Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for August 09, 2023

How cute!

No comments? It’s hard to believe that I am the first one here today. I love Bea’s expression in the last panel; however, I find it hard to believe that Baba Mouse left them alone in the barn with no supervision.

There must be a technical glitch on GoComics today. I got here in a round-about way, not the usual Today’s Comic. Someone needs to get Burt here to fix it! Oh, and the young ones have cute names.

DANG! They finally dropped our BCN! I suspect the moles hijacked it! And the others that were missing this morning.

I agree, Bea. Maybe double dannnnng!

Oddly, my email had all my comics. But when I first came here at abou 5:15 am PDT this comic (and many others) did not show up. So I went to yesterday’s comic and found a bunch of comments about the comic not dropping. Somebody said that the email had the comic, so I went to my email, and sure enought, there it was. (This is a premium member perk). By the time I was through reading all my comics (all my usuals were in the email, even though they all weren’t on the GoComics website) I came back to GoComics and the comics had all dropped.

Spork has taken a liking to Beatrix in the last panel :)

Also I’m glad for updates but it’s 6AM for us here in the Midwest ;)

Finally updated! I was getting concerned that we would be getting a repeat of the Great Outage of 2022. The Kits are so cute. Glad to see them.

If Princess Magazine, the one and only, can keep those 5 brothers in order, she will do well as the ruler of her people!

Good thing Baba is around, she can wrangle that many kits. I love the raccoon hugging Beatrix in panel 4!

Good morning, all. Glad everyone was able to see today’s entry.

Such adorable names!

YAYYYYYY, today’s BCN is here! We missed you, new strip!

Oh my Cat…five younger brothers. Princess Magazine is getting a taste of leadership and responsibility from an early age, I see. Lesson one is not smacking the lot of them with a spatula, even if you really, really want to.

Also, I love the parallelism of “the one and only” vs. “the many and plenty”. Lovely rhetorical phrasing device. My brain is happy.

Yay, I can see BCN! Mother Goose, Baby Blues and a few other comics were posting late, too!

Spork seems like a fun name.

’ All Creatures Many and Plenty !! ’ … :)

Poor Spork. I know being the youngest means you get all the worn-out hand-me-downs and bargain-basement stuff, but they couldn’t even spare a second syllable for his name like all his brothers have!

There is some merit to my relatively late arrival—the only way I know of the delay is reading others’ comments about it. Especially Le’letha’s. I’m very pleased your brain is happy, dear!

Had to take one of our boys to the vet for dental appt. 1/2 hour away, so I’m late getting here & reading that that might be a good thing!!

Spork has achieved the first of his aims. Kitten hugging!

I love Spork’s little wave when he’s introduced.

Grandfolks and grandkids will cure the troubles of the world!!!

Or maybe her five little BOTHERS. Thanks for the rundown on their names, Georgia – can’t tell the players without a scorecard!

Go Comics was updated on time but you had to click the forward button on the date to see it. I too find the raccoon kits to be adorable. Not surprised Baba Mouse has left them temporarily. Mom cats do this once the kittens don’t need milk. They all seem to do just fine when she takes a nap elsewhere for a while. My theory is she’s fostering independence and self reliance, and the process works (as any cat owned human knows) since cats absolutely personify both.

Great to meet the rest of the kits and get all the names, and it looks like little Spork has taken a shine to Beatrix!

Magazine? Not tell me her mommy’s name is Newspaper.

I’m glad to see a new BCN comic strip. Thank you, GoComics!

Takeout, what’s wrong little buddy?

“The One, The Only, gracing you with my presence.”

Why is Drumstick running and Takeout crying?

I am confused. On July 17th it appeared that the kits were dropped off at the chicken coop (brown with red door). Now they are in barn (red)? And where is Baba?

I hope she doesn’t have to kit sit them too often.

Hooray! It’s posted.

It’s the ladies who keep getting things done. They’re chasing a story, aiding a conspiracy of light, and it was the ladies who figured out how to keep the BPH. It’s interesting that very recently I saw Hidden Figures.

Yea! We have a comic!

Looks like something spooked everybody in the last panel. The kits were all on their good behavior for introductions in panel 3.

Generally I don’t comment on these,, but……I am shocked that I am the first to mention the rare rear toebeans of Teapot in the last panel. Have all the towbean addicts been distracted by the lateness of the strip??

That middle panel could be a family portrait of five adorable brothers, or maybe a lineup of the five usual suspects?

I loved all the names, but “Takeout” and “Spork” made me laugh out loud.

I love how in the second panel Teapot looks like he’s holding the teacup on his tunic.

I think that’s a diaper Spork’s wearing. When I was a teen, my mother wanted me to babysit to “prepare me” for having kids. I told her no thanks, you could carve “never changed a diaper” on my tombstone. I meant it, too.

The Five Racooteers!

over a dozen years ago I asked a little girl whose family was visiting the soup kitchen where I volunteered what her and her sister’s names were. She replied, “My name is Napkin and she’s Apple” I couldn’t tell if she was serious or not but I took it with a grain of salt since her family had recently arrived from Senegal (to Canada) and her mom had been dragging them to soup kitchens and Churches to get free stuff

Is Fishbone wearing a cheese grater?

Baby Spork has no heraldic device. Too young to receive it? I love Takeout’s argent, a fortune cookie gules in outline. And Teapot’s vert, a chalice in outline sable is a little obvious to me. Who is the Herald for the raccoons?

Off-Topic Humming Birds

I realize these are woodlands kits, but why is Drumstick nekkid except for the colander?

OT: Personal Update

I sent feedback to GC earlier today about the outage. I got several replies. The first said:

“You’ve reached us while we’re out of the office in observance of Summer Holiday – possible delay in reply time.”

The second one said:

“\we are a very small team of hard-working staff and sometimes we need to take a break to ensure that we can provide you with the best support and attitude. To that end, it’s time for our equally small support team to get a well-deserved break from the computer. What this means is that the site will be monitored for serious issues, but emails will not be responded to until our support desk staff returns from vacation.”

It would be incredibly short sighted for the whole support staff to go on vacation at the same time unless, the whole support staff is one overworked person.

The third reply stated:

“I’m showing that this feature did update today, you may need to refresh your browser.”

That had to have come from a clueless bot!

Spork seems friendly!

I guess it’s probably just as well I was monumentally late getting here today.

Love the littlest one going to Bea!

Ah—the mystery is settled! The raccoons have a matriarchy, and as the only girl, Magazine is the sole heir.

my mother was the youngest of nine boys

@scaeva hasn’t posted today. I hope he didn’t overuse his sore pay!

Just got here a little while ago. Looks like I picked a good day to be really late.