Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for August 05, 2024

Ooo! Does Thomas have a thing for her?

Salutatory bonk everyone! So glad to see Sophie home and safe. Hopefully we’ll see what happened with all the other critters soon.

Yay! Sophie!

I missed Sophie, one of my favourite characters.

I just LOVE Tommy. He’s just the sweetest, big fluffy guy. The salutatory bonk is sweet, but nothing beats him “standing guard” as Sophie journals under the bureau.

POLL Do you like celery? (Also, Sophie is back! Yipee!)

Welcome back, dear heart.

Sophie is going to her safe space. After her ordeal that is quite understandable. But, what happened to all the glitter that was on her? Any ideas, anyone?

Double shot of Lupin toebeans! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Celebratory notes-throwing! No further notes needed! That’s the whole story right there.

Okay, that’s one story wrapped up. Now, on to what happened to Gutter and the Warrior Mice. Hopefully coming during the week sometime.

Gutter and the mice need to be celebrated too. And where is Lil Starfish?

She seems relieved to have him close. He will guard her.

Onion ninjas are at it again.

Where’s Gutter?!

Gutter and Sophie need to meet under sweeter circumstances! Also, poor li’l Starfish Squeaker?! Can’t he be rescued too?

OT interesting cat book. “Felines of New York, a glimpse into the lives of New York’s feline inhabitants.” By Jim Teas. Very funny!

Disappointing. I wanted to see more derring-do, with Gutter and Sophie escaping together while sirens howl and searchlights hunt for them. And more grappling hook.

I like that Sophie has a very small, single sheet of paper to journal all her adventures on. Wouldn’t that be interesting to see what gets written? Maybe she uses kitty-code.

Now that Sophie is home I can tell a funny story that didn’t seem appropriate before. Several years ago my Mese fell out of a window through a loose screen just like Sophie did. I saw it happen and was able rescue him from the bushes outside. He was a little stunned but unhurt. However as soon as I put him down inside he took off running and made a flying leap at the screen and flew out again. Wheee!!! He managed to play that game a few more times before I finally was able to really secure that screen – and figured out to close the window.

You shoulda knowns not to trust steenky Windows cat. You is never knows when it gonna crash.

Sophie is back home where she is free to choose her way of being!

This one seemed to wrap up rather quickly compared to Georgia’s usual story lines. Not that I’m really complaining since my anxiety level is finally dropping, but WHERE’S GUTTER????

Awwww. So genuinely sweet. And a relief as while I’ll still check this space every day, it’s no longer so dang tense. Great arc but man it was not nice to see das girl in peril

I can never be lost, if Jesus says I’m found.

Salutatory BONK

I’m with you, girl! Absolutely, let’s spend a week journalling under the bureau, as part of our emotional process.

Part 2 of the story line arc: Sophie’s journal, that may give us more insight into TW?

Gutter may need some consoling if he thinks he failed to bring Sophie home.

Wish I could like this 100 times!!

How perfectly Sophie! I’m happily looking forward to the wrap-up of this story. I’m also wondering how this experience will impact Sophie’s next art project. (Good old floofy Thomas! He’s the best.)

SALUTATORY BONK

John Denver: Back Home Again

There’s my best friend Tommy with salutatory bonk

There’s my pen and paper for journaling

Underneath the bureau, protected from all the junk

I’ll write and tell my story as Iggy sings!

…….

Hey, it’s good to be back home again

It feels so long I’ve been away,

And missing all my friends

Yes, and hey it’s good to be back home again!

…….

I have a few found objects, projects do await

Puck and even Elvis is pleased

The Robber Mice are planning

To once again tempt fate

And there is Lupin and Ora Z!

…….

Hey, it’s good to be back home again

It feels so long I’ve been away,

And missing all my friends

Yes, and hey it’s good to be back home again!

Well, I found a deli ,Mr.Bean’s Deli. When I told him what the party was about he even offered to provide everything for free.

So, we have the finest selection of cheeses, pepperoni, ham, and summer sausage. Well, looks like he even included boneless chicken wings.

I am so glad to see Sophie safe at home! Can’t wait to read her memoir!

Great story- just enough tension. I loved the part where Sofie thought she was too frightened to help but when she knew the raccoon needed her she came through!!!

SALUTATORY BONK EVERYONE

Some days I wish I could fit under a bureau…

O Sophie Cat! You’re home and it’s just grand!

Due to our love, we creatures took a stand.

We found thee hidden there, dear. And

Our True Love, set you free;

We’ll stand on guard, O Cat.

We stand on guard for thee.

Celebration! She is home! Salutatory bonks and paper throwing are definitely in order, although Sophie understandably seems to prefer something more low-key.

This needs more

OT: Gobsmacked…

I, like Tommy, am overjoyed that Sophie is home and my clowder have volunteered, to a cat, to help him stand guard over her while she journals.

Oh thank heavens. Now I can finally sleep again at night, after the month long time frame it took to tell this story line.

And for all of you faithful readers of BCN, if you have yet to read War and Peace or Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, you have no excuse not to not read one or both of them as they will not take as long as this story line did.

I’m so disappointed in other people, sigh. If you may recall, Barb’s ex, Richard, adopted an injured stray tux kitten late last year that I had the “good fortune” to rescue. Not having the resources for her medical care at the time, I ignored my alarm bells. Now, after nearly a year of caring and really bonding with her, he is giving her to a shelter because the schmuck is moving to Chicago to be with some woman who may or may not really want to be with him. His apartment, in Willamette, allows cats. But he doesn’t want to drive 600 miles with her. I am so angry with him right now. I can’t take her, there would be too much stress for our Roy and Poody, ( I cat sat her twice for a week each time he went out to Chicago to meet this woman) it was a mess keeping them apart and locking Puddin’ in the office with her own thing. Not only that, but I got a good bite on my hand from Roy because I tried to keep him from attacking her for my efforts during her last stay. If I could have kept her as a kitten, there was a good chance she would have integrated into our family. Now that poor cat is getting her heart broken. He told about how much she missed him the last time he came back. What a fu$%^^&g jerk! The woman claims to be an animal lover, he won’t be living with her. And because of his age 78 and signs of cognitive decline, he doesn’t understand that these women he meets as romantic interests all have put him in the “friend zone” because of his condition. This woman is home bound and does not go out. He imagines spending all of his time with her, but there are signs she is cooling to him. If she found out, he gave up such a nice kitty cat….

Any predictions from the orb re: a grand romantic gesture in this story arc before the end of the week? Mine would be a certain trash panda making an appearance beneath Sophie’s window with a boombox and li’l starfish squeaker.

Tommy is the bestest friend ever.

I’ve little to say today. One thing only, I guess.

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Yay!

“Dear Diary,

I’m home! I’m under my bureau again. It feels so good to be here with my best friend Thomas. And guess what Diary, I have friends. They care enough that they came looking for me. They searched. Burt hacked the security system. They found me. They cut the power for me. Gutter brought his grappling hook and the Robber Mice did a wonderful job artistically messing up that woman’s home. Which gives me artistic ideas but that’s for a later time."

Sophie may be home, but I suspect there is more to this story….

After all, Gutter and Sophie each were involved in the other’s rescue and they are well-mannered enough to say thank you. Who knows where that conversation will lead.

What shelter pet will soothe Tidy Woman’s grief and end her loneliness (and bad decisions)?

Also, Save Starfish Squeaker!

Welcome home, Sophie!

OT: Earth sciences.

HUZZAH!!!!

ha! Classic!

HUZZAH!!!

Yeah and Sophie was taken from her captors house willingly instead of being broken out

I wonder, will the little Starfish be rescued and come to stay with Sophie … or will it perhaps remain at the tidy house to welcome and comfort whatever new pet joins the household? Shelter pets have often come from very traumatic situations (some have lost their loving people, while others have been discarded by the ones who should have loved them); many need some time and love to acclimate to a new home.

When we rescued Conan, he latched on to a squeaky tennis ball and seldom let it go unless he was asleep; for that first week or two, he held it in his jaws and squeaked it over and over again, whimpering all the time.

Nobody seems to have mentioned celeriac, or celery root/celery knob. It is the large round root of celery, and there are a couple good recipes for it, such as a slaw, on Google. It’s a pain to peel, but it’s a very delicate flavor. Very nice.

Home is where the heart is. And lots of Tommy’s positivity!

WHERE’S GUTTER??????

Welcome home, Sophie!

Yay for Sophie! dance dance dance

Looking forward to Gutter’s homecoming too!

And the Robber Mice! Hail the heroes!

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Elvis-Anum: Here’s a papyrus scroll from Their Majesties King Montgomery and Queen Lisa.

Puckmosis: Aren’t the Fields Where We Love to Dig hosting the Lawn Potato Event?

Elvis: Yes. It appears the Harsh Browns have won the gold.

Puck: And what other news do they have?

Elvis: They have a surplus of potatoes, and want to know if we would like some.

Puck: Let’s ask Sue Chef.

Sue: Sure. We can always find recipes for potatoes. In fact Ora Z has been perfecting her slicing skills. We can have potato chips.

Beatrixia: I need some potatoes for my battery experiment.

Elvis: But electricity hasn’t been invented yet!

Bea: Why wait until the last minute?

I hope she got to keep her starfish toy.

Of course, under the bureau is much more stealthy than out in the open.

TomTom and Sofums reunited and it feels so good!!

Awww! Love it