Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for June 13, 2024

Poll: favorite cat

Georgia, thanks for these great tips!

It’s a PUCKY CHART! HUZZAH! And, as always, has so many great ideas on how to help.

This should be another Special Edition like the Shelter Cats story.

We had to do that when Shelly moved in. But not the chip thing as they weren’t a thing back then.

Ah-ha! Now I know why Georgia is running this story. It’s to help people know what to do when they find a lost pet.

Beatrix! Now that you’re no longer on search patrol, go home! Your Woman will be worried about you, and Trevor too.

OT purrs please

Excellent list! Nextdoor is one site where I see missing pet entries.

Yes, Bea! We remember your rescue, from the-Void!

Aaah. Me old enemy. Teeny tiny texts in narrow fonts.

Imagining Beatrix toe beans in panel two.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile (Classic Edition)

At the Great Pyramid

Beatrixia: Hello, everyone. What brings you to the No Longer Hidden Library?

Maat-Tilda: Actually, we’re here to get gold for repairing Thomios’ tray.

Bea: Oh, my! What happened?

Tillie: Lupinium.

Bea: Gotcha.

Sophititi: Ohariko-San and Li-San have a way of fixing the tray and making it even more beautiful.

Shisho-San: Do you mean kintsugi?

Li-San: Yes. Iron Glove has graciously agreed to prepare gold from the room in front of here so we can begin.

Iron Glove: I’ve made some of the gold into powder. Now you can add it to the lacquer to make the adhesive.

Li-San: Now Tillie-San, if you wouldn’t mind holding these pieces together for a few minutes.

Tillie: Not at all.

Bea: It’s so beautiful!

Li-San: Now its story can continue.

Shisto-San: And you can find scrolls about it under the number 738.18.

Meanwhile, Back in Rhode Island

Sophie: Thank you for letting me use your tray to hold my art project, Thomas. How long has it been in your family?

Tommy: I don’t know. It seems like we’ve had it since forever.

Good tips! Hopefully they help someone among the readership bring a lost pet home.

We were discussing toasted cheese sandwiches yesterday. I mentioned that I like a few strips of bacon on mine. Uncle Snipe replied and said add a slice of tomato. At this point, we may as well just go for a BLT with cheese. I actually ordered that in a restaurant once and they said they couldn’t figure out how to put cheese on a BLT. I said it’s really not that hard. Then there’s the time I went over to the cafeteria of a local university located within a block of where I used to work. A big banner over the grill said the days’ special was a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich. So I said to the kid behind the counter, “I’ll have the BLT”. He said, “What’s a BLT”. I said, “Look up”. How do you get to be in college and not know what a BLT is?

I remember when the woman checked with neighbors about Goldie before she took her in. And fed her outside for awhile to give her a chance to go home as I used to do before there were chips. I love having my kids chipped now.

Bring an adult?

Guess I’d have to go find one…

Georgia, could you have waited a week or two for the PSA? The local PBS station is in the midst of one of their pleas for money campaigns. It would be nice to spread these kinds of things out over time.

OT: (Literal) Breaking H00min News (update reposted from yesterday evening, etc.)

Great advice in that chart, Georgia and Puck!

Do most vets really scan for free? Most things they do are very far from free

There’s a very good book called Three Retrievers’ Guide to Finding Your Lost Cat. It’s less than 50 pages long, but it’s full of great advice.

Drinking coffee from my BCN mug (with the boys at the news desk) and opening the news to find a Pucky Chart – What a great start to the day!

I always start my daily news reading with BCN. It’s a healthy inoculation before heading on to news of fresh disasters covered by WAPO and NYT.

I love Beatrix’s double thumbs up in the 2nd panel!

Shelters should start chipping pets before they leave, just like when they neuter them first. (sometimes, though, they neuter FAR too young imo)

A Puck Chart! Yay! OT, but not by far: Is there anywhere that I could find all of the past BCN charts?

So, this reminded me of something I read on The Oatmeal several years ago. He was suggesting an orange collar on your kitty, both because it’s more visible, especially at night, and that it’s a very clear sign that the kitty belongs in a home. That way, it will hopefully be much more likely that the kitty will be returned home. Just something that may help!

OT -Peta’s sibling (bad news)

I absolutely love how Goldie is all over that Pucky Chart.

Excellent job with the chart, Puck. It will come in handy for sure.

I always love a Pucky Chart! ♥

And if you want a pet consider a shelter cat or kitten. This is adopt a shelter cat month. The only guarantee is a lifetime of love.

O.T. “Update” on car insurance claim

As a reminder, a microchip is only useful if you’ve entered your information into one or more databases.

These are all good tips. When my cat disappeared, I tried them all. I was pretty sure a coyote got him. When my other cat, the same age, died between one step and the next in the back yard, it occurred to me the first one may have died the same way, out in a field somewhere.

Cats do not live as long as we do. It can be hard to accept. I try to keep two cats, so the survivor can comfort me until I feel up to raising another kitten

we did all this….. but noone came up. Graycie was so cute and domesticated I could not believe she does not belong anywhere. I did not intend keeping her. But she stayed. Since nearly 5 years….

Check the local animal shelter! Sometimes Animal Control (La Migra) steals indoor/outdoor pets who are allowed to roam free.