That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 16, 2024

/// Renoir’s Femme au Chat sits there, befuddled,

for, at first, her cat liked being cuddled.

Then purrs ceased. In a flash

fangs and razor claws slash.

On the floor, the girl’s blood slowly puddled.

How know when to not hold your cat.

Scene followed immediately by a scene of a bandage being applied to her left cheek. First aid training film.

Oh. you are so soft and cuddly, What’s that on your breath? Have you been licking your butt again?

Aw, what a cutie. And the girl’s not half bad looking, either.

……by the what???

“Remember what I told was going to happen to you if I caught you scratching up the furniture?”

Cats….the ’’other’’ other white meat.

“Oh, I’m sure he doesn’t at all remember me having him neutered.”

A first cousin to Bucky from Get Fuzzy.

Of all of the feline traits/

The one that most resonates/

Is those oversized eyes/

That slyly disguise/

The “clumps” in the box that await..///

I know a Marine female Colonel/

Whose furies are truly infernal/

But when she is smitten/

By the sight of a kitten/

She melts into a damp mass, maternal..

“Missing. Mrs O’leary’s cat. Last seen near John Smith’s potato farm last week.”

The creature that on us once fed/

To a reasonable size we have bred/

But we still are his prey/

In a different way:/

We’re scooping his poop instead..

To think that this critter’s the scion/

Of the fearsome African lion !/

Yet this small furry thing/

That once was a King/

In her household still rules without tryin’…

Bookworm lives !! Let there be rejoicing in the land!

When you die, Puddles, I’ll have you stuffed so we can be together forever. And vice versa.

Mittens looks pi$$ed

“Yeah, I can definitely hear it too. We need to get him into the shop and have the timing adjusted. "

Awww! Kitty!!

Aw my beloved tabby of 12 years just died suddenly. This makes me sad.

Text from Mittens breaking the 4th wall.

“The artist guy just asked me to sit here stroking my pu$$y…”

Mrs. Slocombe, the early years.

Thérèse, a nanosecond before she deeply regretted the ban on declawing cats.

“lets find out if cats feet are lucky too”

Woman with a Cat: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Eyelids in art" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string chat, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3428 (December 16, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment and replies pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 15 works by him (16 times total, including a repeat) have been used here, the May 29, 2024, strip being the prior.

Kitten Toebeans!!!!! SQUI!

two cats at play.

Though we cannot observe her abode/

(Renoir only a small portion showed)/

It is safe to assume/

That in some other room/

Sweet Kitty has left her a “lode”…

Her garage contains her Mercedes/

And she’s telling the world “go to Hades:/

She will never appease !/

(And her pu$$¥ agrees:) /

She’s the first of the “Childless cat ladies”!!