Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 05, 2023

I love the little ones signs! BREAK STUFF! Lupin is a true treasure. and now he’s pretty in pink!

All of the cats are great here: Lupin being Lupin, his new young friends supporting him, kindly Puck sticking up for him, ans Elvis and Goldie (no fans of his here) putting the worst spin on his escapades that they can

CSI: SLU — Crime Sauce Investigation: Special Lupin Unit!

Puck’s angry eyebrows! OMC!

Pink Lupin – no more hiding in the bathrom sink for a couple of weeks.

Sunday Funday

U r rite

Caught red pawed eh.

Move over, Pink Panther!

It could happen to anyone…as long as it’s Lupin. Love his “mug shot”.

Do the crime, pay the time.

For his own protection, my foot.

And the differing slants on the story show why you can’t trust the media.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Elvis-Anum: But there’s no pyramid between here an Egypt.

Violet-Ifa: Actually, there is one. We just don’t think of it as a pyramid.

Beatrixia: And if its the one I think it is, we can’t go wrong if we pay a visit.

Elvis: Alright. I just don’t think I’m up for exploring right now.

Bea: No worries.

Sometime Later, at the Pyramid Door

Door Cat: Welcome visitors! You’re just in time for a midday snack!

Beatrixia: Thank you. Is the main chef in?

Door Cat: He sure is. Have seat in the main dining room and I’ll get him.

Enter Chef

Bea: Floofnet! Great to see you!

Floof: Likewise! What brings you here?

Bea: You know Elvis. I would like to introduce his great grandparents, Maew and Than.

Floof: Pleased to meet you! My cake sculptress has told me all about you!

Maew: Then Jamila is here?

Floof: Yes, she is. When I bought the pyramid to create the Floor Can Be a Ceiling Culinary School, she did all the decorating. Later she stayed on to create exquisite sculptures in cake, and other delectable desserts.

Maew: Wonderful! Can I go see her?

Floof: No need. Here she comes with her latest creation.

Jamila: Maew! I’ve missed you!

Maew: Oh, it’s so great to see you again.

Jamila: I learned recently that your great grandson was in Egypt. I took a chance that he knew how to contact you!

Maew: And I’m only half a day away. Maybe I can visit from time to time.

Jamila: I’d love that!

David Bowie: Let’s Dance

Let’s roll!

Roll in the red sauce and run away the blues!

Let’s roll!

And then have a nice hot bath before I run all through the house!

Let’s play!

White fur looks so lovely with a pinkish tone!

…….

I want to run, I’d love to run with you!

And then we can hide away!

And Iggy and Ora, I’d like to run with you!

Lamps and flower pots will fall!

They’ll be gone in a day!

…….

Let’s run!

Let’s run!

No fear at what may fall!

Let’s run!

No fear tonight at all!

Just look into my eyes!

Let’s run!

Throughout the house, this dangerous house!

…….

Let’s roll!

Roll in the red sauce and run away the blues!

Let’s roll!

And then have a nice hot bath before I run all through the house!

Let’s play!

White fur looks so lovely with a pinkish tone!

Local lunatic splits opinion!

Good old Lupin!

I’d say cats like Lupin are a good reason to choose plastic jars and cups

Nobody has mentioned them yet, so… Here goes— IAOZRTB! ?

Life is never dull when one is surrounded by cats!

OMC! LOL!

OZ and Lupin are each other’s spirit animal.

I love how Elvis’ tail is twitching in annoyance.

He’s now as pink, as his toe beans!

And since we’re talking about crime, Goldie, I think that stealing tape recorders counts as crime.

Lupin is such a patriotic cat. He has been blue with ink, red with tomato sauce, and white by nature! (Also eco-friendly green with paint.)

Back of Cat Head!

Awww, there’s just something about a nekkid Lupin.

There are contradictory accounts of whether tomato products are dangerous to cats, without considering the glass jar. The plant is meant to be poisonous and it mostly is, including the fruit when unripe or when it’s growing on a potato stalk. But cats don’t know this, so keep them out of your grow room. Ripe fruit can increase stomach acid – for you too apparently – but one web page says that cheap tinned cat food is bulked out with it, a reason to pay more. The same page says that retailed tomato sauce contains “tons of chemicals”, which sounds hysterical, and evidence is absent.And whatever’s spilled on a cat, the cat is liable to lick off.

… If he could kick a jar to the floor

And roll sauce all over his face

Would it satisfy ya, would he slide on by ya

Would you think the boy is strange?

Ain’t he strange? ❤️

… If he could hug ya, then would he bug ya

With his pinkness so divine?

Would it be enough for his fleeting art

If his fur looks tie-dyed?

Elvis sigh-i-ied

… I said I know mayhem’s Lupin’s goal ’cause he likes it

I know he and Ig are bros and they like it, like it, yes, they do

Oh, well, I like it, I like it, I like it

I said can’t you see that this cute boy is one and only?

… And do ya think that it’s the only crime around?

I bet you think that he should never knock things down, ah, ooh yeah

… I said I know he’s Ora’s big hero and I like it

I said Ora knows breakin’ stuff’s the way to go ’cause she likes it

I know it’s only knock ‘n’ roll but I like it, yeah

I know he’s a naughty li’l soul but I love him, love him, yes, I do

- Keith Richards / Mick Jagger – It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll (but I Like It)

Katie pushes things off the kitchen island, because she can. The problem is when it is glass as she did recently. We had a visitor that didn’t know not to leave a glass on the island counter and we had chards to pick up in the millions, or so it seemed.

Our white and gray cat rolled in pink sidewalk chalk when he was a kitten, ended up with pink highlights that lasted a couple of weeks. It was a good look on him.

Knowing Georgia’s mastery of continuity, I am certain Lupin will still be pink on Monday. They certainly are getting balanced coverage, although it seems to be leaning pro-Lupin. I hope we get at least a nod to how this new coloration affects Lupin’s invisibility.

This story has a hint of reality. I wonder if Lupin managed to cover himself in tomato sauce. However, the end result, a pink Lupin for Valentine’s day is purr-fect.

I love his supporters “No great loss, its only sause”

Still friction between Goldie and Lupin.

But now Lupin won’t blend in/disappear on a white background!

Mmmm…tomato sauce…

The woman is giving Lupin a loving smile in the last panel. I gather she has more patience than I do. :)

Panel 5 is like something out of a horror movie.

I just read a NYT article on optimism vs. pessimism, and Lupin certainly sums up optimism in the last panel, amirite?

I expect this to be continued until Valentine’s day!

“Based on a true story” … ?

I hope the Woman has plenty of sauce in the cabinet. Spaghetti scented Lupin will give the humans cravings. Pink Lupin look like one of the mice.

Georgia, today’s strip is just so perfect all round. I love it.

I love the Woman’s smile! What a loving and patient person.

For Cat’s sake, Lupin, put a towel on! There are kittens nearby!

Lupin is now in the pink of health …

Que the “Pink Panther” theme!

Other cats will envy him. They’ll think he had a tomato juice bath after a skunk encounter.

Lupin is hitting the sauce again!

I love the difference between Iggy’s signs and Ora Zella’s signs!

I am a nanny and when 4 was 2 he lived up to the ‘Terrible Two’ reputation. One of the many things he spilled/broke was a large jar of spaghetti sauce. The next morning Mom handed him off to me with a shake of her head as she raced out of the door. Apparently it is hard to clean spaghetti sauce off of nearly every surface in the kitchen when it was intended to feed three hungry kids, five and under?! Who knew?

(Alright, everybody make sure Lupin is distracted as I tell this next story)

A few weeks later Mom and the older two were out when 2 spilled the fish tank all over the playroom. Thankfully ‘Flash the Cool’ was rescued quickly and lived many years only dying less than two weeks ago. He lived a good long life for a Betta. But the same was almost not so for 2 as he managed to soak the carpet, the floor underneath, the shelving unit that is attached to the wall, as well as the wall upon which it was attached too.

The next morning Mom handed him off with a giggle as Dad glared over his breakfast. 2 was of course as oblivious as he was unrepentant as to the pain and suffering he had caused for either parental units. Though in time he felt bad for what he had done to Flash the Cool and was always exceedingly gentle with him, and his tank, in the future. He was actually the one who found Flash the Cool had crossed over the rainbow bridge a few weeks ago when he went to feed him his breakfast. :D

Goldie and Elvis being very accusatory while Puck is defensive of Lupin while Lupin himself seem very blasé is really neat. Aw, Lupin has little supporters. Ora Zella’s “Break stuff” sign is hilarious. Pink Lupin! So much good stuff today. I love it

Now he’s the pink of purrfection

Poor Lupin. Fooled into thinking Valentine’s Day is a good thing.

YES PINK BOY. I also hope this keeps in the daily strips (if not it’s fine I just like pink lupin. ) And Puck I get your the only adult cat in this house who dosen’t hate lupin, but only the first part could happen to anyone. Covering himself and everything in sauce is very lupin.

Crazy furball news, known breaking cat news !

Our little bit is certainly a budding Cat of Adventure!

The other day I was in the living room when I started hearing glasses clinking together. I don’t leave glasses out, so I went into the kitchen to see what was going on…

…And discovered the little bit had figured out how to open the (latchless) overhead cabinet doors above the kitchen counter and was inside the cabinet, shoving the glasses around! One glass did fall, but it landed in the empty drain rank and didn’t break. I had a time hauling the little bit back out of the cabinet though!

The cabinet doors are currently barred shut with backscratchers. I went to a handware store today and bought a bunch of latches that (I hope) cats can’t figure out how to open. You can guess what I’ll be doing with my spare time the next few days.

OMC . . . ::dies laughing:: Love the littles’ signs, especially Ora Zella’s “Break Stuff!”

Every panel is priceless!