Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for June 25, 2024

Cozy Show Kennel my big toe! Cozy must be code for TOO DANG SMALL!

A show kennel. Well, that explains a few things. Not necessarily how I was hoping, but not the worst case scenario.

yes, please Bea, just say internet!

I have crate expectations for her rescue…

so are they going to put her in a show? that anyone could attend? that could be easily disrupted by other animals??

Does the internet say anything about how to break in or out of that kennel, Beatrix? Someone must have done a video about its weaknesses!

Sophie is a prize. But one that’s been stolen.

This isn’t for a cat fanciers’ show. It’s an adoption show.

Free Sophie!

Chitter and Chatter need to airdrop copies of Sophie’s Missing Cat poster all over this fancy couple’s fancy lawn, as well as shoving their fancy mailbox full of them.♥

$399. Nice.

Sophie isn’t the only one missing. Right now, some of the GoComics button ID icons are missing. The little heart or speech bubble icons that used to appear on the notifications to let me know whether it was for a like or a reply are missing. The icon for the heart button to allow me to like this strip is also missing. In the place where it should be, I can see the number 3127. I’ve tried refreshing the page, but so far that hasn’t brought the icons back.

Have they had time to go shopping? But why would they just happen to have a show crate sitting around?

Every time I think I know where Georgia is going with this story line, she throws in another twisty turn.

Who are these people? Bea should do a Google search.

Elvis is catching up with technology. He now knows about the internet, which puts him on my level.

Say it, Elvis❤️

They are rich people who want a prize cat, it seems. Doesn’t seem very ethical to not check on a chip. Sophie doesn’t wear a collar? Does a prize cat need to obey commands, stand a certain way? Don’t these people wonder about her weepy eyes? Comeuppance is needed!

I had to look up the term “being crated” and this is the definition I got from Google:

“A crate for a pet is like a crib, travel sleeper, or playpen for a small child. It is a safe area that can be associated with resting and sleeping.”

I don’t care how “safe” it’s supposed to be, nor how much rest and sleep a pet is supposed to get in it, it’s still a prison. It’s solitary confinement. It’s cruel.

You go, Bea! My fellow lil’ geek girl! $399 for a crate? These people have more money than sense!

My anxiety is just through the roof with this story line. I can’t help it. I think both Loaner Cat and Beau know too. I usually don’t have both of them in the ‘big chair’ with me in the morning, but the minute I open GC, they’re both in the chair with me while I read this. I know it would ruin everything Georgia has planned, but I want to reach through the screen and grab Sophie and put her back where she belongs.

Does anyone know what “sticker grab” means? I googled it, but I only get sticker grab bags in the results.

Elvis, a twelve-year-old child, knows what Bea said.

Robin, quick find be a twelve-year-old child. I can’t make heads or tails of this.

They probably put Sophie in the crate so their new acquisition can be admired without getting cat hair on the furniture or carpeting.

She has been catnapped! And still, NOBODY has taken her to the vet to check of she has a chip grrrr.

I think the people need to be put in a “Cozy Crate”.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile (Classic Edition)

Beatrixia: Looks like all the sisters met fine cats. Except for the youngest. What happened between her and Pink Lupin?

Elvis-Anum: According to the story, at the end of the Yarn Ball the four older sisters introduced their young cats to Tommy, who was delighted to meet them. But young Ora Zella was nowhere to be found.

Here’s the rest of the story:

Chef Tommy: I’m delighted to meet you, young cats. I am sure you all are fine, upstanding cat men.

Puck: I would like to ask you for Sophie’s paw in marriage, Chef Tommy.

Elvis: And I would like to court Tabitha, who is not intimidated by my poofing.

Chef Tommy: Agreed.

Captain Iggy: I must go back to my ship, but I would like to come to an understanding with Beatrix. When I’m back from sailing and she completes her studies at University, we would like to wed.

Burt: And I would like to wed Goldie as soon as I have made Run Down Estate Habitable.

Chef Tommy: This is all wonderful news. But where is Ora Zella?

Puck: Oh, no! It seems Pink Lupin is missing as well!

Whatever fancy name them aliens is give it it still a steenky cage and they is still planning to eats cat. Not waste time and prepares for battle now. It gonna be steenky aliens vs earthleengs.

“I Interneted it.”

“Gotcha.”

To quote puck, ‘This really toasts my cheese!’

These people are jerks.

Beatrix is so savvy. Not sure what this means for our Sophie, but I am sure it is nothing good.

Pick her up and then just go-go

Don’t leave her hanging around with yo-yos

Pick her up and then just go-go

We all really miss her and it makes us cry

Cratin’ her up is such a no-no

‘Cause she’s not meant to be just solo

Pick her up and then just go-go

Take your chances tonight

I wanna hit those guys!

Yeah, yeah

- George Michael / Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

Them young folks today and their infernal interwebs will be the death of me!

well, it seems as a community we tend to think the very worst when it comes to anyone (character) messing with “our” cats.

I am trying to steer away from this and remember that this strip/world leans strongly toward “high fantasy” (by my definition, not what appears to be the current or real definition).

To me, “high fantasy” is like the Wizard of Oz, where despite scares, thrills & chills, the main characters are never truly in danger (though they may appear to be). when the story ends, the core group remains together & unharmed.

My “low fantasy” (which is likely better described as “dark fantasy”) is more like Glen Cook’s “Black Company” series or (while it is modern crime fiction & not fantasy at all) Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole books, where the bad often thrive for much longer than the reader would like, and pretty much anyone (except the title character, so far) could be killed off in shocking fashion at the drop of a hat.

Clearly, we are in a much safer universe here. I remain fairly confident that the World that our good boys & girls are living in does not have any real “monsters” in it.

I suspect that Sophie’s captors will likely turn out to be foolish, misguided or ignorant. Or perhaps there will be a twist and it will turn out that they “meant well” (but executed poorly).

But I doubt that they will turn out to be employed by the shady government research center or even Servants of Vecna and that the Big Pink House has been in Hawkins all along.

Poor Mr Angry Fussy Paws, looks like Bea is going a bit over his head there

Catnappers,, brains change as we age

At least we know they spend a lot of money for a cat – $400 for a kennel?!?!?!?!

why… making it more complicated seemed more fun and intelligent in someway. :D

I just hope Sophie is rescued very soon, my anxiety levels for her are through the roof already!

So…what…she’s just a trophy to display to them?

It is storylines like these that I wish I could read ahead on, though if you are on Patreon you can get some hints at what is coming a bit like reading ahead without the worry of getting too much info ahead of time. Georgia doesn’t give too much away, she doesn’t want to spoil the story. I was looking ahead in a book I am reading right now because I wanted to know something but found out something I wasn’t sure I wanted to know yet.

Sophie needs to be rescued soon from those idiots.

I gotta admit, I’m not quite seeing the “cozy” here. (I keep thinking back to Sophie all snuggled in her carrier, writing in her journal, while the rest of the crew was getting ready for wrestling. She reminded me of Jeannie (I Dream of Jeannie) in her fancy genie bottle with all the plush cushions – now THAT was cozy!)

For those with story anxiety about Sophie, remember that Georgia promised everyone that she will be okay. And I’m guessing that a romance will happen during the Great Escape. Something else to look forward to.

Cat on high, Hear our prayer

In our need, you have always been there

She is young, she’s afraid,

Let her rest, Heaven blessed

Bring her home, bring her home

The sweetest cat we’ve ever known

That Georgia granted us for fun

Each strip goes by one by one

How soon they fly on and on

And we can’t wait ‘til this arc’s done

Bring her peace in her world

She is young, She is only a girl

This great team help will give

Rescue her, let her live,

From that cage she will fly

Let her live

Bring her home

Bring her home!

My cat has one – my daughter got it so that they could take her on a 15 hour drive to her new home. It is big enough for a litter box, and food and water. She made it okay. She still had the kennel for stress – it’s her “room”. She hates the ceiling fan and will go to her room for a while. Until she comes out to noodge me…

Thank you, Beatrix!

(But no matter what you call it, it’s still a cage.)

OT: DONE!!!, Emotional Support Velociraptors, & Lyme, & stuff, oh my…

$399 for something too small to accommodate a cat’s most basic needs? Outrageous!

Don’t do that!!!

Worse and worse!

O.T. Heat Warning

If the cat-nappers are planning on taking Sophie to a cat show of sorts, I feel for Sophie and her anxieties.

Elvis’s comment: in FUR iating!!!

A free empty box is cozier than that piece of junk. Those people have much to learn about cats.

This may be unpopular opinion, but I just don’t feel like these people are that bad. Misguided perhaps, but not that bad. I don’t think there’s a nefarious plot. But people who maybe haven’t had pets before don’t understand them the way those of us who have do. I choose to think that they picked her up because they’re lonely and have not had the experience of finding lost cats, or taking them to get microchip checked. Volunteering with the rescue, we see it often where people who are non-pet people try to do something nice or what they think is right to help an animal, but they just don’t have the experience to know what to do. I’m choosing to believe in well meaning but not knowledgeable interference.

OT : ATTENTION ALL ORB BEINGS!! In case anyone missed me, I’m guessing NOPE, I’m still around. Real life and computer problems have left me without a decent internet connection. I have already taken steps to rectify the matter.

Bea is the social media and internet expert on staff although her bookstore duties come first.

Oh-Kay… So now I’m picturing a pressure sensitive floor, and laser beam triggers throughout the room; with poor gutter lowering himself on a tether trying to steal Sophie like the Crown Jewels (cue 5/4 mission impossible music). These people are going to a LOT of trouble to secure their stolen cat!! In My Humble Opinion, Gutter should just hijack a garbage truck and drive into the fancy house and escape with Sophie in inevitable chaos that follows. (And in the process, trick that woman into sheltering in the show kennel and take a few pics!)

That “sticker” looks like a price tag ! Are they trying to sell her – with no vet check (and the discovery of a chip) ?

But now we know the words for it.. ty Georgia

Well, at least she wasn’t kidnapped by tourists from another country.

If someone just says “the internet” I would need some details

This makes me very happy.