So turns out Sophie’s misery continues, I was wrong. But it’s fair given she just moved and while Tommy at least GOT her to move, feelings of fear of change weren’t going to go away easily especially for a drama queen. On the bright side my shipping her and elvis has gone from mildly propable to “these two need each other” as both tend to overact even when the reason for their pain is valid. Just see “hold me I had a fright” a few weeks back.
My Gracie sings like that when she’s looking for me or Sara. Gracie likes to have her alone time under this or that. she often falls asleep for hours at a time doing that. when she wakes up, she’s lost EVERYONE! WHERE ARE YOU! i’m told she does that when i’m gone for a few hours too. I come home to find her curled up in the middle of my bed.
OT…So yesterday my crappy neighbors moved out after being evicted. The other neighbors on the opposite side had taken in the crappy neighbors cat because he was neglected. He got out today. Tonight as I was sitting in bed I heard what I thought was a distant howling, thinking it was a dog in the distance… Then I realized it was a cat yowling outside my bedroom window. His secondary entrance was the window past mine. I went outside with my flashlight and was able to retrieve this sad boy.. unable to understand what happened to his original family. I brought him back to his new family and helped get him inside but I could tell he’s really confused. I’m glad he’s better taken care of, but I feel really sorry for him.
The Queen: What is the meaning of this? How dare you menace my staff, not to mention my friends!
Head Elf: Your Majesty, I am the son of the late king of my kindred. It is no idle boast to state that I am regarded as the mightiest of my people. My very name means Spirit of Fire.
The Queen: I have heard of you. I believe in your language you are called Fe-Anaro, and you have devised works of exceeding beauty.
Fe-Anaro: That is true, Your Majesty. These jewels you see before you are the greatest of my life’s work. They were stolen by the Evil One, who also sent my father to cross what your people call the Rainbow Bridge.
The Queen: I grieve with you. But why do you fight with my friends?
Son #1 (Maed-Ros): We have sworn an oath with our father to stop at nothing to take back our jewels. But I never have been attacked by an angry sunflower before.
Son #2 (Mag-lor): Nor have I ever been mauled by a multicolored kitten or pounded by a polydactyl paw!
Beatrixia: You do know there are other ways to regain your jewels than fighting.
I feel Tommy’s pain. The one and only time we moved our ginger cat she hid in cabinet at the old house until she was put in the carrier and did a lot of robust yodeling at the new place.
Quick followup to yesterday’s post: The Girl should be fine. She apparently has a viral thing that’s going around. The orders are for rest, fluids, and Tylenol.
My Kojak yodels, too . . . at 2 in the morning! We think he is looking for his biological sister, who crossed the RB this past August. He and his half-sister do not really like each other, so he finds no comfort in her presence.
When we moved, naturally we left the cats till last, so we didn’t have to keep them in carriers very long. After we moved out all the furniture, we went back to find Dot, a year-and-a-half-old Calico, standing in the middle of the empty living room she had lived in her whole life, yowling like crazy, and absolutely freaked out like I’ve never seen a cat freaked out.
My cat Gerry’s idea of playing is to walk around the house, toy in mouth, yowling. He sounds like he’s in pain. When someone new hears him their eyes always get big and they ask if he’s ok.
When we moved from Overland Park KS to far NW Tucson village of Catalina in our ’84 Volvo 240 SW we had 3 cats & a Wheaton Terrier. Dog was in back seat, & cats in cat carriers behind back seats cargo space. Motel allowed us to have dog & cats in our room. Cats & dog glad the car trip was over & enjoyed exploring our new double wide mobile home. Our cats have never been allowed outside!
I don’t doubt that a cat can make a sound interpreted as yodeling, I just can’t imagine what it sounds like. I honestly hope she stays down there now, so she can come out when the moving is over and find it looks so much like her old comforting place.
Poor Dr. Scuttles. Imagine how he’ll feel when he hears that Irish lullabies and eldritch yodel-howling are reported, coming from the very location he so recently vacated. He just missed his chance for sighting a rare cryptid, the Swiss Banshee! Luckily, he has a patient, resigned philosophical temperament…
Actually, as The Descendent of Multiple Irish Kings, I do not wish to bust your proverbial bubble, but those WERE the Irish lullabies. Personally, I have no desire to experience the yodeling.
Our daddy-cat was named Thomas Magnum O’Malley; named after Phil Harris (The Aristocats) and Tom Selleck (Magnum!). He was definitely Irish as he loved the wee ones, chasing the mom-cat away when she cuffed one of her babies, and adopting the whole litter for himself. Needless to say we kept them all.
Bartholomew is quite the yodeler. For the past couple of mornings he has begun at around quarter to 5. I took him downstairs so Albert’s Man could sleep, expecting to be entertaining him with laser pointer and cat dancer for a couple of hours. But he curled up next to me on the daybed and we both went to sleep.
Snowmageddon turned out to be snowmabust! As much as they underestimated snow totals on Sunday they overestimated snow totals today. My area got about an inch of snow before it turned over to rain. Areas to the north got up to 6 inches before it switched over.
I’ve mentioned the blizzard of ‘78 from time to time. Here’s a link to how it affected my neck of the woods:
Sophie is sensitive, artistic temperament. Our 17 year old has been howling for a couple of years. It often sounds like a yodel. The vet thinks it’s probably dementia. He also does it when he wants to be picked up and put on the bed. He isn’t as agile as he once was.
O,T, Mark your calendars for March 12th! Georgia posted this: “If all the recent changes and moves to and from the Big Pink House have you confused—you’re not the only one! I’ve seen many comments asking to revisit the old charts and had a few folks write in for a run down of who is where. Coming up on March 12, I’m going to run a Sunday strip that will show the whole Big Pink House in a cross section—like a dollhouse! I’ll label a few parts and give everyone a peek into the house itself. The changes came on slowly over 9 years, and now understandably it’s time for a new chart! (Puck will be thrilled, lol!)A quick text reference in the meanwhile:The Big Pink House is an old Victorian that has been turned into three apartments. It has a basement and two small attic spaces. Tommy and Sophie live on the first floor with their people. The BCN crew of Elvis, Puck, Lupin, etc live on the second floor with their people. Tabitha and Figaro live on the third floor with their woman. The addition is a part of the Victorian that had been closed off. Since buying the building, the people on each floor have access to it. They will each gain 1-3 new rooms this way. Burt and Baba Mouse live next door to the BPH, on Quinn farms with their woman and her two children. Beatrix and Trevor live above the bookstore, with their woman. The raccoons and wild animals live in the “wild lands,” the fields and forest just beyond the BPH and Quinn Farms.Dr. Scuttles lives with his man in a new house a few streets away. Wicket the owl lives at the Quinn Wildlife Rehabilitation Center… for now. The robber mice are everywhere and anywhere!”
Hello Orb friends. I need some purrs and head bumps. I have the dreaded COVID and am having a really hard time. I thought it was a sinus infection but my dad got the test and it’s COVID. Since I am the person who takes care of him and haven’t been around anyone else I know I got it from him. Dad went to 3 medical facilities Monday before last and spent the night in the hospital. My brother picked him up and took him home. Dad is doing fine but I feel like I have been hit by a truck. I even left one of the dogs with him. I’ve never been so sick I had to leave an animal with someone else to take care of. Those vaccinations didn’t help.
thelsrc over 1 year ago
Wait a minute, does this mean Sophie is Irish?
Ricky Bennett over 1 year ago
She could report the outside temperatures from the weathered bureau…
Jacob Mattingly over 1 year ago
So turns out Sophie’s misery continues, I was wrong. But it’s fair given she just moved and while Tommy at least GOT her to move, feelings of fear of change weren’t going to go away easily especially for a drama queen. On the bright side my shipping her and elvis has gone from mildly propable to “these two need each other” as both tend to overact even when the reason for their pain is valid. Just see “hold me I had a fright” a few weeks back.
uncle snipe over 1 year ago
My Gracie sings like that when she’s looking for me or Sara. Gracie likes to have her alone time under this or that. she often falls asleep for hours at a time doing that. when she wakes up, she’s lost EVERYONE! WHERE ARE YOU! i’m told she does that when i’m gone for a few hours too. I come home to find her curled up in the middle of my bed.
DorseyBelle over 1 year ago
Thank you, Sophie, for expressing your anguish so clearly.
Sue Ellen over 1 year ago
Sounds a lot like the noise they heard coming from behind the hidden door when Iggy and O.Z. were inside the old addition.
https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2022/10/12
bigcatbusiness over 1 year ago
Careful you don’t attract the male cats.
Robin Harwood over 1 year ago
And a bit OT. Check “9 Chickeeed Lane”.
Robin Harwood over 1 year ago
Impossible to decide which is worse – yodelling or Irish lullabies.
enigmamz over 1 year ago
I had the “too-ra-loo-ra” song popping into my head all weekend. Thanks for bringing up again!
Brian Premium Member over 1 year ago
I had to expand the strip to read Panel 2. “Low weird howl.”
cb8ty over 1 year ago
The tissues and one little tear are just too sad even with the Irish lullabies.
Jungle Empress over 1 year ago
Sophie’s just singing the song of her people. Doesn’t everyone do that?
ikini Premium Member over 1 year ago
Poor Tommy has such worried eyebrows.
Gent over 1 year ago
Geez cat. Not be so Sophie-sticated.
Sionyx over 1 year ago
Poor Sophie, she’s gonna be singin’ this song forever…
DennisinSeattle Premium Member over 1 year ago
Maybe Sophie will come out to explore, late at night when the humans are asleep. She has to eat and pee some times.
WelshRat Premium Member over 1 year ago
An Irish mountain cat?
rheddmobile over 1 year ago
Oh dear. I have one that does that low weird howl when distressed and know the sound well.
Janet Gamble Premium Member over 1 year ago
When Irish cats are crying, they yowl louder than the birds, of spring! When Irish cats are yowling, you pray it won’t last, til’ May!
I AM CARTOON LADY! over 1 year ago
Come on Tommy, cheer her up with an, Irish dance…with Bea, Izzy and O.Z, dancing behind him!
Eric S over 1 year ago
OT…So yesterday my crappy neighbors moved out after being evicted. The other neighbors on the opposite side had taken in the crappy neighbors cat because he was neglected. He got out today. Tonight as I was sitting in bed I heard what I thought was a distant howling, thinking it was a dog in the distance… Then I realized it was a cat yowling outside my bedroom window. His secondary entrance was the window past mine. I went outside with my flashlight and was able to retrieve this sad boy.. unable to understand what happened to his original family. I brought him back to his new family and helped get him inside but I could tell he’s really confused. I’m glad he’s better taken care of, but I feel really sorry for him.
Kitty Katz over 1 year ago
Kenny Loggins: House at Pooh Corner
Sophie and I moved to the Big Pink House
Joining our friends who lived above
Saying hi to our friends Puck and Elvis at the window
Showing them all our love!
…….
But my dear friend Sophie still feels scared and alone
Still afraid to explore our brand new home!
…….
So help me if you can, I’ve got to
Do what I can so Soph feels at home
Help her find objects for art,
Encourage her to make a new start,
Now to the days of Elvis, Lupin and Puck! (And of course Goldie, Iggy, and Ora Z)
…….
Sophie: It is too true I don’t know what to do,
Everything is different and I’m scared,
I know I’ll get through with the BCN crew,
I know that they all care!
Right now under this bureau I’ll stay,
But I know it will be alright one day!
…….
So help me if you can, I’ve got to
Do what I can so to feel right at home
Look for some objects for art,
Somehow I’ll make a new start,
Now to the days of Elvis, Lupin and Puck! (And of course Goldie, Iggy, and Ora Z)
Kitty Katz over 1 year ago
Meanwhile, Back on the Nile
Enter Queen Catshepsut the Golden
The Queen: What is the meaning of this? How dare you menace my staff, not to mention my friends!
Head Elf: Your Majesty, I am the son of the late king of my kindred. It is no idle boast to state that I am regarded as the mightiest of my people. My very name means Spirit of Fire.
The Queen: I have heard of you. I believe in your language you are called Fe-Anaro, and you have devised works of exceeding beauty.
Fe-Anaro: That is true, Your Majesty. These jewels you see before you are the greatest of my life’s work. They were stolen by the Evil One, who also sent my father to cross what your people call the Rainbow Bridge.
The Queen: I grieve with you. But why do you fight with my friends?
Son #1 (Maed-Ros): We have sworn an oath with our father to stop at nothing to take back our jewels. But I never have been attacked by an angry sunflower before.
Son #2 (Mag-lor): Nor have I ever been mauled by a multicolored kitten or pounded by a polydactyl paw!
Beatrixia: You do know there are other ways to regain your jewels than fighting.
Fe-Anaro: And what, pray tell, do you suggest?
Bea: Have you considered asking for them back?
Leanne over 1 year ago
My ginger girl shares that same vocabulary!
cat19632001 over 1 year ago
Does Sophie also enjoy the meat that smells like socks that the Woman makes?
dessertlady Premium Member over 1 year ago
I feel Tommy’s pain. The one and only time we moved our ginger cat she hid in cabinet at the old house until she was put in the carrier and did a lot of robust yodeling at the new place.
misty over 1 year ago
Guess there are times when we all need to share a little pain
And moving on in the rain
Is the hardest part when memories remain
And it’s times like these when Sophie need to sing her yo-di-o-do-oh
’Cause with the ache of her fragile soul
We share the troubles of such sweet, sweet woe
Sing your song, sing your song
Sing all your sad songs
When all hope is gone
Why don’t you open up and bring them on
They reach into our hearts, oh oh oh
We feel their gentle touch (gentle touch)
When all hope is gone
Sophie sings for us
- Bernie Taupin / Elton John – Sad Songs (Say So Much)
skipper1992 over 1 year ago
Quick followup to yesterday’s post: The Girl should be fine. She apparently has a viral thing that’s going around. The orders are for rest, fluids, and Tylenol.
FreyjaRN Premium Member over 1 year ago
Yeah, Sophie’s stressed as can be.
drmickeyg over 1 year ago
My Kojak yodels, too . . . at 2 in the morning! We think he is looking for his biological sister, who crossed the RB this past August. He and his half-sister do not really like each other, so he finds no comfort in her presence.
Ignatz Premium Member over 1 year ago
When we moved, naturally we left the cats till last, so we didn’t have to keep them in carriers very long. After we moved out all the furniture, we went back to find Dot, a year-and-a-half-old Calico, standing in the middle of the empty living room she had lived in her whole life, yowling like crazy, and absolutely freaked out like I’ve never seen a cat freaked out.
She got over it, but I felt so bad for her.
Daltongang Premium Member over 1 year ago
I went across the room
Where all the Yodellers be
To try to learn to yodel
With my yodel-oh-ee-dee
I crawled under an end table
On a clear and sunny day
And met a yodellin’ kitty
like in a Swiss chalet
She taught me to yodel
Yodel-oh-ee-dee
Diddly-odel-oh-ee-dee
Diddly-odel-oh-ee-dee
She taught me to yodel
Yodel-oh-ee-dee-ay-dee
Yodel-oh-ee-dee-yodel-oh-dee
Well now I’m gonna teach you
How to yodel just like me
It’s easy when you’re singin’
To go yodel-diddly-oh-oh-dee
First you take a deep breath
Then it’s K.O. one, two, three
And then you’ll hear a yodel
If you listen close to me
Yeah, this is how to yodel
Yodel-oh-ee-dee
Diddly-odel-oh-ee-dee
Diddly-odel-oh-ee-dee
This is how to yodel
Yodel-oh-ee-dee
Diddly-odel-oh-ee-dee-yodel-oh-dee
cat19632001 over 1 year ago
Oh sweet Sophie, let me reach under the bureau and skritch under your chin and behind your ears.
katey11 Premium Member over 1 year ago
My cat Gerry’s idea of playing is to walk around the house, toy in mouth, yowling. He sounds like he’s in pain. When someone new hears him their eyes always get big and they ask if he’s ok.
ladykat over 1 year ago
Oh, poor Sophie; I know you’re stressed and you are relieving it the only way you can
Banjo Gordy Premium Member over 1 year ago
When we moved from Overland Park KS to far NW Tucson village of Catalina in our ’84 Volvo 240 SW we had 3 cats & a Wheaton Terrier. Dog was in back seat, & cats in cat carriers behind back seats cargo space. Motel allowed us to have dog & cats in our room. Cats & dog glad the car trip was over & enjoyed exploring our new double wide mobile home. Our cats have never been allowed outside!
Katzen1415 over 1 year ago
I don’t doubt that a cat can make a sound interpreted as yodeling, I just can’t imagine what it sounds like. I honestly hope she stays down there now, so she can come out when the moving is over and find it looks so much like her old comforting place.
BarbaraKrooss over 1 year ago
Poor Dr. Scuttles. Imagine how he’ll feel when he hears that Irish lullabies and eldritch yodel-howling are reported, coming from the very location he so recently vacated. He just missed his chance for sighting a rare cryptid, the Swiss Banshee! Luckily, he has a patient, resigned philosophical temperament…
shamiehg over 1 year ago
Actually, as The Descendent of Multiple Irish Kings, I do not wish to bust your proverbial bubble, but those WERE the Irish lullabies. Personally, I have no desire to experience the yodeling.
;-)
ShariMccormick over 1 year ago
Our daddy-cat was named Thomas Magnum O’Malley; named after Phil Harris (The Aristocats) and Tom Selleck (Magnum!). He was definitely Irish as he loved the wee ones, chasing the mom-cat away when she cuffed one of her babies, and adopting the whole litter for himself. Needless to say we kept them all.
Miss Mina over 1 year ago
Bartholomew is quite the yodeler. For the past couple of mornings he has begun at around quarter to 5. I took him downstairs so Albert’s Man could sleep, expecting to be entertaining him with laser pointer and cat dancer for a couple of hours. But he curled up next to me on the daybed and we both went to sleep.
Red Bird over 1 year ago
Dealing with change can be pretty hard.
NWdryad over 1 year ago
I feel bad for Sophie, but this storyline really is hilarious.
scaeva Premium Member over 1 year ago
Love Puck’s sad, concerned face in panel one. So much emotion in such a simple picture!
Sue Ellen over 1 year ago
Snowmageddon turned out to be snowmabust! As much as they underestimated snow totals on Sunday they overestimated snow totals today. My area got about an inch of snow before it turned over to rain. Areas to the north got up to 6 inches before it switched over.
I’ve mentioned the blizzard of ‘78 from time to time. Here’s a link to how it affected my neck of the woods:
https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/photos-remembering-the-blizzard-of-1978-across-the-miami-valley/LNR6LAJ4DZAGDAJY4GACNZA2GA/
willie_mctell over 1 year ago
Sophie is sensitive, artistic temperament. Our 17 year old has been howling for a couple of years. It often sounds like a yodel. The vet thinks it’s probably dementia. He also does it when he wants to be picked up and put on the bed. He isn’t as agile as he once was.
jr1234 over 1 year ago
=^..^=
https://www.gocomics.com/offthemark/2023/01/25
Susanna Premium Member over 1 year ago
Georgia posted a cute video of Ora grooming the Man’s arm, https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cnz3jUvsVC9/
knight1192a over 1 year ago
Been listening to Kenny Loggins or maybe the Irish Rovers?
mepowell over 1 year ago
O,T, Mark your calendars for March 12th! Georgia posted this: “If all the recent changes and moves to and from the Big Pink House have you confused—you’re not the only one! I’ve seen many comments asking to revisit the old charts and had a few folks write in for a run down of who is where. Coming up on March 12, I’m going to run a Sunday strip that will show the whole Big Pink House in a cross section—like a dollhouse! I’ll label a few parts and give everyone a peek into the house itself. The changes came on slowly over 9 years, and now understandably it’s time for a new chart! (Puck will be thrilled, lol!)A quick text reference in the meanwhile:The Big Pink House is an old Victorian that has been turned into three apartments. It has a basement and two small attic spaces. Tommy and Sophie live on the first floor with their people. The BCN crew of Elvis, Puck, Lupin, etc live on the second floor with their people. Tabitha and Figaro live on the third floor with their woman. The addition is a part of the Victorian that had been closed off. Since buying the building, the people on each floor have access to it. They will each gain 1-3 new rooms this way. Burt and Baba Mouse live next door to the BPH, on Quinn farms with their woman and her two children. Beatrix and Trevor live above the bookstore, with their woman. The raccoons and wild animals live in the “wild lands,” the fields and forest just beyond the BPH and Quinn Farms.Dr. Scuttles lives with his man in a new house a few streets away. Wicket the owl lives at the Quinn Wildlife Rehabilitation Center… for now. The robber mice are everywhere and anywhere!”
CatherinePrickett over 1 year ago
Sophie is a drama queen and I am here for it.
Fennec! at the Disco over 1 year ago
At least it’s sweet woe!
metagalaxy1970 over 1 year ago
Change can be hard for some kitties and it takes time to adjust. Once she gets used to the new sounds and smells, she’ll be okay.
miscreant over 1 year ago
Hello Orb friends. I need some purrs and head bumps. I have the dreaded COVID and am having a really hard time. I thought it was a sinus infection but my dad got the test and it’s COVID. Since I am the person who takes care of him and haven’t been around anyone else I know I got it from him. Dad went to 3 medical facilities Monday before last and spent the night in the hospital. My brother picked him up and took him home. Dad is doing fine but I feel like I have been hit by a truck. I even left one of the dogs with him. I’ve never been so sick I had to leave an animal with someone else to take care of. Those vaccinations didn’t help.
linaik25 Premium Member over 1 year ago
This made me laugh out loud.
azkfwecho Premium Member over 1 year ago
OT