Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for November 17, 2020

Looks like a cushy job!

Workplace drama at its best!

Nice work if you can get it….

Apparently the Man’s lap is one of the most desired spots in the house!

First come first purred.

Don’t make the man get the no no spray bottle!

Have learned that lesson! I have one cat who will chose between laying on my briefcase or a circle of blanket. The other cat… well… she will only let me type with one hand. That is… if I can work around her big bottom!

Tensions run high when faced with removal from one of the most coveted napping spots in the house!

Lupin just wants to get in a couple laps.

For what it’s worth, at least Lupin is smiling at Goldie.

What’s next?! … A ’ Lap Dance ’??!! …

Hey, now! This is a FAMILY comic !! :)

Why do cats suddenly appear

Every time you work here?

Just like Goldie, they long to be

Close to you

Why do cats crowd all around

Every time you sit down?

Just like Goldie, they long to be

Close to you

On the days that you work here the kitties get together

And decide to make things easier for you

So they sprinkle cat hair in your lap and argue loudly ’til the air is blue

That is why all the cats at home

Make sure you’re not alone

Just like Lupie, they long to be

Close to you

Just like Pucky, they long to be

Close to you

Wa, close to you

Wa, close to you

Ha, close to you

La, close to you

[Burt Bacharach / Hal David – (They Long to Be) Close to You]

And now it’s playfight time.

I think I see a fang of resistance on Goldie, who has claimed the Man as her own. It’s wonderful when a newcomer rescue cat realizes he or she truly belongs.

The wife or I quite often have three cats on our lap. Work is never involved, but trying to read quite often is!

Love that the three of them are all smiling in that last frame :)

Unlike humans, cats actually want to stay on the job.

Heehee, all those smiling kitties! I love kitty playtime. :D

OT. Yen

Four cats are too many

this is my cats every morning

Yeah, Man. That’s definitely an area of anatomy where you don’t want kitties with their claws out.

Dolly Parton: 9 to 5

Tumble off the couch and head for the kibble

Have myself a real quick nibble

And yawn and stretch and quickly groom my fur

Look out the window the birds are a-flying

Need a lap, not for lack of trying,

Three cats looking for a nap from 9 to 5.

…….

Napping 9 to 5, what a way to spend the whole day

And it’s gettin’ by, it’s eat and sleep and then play,

Looking for a place to sleep, it’s enough to give you real pause,

And you have to be careful when you let out your claws!

9 to 5, to sit upon your humans,

There are two more cats,

But laps have just so much room,

It’s enough to think

That everything is just doomed!

…….

They let you sleep when you feel like runnin’

You know you need to get some fun in,

And sleep in beams of sun just every day,

You have to search and gather the news,

And make kitty eyes the humans can’t refuse,

And it’s good to know you’ll always have your way!

…….

Napping 9 to 5, what a way to spend the whole day

And it’s gettin’ by, it’s eat and sleep and then play,

Looking for a place to sleep, it’s enough to give you real pause,

And you have to be careful when you let out your claws!

9 to 5, to sit upon your humans,

There are two more cats,

But laps have just so much room,

It’s enough to think

That everything is just doomed!

…….

Napping 9 to 5, what a way to spend the whole day

And it’s gettin’ by, it’s eat and sleep and then play,

Looking for a place to sleep, it’s enough to give you real pause,

And you have to be careful when you let out your claws!

9 to 5, to sit upon your humans,

There are two more cats,

But laps have just so much room,

It’s enough to think

That everything is just doomed!

This week, on the Office….

I foresee a battle for the man’s lap.

The first rule of, Lap Fight Club is…nobody meows about, Lap Fight Club!

Go puck!

Frenemies! That’s adorable!

Ally who is back to her tortie-tude since thursdays spay, Has taken upon herself to tell Lexus her 14 year old sister from another litter, that moms lap is now her lap.

Such fierce competition for one of the most coveted spots in the house. The kitty toddlers have to take turns.

Georgia posted a picture yesterday of Goldie doing some off-lap napping:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHqUEqvJptt/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Goldie’s sneaking in some voluntary overtime. Not many bosses can say their workers are willing to do that.

Too cute! Looks like a friendly (for now) dispute.My 2 ladies, Hazel and Elsa, will come to growls, hisses, and blows over who gets to groom the other first. I have to shout, “Be NICE!” They will grudgingly comply and sit with ears back and tails lashing.

They do have great worth ethic though.

As I read these comments, LucyLu is sleeping in my lap.

Cats actually do have time-defined territories. When we temporarily lived in a bed-and-breakfast in Fort Bragg, CA overlooking the Noyo River, my grey-and-white cat was absolute master of the rooftop outside our window from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. when the local cats came to check it out.

Good news!

My home care worker has spoken to someone at Hope4Paws. She told me that they are willing to provide me with food for the feral kitties who come to my porch! If this works out, there will be no more judging whether I can afford to spare food for Visitor & Co.

OT: It’s only money…& other news…

The coveted spot is on top of the headrest of our couch, with a perfect view of my computer and the side yard at the same time. Maverick is sitting there as I type this. Ember probably would be in the cat tree next to the couch, also monitoring my efforts (and enjoying our gas fireplace) but there is a tech here making some repairs to the Woman’s wheelchair and Ember doesn’t do strangers.

Today is:

You can all take a hike! because it’s Take a Hike Day!: Note that “hike” has more than one meaning. It can mean a long walk, a sharp increase, or an increase in elevation. Few would object to a hike in wages or salary, or chocolate, or free time. If you are in parts of the south, you may hike up your pants to keep from getting soaked. It is also an occasional command in American football, signaling the center lineman to move the ball from the ground into the hands of one of the backfield players, thereby making him a target.

International Gose Day: No, not a short goose. Gose is a type of German light sour, spiced beer, salty beer. Gose take a hike …

Homemade Bread Day: My wife makes all our bread, and I’m not talking about those abominations called “bread machines.” You want machine-made bread, gose to the stupormarket … She does use an industrial grade electric mixer, but also kneads it by hand (the cats are not allowed to use their expertise in this activity). She generally makes three types: Rye (my personal favorite); English muffin bread, which tastes like English muffins, but has a different texture and is much more solid; and “mindful” “white” bread, which is often a shade of beige because she puts other flours in it besides wheat. It is called “mindful” to contrast it with store-bought or bread machine “mindless white bread,” sometimes also called “solidified air.”

National Baklava Day: No, not something to wear on your head (maybe if you had too much gose, or you are lisdexic), but the Middle Eastern sugar bomb made with phyllo dough, nuts, and honey. Enough calories to sustain a small third world country. It’s so sticky you can turn it Every Which Way But Loose, which may have inspired the name for the character Philo Beddoe, but perhaps I gose too far.

I gose away on a hike, now, in search of baklava and a glucose intolerance. Couldn’t go yesterday because it was Tolerance Day.

Looks like my son’s home office. At least one cat on his lap, and the other two in the window. Tough work.

And so, the sLAP fights begin.

Another one torn from life!Not to mention life right here at Schloss Drang. (“You two! Don’t fight in Dad’s lap!”)

There’s a cute YouTube video with cats singing about their unhappiness at humans being home all the time due to quarantine. “You’re in my Chair.”

https://youtu.be/UFBEami1qIg

The dog response to how awesome it is to have humans home all the time is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GifUAB2QjC8

Nah. Lupin didn’t enjoy “showing” Goldie his time card. Not at all.

OT: Diego all stressed out.

I love a good cat fight.

Puck, I’d back out if I were you.

Awwww!

Furniture QA is delicate and must be performed by by experts.

Oopsie at the colony will sit on my lap. MJ wants up on my lap too. But he can’t jump up there (the two of them will have a “discussion” with me in the middle). But if there’s a way for MJ to “sneak” onto my lap (by way of a branch), Oopsie will allow it. Got pics of both of them on my lap. But since the city did some trimming of the sea grape trees (FL), there’s no place to sit that will allow MJ to “sneak” on my lap. Now, if I allow MJ on my lap after Oopsie got off, then they have a “discussion” where MJ tells Oopsie he can’t have my lap. As you can see, it’s complicated. But I love them both.

OT – birthdays (continued)

This happens all the time to me, and I have only two cats!