Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for August 10, 2024

Sophie created her own splash of color in the living room…

But you hated it when Sophie coloured the room!

Sophie, we all love your big messes.

Turns out Sophie is just as big of a sweetie as Tommy! You just wanna give her a big hug for being so awesome. And I love a big mess too! Especially when it comes to food!

Did somebody pull a switcheroo? Who is this strange cat, and where are you hiding the real Sophie? I feel as if I’m in some sort of an alternate universe. Gent was right all along. The ones who abducted Sophie really are aliens. They have turned Sophie, Tommy, and their woman into pod people.

I’m glad the Tidy Woman apologized to Sophie.

And his tie still matches the remaining, uh, unplanned (on Mrs. Tidy’s part) coloration, in the living room (and her hair)!

I sometimes say the same thing, “It’s okay,” when I actually mean, “It’s not okay, but I understand or at least accept your apology.”

You’re very gracious, Sophie ❤️

Sophie’s talk of loving big messes has me thinking of CHOCOLATE CAKE! In particular my recipe for chocolate syrup cake. But should I stick to the pure chocolate fix with chocolate frosting? Or go off script and use a cream cheese frosting?

Wow, Sophie, I expected you to still be under the bureau, processing your traumatic experiences. You’re being outgoing, forgiving, friendly, and not at all shy – has Tommy worn off on you?

I wonder if we will get a meet up with Sophie and Gutter next week or if Georgia is going to make us wait longer.

Awwww

Sophie is mellowing a bit. I’m glad Mrs. Tidy apologized. That was so kind.

Still a bit worried that Tidy Woman’s seeing Admiral Crackers as an interior decoration accent, not a sentient being with needs and feelings. Hmmm…Did she choose her husband because he was a quiet, unobtrusive non-messy pet whose general looks were a complementary male equivalent to hers?

Appropriate Karmic Retribution would be for the guy who fosters hard-to-place pets to give her that cad, Wicket, instead, And Dr. Scuttles could have bite-strength beak-wrestling contests with the Admiral and interview him about about all the cryptids he’s encountered in his long life. Surely, he’s met some mermaids while at sea.

So glad you think the living room needed color, because it’s going to have glitter in it for the rest of forever. Have fun!

an apology, yes!! maybe this one will lead to another, this time from Goldie to Lupin for stealing his tape recorder Oct 3, 2019 (see the red paws behind the desk reaching for the tape recorder. arc starts on the 2nd. Please, Georgia, Lupin deserves an apology!!!!!

She can talk to Admiral Crackers and apparently to Sophie too.

Can Tidy Woman understand Sophie’s reply, or is she just talking at her?

Sophie’s smile and willingness to be exposed ( not under any bureau) is a language even Mrs Tidy can understand. However, I’m surprised Sophie is interested in communicating with the lady at all.

Sophie’s woman has set a good example for Sophie. I’m not sure I would have been so kind and helpful to a person who stole my cat.

She’d always thought. Ten million years ago? Infinities of infinities years ago? No matter, I am in love and must pursue her. I told my wife I am un-pledging my troth. Not with words but with a face tattoo of Lord Pomegranate.

I’s sure she does!

There have been a couple of occasions in this arc in which I have mentioned the animated series Craig of the Creek and the occasional character Sparkle Cadet and her catchphrase “Oh my glitter!”

This morning, just before breakfast, I watched an episode I have seen a couple of times before called “Pencil Break Mania” in which another character uses Sparkle’s catchphrase which he had obviously learned from her. Sparkle appeared as one of the contestants in a pencil break competition taking place inside a wrestling ring. As she held her pencil up, the commentator declared, “Oh my glitter! It’s a rainbow pencil!” When Sparkle lost the bout, the commentator remarked, “The only thing at the end of this rainbow is pain!”

I wonder if Admiral Crackers enjoys opera. Petey, Lisa’s parrot, loves opera, and she plays it for him by placing a player on his rather large and elaborate cage. She said he mimics the singing very well. Petey sings when he is not in his grumpy mode.

Them birdbrains is such a mess indeeds.

Ha ha ha. Jokes on you extraterrestrial birdbrains. For it just ain’t some mere mess but it is glitterally way worse than that. And you will glitterally never be fully rid of that mess. Haw haw haw!

Sophie Paw Pad!

Yes, catnapping made a big mess of things…..

She might not feel that way when the bird starts pooping on everything.

Admiral Crackers in my coop, filling the room with feathers and P**p!

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

At the Happy Healthy Hospital Pyramid

Wicket: Lupinium, I’d like you to meet McCaw, of the Red Planet Spider.

Lupinium Pleased to meet you. I understand you’re going to be in the Basketball tournament.

McCaw: Yes. I’d like to get in some practice, though.

Lupinium: Well how about some 1-on-1? No time like the present.

McCaw: I have some time.

Sometime Later

Lupinium: Great job! You’ve still got it.

McCaw: I have been practicing a bit in the ship’s crow’s nest.

Lupinium: Oh, did you know Poe Raven?

McCaw: Yes. He taught me everything I know. He retired from the sefaring life to concentrate on writing.

Lupinium: I remember that. Wally, Iron Glove, and Iggy made him a writing desk as a retirement gift.

The apology is nice and definitely heartfelt. Also, Sophie seems to have a big heart.

Mrs Tidy was transformed by mercy. Justice would have left her bitter.

Wow, she’s apologizing!

That was a nice touch. And Admiral Crackers has a new home with a person who will talk to them.

In other news. The family is slowly crawling back from Covid. The Doctor said this is a new variant. Hopefully, the new vaccine this fall will work against it. Trust me, you don’t want it. Marie is in the hospital, but that happens if she gets any kind of sick. Her system isn’t robust enough to fight these things on its own. I am going to try to get some writing done today.

Dad, you should have told the people there is still time to enter their recipes for a chance to be in your next book. So far, I have a tuna-cado sauce I simply must make just as soon as I can get to the Asian market for some Japanese mayonnaise. There is also a Baked Bean side dish (could be a main dish?) that looks so good that I will be testing it very soon, and don’t worry; I will be trying those little cheesecakes for humans who don’t like cheesecake.

Please send me, Hamilton A. Cat, your favorite recipe to gibletbelle @ gmail. com. It could be a family recipe handed down from your Nana, something from your region, or something you thought up. I will test a number of these recipes and pick one to be in Dad’s next book: Recipe by (your name here) and prepared by Hamilton A. Cat. I also, on my Cat’s honor, promise you not a single penny. I’m a cat, after all, and don’t have human money. However, Dad will personally sign a book and send it to you.

Please make one entry per Cat or Human. The last submission will be accepted on August 21st.

Georgia and the BCNews folk teaching us to be better humans.

As I recall, the living room already got “a bit of a color.” ;)

OT

Especially when SHE gets to make it.

I would love to see Mr. Tidy’s reaction when Mrs. Tidy brings the Admiral home.

It’s simply the mess!

Better than all the rest

Better than she’s ever done

Of any fun she has expressed!

/ Michael Donald Chapman / Holly Knight /The Best /Tina Turner

What of starfish squeaker .., not an item for a polly ?

Thinking there be more of Admiral Crackers and Mrs. Tidy in future comics?

I just noticed that Tommy’s shirt kinda matches Admiral Crackers’s plumage!

Oh YEAH!!!! All is right once again in the world.

Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya

Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya

Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya

Oh Lord, kumbaya

Someone’s apologizing Lord, kumbaya

Someone’s apologizing Lord, kumbaya

Someone’s apologizing Lord, kumbaya

Oh Lord, kumbayah

Someone’s forgiving Lord, kumbaya

Someone’s forgivingLord, kumbaya

Someone’s forgiving Lord, kumbaya

Oh Lord, kumbaya

Someone wants a cracker Lord, kumbaya

Someone wants a cracker Lord, kumbaya

Someone wants a cracker Lord, kumbaya

Oh Lord, kumbayah

Someone’s redecorating Lord, kumbaya

Someone’s redecorating Lord, kumbaya

Someone’s redecorating Lord, kumbaya

Oh Lord, kumbaya

Oh Lord, kumbaya

Oh Lord, kumbaya

Oh Lord, kumbaya

Oh Lord, kumbaya

Awwwww, Sophie! Your heart is as big as the messes you love!

Am I the only one who sees Admiral Crackers and reads Animal Crackers?

I wonder of the TW’s first name is Trudy? Trudy Tidy. And if her maiden name is Lee, then she would now be Tru Lee Tidy! :-). Nah, I guess not.

Anyway, maybe she is cleaning Li’L Starfish Squeaker (or will buy a new one), and give it to Sophie as a peace offering.

Per (Purr?) TinyKittens HQ: JUNIOR has been adopted! That didn’t take long!

Just a couple of thoughts.

So glad this arc didn’t get dark like it could have. Didn’t expect it to though.

Grief can cause a person to do stupid things. I just can’t help but to give Mrs. Tidy the benefit of the doubt…

Nobody’s perfect. Making a mess of things, big or small, is how you learn from them and grow.

I write this with great sadness. I have been a follower of our reporteers ever since Elvis, Pucky and Lupin started reporting on “the news that matter to cats.” I also admired Georgia’s creativity and pluck when she decided to make the comic her career. The recent arc isso disneyesque, full of forced optimism, devoid of realism. Shelters the world over – and I work with one – know that if you give a difficult animal to an inexperienced person whose needs, for order, cleanliness etc. are diametrically opposed to the animal’s needs, you will get is stress on both sides. Worse still the animal brought back to the shelter because of incompatibility. TW will not just get a splash of colour in her living room but also splashes of something else. And making a parrot wear diapers for human convenience is downright cruelty. I remember with nostaligia Georgia’a sweet report on shelter cats of 2015. Every cat found a lovely home with a new “owner” that suited them. The old guy being homed with an elderly genleman and the two of them affectionately sitting together still brings tears to my eyes. If Minou was still alive she would jump into her flying box post haste to file a complaint with the international court for animal rights.

Would it be churlish of me to suggest that it might have been cool if Admiral Crackers’s new mommy had turned out to be a Hyacinth Bucket type (with maybe a little self-appointed HOA enforcement officer thrown into the mix)?

I mean, I love the strip forever, and at the same time, I’m not sure we need another “Mutts.” Please consider giving us a “heel,” Geoigia! Someone to root against who’s not made of wildlife!

Well… I’ve seen worse apologies. At least it’s not “I’m sorry that you got mad.” It’s also not what one of my kids would say when forced by a parent to apologize: “I’m a sorry sardine!”

But I’ve also seen much better apologies, in which the apologizer lists the things they did wrong, and why those things were wrong, along with a sincere offer to make things right.

Mrs Tidy’s gets a C–.

Commenter #1: This is a really popular comic strip. I didn’t know about this comic until I found GoComics!

Sophie is not a minimalist.

Try orange cake with orange extract and chocolate frosting.The flavor mix is incredible and far less dangerous to nosy pets who might get intoyour distracted cake plate.

A day late, but I just had an evil thought — what if the Robber Mice returned to save L’il Starfish Squeaker, and taught Admiral Crackers some new words?