Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for June 11, 2023

“How dare she close a door? Inquiring cats want to know!”

We’ve all been there. My Sara does this all the time. Sometimes she’ll even shove a toy under the door and then try retrieving it. Mostly she just waves to me under the door. Gracie, on the other hand, Gracie bangs on the door like she’s serving a search warrant!

Not a room the cats can’t get into! Anything but that! Why, she could be doing anything in there! Unsupervised!

I still had Jasper when this cartoon was first published. Forever after, when he was at the bathroom door trying to get in, I interpreted his voice as saying “ma’am”!

Love all the cats asking, “Ma’am?” and Puck turning himself upside down while reaching under the door.

I never closed the bathroom door. In fact, Georgie and I would play ball while I was … sitting down. Even had a special tool to grab the ball when she would drop it just out of my reach. Special times.

A bathroom? Gasp! How dare she!

The Woman might be taking a bubble bath.

Sunday Funday:

We used to have a folding door on the bathroom. We ended up having to get a hook lock on it after one of them worked out that, if they stood against the middle of the door and pushed, it opened…

I remember 2 cats scratching the door..and me yelling to stop scratching the door. When I came out they would walk away and ignore me.

You went away and left us long time ago

And now we′re knocking on your door

Ya hear us knocking

But we can’t come in

Ya hear us knocking

Ma’am where have you been?

We begged you not to go but you said bye, the heck

And now you’re telling us soon you’re back

Ya hear us knocking

But don’t let us in

Ya hear us knocking

Go back where you′ve been

You better get back to our being-a-fuss

′Cause your long, long kind of bathe ain’t good for us

Ya hear us knocking

But we can′t come in

Ya hear us knocking

Go back where you’ve been

We told you way along in the hall

That we would never let ya go at all

Ya hear us knocking

But you can′t come out

Ya hear us Ma’am-ing

Your comeback is in doubt

Yeah

Awwmeowhoooo!!

(“I Hear You Knocking” by Dave Edmunds)

Another classic! I approve!

Parker loves to hang out in the bathtub and then as soon as the door closes he pounces on whoever is sitting.

Ma’am, we insist you pet us while you use the litter box! Ma’am?

Unless we have visitors, none of us close doors. This would happen if we did.

Monroe thinks he has to supervise me in the bathroom. He loves watching water. Yesterday, he jumped on top of the (unused) shower, and then walked on the tub edges. He sat on my walker to watch me get started in my bath. In the bathroom, when I sit, he rubs my legs and sniffs me. Then he jumps on everyone’s shoulders. Bleek!

When no one else is in the house, I don’t even try to close the bathroom door. My two will scratch and meow the whole time.

But it is too cute seeing the little paws coming under the door. It never fails to amuse, and probably make me smile.

When this ran the first time, I finally figured out that “Ma’am” and “Man” were the actual sounds from the cats. Makes so much sense. The people can’t hear the “What are you doing in there?” part.

BoCHs!

“But we must snoopervise. It’s our job!”

An all time classic.

I would make the mistake of closing the door and Loaner Cat would flop over under where the handle was and try pulling the door open from the bottom while Murphy Dobe would stand over her and keep banging on the handle with his nose in solidarity, just to make sure I knew they were both out there, waiting. I’d get fed up and open the door, usually the half bath was the room, and both would scuttle in, Loaner Cat flopping on my feet and my 95 pound Dobe trying to turn around between me and the sink without stepping on LC so he could sit there and get petted. Gawd, I miss him. So does LC.

“We must be there to protect you from toilet monsters!”

Christie McVie: Everywhere

Can you hear us meowing?

You are out of our sight?

We are all outside the door

Is everything alright?

…….

We’ll meow a little louder

As loud as we can be

You are in a room and we just cannot see!

…….

Oh We

Just wanna be with you everywhere

Oh we

Just wanna be with you everywhere!

…….

Do you need new litter?

Is everything alright?

We know the humans always use

This room here on the right!

…….

Oh We

Just wanna be with you everywhere

Oh we

Just wanna be with you everywhere!

No drama. They will just sit outside the door and yowl.

Aww ain’t them cats just a-door-able?

It must be serious for Lupin to abandon his anchor spot and show up on the scene!! I lived in an apartment once that had sliding doors on my bedroom closet. My cats loved to go in the closet. I learned to leave the one open slightly to avoid the (what sounded to me) LOUD, repetitive noise of the doors rattling on the tracks. Of course, the only time there seemed to be a sense of urgency to get in the closet was late at night!

Those door are good for keeping those little one inside as needed. Ok ther I said it

I don’t bother closing the bathroom door since I live alone. I’ll have to do it this week, as I have a close friend coming up to stay for a week. I have to figure out how to stretch my rations to feed two people and still have food for myself for the rest of the month.

We gave up closing the bathroom door years ago. I keep a stick-with-cloth-attatched toy on a hook next to the royal throne. Our biggest cat, Moo-goo, insists my morning constitutional is playtime, otherwise he will pester me to distraction.

Just as cute now as they were when this first ran back in 2017!

Are you pooping, are you pooping,

Kitty mom, kitty mom

Momma are you pooping, Momma are you pooping

Let me in, Let me in!

Which is why men pee standing up. In and out before the cats have a chance to realize what is going on and start banging on the door.

Quick, form a cat pyramid to reach the doorknob. Then again, if the door in fact leads to a bathroom, that is not suitable for the news.

Having cats means never again going to the bathroom alone.

I hope this gets made into a TV series.

My main bathroom door doesn’t lock or latch. I warned a worker that the latch doesn’t work and the dog will push the door open, but I would be in the kitchen till they were done.

Oh, and yes this one is a classic and worthy of rerunning. :)

A classic!

OT: My cat, Woodgie, has been howling a lot. It may be because of the changes, but she hasn’t done this before. It’s getting to where when she is awake, she’s yowling unless somebody is close. The vet said she might become a little confused as she gets older, so maybe that’s it. She’s not eating the wet food anymore but seems to be eating the crunchy food and drinking enough water. She’s almost 17, so I worry about her.

Might as well give up, Woman. You are outnumbered.

Wow…Absolutely EVERY time at our house….

Maverick hangs out in my bedroom a fair amount, something he’ll do with greater regularity over the next 77 days (not that I’m counting) until The Girl goes back to school. However, he will quite pointedly follow me into into the room – even if I’m taking a shower, which is surprising as he otherwise wants nothing to do with water unless it’s in his bowl.

There are no closed doors in the apartment. When both Sebastian and Vlad were little, I had to get locks on the sink cabinets. The only closed door in the apartment is where the water heater/pantry is. And that’s only because I have something in front of it. Bedroom, bathroom, no.

This is just a restyle of one of the oldest comics

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Beatrixia: Burt, there’s a kittygarden class coming to the Very Good Library tomorrow. Are all the litter rooms in good working order?

Burt-Ra: They should be, but I’ll have Iggy make sure.

Bea: That would be great. If you could spare him for a few hours, he was great with the kittens last time.

Burt-Ra: Sure, no problem.

The Next Day

Iggy: The litter rooms are all in working order, Bea. I have a book all ready for them.

Bea: That’s wonderful, Igs. I have an activity for them as well.

Iggy: Great. What is it?

Bea: We’re going to sing sea shanties with Ora Z’s group Mallets Towards None.

Sometime Later

Ms Sebyat: Alright, everyone’s gone to the litter room, now Mr. Iggy will read The Pirates That Only Do a Few Things.

We only close the door when someone else is in the house, and then not all the way, because the cats’ water fountain is in that room. With the door two-thirds to three-quarters closed, the cats can get in and the person has privacy.

Of course, then one of them will decide he or she wants “sink water.”

Holly has wrestled the bath mat into submission quite a few times, usually in the tub. It’s an old cast iron tub, and it sounds like someone beating up a tympanum—in the middle of the night, of course.

She’s Greta Garbo-ing you, boys! Gotta deal with it! … :)

My cat was the weirdest. She liked to share bathroom trips, and she would often wait to use her litter box until I did the equivalent. Watching me take a bath was major entertainment for her. Closing the door — any door — made her crazy, and she would howl and throw herself against the door, so I only did it when absolutely necessary and only for a few moments.

Yeah, I just leave the bathroom door open a crack so the furries can check on me.

If you have ever had a cat.

NOT our cats, NOT our bathroom, but this is almost every time we take a shower. (Our meezers are more like British Shorthairs with “apple” heads and cobby bodies, not so “stretched” out.)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwSYm1NPHP4

Feline freedom of movement cannot be restricted.

My friend stayed with my last dog when I went out of town. Like me, he lives alone. It freaked him out when my dog followed him into the bathroom! My current dog also does that sometimes, or if the door is shut, he’ll wait outside.

My theory of why they do this doesn’t explain it for cats; but here it is. I heard that dogs watch you while they go, because they’re at their most vulnerable, and they’re looking to you for protection. So, it makes sense that they would want to return the favor, and guard you while you go.

Very much On-Topic for today’s strip, I happened to close the bathroom door the other night to help keep the bedroom dark so I could sleep and Bella suddenly started wagging her tail like mad. I asked her, “Is Akiro in the bathroom” and her tail sped up even more.

Sure enough, as soon as I opened the door, a very miffed house panther emerged; he’d been enjoying the warm “breeze” from the dehumidifier.

I’m single, I don’t even shut the door. But if I go into HER room when she’s using her litterbox, she’s mightily offended.

Rattle that door, Elvis!

P3: The woman recognizes Pucky’s voice.

Isn’t “CN News” redundant, since the “N” in “CN” stands for “News.” It would make more sense for them to say “Cat News” or “CN”.

the reaching under the door, classic!

LMFAO