Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for October 07, 2024

Baby raccoons!!! Squeeeee!!!!!

The raccoon children show up! Also, OZ, I think you might be overreacting. Maybe Lupin’s just the last grownup in the town. Maybe.

Steel yourselves. Burt’s been taken.

I was wondering if the trash panda kits would show up. Glad to see Mad Magazine using old school tin can telephones. Does anyone remember the name of the little guy wearing the colander?

Glad to see the Raccoon younglings are fine. So here we go. Time for the resistance to start. And I just LOVE their telephone. I’ve got the same model!

Lupin is the grownup. What could possibly go wrong?

Luckily, the Queen does have a vacuum. (Too early?)

Aha!!!! It wouldn’t be a really grand adventure story without Mad Magazine and her daring cohorts!

I love her “other line”. :-)

Looks like one of the raccoons is…straining…to hear the conversation…

Yes! More kits!

Lupin: “What did you just call me?”

You have five days. Use them wisely.

Now we’ll get some facts about the UFO.

The squad is growing to a force!

We’re getting the band back together…

That’s got to be one mighty long string to reach from the wild lands to the downtown book store.

Cat spelled backwards is almost THC. Edibles.. Kibble..

If the raccoons are involved surely the rest of residents of the BPH are as well. Although the rest of the residents would be considered adults – except maybe Sir Fig?

BCN calendar for 2025 ?

♪"This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco

This ain’t no fooling around

This ain’t no opera, or watching Star Trek.

I ain’t got time for that now"♫

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(Life During Wartime – the Talking Heads)

Tell me why the vet charges me to anally probe my Cat when the Roomba-Aliens will do it for free? OMG! That sounds like country song material!

Love the other line!

Them raccoons sure is not affected by them steenky aliens rays.

Sooo, all the adults are under the spell? Raccoons too? Or just Burt?

I’m waiting for a chart from Puck with a cleaning schedule for the carpets.

Lupin’s not affected because he’s deaf, not because he’s a grownup, which is questionable.

Bless all kids and the Lupin,

Pray they will, without a doubt,

Figure it out

Bless sweet kids and cute Lupin,

For they don’t know yet what they see,

Innocently

Ease their way

As the weirdness surrounds them;

Give them love, protect them from mayhem

Bless kits, kids and the Lupin,

Give them shelter from all harm,

Keep them safe,

And OZ unarmed :)

/Barry De Vorzon, Perry L Botkin /Bless the Beasts and Children

Only brave Burt can saves the day now. By transmitting a counter signal to cancels off the steenky outer space aliens signals.

Lupin is the last adult in the world? I am not sanguine about the future.

I love that the other line is a tin can phone. Lupin’s shock at being the last adult in the world is also amusing.

Love the tin can telephones. And Lupin’s look of absolute confusion.

The colander hat is the coolest

Lupin is completely unaffected, for some reason. I suppose we’ll find out why when we know what’s going on.

Add raccoons to the mix and watch out!

I notice everyone turns to Beatrix when weirdness strikes!

Aha! I forget that Lupin is Deaf and reads whiskers.

As for the other feline inhabitants of the big pink house, I suspect Tabitha and Sophie are asleep, and Tommy and Sir Figaro Newton are looking for carpets to clean. The kits, both feline and raccoon, are on their own (along with Lupin)

I would love to see kittens rule to world

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Kitty Katz is at a library conference. She will update the story later on.

Lupin seems horrified that he’s the last grown-up. Or more likely that’s he’s a grown-up.

YESSS! Princess Mad Magazine is on the hot line!

I’m on the tin can phone line outside of your store

Beatrix please answer or I will come knock on your door

I know you’re there, so please tell me much more

Don’t leave me hanging on the tin can phone

Don’t leave me hanging on the tin can phone!

Blondie – Hanging On The Telephone

Current CN screen …

" Please Stand By! … We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties … " … :)

It’s his worst nightmare

This morning I cleaned all the tin cans in the pantry. One can of beans had expired, so I cleaned it and then tossed it in the trash.

I sure hope Lupin isn’t the last grown-up. The last thing the world needs is more chaos.

Lupin being “the adult” is too scary even for haloween

You’re traveling through another dimension,

a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind.

A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of a cat’s imagination.

Your next stop, the Twilight Zone!

Cats versus aliens? Oh, I am 1000% DOWN WITH THAT! (’Scuse me, I have to hit Amazon, order more popcorn!)

Right, Lupin’s deaf, so if the aliens are doing some sort of sonic attack, he’d be immune.

Also, folks, I will be on travel (work, regrettably) Tuesday through Friday, so may be silent or late. Or really early, as the case may be. Whatever . . .

I just received an email from the Threadless store. T-shirts are $13.95 and this time everything else is on sale. I was waiting for that because I wanted a sweatshirt of the Killer Roombas from Outer Space. It is on order now.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

At the Afar Public Library and Café

Beatrixia: Somehow I feel like a lot of time has gone by.

Beaver Lee Cleary: Just wait until you get to be my age. How time flies!

Mary Andrews: Well, it’s always been my experience to make the most of the time you have. For instance, we have helped the young kittens and kits learn safety. As well as how to have fun safely.

Violet-Ifa: But sometimes you do need to take risks.

Mary: Very true. The important thing is knowing how best to handle risk.

Ta-Natash: And knowing what to tell and when to keep quiet.

Bea: Well, we’ll just have to keep an eye out on what the Portentous Wind brings.

Hmm, the mysterious phenomenon that only effects adults. I don’t do symbolism myself so I’ll refrain from further comment.

Still hasn’t affected me, and highly doubtful I ever will feel its effects.

O.T. – MILTON

Wonder if it’s because Lupin is deaf that makes him immune.