, why are so many people afraid of spiders? Heck, I have had some crawl on my hand from time to time. ( the tiny ones that you find outside)

With spiders being the topic let me recommend Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time abut a race of giant sentient spiders born of a terraforming project gone wrong

I was working in a place that was thickly covered in trees with 3 inch venomous thorns, We used a machete to cut off as many of the hazardous ones around us, but we still had to wear big safety goggles lest we turn around and find one with our eye. Compared to that terror, the hoard of harmless daddy long legs that shared the place were a delight. They were so thick, we’d have to clear a space on the ground to sit down. A frequent service to coworkers was picking off any you’d see crawling up their backs. By the way, this wasn’t in the Amazon jungle, we’re talking Iowa here! lol.

Time to burn the house down.

big brain

Love the spider escaping up the panel edge!