Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for October 08, 2021

Oh dear. I don’t suppose there’s another red button in here? One that only opens the “un-Z’d” cages?

Alice? Anything you can think of to help?

Zombie…run, don’t walk, to the nearest exit!

Zucchini? Zebra? Zamboni? Zimbabwe? Zambezi? Hmm… Zoo? Zoom? Zombie?

The Z is for DOOMED.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4k5XftdTMs

I can see no way this carefully constructed experiment could possibly go wrong.

Yaaaaassss I knew it! Gimme that BCN Spooky Halloween Arc! I am HERE for it!

Zombunny?

Zulu? Them’s fighting Mice.

Not the zombie rabbit apocalypse!

Grinch bunnies?!

YIKES!

Happy X3 is not going to like this turn of events!

For those who may not go back and read the previous day’s comments and might have missed it, Robert’s (rs0204) cat Giblet, of the “Giblet and Belle” stories unexpectedly crossed the Rainbow Bridge yesterday. His comment is the featured comment if you want to express your condolences or support.

I think it’s okay, if difficult, to “like” a such a comment. I think everyone knows that doing so is an expression of support and not of enjoyment or approval of the news in it.

I’m not big on zombies, but I do like rabbits. I’m very conflicted right now.

This is what I thought of: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001457939700313X

You still have a bit of time. Make good use of it.

Undead bunnies? So this is what Lio has been reading about.

@rs0204

I missed your comment yesterday. I offer my sympathies. You will meet Giblet in another life.

The rabbits remind me of the Grinch out of Dr Zeuss being all green with the red eyes. That being said, I feel bad for the poor bunnies, being subjected to unethical treatment that make them look like zombies or from a Zeuss nightmare. I hope the mice somehow free them and make everything better for all.

We’ve had buns! Three right now, Sir Gregor who is a Flemish Giant, Penny who is…I don’t know but was rescued from a barn fire and was badly burned (she was a breeder bun) weighs about a pound and defends 12 pound Sir Gregor and anyone who comes near with her life, and a rescue who is still settling in and who Penny constantly perceives as a threat right now. This whole animal testing thing just hurts my heart because it’s so stupid! They’re not like us and it’s so wrong.

The end is near for our heroes?

Z is for zapatas. They make the mice wear shoes.

Oh no! Glow in the dark, BUNNIES! Our heroes are surly, DOOMED, I tells ya! DOOMED!!

It’s a good time for a jailbreak.

I was wondering how this was a Halloween story…

Now what can Alice be off to?

Thin Lizzy: Jailbreak

Tonight I looked in the window

At Grimtech in this town

My wild mouse friends don’t like it

So were getting up and going down

…….

Gonna break out my two new friends

If you see us coming I think it’s best

To move away and run like the wind I say

It’s gonna be a real mess!

…….

Tonight there’s gonna be a jailbreak

And you all know where!

Tonight there’s gonna be a jailbreak

It’s best you not be there!

…….

Tonight there’s gonna trouble

If you work at this place

Tonight there’s gonna be a jailbreak

Protect your cheese and get outta my face!

You know it’s safer

Breakout!

OT: For the Orb

The red eyes are disconcerting.

I’m sure Alice has a plan. We DO know they escaped somehow…

Does anyone else think the zombie bunnies are kinda cute? Only Georgia Dunn could pull that off.

BUNNIES!

No, no, no, whatever you do don’t press the red button!

Uh-oh, Its turning into an prequel to 28 days later…

Zippy? Zingy? Zisgusting?

huh why zombi- OHHHHH its halloween.

OT: Albert A. Cat

Well, no one told us about them, how zombie-fied

Well, no one told us about them, how unjustified

Is it too late to save the bunnies?

How would we know, why should we dare?

Please don’t bother tryin’ to find kindness

It’s not there

Well, let me tell you ’bout the way they looked

The way they’d act and the colour of their fur

Grim Tech so mean and cruel

Their eyes were red and bright

With empty stares

Well, no one told mice about them, what can they do?

Well, no one told mice about them, though they all knew

It’s too late to fret and worry

How would it go, how would you fare?

Please don’t bother tryin’ to find out

Run from there!

- Rod Argent – She’s Not There – The Zombies

Does anyone else think this would be a good time to pull out the Holy Hand Grenade and toss it in the direction of those evil lab techs? Save our Violet and Natasha and bunnies!

Oh, so this is how Night of the Lepus got started….

Anyone else now have a certain earworm by the Cranberries running “in your head?”

Did you all see that Captain Kirk himself, Bill Shatner, is going into space soon?

I’m sure it’s supposed to be “zombie”, although it’s difficult to imagine the motive for highly expensive animal experiments to that purpose. I think we are dealing with what is called an “unreliable narrator”, where facts may be changed to fit the purposes of the narrative. Of course, it could just be that “zombie” is easier to spell than “myxomatosis”. :)

You wouldn’t think humans would be stupid enough to make zombies, but stupid wins every time.

Hey Orb – I got an email with great news about Yen! Hopefully this URL works:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/fip-treatments-for-yen?viewupdates=1&rcid=r01-163370124199-55126f9eb77e4863&utm_medium=email&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_email%2B1137-update-supporters-v5b

Why can’t scientists remember and follow the first rule of science? It’s so simple…. “Just because you CAN, does not mean you SHOULD!”

WHAT?! … Bunnies Zombified !! … >:(

Ohhhh, NO !! … Not on MY watch!! …

EEK!

Let’s hope their not taking the pills they were given keeps them safe. Maybe the pills were to condition them for the zombie transition. Of course, I keep asking myself why do the scientists WANT to create zombies in the first place?

The only time I ever had a red eyed green bunny was when the New Zealand bunnies were given a pile of fresh grass clippings. They had great fun burrowing in it.

OT – Bennett, day 13, or day 1 of new treatment plan

Georgia just posted this comment about this comic on facebook, “We go now live to BREAKING CAT NEWS!I have been waiting for today, for the reveal of what kind of story this is going to be…I know many readers were expecting something more like “The Secret of NIHM”. I love that story too!…But I am a bigger John Carpenter fan. A fun action sci-fi horror story. I hope you will enjoy it!”

O.T. prayer request for my friend Wayne who was just diagnosed with stage 4 penis cancer. Waiting for test results to see if it has spread. He will need surgery to remove the cancer and reconstruction. Not sure if both will be done at the same time. Thank you, dear Orb.

I mean I know we bunny people have been asking for bunnies in the strip but this was unexpected! Love it! (Also buns are savage little fluffy beasties and are opportunistic carnivores IRL so this is perfect.)

Are they going to be Zeta mice? Thought you needed radioactive steam for that. At least according to Professor Steamhein.

I know it will work out for our girls in the end, but my heart breaks looking at even the fictional Grimtech Labs – I hope they spring everyone.

You can be a real life mouse’s (and bunny’s!) hero by shopping cruelty free!

Zambunnies!

This is orders of magnitude worse than Masserman’s avoidance conditioning experiments with cats.

Oooo, this IS the 2021 Halloween story. Think their gonna need some plants.

Ooh! Love this special! Sooo awesomely creepy!

I’m a Longtime fan

I saw lab tech with a clipboard in his hand

Walking past cages full of mice

He was looking for a couple of good test mice

For to take them to the Z-trials lab

Ah-hoo…

Z-rabbits of Grimtech

Ah-hoo…

Ah-hoo…

Z-rabbits of Grimtech

Ah-hoo…

You hear them howling around that trial door

You better not go on in

Little cute bunny got mutilated late last night

Z-rabbits of Grimtech again

Ah-hoo…

Z-rabbits of Grimtech

Ah-hoo…

Ah-hoo…

Z-rabbits of Grimtech

Ah-hoo…

Huh

Their the green furred gents who hopped amok in Town

Lately they’ve been overheard in the Big Pink House

Mice better stay away from them

They’ll rip their lungs out Burt

Huh I’d hate to meet their maker

Ah-hoo…

Z-rabbits of Grimtech

Ah-hoo…

Ah-hoo…

Z-rabbits of Grimtech

Ah-hoo…

Well I saw a lab tech talkin’ with a doc

Talkin’ of takin ’ some mice to Z lab

I saw a lab tech walkin’ with a cage

Uh

He was takin’ mice to Z lab

I saw creepy Z-rabbits in the Z-trials lab

Their fur was greener

Ah-hoo…

Z-rabbits of Grimtech

Poor test mice

Ah-hoo…

Z-rabbits of Grimtech

In Panel 2, I can imagine both Violet and Natasha saying

“Wait, WHAT?”

Good news: Update has finally started using the litter box. The passage from front to back is working. She’s going to the (vet) on Monday and will hopefully get a clean bill of health and get introduced to Reboot and Database.

Well, that is downright scary.