Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for March 14, 2023

OMC! Pucky’s chart! Here Be Dragons indeed.and…. so …..MANY…….

TOEBEANS!

This is turning into a DnD game.

OT: Happy pi day.

Oh, Pucky, have no fear. The dragons and other monsters who live in the addition are very friendly.♥

I warned you in October, when the door was found.

Eurasmus B. Dragon?

Ah, a companion diagram to Sophie’s quality.

Poor sweet Pucky!!! Whoever will be able to lead him into the new rooms?

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Ms Sebayt: Class, let’s get in line to go down to the litter rooms!

Chaos all around

Beatrixia: This is why there’s no Cat Roundup at rodeos!

Ms Sebayt: Let’s all line up so we have time to hear the story!

Gradually the kittens line up

Iggy: May I help?

Ms Sebayt: By all means.

Iggy: Hello class! My name is Iggy Shipwright. I used to sail the seven seas.

Kitten Geb: Can you read us a sailing scroll?

Iggy: I think I can do that if it’s alright with your teacher.

Ms Sebayt: What do you think, class?

General shouts of “Yes!” etc.

Iggy: Now let’s go to the litter rooms like a sailor. Can we swim?

Class: No!

Iggy: Can we row?

Class: No!

Iggy: Can we march like soldier and sailors?

Class: Yes!

Iggy: Alright! Let’s get in line and march! Hup, two, three, four!

Oh good! Floor plans.

Some cats are adventurous. Puck and Elvis are very reluctant, poor guys.

Puck, you should ask Tilly about the addition!

If there be dragons, than O.Z would be their master! Hahzah!

Has anyone heard from deadheadzan lately ?

I hadn’t been reading for much of 2022. When last October was that “secret” door discovered? And were there similar doors on the other floors?

The Dragons have been mis-identified , they are really Unicorns .

I get it, Pucky. Everyone finds new stuff at least a little scary. But you’re gonna have so much fun exploring those new rooms when you get to them…

But Pucky! Dragons are wonderful, mythical creatures (or so they want you to believe the mythical part) and are nothing to fear. You’re gonna love them.

I wonder what the People are doing with the new rooms.

Well Puck, get Goldie on the case, because there are many local viewers who, to answer your question, have been there. Iggy and Ora Zella were there during a rainstorm. Sophie drew a very detailed map. Several mice have been frequent visitors.

It’s okay, Pucky. To paraphrase what Sallah said to Indy “New rooms. Very dangerous. You go first.”

“Here be dragons?” literally made me LOL.

Sweet Puck, the dragons in the new rooms are quite friendly, and possibly figments of your imagination.

My great-granddaughter Saphira (oldest one) is coming over today to spend some time with me. We are going to make chocolate cake from scratch, and maybe a brown sugar chess pie in honour of pi day.

Don’t worry, Pucky!

there’s safety in numbers.

Aw, Puck, I bet the new addition will have plenty of sunspots. Besides, if it is possible there are dragons, it is equally possible the new addition has HAM.

Very exciting news!

Long overdue chart. Cats must explore impossible not. Hence cat. For some reason this brought to mind “Captain, there be whales in here!” Ok quiet

2-4 new rooms? That’s a lot of space.

Shouldn’t that be “Here be vacuum cleaners?”

Dragons? Oh, Pucky, you should be so fortunate. That’s a storage area for doubt and uncertainty.

Well, we can only hope there’d be dragons.

Love it! The ancient map makers used dragons for places that were unknown. Also late auther Sharon Kay Penman wrote a brillian book about medivel Wales entitled “Here be dragons”

Well more rooms means more room for more cats.

OT: Nephew’s new house

Oh, Puck. We all know you’ll be the first to make friends with dragons, just as you did with the ghost cats and every other critter that has entered your lives.

Yay, another Puck chart! They’re always so organized and detailed.

Cats have an approach/avoidance thing going on with new rooms. They hate not having access and fear what might be there.

Remember Puck, the new rooms will smell like buttermints and 80s bath toys. Elvis said so, so it must be true!

“Here be Dragons” was a good book I read many years ago. I think it is tucked away in my bookshelf somewhere. If so I suppose it is only right that I re-read it :D

Sunday’s map showed 9 cats and 4 mice. Plus there’s a dog somewhere. Please, no more permanent characters. It’s too hard to keep track of who’s who.

Oh, please let’s “Here Be Dragons” be an actual thing. Like those little gray lizards my grandparents had. Their cat seldom went outside, but the result of those few excursions was that all the little “dragons” had had their tails snapped off getting away from Yen.

(He probably considered it an improvement; he’d lost half of his own tail as a kitten in a kitchen cupboard door accident.)

When I was down the rabbit hole last week looking at old strips I ran into one where Puck spilled coffee over the whole news desk and he used the phrase “it’s a whole thing”. Don’t know if it means something special or even where it is now – can’t find it :(

Does anyone remember the strip where we saw the overhead view of the apartment? I though it was the one where Lupin has paint on his paws, but that was just the living room.

it will be OK, Pucky!

Is “it’s a whole thing” a common expression? I’ve never heard ot before. What exactly does it mean?

Besides Pi(e) Day, it’s also 314 Day:

https://thestl.com/314day/

So cool about the new rooms! I hope they choose to keep vintage hardware & furniture! And show us!

My cats would be all over those new rooms like hairballs on new carpet!

Good idea, Puck. The new addition has already taken a life.

The Boy gets his own room?

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.