Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for July 28, 2024

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    uncle snipe  3 months ago

    I love Elvis’ relaxed look. Tie loosened, collar undone. But his tongue stuck out is just adorable!

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    Ricky Bennett  3 months ago

    Wow! Look at BCN’s adoring fans…

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    McColl34 Premium Member 3 months ago

    Wow! Natasha stole Lupin’s umbrella and escaped to the bookstore quickly!

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    FreyjaRN Premium Member 3 months ago

    Georgia must have been here. That’s what I do most of the day. I have a small clip-on fan that I got in a hospital trip clipped to my computer table. Ah, hot flashes…

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    Ahsum  3 months ago

    Sunday Funday

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    Aspen_Bell  3 months ago

    There’s a one-pager in an old Dennis the Menace comic book where Dennis tells his folks he has an idea to cool off in midsummer. He brings out his record player and cranks up “Jingle Bells” good and loud. Everybody looks a bit cooler, while Mr. Wilson, next door, says “In JULY???” — he thinks the Mitchells have finally lost their minds. At WQAX when the temperature would inch toward 100 I’d break out “Sleigh Ride”, “Winter Wonderland” and “Jingle Bells”.

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    azkfwecho Premium Member 3 months ago

    What is Trevor chewing on in the last panel? I can’t figure it out. Is it a freezer pop? Looks purple. Grape flavor? Looks like Beatrix has something of the sort in the last four panels, orange?

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    kgornick Premium Member 3 months ago

    Sage advice!

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    Lady Bri  3 months ago

    I can sympathize with them at the moment because my MIL’s living room is sweltering hot and stuffy with the wood burning stove ablaze. Love sweet little Bea’s suggestion about singing Christmas carols. ♥️

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    WelshRat Premium Member 3 months ago

    Trevor looks good in civvies.

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    marilynnbyerly  3 months ago

    Trevor!!!!!

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    ikini Premium Member 3 months ago

    Oh wow! Beatrix rear paw toe beans in two different panels!!! SQUI (for scaeva’s sake).

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    howtheduck  3 months ago

    It seems like everyone around me is doing some kind of Christmas in July this year. What was once an occasional thing, seems to happen all the time.

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    FreihEitner Premium Member 3 months ago

    I love Lupin lapping at his glass of lemonade. :-P

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    azkfwecho Premium Member 3 months ago

    I’m all for giving up when it’s hot. I always feel lethragic when it gets too hot anyway. Even if I’m in an air conditioned building, if it’s hot outside, I feel lethargic. Wonder why that is?

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    Steve Bartholomew  3 months ago

    That is not how cats read books. They lie on top of them and absorb the words thru their fur.

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    sugordon  3 months ago

    Beatrice is so right

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    enigmamz  3 months ago

    August is great time to remember it’s just 6 months to February!

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    cat19632001  3 months ago

    “Grab a book, find a fan, and give up” — words to live by Bea.

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    Gent  3 months ago

    If you is needs more fans then we is down here in the comments boards.

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    I AM CARTOON LADY!  3 months ago

    During the nyc heat wave, I finally finished digging up the 70 year old English ivy, in my front yard…I started digging in April!

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    222jo  3 months ago

    OT sorta. For those that haven’t seen Georgia’s FB page; she was saying that Beatrix was a kitten that actually belonged to her but died of cancer when she was only 4 months old. Elvis loved her and she was around even before Puck. Please feel free to add or correct my account, it was a fairly long explanation my memory isn’t great.

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    andycat Premium Member 3 months ago

    I’ve read that “A Christmas Song” (Chestnuts Roasting On an Open Fire) was written during a heat wave for this very reason.

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    rheddmobile  3 months ago

    It’s been unexpected cool and raining here for the past week. My FIL is visiting and keeps asking if it usually rains all the time. No, no, it’s usually like opening an oven door.

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    Dkram  3 months ago

    Beatrix the bookstore cat. By any chance was she named for Beatrix Potter?

    (^.^)

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    Katzen1415  3 months ago

    Sounds very pleasant! Also cool that we get an appearance of Natasha at the news desk.

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    Cassia  3 months ago

    In the summertime, when the sun is bright and high

    Just stretch right out ’cause no chores do apply

    When the weather’s hot

    You do nothin’, you got nothin’ on your mind

    Have a drink to revive

    Lap all the ice pops you can find

    If a book is good, take it out for a read

    If a book is poor, just do not proceed

    Turn up your fan, speed it up to a thousandtwenty-five

    When the sun goes down

    You’ll have made it, wave the heated air bye-bye

    Sing along with us

    Dee-dee-dee, dee-dee

    Da-da-da, da-da

    Yeah, time for nap-nappy

    Da da-da

    Dee-da-da, dee-da-da, da-da-da

    Yeah da-da, da-da-da

    /Ray Dorset /In The Summertime /Mungo Jerry

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    rs0204 Premium Member 3 months ago

    Polydactyl toe beans…Swoon.

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    DorseyBelle  3 months ago

    Toebeans all over the place, but my biggest Squeee today is for Elvis in short sleeves!! (or possibly rolled up sleeves – open collar too!)

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    mepowell  3 months ago

    Post from Georgia yesterday on Beatrix: "Post from Georgia on Beatrix: "You may not know—because I have not talked about it too much, though it has been mentioned in a few interviews and in-person talks over the years—We lost the real life Beatrix to FIP in autumn of 2010. She was an energetic, outgoing, enthusiastic, loving, terrific climber. She was the first friend Elvis ever made. She was only four months old. It was devastating. I had never heard of FIP until she slowed down suddenly and we brought her to the vet. It was deeply heartbreaking. The vet who guided us through the terrible experience promised to assist us to adopt another kitten, when we were were ready. We told her we’d like to adopt a special needs cat when the time came. Months later we called her, days after a black kitten had been brought in after a possible bird-of-prey attack. She had just amputated his injured back leg, and he was doing great. A week or so later, Elvis made his second friend, his lifelong best buddy Puck. But we all never stopped loving Beatrix or filled her place in our hearts. The idea for a social media intern came to me after a work trip to Kansas City when I met the delightful, fantastic force of nature that is my now friend Lindsay Gibson. 8-9 years later, I’m not even certain that was her role in the company. What I do remember was her great energy, which would sweep into a room and fill it with helpful ideas as her pencil jotted down notes and afterthoughts, leaving the space just a little more efficient in her wake. I realized how the station really needed an energizing, let’s-get-this-done attitude, to counterbalance Elvis’s rigid way of always-doing-things-this-way. When it came to choosing a cat, Beatrix was the immediate answer, springing into my heart as a way to bring her back into our lives and make her and Elvis’s brief friendship truly legendary. Only I couldn’t imagine her as an adult.

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    mepowell  3 months ago

    Georgia’s Post continued: “Trevor’s Woman was one of the few people who had met Beatrix in her brief life in our home. She happy climbed up her pant leg to greet Amy shortly after she came through the door to hangout during a layover to RI from Alaska. (…Trevor’s Woman has had many adventures.) It felt very fitting to home her with Amy in the comic. I decided Beatrix would be the first kitten. Publicly, I’ve always said I stopped time in the comic so we wouldn’t lose Baba Mouse—but it also saved Beatrix in a way I couldn’t in real life. She appeared in the snow one February strip, outside the window of the Big Pink House, four months old… This treatment is the answer to my prayers and many of your prayers too, I’m sure. What a wonderful thing that we are here to see a treatment for FIP. Many vivacious, springy, happy Beatrixes will get to grow into wise, curmudgeonly old Baba Mouses now… and befriend Elvises, Pucks, and Trevors along the way. I don’t tell Beatrix’s story often, partly because it hurts a lot, but even more because I wanted everyone to love her exactly for who she was, like we did. Not because she was tragic—because only her end was tragic, she herself was magic. A sweet, happy, little climber on a spring. It means a lot that so many people all over the world now know her and have come to love her too. She only lived four months, but these books and comics will hopefully go on and on. Kids will grow up to share their favorite stories of her with their kids. In this way, hopefully now she’ll even outlive me.”

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    KD2  3 months ago

    Just a reminder…. Today is when they were going to air the interview with Georgia . It is supposed to be at 8 am Pacific/SFO time online at : KCSM.org

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    davanden  3 months ago

    Elvis in short sleeves.

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    A R V reader  3 months ago

    It is too hot where I am now. But I can’t wait for tomorrow to see the results of Sophie’s creativity.

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    anomalous4  3 months ago

    OT: Back home again…

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    elhorr  3 months ago

    Wondering how long it’s gonna take Lupin to realize one of the robber mice just snitched the cocktail umbrella right out of his iced lemonade <hee!>

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    azkfwecho Premium Member 3 months ago

    OT-ATTN: @bufalogal

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    ladykat  3 months ago

    Is it just me, or have we not heard from Kitty Katz lately?

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    win.45mag  3 months ago

    I can’t read with a fan. It makes me mad fighting the blowing pages.

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    Le'letha Premium Member 3 months ago

    Yep. Can confirm. When it’s too hot, have mercy on yourself and take it easy. Overdoing it in the heat is dangerous.

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    Kitty Katz  3 months ago

    Meanwhile, Back on the Nil e

    At the Artisans’ Studio

    Serfig-Aro (Figs): This just in from the Nile Games! The Royal Procurers took the Gold Medal in the team Cheese Taking competition. And Ta-Natash is in the Semi Finals in Needle Fencing.

    Adobe Style: Wonderful! When does the Shredding Competition start?

    Figs: That starts Tuesday. Ora Z is the favorite. And tomorrow the Xanadu Hive will give a demo of Bees Ball.

    Sophititi: Dooky Ferret is getting the team ready for a Basic Ball demo as well.

    Enter the Royal Procurers

    Maat-Tilda: Welcome, Cheese Taking Champions!

    Alice-Ata: Thank you! We bring a wheel of Double Down cheese as a trophy!

    Sue Chef: I see some great recipes coming up soon!

    Soph: Are any of our other friends in the competition?

    Violet-Ifa: Yes. Iggy is in the Sailing race, and Beatrixia is in the climbing competition, Poyldactyl Division.

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    H&M  3 months ago

    Beatrix presenting the news in a summer pajama is so funny, It would be funny if we saw TV presenters present the news in summer pajamas (I know dress code would prevent them, but not in other parallel universes)

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    Lauren Kramer  3 months ago

    Otter Pop!

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    Zoomer&Yeti  3 months ago

    Trevor’s statement at the end reminds me of the movie 1776, when Col. McKean is rambling on about something, and John Hancock pounds his gavel and implores him to stop, adding “It’s too hot.”

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    mpolo11 Premium Member 3 months ago

    Well, there are halloween decorations at Lowe’s already.

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    daleandkristen  3 months ago

    “Let’s sing Christmas Carols”!!!!! Love you baby Beatrix.

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    wolfiiig  3 months ago

    I noticed Halloween candy appearing at the local grocery. Soon pumpkins will replace watermelon.

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    bonita.eley  3 months ago

    Great advice- a book and a fan!!!

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    metagalaxy1970  3 months ago

    Try walking down to the local cat colony (with the touch of OA in the right hip, not nearly as fast), about 30 minutes away (used to be about 15-20). Walking in the humidity and walking back. My shirt gets soaked with sweat. I make sure to have my sun umbrella which helps keep the sun off of me, but doesn’t help with the humidity. I make sure to bring a sports drink (half water, half sports drink in the big water bottle and the bottle of sports drink). Once I get home on Saturday, shower, Italian Ice, nap. Can’t do the nap on Sundays. The kitties do appreciate it, but it’s hard on the body. Takes me all week to recover and then back to it the next weekend. I do it in the morning, but it wouldn’t matter if I left at 6, 7, or 8, the humidity is what gets me.

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    scaeva Premium Member 3 months ago

    Thank you, Georgia, for mentioning us in the interview. To the fullest extent that we each can, the Orb has your six.

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    old_geek  3 months ago

    It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity…..

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    Red Bird  3 months ago

    You can never read too many books. They’re a great way to escape from reality.

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    Granny Roberta  3 months ago

    “Just Give Up”—not the best advice … but I’muna take it!

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    Fennec! at the Disco  3 months ago

    How did Natasha get to the bookstore so quickly?

    And she’s got Lupin’s drink brelly!

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    mistercatworks  3 months ago

    Those large TV screens still direct a lot of heat your way. Books are cool.

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    Queen of America  3 months ago

    I absolutely agree.

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    willie_mctell  3 months ago

    And that’s why I love Beatrix.

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    Solarbear Premium Member 3 months ago

    So many kitty tongues! Squee!

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    sew-so  3 months ago

    Christmas is a lovely way to beat the summer heat – I’ve had Christmas ornaments out since early June! Then my local charity thrift shop decided to have a Christmas in July sale… ah well, who needs a budget anyway, right?

    The weather reports must have the temperatures wrong, there are snowmen (and snowwomen) all over my house.

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    catmom1360  3 months ago

    I’m glad I live in a place that doesn’t get too hot.

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    Formedras  3 months ago

    In the spirit of Beatrix’s last text bubble, I’ve been playing the song Silent Hill in DanceDanceRevolution a bunch this month. (That Double Expert is NOT an 11, that is a freakin’ 12!)

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    jemelvin  3 months ago

    A T-shirt of panel two!! Priceless!!

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    Elbiff Mow Mow  3 months ago

    Sounds… perfect.

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