Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for August 01, 2023

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    McColl34 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Ah, I thought she was seeking allies. Well, I suspect she will find some in any case!

    Er, eventually. You know, once the awkward introductions are over with.

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    zorak950  over 1 year ago

    BEEF

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    uncle snipe  over 1 year ago

    I’m lovin the reading glass on the opossum. Not to mention the lush, vivid greens! Now what?

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    Le'letha Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Mag is not caught up on her dramatic irony tropes, I see. Maybe this opossum is well-read enough to share some tips.

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    Gloria Fleming  over 1 year ago

    He looks a bit startled, but doesn’t look mean. Maybe this will go well.

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    dmah Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Reading by moonlight, and wearing pince-nez … I’d love to have a cup of tea with this opossum!

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    Sue Ellen  over 1 year ago

    Possums are readers? Who knew! I wonder what he’s reading. Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats perhaps?

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    jemelvin  over 1 year ago

    Ol’ Brer Possum, just hangin’ out!

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    thelsrc  over 1 year ago

    Friend? Or foe?

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    ChristineFoxdale  over 1 year ago

    We’ve met him – he’s the dogcodile in the garage.

    https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2020/03/15

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    WelshRat Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I get the feeling they’ve found a talker, not a fighter.

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    lopaka  over 1 year ago

    I am assuming that book is not upside down relative to the possum. Note the glasses. LOL

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    jemelvin  over 1 year ago

    I can’t tell if it’s Unc Billy or Ms Possum.

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    Maizing  over 1 year ago

    OT: Personal Update

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    ikini Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I would like to point out that as Thorn says, the word is OPOSSUM. I’m sure Robin can tell us about possums, which are Australian creatures.

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    maggijoseph Premium Member over 1 year ago

    What are old Mag’s chickadees up to?

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    Lady Bri  over 1 year ago

    OT, sort of: I made this for NyahNyahNyah, but I just had to share it with you guys because . . . my little leopard! :D Like father, like son! https://i.imgur.com/xQmbV5s.png

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    Robin Harwood  over 1 year ago

    I hate to have to say this, but, from the looks of that opossum, I doubt that they are doomed.

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    Robin Harwood  over 1 year ago

    I’m glad his exclamation mark is upside down.

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    Tigrisan Premium Member over 1 year ago

    A couple of years ago now, while I was cleaning the bathroom, I glanced out the window and I saw this wee little white ball of fluff kind of tottering across the yard toward the house. It was really tiny but bigger than a rat. I went outside for a better look and it was a tiny baby opossum! I think it must have been plucked off mama because there were a couple puncture wounds on it and it appeared to be trying to find…I don’t know. Someplace safe, or mama who was long gone. I got my gloves and put it in a shoebox and it just looked at me like it was so glad it could stop walking. Took it to a wonderful place near us called Howell Nature Center where they checked it over, managed to patch it up and rehab it and then released it. I called a few times to check up on it. They’re wonderful there and took good care of it. And it was just the cutest thing ever!! I love opossums anyway but what a privilege to help the little thing.

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    Jacob Mattingly   over 1 year ago

    He seems nice though. Look at him.

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    FreyjaRN Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I think we have an ally. He’s not unfriendly, just interrupted whilst reading. Me, I’d have snarled.

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    arolarson Premium Member over 1 year ago

    It has been a long time since the cessation of hostilities and the making of a peace treaty. Perhaps the opossums will be inclined to join the raccoons to stymie a common enemy.

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    misty  over 1 year ago

    It’s impossible

    Not to love a Georgia sky

    It’s just not possible

    It’s impossible

    So, will opossum let them by?

    Well, it’s opossible -

    And tomorrow

    As they plan to regain their world

    And somehow get it

    Back from one angry mole who may regret it

    For to live without their stuff -

    It’s just impossible

    Impossible

    Impossible!

    - Armando Manzanero Canche / Sid Wayne – It’s Impossible

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    Kitty Katz  over 1 year ago

    Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

    At the No Longer Hidden Library

    Beatrixia: You need to come along with us, Thomios. And Floof as well.

    Floofnet the Joyous: It sounds like we need to explore this You Call This a Pyramid. And I’d like to try some of the ingredients in the pantry.

    Bea: I think we can arrange that. And maybe we can plan a banquet when you’re done.

    Thomios: And if we need any special utensils, I know who can make them.

    Ora Z: Do you need any help?

    Thomios: I’m sure we can use some help. We’ll figure it out.

    Ora Z: I can shred things.

    Floofnet: We’ll see what we can do.

    Thomios: Anybody hear something? It sounded like someone sawing wood.

    Iggy: I’m right here, and I’m not making anything right now.

    Bea: It seems to be coming from the Comfy Chairs. I think I know who. Obadiah? Is that you?

    Obadiah Opossum: Just nodded off there. I was reading Hanging Upside Down by Maris Marsupial.

    Bea: Maybe you can do a presentation on possums and opossums while Bill Platypus is staying with us.

    Obadiah: Sounds great. And I can get my band together, The Dogcodiles to perform.

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    cat19632001  over 1 year ago

    It’s time to flip those BCN calendars and enjoy Beatrix Toe Beans (so many), Trevor, and Good Boy.

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    Katzen1415  over 1 year ago

    Oh dear. Well, at least the opossum looks as surprised as them. Perhaps this means they can get off on the right paw. I can’t wait to see what happens next!

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    Miss Mina  over 1 year ago

    Those who support Georgia on Patreon might know the opossum’s name…

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    Shirley Kabet Premium Member over 1 year ago

    A literate opossum! Now there’s something you don’t see very often in Florida.

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    Daltongang Premium Member over 1 year ago

    A strategic alliance with the Opossums will be beneficial to all. Opossums eat moles, see well in the dark and are of a size that can fit into and traverse mole holes. Being omnivores they also like to root through the garbage whenever possible.

    I foresee the army growing and the spoils of war being shared in a united victory.

    Brothers in arms,

    In body and breath,

    Soldiers at heart,

    In life and in death,

    A warriors spirit,

    In us both Imbued,

    Brothers in blood,

    Brothers in feud.

    Brothers in arms,

    A unit unbroken,

    Kindred in cause,

    Reasons unspoken;

    Fight side by side,

    Struggle in silence,

    Victory brings strength,

    Enraptured by Violence.

    Brothers in arms,

    Sibling in creed,

    Embodied as one,

    As a unit we bleed;

    We cannot be broken,

    Though trials will test,

    Until victory is ours,

    We shall never rest.

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    ladykat  over 1 year ago

    The opossum looks a bit startled, but not at all frightened by this invasion of raccoons.

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    bonita.eley  over 1 year ago

    The opossum looks friendly enough!

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    scyphi26  over 1 year ago

    Well, hello there.

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    The Wolf In Your Midst  over 1 year ago

    I’m impressed. Keeping glasses on while hanging upside-down is no easy feat.

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    Don’t ask me how I know this.

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    artheaded1  over 1 year ago

    YAY! Possums!

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    Lauren Kramer  over 1 year ago

    I think Mags is about to find out that opossums are actually more bluff than bite and can be sweet a all get out.

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    BarbaraKrooss  over 1 year ago

    Photo of opossum wearing glasses…

    https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.opossum.org%2Fdiet.htm&psig=AOvVaw3Dw7S2GtozhPh9-jZkxjks&ust=1690986940461000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBAQjRxqFwoTCIiA-bbXu4ADFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE

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    azkfwecho Premium Member over 1 year ago

    So from the two previous encounters we have had with the Opossums (https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2020/03/15 and https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2020/06/24) they seem to be peace loving, friendly creatures, not to mention beneficial to humans AND they are immune to rabies! Have we had ANY indication as to how or why a war could have possibly occurred between the raccoons and the opossums? It just seems unlikely, based on the two encounters we have had. The raccoons must certainly have been the aggressors, it would seem to me. So maybe that’s why they are afraid of asking the Opossums for help?

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    Catmom  over 1 year ago

    I love possums, but it breaks my heart that the ones around here are so careless about looking both ways before crossing the roads.

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    Red Bird  over 1 year ago

    The opossum looks rather harmless. Maybe they can work together.

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    willie_mctell  over 1 year ago

    The possum appears to be less fierce than the raccoons believed. The plaid and the pince nez are dead give aways.

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    Medtech4  over 1 year ago

    This storyline is getting boring, I think.

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    lawguy05  over 1 year ago

    She looks very nice.

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    scaeva Premium Member over 1 year ago

    OT:

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    Fennec! at the Disco  over 1 year ago

    I like that the upside-down opossum has an upside-down exclamation mark!

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    mepowell  over 1 year ago

    That’s wonderful!

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    DorseyBelle  over 1 year ago

    Mr Possum doesn’t look very threatening at all. He’s just reading his book, comfy in his flannel shirt, and thinking upside down.

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    Lady Bri  over 1 year ago

    We certainly learned much about our opossum friends in 2020! https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2020/03/15

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    Font Lady Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Decibel seems to be settling in quite nicely. When Jora checked on her in the bathroom this morning, she had killed a rat. Good kitty. Update was outside the bathroom door growling until Jora let her in. Update found the half eaten rat, sniffed it a time or two, then decided to leave Decibel alone.

    Now Decibel has moved to the kitchen and discovered the corner cabinet. Update is interested but not pushing it, and Database is sticking to her safe place on top of the (unplugged) microwave on top of the minifridge. Peace reigns. At least for now.

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    crazeekatlady  over 1 year ago

    RACOOEEE! Raccoon toe beans!

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    anitakapita  over 1 year ago

    Yikes! There hanging by it’s tail is the dreaded ’Possum!

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