Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for March 21, 2021

SUNDAY FUNDAY!!!!!!

Panel 8: “What’s a moose?”

I guess the times they’ve actually been in the car going to the V E T, being inside their carriers caused Lupin not to notice the car itself.

Love how Goldie taps Lupin on the shoulder with her tail to get his attention. The old razzle dazzle (hee hee)

Lupin toe beans! Goldie toe beans! Back of Lupin’s head!

I can see the surprise on his face if he got through the window and saw a car in the wild up close.

Years ago I had a friend whose cat, one day, was watching a car race on TV. He kept going to the side of the set to catch them when the came off. He was very confused about there they were going.

Back in the early days of America’s Funniest Home Videos, there was a clip of a cat trying to catch race cars on a TV and seeming confused when she couldn’t. It’s still one of my favorites from the show!

Don’t bother. They taste awful.

Of course it escaped your clutches. It’s an automatic! Give him a brake! :-)

(Hope he doesn’t interfere with the station’s transmission.)

Last panel made me laugh out loud. Living in the North Idaho panhandle, we have moose in our front yard, our back yard and often just lying down chewing their cud. They are HUGE and the idea of a moose on wheels just made me chortle. Georgia is so creative and funny!

Lupin says, What’s a moose?"

So, is this like a side window? Usually, all we see is grass…

Goldie (& Tommy) has the outside world experience Lupin lacks.

Moose is not all that big in cat terms. I don’t think Yang ever saw one (a couple of times one came down from the hills to eat the peaches off my grandfather’s trees), but he had no compunctions about stalking horses.

The horses found his attempts wryly amusing.

We used to have a huge red-tailed hawk near my office that could have chased the cars on the freeway, but he was usually content to perch on a lamppost and count them as they went past.

Ummmmm…we know that Lupin has been inside a car, so presumably he should know that they’re big enough to fit three cats and two people. ♥ https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2017/05/17

the crazy kitty’s thing !

Suddenly I’m reminded of a famous Snow Patrol song. ;-) Lupin: “If I meow here, if I just meow here, would you meow with me and just forget the world? Let’s waste time, chasing cars, with our paws…”

And so many toe beans – Lupin and Goldie (sighs in happiness).

A MØØSE ON WHEELS!!I can not think of a more Canadian thing.

Is that car “merp-merp” mocking Lupin?

The real question is how does Goldie know what a moose is. Even having been outdoors I doubt if she ever came across one.

♪"Give it the old razzle dazzle

Razzle dazzle it

Give it an act with lots of flash in it

And the reaction will be passionate

Give it the old hocus-pocus

Bead and feather it

How can it drive with sequins in its eyes?"♫

(Razzle-dazzle written by Fred Ebb & John Kander)

I don’t see any Lupin nose prints on the window.

Panel 4 is absolutely adorable! I am loving it. I think poor Loaner Cat is going a bit blind. She’ll be 16 this year and when she moved in with us three years ago, she would be at the window for hours trying to chase the chickens next door. She doesn’t bother anymore. Then again, she could just be bored with them too. Who knows? She’s not saying…

The Beach Boys: Little Deuce Coupe

Big moose dude

You don’t know what I got

Big moose dude

You don’t know what I got

…….

Well I’m not braggin’ babe so don’t put me down

But I’m the fastest moose in there is in town

When someone wants to race he don’t even try

’Cause if I had a set of wings man I know I could fly

I’m the big moose dude

You don’t know what I got

I’m the big moose dude

You don’t know what I got!

I don’t think Goldie’s assessment is completely accurate. Moose are much bigger.

Look how real the glass looks! How do you paint a picture of glass? So clever, so talented!

Time to learn about “perspective”, wee one!

Asked a cat what was causin’ such glee

He said, "Pucky, can’t you see

I’m gonna grab cars goin’ past the screen

Wanna bat a moosey wheeled machine"

Lupin, you can catch a car

Cuz you’re just a total star

Lupin, the wumpiest cat by far

And baby, we love you

Beep beep’m beep beep yeah

(John Lennon / Paul McCartney – Drive My Car)

When I hear “Razzle-Dazzle”, I always think of the scene in Stripes, when Bill Murray leads the platoon through the demonstration at graduation.

“That’s the fact, JACK!”

You’re telling us Lupin has completely lost his perspective? I could understand the confusion if he were chasing cars on television.

Like a moose on wheels? I love it!

My uncle once witnessed a cat stalking a horse. It snuck up to a little rise, leaped blindly and then, realizing its error in depth perception, turned 180 deg. mid air and fled.

Or like the world’s biggest vacuum cleaners…

Elvis looks mildly annoyed.

BAD example Goldie. Car vs. Moose, moose dies and still wins.

My best friend had an indoor/outdoor cat who once tried to stalk a deer. He crept up behind it, his tail twitching, as he prepared to leap at the back leg. The deer glanced backwards and flexed his leg as if to kick the cat. The cat did the cat equivalent of whistling nonchalantly and acting innocently. “Me? Of course, I wasn’t going to attack you.” And he backed out of range of the leg really fast.

Another real moose story: One year I was driving an old International Harvester truck along the Gunflint Trail in northern MN, at night. The windshield in this vehicle is about ten feet off the ground. I was late, due to a mechanical breakdown, and doing about 40 mph, the maximum safe speed on that “road.” For some reason, I took my foot off the gas at the top of a hill. That instant, for all of a second, I saw a wall of fur in the headlights, filling the entire windshield. No legs, no top of back, just a wall of moose hair. Fortunately, that moose was in a bigger hurry than I was, or I would not be here. For the rest of that drive, I never got it over 30 mph.

“A car is bigger than a moose.” Wahl, pilgrim, tek ‘t fr’m t’is ole hivernant. Tain’t so, cept’n mebbe fer a yunggin.

Bigger than a couch or a refrigerator. I walk our daughter’s cockapoo. He goes nuts over motorcycles. I often ask him the question Puck asked.

“A moose on wheels.”

Love that description! Very accurate…and some of them are even bigger than that!

WUMP Lupin, WUMP!

I love that neither Puck nor Goldie tell Lupin anything like “That’s silly. You’ll never catch a car!” Instead they’re entirely serious when they interview him for this feline interest piece.

Gotta love the window panels.

Georgia posted on facebook, "Yes, he really does this. Especially in our old apartments, looking over streets. "

I once knew a couple of Siamese who would chase the mailman. He wouldn’t deliver the mail unless they were closed inside.

“Give ’em the old dazzle-dazzle” Does Lupin like any other songs from “Chicago?”

“like a moose on wheels,” lol. Also, “merp merp” reminds me of Roadrunner.

Note that the larger WUMPs in panel 4 are from his hopping, and the smaller wumps are from his pawing at the window.

Small horse, indeed.

I’ve had two dogs that loved to chase cars. Both managed to catch one. Rascal lost a good part of her left hind leg (she is the one I reference when I am talking about my “three legged dog”) and Jellybean got caught in the wheel-well of a tractor-trailer that had no business driving through the neighborhood (JB had gotten out of the house while I was out for the day. Chow chows are too smart for their own good!).

not like a moose. unlike cars, if you hit a moose with your car, your car will be more damaged than the moose