Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 27, 2024

Whistle while you wave your toebeans? Now THAT’S focusing!

I mean, she seems to be fine. She’ll find her way out when she gets bored or no one is paying attention to her (really the same thing, right?)

Gonna be interesting to see how they’re gonna extri-cat her…

She’s a happy little captive.

Time to call in the Robber Mice Alpine Search and Rescue Team!

Tiny, behind-the-bureau, waving toe-beans! Squeee! You know, after all that talk about how to pronounce Byour-roe/boo-row, wouldn’t most of us just call it a chest of drawers? (Pronounced chesta-drors)

OZ, Can you whistle a happy tune? Think happy thoughts! And in mixed musical metaphors, you can bravely fly away.

Wait … why does Ora Zella have to go all the way back up to top of the bureau? can’t she just, you know, walk either left or right to get out?

♫ We’re sending our love behind the bureau! ♪ Reminds me of that episode of The Simpsons where a little boy was thought to be fallen down a well: https://youtu.Be/nbhiLbT_yGo?t=46

She’s the least bothered by her location.

Too bad Trevor is too big to get in through the basement window. This is a job for a collie—border collie.

“But if you hum a few bars, maybe I can remember the lyrics…”

Hi Alice!

Did anybody else experience difficulty getting to GoComics starting around 2:30 AM EST? I was commenting on a post when it went down. Two of the detector sites I checked said it was up for everyone but me, but two others gave me the spinning arrow and never decided whether it was down or not.

Meeces! Yay! Where have you guys been!

Tiny kittens are fearless and foolish. True Oy they have their own way of classifying danger.

Whistle while I’m wedged! Toot too toot toot too tooooot! Because I did not think this through, I’m stuck behind a big Brew roo!

Puck, asking a kitten to, focus…chaos, does not focus!

Come on, Ora Zella. Just dig your crampons in to the wood and climb up like you did with the door frame.

Now enough with the bureaucatcy and gets a rope!

A kitten’s logic: Can you climb? No, but I can whistle!

Pappa cat is flummoxed.

(promptly has Everybody’s Baby flashbacks)

Robber Mouse sighting

This might be a bigger arc than I first expected. Why do I hear the “Mission Impossible” music playing in the background?

Puck, in the last panel, is the face of every parent of an ADHD child. Me, with ADHD, asking ADHD child: “Can you do A or B?” Child: “I can do X!!!”

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Iggy: I like the idea of an auditorium for the Happy Healthy Hospital Pyramid. Maybe Burt-Ra can help us with the planning.

Wally: And I’ll ask my many times great grandfather, Ahwil-Fixit for ideas.

Iron Glove: Sounds like a plan!

At the Ancient Egypt Senior Center

Awhil-Fixit the First: Wally! How’s my great great great great grandson?

Wally: I’m great, Gramps. You know my friends Iggy Shipwright and Iron Glove Shoutmunk!

Gramps: I do indeed. How are you boys?

Iggy: Just fine, sir.

Iron Glove: I’m better than great!

Gramps: Now Wally tells me you boys would like to create an auditorium for the Hospital Pyramid.

Iggy: That’s right, sir. The fundraiser went so well we thought they could do with a permanent auditorium.

Gramps: Well, now I seem to remember a room in the oPyramid that might do. And it’s not far from the hospital.

Wally: I knew that pyramid was better on the inside.

Gramps: What you might not know is that there is a large hall, and down the corridor to the right is a litter room.

Wedged behind the bureau till you look like a burrito…but this just in: WHISTLE overcome some day…

I think Puck’s more upset than anybody!!

Ora Zella should read today’s Fur Babies.

Oh my, another CATastrophe in the making.

I’ve never seen a cat whistle. Some of them squeak, but whistling cats are rare indeed.

If they all yell loud enough, the Woman will come to see what is going on.

OT: I finally remembered what I was going to say yesterday: I’ve decided to take up tatting. Does anybody here tat, and did they find it at he!!ishly difficult as I am just to get started?

Wow! A whistling cat.

Everything is fine. She’s just whistling while she lurks.

All this whistling is remind me of Fabulous FoXo.

My newest and littlest cat, Babydoll, fell of and got stranded behind the refrigerator. I had to move first a dresser (yes, a dresser), then a hutch cabinet, and finally she was able to walk out on her own. Cats make for some exercise for you; know the gym instructions “and repeat”? She did it again this past week.

If Ora Zella can whistle, can she teach my tortie Muriel to blow her nose?

Have we seen the x0.5 on the camera one display before?

Where has Ora Zella gone

And what exactly was the cause?

Is that streetwise li’l squeeze

Contained against all odds?

Can there ever be a calm night with no naughty deed?

Late last night, her fun took a turn

Now she dreams of being freed

What is a boo-roo?

Ora’s stuck behind a boo-roo ’til the end of the night

It won’t be long, ‘causd help’s gonna come fast

To rescue this fresh but tiny delight

She needs a hero

She whistles loud with cheer, oh, in the morning light

It’s diff’rent for sure, and it’s a lovely tune

With a sound that’s larger than life

She wishes she had a knife

/ Jim Steinman / Dean Pitchford / Holding Out for a Hero / Bonnie Tyler

A cat who can whistle?

Notice the change in emphasis. First, Puck speaks in capitals and is answered in small. Next exchange, he’s in small and she’s in caps. The conversation ends with Puck in bold CAPS.

Rogers and Hammerstein’s The King And I: Whistle a Happy Tune

When mischief is to be done

I hold my head up high

And whistle a happy tune

And everyone knows that I

Am going there!

…….

If there is someplace to hide

Or things to shred and tear

I whistle a happy tune

And destroy everything that is

Right there!

…….

The consequences are few because

I am really as cute as that

So when it comes to discipline

Who gets mad at a tiny cat?

…….

I whistle a happy tune

And everyone knows that I’m

Up to some type of crime

But mostly I do get away!

…….

Show people that you are cute

And you’ll get away by far

Because you are really as loved

As you don’t realize you are!

Ora Zella- You are worrying the other cats- walk sideways and you will be out from behind the Boo-Row!

It seems everybody is concerned about this predicament EXCEPT Ora Zella. :P

Love how Puck went from being concerned to growing impatient.

Where is grumpy Papa?

Puck has such expressive eyebrows!

OT, update on yesterday’s OT

OT