Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for October 21, 2020

Ah ha! The plot thickens!

Bandit can dig it!

Is Bandit a manx?

OT:When I’m 64 and Shadow update.

Quadruple SHHH!!!!

I’m sensing that the next commercial break will be an invitation by Dionne “Warlock” to dial up the “Psychic Friends Network” for $3.99 a minute.

“Newt was still in control of his own mind enough to do the proper translation. When most people said ’I’m psychic, you see’, they meant ‘I have an overactive but unoriginal imagination/wear black nail varnish/talk to my budgie’.”

(from Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. This quote is on page 215 of my fancy illustrated edition, in honor of the TV miniseries, and 229 of my straightforward mass market paperback, the 2006 reprint with the black cover, both of which I have on hand – your pagination may vary. My third copy, a different edition entirely, is either at my mom’s house or has been borrowed by my brother.)

Quote from Our IX Lives Christmas Special (Dec. 15, 2016)

“That’s Paisley, Captain Nibble’s Psychic Twin Sister!”

Captain Nibble is Princess’s wife. Princess and Angora are sisters. Did I mention you need a chart for these things?

Restless spirits…..ahh, just in time for Halloween.

I’m not wasting my time on this, and I’m sure Elvis isn’t, either. Undoubtedly he is working on a fact-based, hard-hitting report on the evil collusion between shelves and drawers.

Get out of the way, Robin, yer blocking the telly! (Elbow, elbow). Psychic Toe Beans!!!

And yet she didn’t foresee her own catnapping?

Imagine spirits blue, I do

I think about them day and night, it’s only right

To think about the ghosts I feel with second sight

So happy whenever

If I should conjure them up, invest my time

They’ll say they’re restless, but feelin’ fine

Imagine how the spirit world could be so sublime

So happy forever

I can see me doin’ the mystic things I do

For all my life

Since I’m psychic, baby, the Tarot’ll be true

For all my life

Me and brews and brews and me

No matter how I burn the sage, it had to be

The only time for me is deja vu, again for me

So happy whatever

Ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-baBa-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba

So, how is the nether? (ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba)

(Alan Gordon / Garry Bonner – Happy Together)

The gang reminds me of my Grandmother’s house back in the ’70s. She had a sewing circle that she belonged to from her church. They used to watch “Days of our Lives”, “Search for Tomorrow” and “The Edge of Night” on one of those giant old RCA console TVs that could play ’78 records and occasionally would need a vacuum tube which my Dad would get from the local Eckerd Drugs or Radio Shack and install himself. Those retired ladies did not get much knitting done and spent a lot of time yelling at the bad guys on the tube.

Speaking of soaps in the ’70s: by this time Dark Shadows was off the air except in reruns if you were lucky but I remember watching it with my youngest and oldest sister after kindergarten and first grade as my Mom was still working at the time and my older teenage sis was appointed babysitter and thus the defacto ruler of the TV so no cartoons on WTOG for us if Barnabus and the Crew was on! Now that show scared the daylights out of me. I miss those days as well as my grand ma and her wonderful house…….

Every cat gives this show, 4 Shhhhh’s!

What else would an abandoned asylum be but evil and haunted?

Paisley isn’t just very psychic. She’s VERY PSYCHIC.

OT Yen

I can’t stand the suspense; I’m switching over to Birds Of Our Lives.

“Focus, Paisley!”

Well im lost, but thats not new so its ok. If you all enjoy im good with it. Im just watching our main characters reactions to watching the show.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Agnes-Ata: Oh, I see a few of our friends are here.

Iron-Glove: Adobe-Style and I are working with Sophititi and Maat-Tilda on a project for our queens.

Agnes-Ata: Welcome. I’m doing a bit of investigation here. Have any of you heard of a cat called Dr. Sneaky-Glove.

Iron-Glove: What? He had the nerve to steal my family’s good name?

Agnes-Ata: You’ve heard of him?

Maat-Tilda: Oh yes. My siblings and I went to school with him. He was Stealth-Mitt then.

Agnes-Ata: What was he like then?

Maat-Tilda: For one thing, he stole my senior project. I had made mittens for my brother and sister and me. He stole them, and as a result none of us got any pie for graduation.

Agnes-Ata: That’s awful. We have to find him and make him pay.

Enter Thomios

Thomios: Here’s one thing I can make right. I’ve made my famous Kibble Pie.

Iron Glove: Great! Let’s eat Thomios!

Adobe Style: Now watch your punctuation.

Iron Glove: Oops, I mean Let’s Eat, Thomios!

“Oh, Rad!” “Yes, Janet?”

So that is Burt. And now I can tell him and Goldie apart, since they’re in the same panel.

LOOOOORRRRREEEEE!!!

For everyone not completely sold on Paisley’s psychic claims – don’t forget Sybill Trelawney, a psychic who seldom got it right, but when she did, it was a ZINGER! (Paisley makes me think of a Cyndi Lauper/Sybill Trelawney cross.)

havnt been on this strip in a while! lets see what comics are here after all this time!

My psychic ability tells me that………um I can’t tell anyone. It would give away all the plot lines.

Are the restless spirits also fragrant? Inquiring minds want to know.

This morning I received a call, actually two calls, a text and an email, that my cat Mcintosh (AKA Mac) was found. Which I found strange since I was looking at him. I also later got a call from the place that had the found cat and told them it wasn’t my cat since my cat was home safe and sound. I didn’t ask them if they were sure they had the right number or not. I called my vet and they have a scanner, though I am not sure I want to put Mac through the trauma of going to the vet just to have his chip scanned. They are both due for shots in a couple of months or so and I might just wait until then. I am not real worried about him getting out and escaping, he doesn’t show much interest in going out and now with the weather being colder I am not opening the slider as much, which is the most likely way he would escape. I am more concerned for the cat that was actually lost if the number was really correct from its scan.

Today is:

National Pets for Vets Day: I don’t think there is anyone in this bunch who doesn’t know how therapeutic pets can be. If you can, visit a shelter and donate the adoption fee for a vet. There are few better ways of saying, “Thank you for your service.”

Celebration of the Mind Day: If you haven’t lost it, celebrate it!

Reptile Awareness Day: With the elections coming up, how can anyone not be aware of reptiles …

Global Dignity Day: Personified by the Paragon of Dignity, Elvis.

International Day of the Nacho: “Nacho, nacho man! Nacho, nacho man! I want to eat nachos!”

Babbling Day: I’ll stop if you pass the nachos …

Yesterday was:

International Sloth Day: In an abundance of slothfulness, I neglected to mention this yesterday. Let’s hear it for sloths: two, three, or five toed …

Hey, it’s Paisley!Are she and Bandit going get help from the ghosts to escape?

Clark update:

It ain’t easy being a cat. He gets to stay another day and night. His bladder is not completely draining. Apparently when the bladder has been extended during a blockage some cats have a muscle problem in that the body reduces or stops squeezing to get the urine out.

The major issue here is that the kidney and liver values remain elevated because the bladder is retaining too much urine.

Vet is searching for the correct medication to stimulate that specific muscle group. Not a common occurrence so none of the close in vets have any on the shelf. She hopes to find a supply today so they can get him started ASAP. But he will have to stay overnight again and get retested once the meds kick in.

Deep sigh.

To heck with the audience. Story now.

um, okay. The black cat is who? Is he the one that decided to become a cop? I am a little confused.

Glad to see Paisley again!

exaggeration narration: Goldie, what did I miss?Puck, Beatrix, the mice, and Burt: SILENCE, THOU SHALT NOT INTRUDE UPON THIS SACRED TASK BESTOWED UPON US.

Also, i’m wondering, does bandit have all four legs or just 3, because I think it would be really cool if he had only 3 like puck, I’m just thinking.

Wasn’t Robin supposed to be making some kind of announcement, did I miss it or was he just pranking us?

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