Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for June 20, 2020

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    Le'letha Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Pucky, sticking with the story to the bitter(sweet) end!

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    DennisinSeattle  over 4 years ago

    We certainly observe cardboard multiplying in the basement. Uncanny!

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    Kit'n'Kaboodle  over 4 years ago

    Thank you, Elvis! I love those trivia words “What do you call a group of ______.”

    Owls = Parliament

    Crows = Murder

    Cats = Clowder

    Ravens = Unkindness (also Treachery, or Conspiracy

    )Bears = Sleuth (also Sloth)

    Tigers = Ambush (also Streak… in the rare case you actually find tigers in a group)

    Clowns = Alley (also Pratfall)

    Cardboard = Mess

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    Sue Ellen  over 4 years ago

    Are those Georgia Dunn green toe beans on the box in panel 2?

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    poppet bear  over 4 years ago

    Well, Robin will be ecstatic – a whole week of proper, factual news reporting

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    ikini Premium Member over 4 years ago

    I wonder where Elvis got the “fun fact”?

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    PoodleGroomer  over 4 years ago

    Our library has a cardboard/metal/plastics recycling bin. It just opened after the shutdown and we got their copy of Lupin Leaps In. CBN fans have been laughing all day.

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    WelshRat Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Elvis, you’ve never needed cardboard to make a mess.

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    Gent  over 4 years ago

    English language is a mess. Mess means having food and mess can also mean having a walk in the woods.

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    OliveO'Sudden  over 4 years ago

    Love Puck being gently tipped from the box he had claimed.♥

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    cat19632001  over 4 years ago

    “Come on, Pucky.

    Puck, come on. Out of the box.

    Puck …"

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    asrialfeeple  over 4 years ago

    And after a sufficient mess of cardboard has been amassed, they are sent to roam in the wild.

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    bluegirl285  over 4 years ago

    Very clever placement of Georgia’s signature and the date.

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    Markov Da Robot  over 4 years ago

    I don’t think its called a mess. My family calls it something i have to take down to recycling.

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    misty  over 4 years ago

    I can remember when we cuddled together

    Sharing a box I thought would last forever

    Moonlight showed the box so comfy and hollow

    Relaxing inside until breakfast tomorrow

    Then something changed over time, the Woman told me

    Then I had no cardboard box to hold me

    Cuz next day I wake up, the box has to break up

    Lonely is a cat without a box

    Every day I start out, then I mew my heart out

    Lonely is a cat without a box

    (Daniele Pace / Mario Panzeri / Roberto Livraghi)

    (Man Without Love – Engelbert Humperdinck)

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    ladykat  over 4 years ago

    Thank you, Elvis, for a new fact. I did not know that a pile of cardboard was called a mess.

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    diskus Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Puck shares a trait common to many felines. Paralysis upon request to vacate.

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    diskus Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Who needs soap operas when there is cardboard farming to done. Its certainly a growth industry these days.

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    Cassia  over 4 years ago

    Do do do

    Down dooby doo down down

    Comma, comma, down dooby doo down down

    Comma, comma, down dooby doo down down

    Breaking up is hard to do

    Don’t take my box away from me

    I don’t think it’s THAT messy

    When I’m dumped out, then I’m blue

    ’Cause breaking up is hard to do

    Remember when it held me tight

    And kept me hidden all through the night

    I enjoyed it through and through

    So breaking up is hard to do

    Written by Howard Greenfield & Neil Sedaka

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    rs0204 Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Dunn-da-Dunn; Dunn-da-da-da-Dunn The story you are about to read is true, the Breeds have been changed to protect the innocent.

    Joe Tabby: “This is the city: Whatchamacallit, Maine. I work here. I’m a cat cop.”

    8:39 a.m. My partner, Tommy, and I were conducting an interview with a local artist about some shenanigans concerning their cardboard boxes when we saw someone lurking in the bushes. When we spotted them, they took off into the woods. Tommy and I gave chase.

    8:40 a.m. We were rounding the corner of the house when a stream of water shot out and missed Tommy by inches. We took cover and pulled out our squirt-guns. When the conversation with a suspect gets philosophical, I let Smith & Wesson do my talking for me.

    9:02 a.m. After a complete search, whoever was in the bushes was long gone. Tommy and I went deeper into the wood and that’s where we found them; box after box left to the elements, soaked with rain, bleached white by the sun and just left to decompose in the woods. It was enough to turn an old cat cop’s stomach. It was a cardboard box cat-tastrophe.

    “What do you think Tommy?”

    “I don’t know Joe, these boxes will never hold a cat again. Such a waste. I will get on radio to CSU.” (Cat Scene Unit)

    “This reminds me of a case from a long time ago. A local gum-shoe was working a missing box case. She was a dame, but a darn good private eye.”

    9:15 a.m. We were going to make a call on my old P.I. friend. I just hoped she had forgotten about that whole mess. After all, it was years. ago.

    Tune in tomorrow for Chapter III – Dial ‘G’ for Goldie.

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    mistercatworks  over 4 years ago

    Collective nouns: BCN is a “broadcast” of cats. :)

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    cat19632001  over 4 years ago

    Puck will leave no box un-slept in in order to bring CN viewers the complete story.

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    Santana  over 4 years ago

    I’ll remember this when the west wind moves upon the fields of boxes

    I’ll forget the sun in his jealous sky as I walk in fields of cardboard

    So I climb above for to gaze awhile upon the fields of boxes

    In the mud I fell as my tail came down among the fields of cardboard

    [Sting (Gordon Sumner) / Dusan Bogdanovic]

    Fields Of Gold – Sting

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    Kitty Katz  over 4 years ago

    Meanwhile Back on the Nile

    Elvis-Anum: I just saw four soft papyrus husks migrate!

    Puckmosis: Oh! You must have seen the Papyrus Cat!

    Elvis-Anum: Puck, how many times do I have to tell you? There is no Papyrus Cat! These husks were just moving by themselves!

    Puckmosis: So you don’t believe in a Papyrus Cat, but you believe papyrus husks can move by themselves.

    Elvis-Anum:Well, you know they migrate.

    Somewhere down the road

    Alice-Ata: You know, these husks aren’t as heavy as I thought.

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    scyphi26  over 4 years ago

    Well, I’m glad they keep their cardboard boxes for potential reuse nonetheless. Too many people would just chuck them, like they’ve never even heard of the concept of “recycling”…and cardboard boxes are, like, the easiest thing to recycle!

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    Sakura Tomoe  over 4 years ago

    People let their cardboard accumulate? When I get cardboard, once emptied it’s off to the dumpster. I don’t have the space to let garbage sit around.

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    thecatlady3410  over 4 years ago

    Thank you all who commented on my comment yesterday it ment a LOT to me

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    mistercatworks  over 4 years ago

    Old boxes are like old shirts – they eventually become cat beds. I had one cat who liked to burst out of a box which had a lid flap folded over. He was one flying, furry tabby-in-a-box.

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    ltrauth  over 4 years ago

    In our house the flattening generally happens as a matter of course. We have a couple of former boxes lying around that are now completely flat. The cats love them though, because they are still “places.” And still good for scratching. When the totally fall apart (or get puked on), then it’s time to recycle or pitch.

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    scaeva Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Cue the Beach Boys! Today is International Surfing Day.

    So power up your modem, keyboard and mouse/trackpad/trackball/whatever and hit the interweb beach! (Beach Boys is good music for surfing the web. Note, however, that “Surfin’ Bird” is definitely not, unless you are overdosed on caffeine or other “stimulants,” possibly including catnip.) Kowabunga! (Or, in Sandra Boynton’s case, “Cowabunga.”)

    For those living near a sufficiently large body of water, and so inclined, I hope “Surf’s up!” You don’t need a surfboard. One spring break, a five of us went to Sanibel Island, Florida. We had no money for a motel, there were no campgrounds, so we spent the night sleeping in a ‘57 Chevy wagon (serious Detroit Iron, even had a bumper sticker that said “Drive defensively, buy a tank!”) Traveling in that car was an adventure, but that’s another looooong story. Four large and one smallish skinny guy in a car without reclining seats. Anyway, we went body surfing the next day. Got thoroughly sandblasted, sunburned, dehydrated, but happy, we drove home that night, our lives saved by a Portillo’s Hotdogs and their pitchers of apple juice. We downed ten, never touching a glass …

    The bunch of us were collectively named “The Odd Squad,” our symbol was the blivet optical illusion (also called the Devil’s Fork https://www.wpclipart.com/signs_symbol/optical_illusions/impossible_objects/Blivet_effect.png.html). Our shenanigans are (or were for a time) legend on campus. I’ll give you a hint: A campus minister who knew us pretty well, on seeing two of us several years after graduation, said, “Aren’t you in prison, yet?” First words out of his mouth. My reply, “No, still to stealthy.” We had a good laugh.

    COWABUNGA!

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    la_momcat  over 4 years ago

    Oh, those cats’ faces in the last panel! Stretch your screens to make it bigger! Especially ELvis’s fun facts face!!!

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    willie_mctell  over 4 years ago

    Circle of Life

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    DorseyBelle  over 4 years ago

    This documentary is accurate. At my home, cardboard breeds very well in captivity. Just put one box in the laundry room, “on its way” to the recycle bin, and the cardboard will quickly grow to herd size.

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    PammWhittaker  over 4 years ago

    There, my profile pic is Pepper, eating his special treat from a spoon held by his daddy (Jason). He’s doing well, I think! Ate almost all the lunch he wanted, and his normal dinner.

    And of course he wanted my steakburger and Jason’s Zach-Stack from our dinner… LOL! I was eating my fries and gravy and he kept pawing at my plate! I had to nudge him away til I was ready to share some burger :) He got the bit he wanted from me, then went to Jason for his.. LOL!

    We have 7 days worth of Peps’s steroids, and his next bloodwork appointment is next Thursday. We’ll see where we go from there, but I am really optimistic that between his treatment and all the love, purrs and boops from the Orb that he’ll be fine :)

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      over 4 years ago

    Great information as usual, Puck.

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    Mx Crazy Cat Person  over 4 years ago

    The cardboard life cycle is stunted in my household. It stops at cat bed and stays there.

    We have a multitude cat bed (cardboard boxes) lying around the house. They are either used often or occasionally by the feline occupants of the house.

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    knight1192a  over 4 years ago

    Should they be told about cardboard being taken to a recycling center so it can be regrown?

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    KL  over 4 years ago

    This story is so adorable I can’t stand it!

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    Erin Pierce  over 4 years ago

    I love their smiles!

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    lim95  almost 4 years ago

    I’m surprised, but I was able to use “a mess of cardboard,” as I was breaking down a ton of boxes, my cat Mallory walked by, and I asked her “You interested in this mess of cardboard?”

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