Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for December 01, 2022

It’s like a magnet! Cat magnet!

Oh, yes, Dandelion Elvis is the epitome of calm — POOF!

It’s December 1. Time to flip that calendar page. This month’s page is so beautiful, and yet so bittersweet—Lupin as the Ghost of Christmas Presents. I remember when I previewed the calendar pages hoping that Lupin would still be with us when it would be time to turn to this page.

I think Goldie made her own poster. I love the scribbled coloring on the drawings of the two young cats.

Elvis is always calm. In his mind.

Love the explaination chart and the artwork. Needs a bit more refining, but gets the point across.

So calm, and so dignified!

That’s what I said!

@Catmom

Sorry, I didn’t see your message about Cindy until today. Everyone else has said the nearly all the things I want to say, so I will just add that I’m sure you and Cindy will meet again in another life. (Perhaps you will be her cat, or she will be your helpful Geography teacher.) And my usual reminder that, when the time is right (no rush), the best tribute you can pay to her is to give a good home to another cat.

In Honor of the Late, Great Christine McVie: Everywhere

Iggy: Do you see me running?

All around the room

Lupin and I knocking down lamps

Send them to their doom!

I’ll meow a little louder, I’ll shout out loud,

Lupin has shown me that it’s fun to run around!

Oh-oh

I wanna run around everywhere

Oh-oh

I wanna run around everywhere!

…….

Ora: I live in chaos, that’s what I do,

But I love how calm I feel when I’m with you,

Sometimes I get restless on a Human’s lap,

But when I’m with you it’s so much fun to nap!

Oh-oh

I wanna nap with you any time

Oh-oh

I wanna nap with you any time!

Here’s a link to see the calander. Look to the left and click on each small window. It’s the Tarot Deck that Georgia posted on Twitter, and I think Facebook.

https://www.zazzle.com/bcn_2023_tarot_calendar-158021237561598144

Actually not sure now if this is the one SueEllen is talking about.

They are missing so much when they don’t feel Elvis’ love and protection.

Lupin in not a good mentor for sweet Iggy.

It makes perfect sense.

Opposites attrack, likes repel.

OT: Sick

While I was checking something out on yesterday’s BCN I saw that Georgia posted very late in the day. Of course it is now the featured comment. Check it out, it is cute.

“Put that paw down, Elvis, or I’ll swat you with this pointer.”

No Elvis, you are dignified. Dignified and calm are not always, but in this case are probably mutually exclusive.

Now, thanks to this comic. PK’s new nickname is “Peace Pickle” She clings to me like a little “Cat monkey” every time I sit in my office chair. It’s cute, except for all the scratches on my chest.

I’m with you, Elvis! Inquiring minds want to know; good thing Detective Goldie with her logic and use of Puck-like charts is there to explain.

The next chart I want to see will outline the various levels of “calm” for Elvis!

Huh while I knew Ora probably needed a calming influence I never thought Iggy needed the opposite. Also Elvis, your my faviorite, sure.. but you already got to BE a child’s faviorite with Bea (even with her teasing). Let your brothers have a turn being primary parent to a children.

By George, I think she’s got it. Nicely put, Goldie. You’re right; it does make sense

Good chart, Goldie, that explains it very well! I am sure Puck will praise her when he can. It is a bit ambiguous, but to me Goldie’s expression in panel 4 says “Sure you are, pal. Sure.”

a chart!

No Elvis, being order obsessed is not the same as being calm

Does Elvis need a kitten of his own?

Opposites attract, which makes for a Cat-a-tonic relationship.

Late yesterday, Georgia posted: ““Hold me like a baby and feed me a hamburger” is a real thing the Girl once said to me as a toddler, during a dramatic sigh after running around. It’s become a favorite saying in the family and needed a place in the comic at last, lol!” Thanks Lovebrittv for mentioning this so I could go back and find it.

Is there anything a chart can’t explain? Great report, Goldie!

Oh Yes, Elvis you are calm until you go poof!

Would you believes it all about KAOS and CONTROL?

Goldie, that’s a really nice chart. Elvis, you may be dignified, but you poof magnificently!

That does make perfect sense, love the chart, and yes, Elvis, you’re very calm (slight eye roll).

For those with Christmas trees and cats, check out todays’s Off the Mark: https://www.gocomics.com/offthemark/2022/12/01?ct=v&cti=864764

Is that a Goldie chart? It’s a little rough, but I see a lot of potential!

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Iggy Shipwright: Do we have everything for the fishing run?

Freshwater Cat: Yep. Here are the nets, the bait, and the fishing creels.

Saltwater Cat: And we’ve got snacks for real.

Iggy: I love to go fishing. It’s even more fun than thwumping!

Fresh: Well, make sure you don’t thwump while we’re fishing. You might scare the fish.

Sometime Later, In the Royal Kitchen

Thomios: It looks like Fresh and Salty had a successful fishing run. Ora, I’d like you to get together the ingredients for fish stew.

Ora Z: On it! Hmmm…It looks like we’re out of a few things. Oh, wait, Agnes-Ata, is that you?

Agnes: Yep. And don’t worry about the ingredients. They’ll be here soon.

Ora: Really? How?

Agnes: We’ll never tell!

Elvis, you were also distancing yourself from them, so you didn’t exactly give them the chance to interact with you before crossing paths with Lupin and Puck, so…kinda brought that on yourself, there.

Thanks for the explanation, Goldie. It’s all so clear now.

OT: Lou’s morning adventure

Nobody can tell ya

There’s only one act worth bringing

They may try and sell ya

’Cause it hangs them up

To see someone like you

But you gotta make your own kind of mischief

Do your own special wrong

Make your own kind of mischief

Even when nobody else tags along

- Barry Mann / Cynthia Weil- Make Your Own Kind of Music – Mama Cass Elliot

Goldie is such a great addition. She is so insightful!

An excellent catsplanation.

O.T. to All

Speedy recovery! Thanks for the flashback to my youth, when every tummy trouble was cured with Vernor’s Ginger Ale.

Is Pucky going to be bothered that a chart was needed and he wasn’t notified?

I’ll probably not live long enough to have a pair of kittens to name Yin and Yang. Come to think of it, that symbol could have been inspired by two cats chasing each other.

no, Elvis, you are not.

OMC, a Goldie chart. What a lucky day.

Excellent analysis!

And lovely chart too!

It’s a cliche for a reason. Opposites attract.

Hmm. Could we try that again with two Venn diagrams and a pie chart? :)

And yet the werewolf is drawn to Puck. Does that tell you anything, Elvis? It certainly tells Goldie something.

And look at that Goldie chart. As nice as a Pucky chart.

OT: Lupin & Iggy & Lamps – Message from Georgia: Lupin loved lamps and light. He would seek out the warm glow of lamps wherever we lived, however he could. His favorite spot to sleep or rest tended to be right under lamps. As you can see, he also often sat UNDER lampshades. We lost a few lamps to Lupin pushing them off tables. He had a heck of a trick of bringing down a lamp so only the lightbulb smashed. Then the Man would have to carefully remove the metal threading from the unplugged lamp. A few times this also broke the neck of the lamps, which is how our real life owl lamps became bookends lol. He also had a habit of sometimes gently tilting my beside lamp across me while I was sleeping, so I’d wake up with a lamp on my shoulder. (You can’t make this stuff up And it doesn’t work in the comic because it’s SO out there It’s thoroughly Lupin, lol.) Iggy trotted in Lupin’s shadow all over the house. As he’s grown we’ve noticed he took on Lupin’s love of lamps and basking in their light. He curls up in many of the same spots Lupin loved

Elvis feels left out….

OT: To FreyjaRN

Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations! The union of the unalike creates meaning and beauty.

Foxy is snurgling next to me and purring herself to sleep. Darnit, I have to get up to check on the turkey loaf. No, she can’t have any, it’s full of onions.

OT: To Denny

About the emergency contacts to check on us. What is Zipcon and is it safe and reliable?

Thank you to all for your purrs and healing vibes for the senior resident. They are still messing about with her blood pressure medication, she seems better on that front. She was hospitalized twice in November for it and had the stomach bug that’s going around, also twice. I canceled my doctor appointments to drive her to the urgent care she trusts (30-35 miles from here). If she gets it again she’ll have to call her doctor for a refill on the anti-nausea pills that worked for her, drink ginger tea and take it easy here. I am not rescheduling any more of my own health needs.

On Georgia’s Facebook page, fan Lynn Belgea wrote about this strip:“I love Elvis’s tiny calm fist!”

Ha-ha! So Elvis thinks he is calm? Bwa-ha-ha-ha!!!