Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 20, 2022

This is why I feed my cats before bedtime. Then they don’t feel compelled to wake me up for breakfast.

I love how laid-back Goldie is being. What a good girl with good priorities.

Was Elvis dressed at 3 AM?

It’s OK to wake the people. They are servants after all. But let poor Pucky have his beauty sleep!

Don’t irritate good natured Pucky….he will let you have it if he needs to! Got that, Elvis!?

BOOP FIGHT!

I love how Puck just pops up like he came out of thin air!

Sunday Funday

(For real this time)

What no foods for poor starving cats? Let me have it, kitties. Use those paws, use those claws. Ransack their kitchens. Shred their curtains. Dig their sofas. Bite their legs! Teach em greedy hyoomans a lesson. Mwa ha ha ha!

Looks as though Lupin and Elvis agree on the starving cats issue. I suspect the Sunday lie-in is doomed.

Gent, New England is the North East corner of New South Wales. There was a movement to make it a state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_New_State_Movement

One of my nieces studied at the University of New England.

But there is very little snow there.

A pop-up Puck!

Elvis may or may not actually be hungry, but it’s time to feed the cats!

Do NOT mess with Elvis’ schedule!

CAT FIGHT…and why does it always have to be on the bed?

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Queen Catshepsut the Golden: It has come to my attention that everyone has been working very hard lately. Today I declare a day of rest.

Elvis-Anum: Sounds great. I just need to finish copying out this stack of scrolls and filing them in the archives. Should only take me a few hours.

The Queen: No, Elvis. When I say rest, I mean rest.

Lupinium: How about my working on my latest routine? That’s not work, that’s fun!

The Queen: As long as you are having fun, you can continue.

Beatrixia: Then I can do my climbing exercises?

The Queen: As long as it’s fun.

Puckmosis: And what about the Royal Kitchen? What will we eat?

The Queen: Don’t worry. Thomios has prepared plenty of food in advance. Now everyone just enjoy yourselves and do your favorite things.

All: ZZZzzzzzzz…..

Loaner Cat never gets on the bed so this is never a problem in our house. I wish she would but she’ll have none of it. :/

And it’s a rare sighting of Pucky Claws! We see Elvis’s claws all the time but it’s not that often we see Puck’s. Now that is worth a headline

Remember cats, a boop equals a scoop and then nobody gets to snuggle in and enjoy the cozy any longer on the bed.

We have an automatic cat feeder so we don’t have to worry about it. Yoshi seems to know when it is time to feed because he will go and wait for it.

Tell Puck about the empty food bowls, Elvis. That will win him to your side. Also shades of a very early BCN. “These maniacs are out of control.”

Rare sighting of happy-go-lucky Lupin frowning!

Where can I buy that pretty mint green and gray floral comforter (or duvet cover)?

Ah, the tragedy of empty food bowls.

Wake up, everybody, no more sleeping in bed

It’s almost 8:30, time to feed me instead

Our world has changed so very much from what it used to be

There’s no excuse to relax cozily, whoa, oh

My world won’t get no better

If I just let you sleep

My world won’t get no better

You gotta get up, yeah, you gotta feed me

Wake up, yeah

Yeah, yeah

- Victor Carstarphen, Gene Mc Fadden – Wake Up Everybody – Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes

In our house the wake-up-and-feed-me routine goes something like this (despite there being kibble out and available and mostly eaten all night long): meow (two second pause) mrrp? (two second pause) MEOW (two second pause) mewww (pause) meeeew (pause) MEOW (pause) etc. etc. etc. half an hour before we intend to get up, no matter what amount of sunlight is coming in (actually that’s not true; in the summer it starts at 4:30 am). The different types of meows are meant to make us think there are five cats begging, pleading, calling with their last breaths for food rather than one noisy, adorable, little cat.

Right, Elvis. Being awake and conscious of all those starving cats does them a lot of good.

Sleep! Cats in Europe have insomnia!

Hello my my BCN pal sw. This might be a bit of a worrbly message byte thanks so much for all you kind messages. I’m ssill a a way go but I think I’m getting this and the dialysis is having an effect. Medicicaly I’m fit for discharge so hopefully I’ll be home soon.

My tortie loves to sleep on my side at a whole 4kg, crushing my ribs. :P

So much for a peaceful weekend.

Someone stole Sophie’s idea with gloves from 2/13. I couldn’t find a picture. https://www.npr.org/2022/02/20/1082012483/lost-mittens-become-an-art-installation-on-lost-love-in-baltimore

I’ve tried putting out extra food the night before, but the hungriest cat eats it all up in the first half hour and is still ready for dawn breakfast. The finicky cat won’t eat food that sits out more than a half hour. It’s a no sleep-in situation.

not sure why Puck is throwing down Boops instead of Bops ?

Supportive boops, purrs, and head bumps are requested for the next couple of days. It’s going to be a long start to the week for me.

I’m having a stress test in the morning, meaning no caffeine for me today followed by nothing to eat until late tomorrow morning, plus the treadmill is is going to be a major test for my new knee. That will be followed by a nerve ablation procedure in the afternoon (I’ve mentioned this before, this is the thing where they burn off nerve endings in my lower back).

Then the MIL arrives on Tuesday, while (at the risk of TMI) I’m preparing for a colonoscopy Wednesday morning.

Dave Barry once described colonoscopy prep thusly: “Have you ever seen a space shuttle launch? That’s what it’s like, with you as the shuttle.” So, twice as much of a PITA as usual for me that day, lol.

Elvis is too tightly wound for his own good. Poor humans and cats who just want to sleep in.

Lupin’s Angry Eyebrows say what he thinks about the the People’s selfish decision to sleep in.

At least it is not 3:00 AM

Since when is it left up to people to decide when they get up?

The weight of the average house cat increases five-fold when it enters the gravity well of a bed. Many humans have found themselves trapped when their fur-ball climbs on them while sleeping. The cats seem oblivious to this gravitational pull, however, they have been known to use the phenomenon it to their full advantage. *

You can find the full article in the journal General Relativity and Gravity. The Journal article:

Why does Mr. Whiskers weigh so much while laying on me in bed? Quasinormal modes of the event horizon of the mattress area in the quantization Loop of Quantum Gravity.

Mr. Whiskers will be in Stockholm in May to present his paper. Breakfast had better be on time.

I don’t let my cat sleep in my bedroom for that very reason and she sheds too much. She does sit outside my bedroom door crying, but I don’t hear her with my hearing impairment (one of the good things about having limited hearing).

I always wondered what was really going on when my cats pounced each other on the bed while I was sleeping in. lol

Twenty bucks on Pucky for the win! Pucky’s normal mellowness would seem to suggest he should be at a severe disadvantage. But when he gets angry, even Hulk and Godzilla run and hide.

I’m surprised there is no mention of Elvis’s toe beans.

Once again chaos ensues when Service to Cats breaks down.

Angy