Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for May 20, 2022

Search your heart, Puck. You know what you are. It is your destiny!

(Actually, you can be both!)

You are a magnificent panther, Pucky. Not so much deadly, but definitely magnificent.

Puck deadly? Never. Maybe killer adorable.

You’re a cute little house panther, that’s what you are Pucky.

Come on, Pucky. Make friends with her. You know you want to.

No more tuna juice for you, little dude.

But I’m the prince of darkness!

Please oh please tell me there is video somewhere of sweet little Pucky Pie getting accidentally swatted by a fuzzy sibling. I can just imagine the look of nigh-parental resigned indulgence on his face.

With boundless imagination, Puck!

So Goldie is a member of the SWAT team…

Stay behind that sofa, Goldie. The cactus may not have reacted to your assault yet, but it will.

Am I the only one who heard Laurence Olivier’s voice - “Is it safe?” - from that scene in Marathon Man?

It’s such an easy mistake to make.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Lupinium: I’m really sorry about this.

Avenger: It’s alright. I understand. It’s for the kittens.

Lupinium: But I hate to make you miss your chance at the Triple Crown.

Emma-Peelia: Maybe you won’t have to. There’s still a bit of time left.

The Day of the Race

Serfig-Aro: Ladies and gentlecats! And all sentient creatures! Welcome to the annual Salisbury Stakes. As we get ready for the race I’d like to announce there’s been a last minute jockey change!

At the Starting Gate

Avenger: Hang on for a wild ride.

Jockey: That’s what I do best!

Avenger: We got this!

Jockey: Toe-Tally!

Is it safe for scratching posts yet?

The Cactus ain’t goin’ nowhere. Goldie got it, next Pucky will pounce. Soon Lupin will climb and Elvis will show a graph. The Cactus will get named and all’s well that ends well.

Leave it to Pucky to feel sympathy for a cactus……this cat melts my heart!!!

Oh yes, Bagheera was constantly mistaken for a ferocious panther, when in reality he was just a cute fuzzy boy! ❤

The mighty House Panther, stalks the jungle of the indoors, sleeping on the artificial skin of store bought fuzzy animals. Hunts wild sandwiches, and demands chin scritches, from their (mostly unworthy) people persons.

OMC

Try again to be sure, Goldie!

The deadly panther sits high in a Malabar Kino (Pterocarpus marsupium) tree in the tropical rainforest jungle. The apex predator of his domain, lithe and rippling muscles at the ready.

“What will be my prey today?” wonders the deadly panther.

Nearby, another apex predator stands, the leader of his pride. He stoically sets an example for his pride, not allowing purchase, from his steady gaze, and rock steady resolve. He looks at this green intruder, but will not engage. So long as the intruder does not infiltrate his pride, he will hold his line.

To the left of this king of the pride is a small white creature. Both the mighty panther, and the King of Pride House, will not engage with him, for they know that he is a true god. A god of chaos, and mayhem, but a god none the less. He can lay waste to the pride lands in minutes if he chooses, or disturb the mighty Panther’s peaceful slumber if he chooses.

Yet none of these could act…it took a lone golden child, a cat of the streets to test the green stranger. She strode quickly over, and swiped at him with her open paw, a shrill =SQUEEEEEEEEEE!!!= reverberating through the jungle at her toebeans

With apologies to Rudyard Kipling.

Oh, we did not copy or parody him, just sorry._

Awww, Puck, of COURSE you’re a Mighty House Panther!!! Now who wants a chin scritch, ear rub & snuggles??? Our house panther brothers, Camo & Piemurr, were night & day in personalities, but, equally adorkable & loving. Our mini-house-panther, Josephine Louisa, was more standoffish, but such a sweet face you never saw before!!! Black cats can beat out Tabbies for affectionate behaviour, at the same time they can freeze you solid with a single glare.

Puck may not be a panther, but on occasion he is a babushka of rage. Too bad Goldie didn’t share her escape plan, the Big Pink Couch does seem like the safest place to shelter in the event of a cactus attack.

Please allow me to introduce myself

I’m a plant of stealth and sweet face

I’ve been around for one long, long week

Shook poor Pucky’s soul and faith

And I caused the skeptic Elvis

His moments of doubt and pain

Swat and run leaves Goldie

Now pondering her fate

Pleased to meet you

Hope you guess my name

But what’s puzzling you

Is the nature of my game

Woo, who

Oh yeah, get on down

Oh yeah

Aah yeah

- Mick Jagger / Keith Richards – Sympathy For The Devil

Bruce Cockburn: Wondering Where the Lions Are

Cactus, uh huh, seems okay

We’ll use it for another day

And I’m thinking about eternity

Hope and joy has a hold on me

…….

You may think you see a ferocious panther at the door

But I’m not as frightening as you thought before

Now I’m thinking about eternity

Hope and joy has a hold on me

…….

At the windows sun beams come through

You be for me and I’ll be for you

Together in eternity

Hope and joy has a hold on me

…….

Our new friend the cactus seems so neat

Comes from the desert where the river used to be

I got my mind on eternity

Hope and joy has a hold on me

…….

And I’m wondering where the panthers are

And I’m wondering where the panthers are

Pucky is the most adorable panther around.

Next they will be fighting over who gets to sit on the perch.

OT: Not bad news – for a change.

Puck, you are so sweet!

Pucky dont underestimate yourself. I look forward to the peer reviwed paper on this investigation. Cat peers that is

Only in your own mind, Pucky.

Remember: If called by a panther, don’t anther.

For those who are going through toe bean withdrawal Georgia posted a painting of Baba and Bea on Facebook with lots of toe beans. It is an old one for 2019, I think probably when Lupin Leaps In came out. She also said in the post that it is possible that there will be more library talks in the area because of how fast the first one filled up.

I am thinking “Robber Mice High Rise”

…wait, a li’l house cat? I thought he was a Big Pink House cat?…

We always called our tuxedo girl our Fierce Black Jaguar

Mr Kitty’s official name was Pan, short for panther and Pan, the nature god of mischief. As an indoor/outdoor cat, he and his obsessive hunting made him far closer to a panther than sweet indoor Puck would ever be. That kitty makes friends with mice! Mr Kitty would react in horror at that bit of nonsense.

Cats really are cautious about newly introduced objects. I brought home a life-size, plush cat that I kept in my office for years. During house-cleaning, I sat it on my cat’s elevated bed. She didn’t see it until she jumped up and immediately went flying backwards across the room. I never could convince her it was harmless.

♪"Brave Miss Goldie ran away,

Bravely ran away, away.

When the cactus reared its ugly head, she bravely turned her tail and fled.

Yes, brave Miss Goldie turned about

And gallantly, she chickened out.

Bravely taking to her feet,

She beat a very brave retreat,

Bravest of the brave, Miss Goldie."♫

Thanks for the clarification, Puck. I’m so relieved!

Puck is truly a lovable panther.

Pucky in that last panel is so incredibly cute! What artistic genius! And notice, not a toebean in sight!

Is that a single tooth or a smile on the cactus?

I have one of those, Sebastian (Vlad’s brother who left last year) and he’ll be 15 on the 1st of August!

Notice she’s hiding behind the safety of the pink couch when she says it’s safe, Puck. It’s not safe. It’s utter torture. That think is just waiting for someone often mistaken for a miniature panther so it can let loose it’s full fury on them.

I like to flatter cats. It’s a subset of one of my hobbies, lying to cats. “You’re so stealthy and fierce.”

OT: Mews from TinyKittens

OT

You, Pucky, are the sweetest of house panthers. <3