Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for April 06, 2023

NO! Not the poor owl lamp again!

(Or one of them, anyway. I get the impression that they are regularly replaced.)

Parkour Ora Zella. Well, of course.

Well, there’s no rules against parkour, are there?

Isn’t that what J. Jonah Jameson always shouts? “Parkour!”

Where did she learn that?

Looks like they woke up the girl? At 2 AM? Are they busted?

Ora Zella is a superball disguised as a smol cat — she’s got way more bounce to the ounce than one could ever guess!

Puck is still feeling uncertain. He is actually leaning away from the scene.

It looks as though the lamps are, as was widely suspected, doomed.

OT: (cuz I want to show off)

Ora appears to be the TRUE child of CHAOS.

Is she going to dethrone Lupin, the once and former Lord of Chaos ?!?

Does the woman sleep sitting up?

Cat games by Parkour Brothers

She flies through the air with the greatest of ease, the daring young tortie as cute as you please.

Ora Z , in the side pocket!

Torties and smol cats tend toward parkour. Monroe is an exemplar.

That’s the most impressive parkour I’ve ever seen!

PARKOUR!

Reminds me of the parkour scene from The Office. Parkour!

If it is there, it will be parkoured off of, right Ora Zella?

OOF!

There goes the owl lamp again!!!

Has anycat made a diagram of the new race course?

not the Owl Lamp!

10 points to OZ for the busted lamp, 50 points to Orb for Rare Sighting of Sideways Flying Kitten.

Given the racing course for the last 2 AM running of the cats (https://www.breakingcatnews.com/comic/the-bi-monthly-2-am-running-of-the-cats/) parkour hardly seems out of place.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

At the Artisans’ Studio

Arachna: It looks like my new web fabric has passed the Ora Z test.

Adobe Style: Just watch out for the bell display, Ora!

Ora Z: Wheeee!

Bells: Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!

Arachna: We may have just invented a new arcade game.

At the Artisans’ Workshop

Iggy: I’ve drawn up a plan of what a guitar might look like. What kind of wood should we use?

Iron Glove: Let’s see what we have and decide what makes the best sound.

Iggy: Some of these woods come from thousands of miles away. How did you come by them?

Iron Glove: The Camel Branch of the Ancient and Accepted Procurers’ Guild have sources of which we know not.

At the Afar Public Library and Coffee Shop

Beaver Lee Cleary: Here’s a scroll from Chef Ambrosius:

Today we are going to have a celebration in the library foyer. I’ve brought crackers and chocolate and marshmallows. We have everything ready for a dessert feast.

Puckmosis: It looks like everything was going well. Wonder what happened.

Bev: It goes further:

Everything has been put away and the fires extinguished. It looks like a storm is brewing. This only happens every few decades.

Elvis-Anum: Could it have been a freak accident? Maybe a lightning strike?

Beatrixia: I suppose anything is possible.

BOING, BOING BOING

Ora Zella is the Queen of Parkour!

Our beloved little Ora is Flubber!

This may be the year the July Bug meets his match!

Eyup. Little ones tend to bounce off the walls in glee. Cats, dogs and even humans.

Parkour????

Yep, the little blur got the first lamp!

Get your motor purrin’! Out there in the hallway! knockin’ over Owl lamps! Or whatever is in my way! Born to do Paaarkoooour!!

Oh my cat! I once had a female cat who used to do this when she was young! She wasn’t tiny though, she was a strapping 14 pounds of muscle and long flowing fur.

I wanna free run, bounce off the Woman

I wanna fling myself through the sky

I’m a speed ball, the floor is all lava

We’ll have one less lamp for a while

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Now I’m free, free runnin’

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(With about seven hundred and seventy-eight groveling pardons to Tom Petty, with the rest of the customary thousand to be apportioned out to the other Traveling Wilburys.)

Parkour Lewis Can’t Lose !! …

(No cats here named Lewis, though!) … :)

OT: Bad kitty!

Years ago, Rusty came tearing in the front door just as I opened it. I was carrying a full pitcher of water (to water the flowers). He bounced off my leg. I staggered into a chair, cut and bruised my leg and dropped the pitcher on the floor!

Ora Zella is totally Parkouring the race here, folks! But! – WAIT! … Oh, NO !! … She’s heading STRAIGHT TOWARD ! … … … (wait for it) … … …

The ‘NO PARKOURING ZONE’ !! … … :)

(OK. Me go Duck-And-Cover now!! … Hee-hee-hee!!) … :)

I guess she does.

The women needs to just glue the lamps down once and for all. Or move to wall sconces.

Butter? Or I can’t believe it’s not hydrogenated vegetable shortening?

We have a kitten like that.

I love how Ora becomes a little jelly bean when grabbing her hind feet.

Museum putty. Get it, Woman. It’s clear goo that holds down precious things during earthquakes, cat zoomies, and toddler attacks.

Yup Starlord!!!

Pretty smart method, Ora. You might win the race for sure.

And now it’s Ora Zella by a lampshade!

Tortie kittens must have been the inspiration for pinball.

Ricochet Rabbit is the mentor…

Wow! The little bit does that too!

They’re parkour twinsies!

Ever since I was a young cat

I’ve played like a tortie ball….

From owl lamps to the People,

I must’ve bounced them all.

With apologies to Pete Townshend and the Who.

This is totally our 3 month old kitty. Except she uses her claws as well to run on the sides of the sofa like a magic ninja.

OT: Critters

Wait. Georgia’s a trampoline now?

@rs0204 Flubber was invented a few miles from my hometown. We children enjoyed playing with it long before it went commercial with Hasbro. I never saw the films. IDK whether any absent’minded professors were involved.

What the heck is Ora Z saying? Keep wanting it to be from the old Parkae commercials

Parkour!

But alas, no toe beans to Squee at. Oh, the felinity of it all.

She’s a bouncer!

That kitten has flair.

Wishing Pucky and all who celebrate Chag Sameach! Blessings of Passover to all!

Parkour!

My cats use me and all living room furniture for parkour courses.