Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for March 18, 2023

LIkely this is to mimic wherever the Dunns are living now. And Lupin has never been happier.. and now i’m sad because that last panel reminded me the real lupin is gone.

Aw yisssss, a racetrack!

It’s A Lupin drag strip! I wish I had on of those, instead of the intricate street course my girls run! It sometimes sounds like the running of the bulls as well.

At first glance, it looked like Lupin was trying to be invisible again!

Don’t look, Goldie!

Fast camera to stop Lupin without blur

It appears the bedroom floor is also lava!

Lupin must be running through a longer hallway in kitty heaven.

Which may be a short time if you break nto Goldie’s announcemens, Lupn…

Especially the 3am parts of my life.

Aww, Lupin looks so happy! And I just love Ora bouncing around behind Goldie!

When my girls chase each other down the hallway (carpeted!) in the middle of the night, they sound like elephants!

It does enjoy me (yeah-yeah, yo)

Do you wanna feel how it feels? (Yeah-yeah, yo)

Do you wanna know, know that it does hurl me? (Yeah-yeah, yo)

Do you wanna hear about the deal that I′m making? (Yeah-yeah, yo)

You

It’s you and me

And if I only could

I’d make a deal with God

And I′d get him to slide through places

Be running up (and down!) that way

Be running up (and down!) that hall

Be running up (and down!) that building

See, if I only could, oh

You don′t wanna hurl me (yeah-yeah, yo)

But see how swept the parquet lies (yeah-yeah, yo)

Unaware, I’m clearing it down under (yeah-yeah, yo)

Oh, there is thunder in our hearts (yeah-yeah, yo)

Is that to clean the plate for the ones we love? (Yeah-yeah, yo)

Oh, tell me, we both matter, don′t we? (Yeah-yeah, yo)

You

It’s you and me

It′s you and me, won’t be unhappy

And if I only could

I’d make a deal with God

And I′d get him to slide through places

Be running up (and down!) that way

Be running up (and down!) that hall

Be running up (and down!) that building

It′s you and me, won′t be unhappy (yeah-yeah, yo)

Oh, come on, baby (yeah)

Oh, come on, darling (yo)

Let me steal this moment from you now

Oh, come on, angel

Come on, come on, darling

Let’s exchange the experience, oh

And if I only could

I’d make a deal with God

And I′d get him to slide through places

Be running up (and down!) that way

Be running up (and down!) that hall

Be running up (and down!) that building

With no problems

(Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) / Kate Bush)

Please, those in the know: Is Lupin a fan-tailed Manx?

Annnnnnnd, there OFF! Lupin are Goldie are thundering down the race track, neck and neck! Izzy is 3rd and O.Z is last! As they fly toward the finish line, it’s Lupin, Goldie, Lupin, Goldie! And the winner is….O.Z!!

Lupin’s clean suit makes him look like he’s naked (again)

I don’t know why, but I find the idea of a naked Lupin to be the funniest thing ever.

Halls are racetracks.

Our last house had a hall with a red carpet. They liked that as well as the stairs. They didn’t care about the chair lift on the back stairs.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

At the Royal Dining Room

Thomios: Welcome back, Trish and Duffy. I’ve prepared a special treat. Apple scones with Xanadu honey.

Duffy O’Doyle: A bit of tea and a scone would not come amiss after a long trip from Eireann.

Trish O’Doyle: Indeed, this is a greater treasure than the gold we collect for our Pots.

Iggy Shipwright: I’ve sailed to Eireann when I was a sailor. Beautiful country.

Beatrixia: If you don’t mind my asking, what do you do with the gold you collect?

Trish: Oh, this and that. It’s really more fun to travel and look for gold than to actually collect it.

Bea: I can understand that. It’s like searching through the scrolls.

Trish: Aye, now there’s a treasure indeed.

Lovely! We need to see a new addition of the 2 am Running of the Cats in order to incorporate all the new space. Perhaps there will even be more lamps to knock over.

I live in an apartment, and one of the cats begs to go in the hallway when I open the door. Then scoots down the hall with her tail straight up in the air. Then high-tails it back to the apartment when anything scary – like a harmless little sound – happens.

In the evening, Marie and I listen to the cats gallop back and forth in the hallway. Although Holmes is the youngest and the newest to the clowder, he is the leader of the nightly stampede.

And now for something completely different…

Our oldest, Alexandria, was on an international trip with her sophomore class last week. Everyone attending Cottey college can experience such a trip; your tuition covers it. This year, they went to Vienna, Austria, and Alex had a blast. She brought her old man back some Viennese coffee. I brewed some this morning, and I am enjoying my Einspänner. According to lore, this drink originated for the Viennese carriage drivers, and the whipped cream at the top kept your espresso warm when the weather was cold.

Alex is brilliant and has academic aspirations. She also has a wicked sense of humor and is an excellent writer. Her observational posts from her travel were hilarious. How lucky Marie and I are to have raised two outstanding children. I call it luck, but in reality, it was Marie who constantly exposed the kids to new experiences and challenges.

I remember when our kittens discovered the hallway and did exactly this.

Slowly but surely, the new addition is being explored. I imagine Elvis and Puck will venture out eventually.

Love the “waves” in Goldie’s tale from Lupin zooming by.

Hazmat suit Lupin looks very similar to naked Lupin.

I wonder why he’s not invisible?

They’re accepting the new environment.

This comic strip is the best $50,000 that somebody invested in a person to draw cats!!!

My house growing up has the staircase in the middle, so our cat used to run in circles around the whole house. Being originally from Indianapolis, we called it her Indy 500! I suppose others living in Louisville might have said it was her Kentucky Derby; both would fit.

OT

awe and Lupin is gone :’(

That’s the spirit, Lupin! Run to your heart’s content.

Felines are genetically predisposed towards running down hallways.

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It must’ve been a long, boring time waiting for humans to come along and start building them.

OT

RINGO AWARD NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN!!!! NOMINATE GEORGIA AND BCN! https://ringoawards.com/

Ah, the 2 am races. The thundering paws of the herd echoing through the home. Amazing how much noise a 6 lb cat can make just running.

Narrator: and Lupin did…

Not hallway, runway!!!

Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! Big Pink House Dragstrip! The Lupin Thunder Machine! Ora Acc-Zella-rate! Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! Big Pink House Dragstrip!

Wow, no one mentioned Goldie’s toebeans in panel 3! So here goes: Squeeeeeeeee!

Lupin is getting loopy!

The cuff lines on Lupin’s spacesuit are a nice touch!

ROOM TO ZOOM

OT: Punxsutawney Phil was right! Lake effect snow in the Midwest thru NY, freeze in the Texas panhandle, and in the 50s here in the Houston area.

So much for sleep. The “herd” of Lupin is going to be stampedeing day and night.

I’m happy for you all Georgia :))