Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for January 05, 2025

Yeah, I think we’ve all been there. Us: “Hold on, I just need to make a slight adjustment . . .” Cat: “That’s it! I’m outta here!”

OMC! I love Elvis’ angry tail and angry running sounds! lol

Hopefully the regular crew is back.

OT: Weather’s getting bad, I have a guest…

Yeah, this doesn’t work on my girls. Sara just quietly leaves. Gracie goes more for the Elvis bit, but hers is more of a heavy sigh as she leaves. If only she reacted that way when I need a bathroom run in the middle of the night!

May I suggest “Don’t go, just move, please!”

Nothing quite like a Siamese in high dudgeon — you got this, Elvis!

Wait! Are the sounds angry? Or is the running angry? I am so confused.

OT: Weather

Everyone wanting to see Elvis again should be very happy. And he’s in full snit and poof!

Gent, this might interest you.

Google “Dark Energy May Not Exist: Something Stranger Might Explain The Universe”

Given that time passes more slowly in regions of high gravity, how quickly does it flow around bears who have partaken of several pic-a-nic baskets?

Angry Fussy Paws is at it again.

My cats just guilt-trip us if we want them to move.

Some of us are not allowed to even contemplate making such requests.

Grrr. I’m being plagued by the pesky 500 Server Error. Anyone else?

Fancy trying to be diplomatic with Elvis!

No one’s mentioned the instigator of today’s strip yet… Cat butt in the eye. (Love the graphics ! ) As we’ve all been through this, I’m wondering what are some of the more memorable positions we’ve been put in to accommodate our bedroom guests.

It has been 8 years since we’ve had cats on the bed, but before that our 3 large cats slept with us on our queen bed every night which somehow kept getting smaller as our cats took over more and more space. Turning over became a nightmare, and those visits to the loo had to be really warranted. Ah, but I wouldn’t change a thing.

Sunday Funday

Butt, butt, Elvis!

Ahh, yes! Who has not had the pleasure of a cat’s, um…Backside in their face, while trying to sleep? P.S. Love the- Thumbs Up, that Puck and the Woman, are giving each other!

I love Elvis’ angry accusatory face and pointy paw.♥

Elvis’ tail has evolved into a new life form.

Pad Paw simply changes position on me when I need to change my position, Eddie might leave in a huff or stay put. Then there’s Minerva who definitely takes Umbridge when I have to shift her.

Oh ny friends! How I have missed you! Butt and all!

One of the trio will leave for a moment then come back and reposition, one will pull an Elvis, and the last will just hunker down in annoyance of my audacity to attempt to shift him.

Hamilton doesn’t move. You more or less roll him over like a squishy, warm black pillow, and he is okay with that. All the rest of the cats are like Elvis and take offense that you have broken the mood. The girls (Belle, Mittens, and Holly) take particular birse at being asked to move.

At midnight, St. Louis had freezing rain. Currently, we have an active sleet storm with patches of snow. It should change to all snow this evening. Snow is expected at 1"-2" per hour from 5 p.m. until it is over sometime tomorrow morning. Furies after 9:00 a.m. Monday. It will not be above freezing in St. Louis until January 12th.

I’m making a pot roast with red wine and mashed Yukon gold potatoes for tonight. All FTUs (Feline Thermal Units) are accounted for, and the gin and dark rye supplies are adequate. Yellow Alert will be maintained, but the family will be released to go about regular duties.

Gae on, dae yer wors, Mother Nature (fist shaking at the Gods)!

Maybe I should try that phrase. Don’t think it would work.

There is activity on the Swan Eaters FB account!

Meanwhile, Back in Rhode Island

Behind the Valley Library

Puck: I think I see Ora Zella and Ora Zed over by that Library Lion statue.

Ora Zella: Papa! We found this tiny jar.

Ora Zed: It looks just like the ones in Thomios’ kitchen.

Violet: Is Kira still here?

Kira: Here I am!

Violet: I think this might belong to you Xanadu Hive bees.

Natasha: Is that what I think it is?

Violet: Yes. A jar full of honey.

Kira: Is that the legendary Space-Time Anemone Honey?

Violet-Ifa: I think it is. And it’s how we’re going to get home.

I wonder if this will work with the dogs. I often want them near me, but not right on top of me. I don’t think either of them is an Elvis.

Oh come now. Dogs will move, slowly, begrudgingly, but dogs will move. Cats, well Cats don’t move, they either stay entrenched in place and you have to move them or they get down, usually to sulk for a few moments before returning on they will find someplace else. In our house the cat that gets down will usually find one of the dogs to then lay with until such time as the dog moves.

Wow, Elvis’s offended tip-of-tail is a new one, I think! But the Woman deserves a lashing. The only proper response to a Siamese cat in your face is overwhelming gratitude for the no-doubt-undeserved privilege.

I simply tell mine: “If you don’t move, I’ll pee on your head!” Works every time.

Yeah, that’s cats for you. If they can’t have the spot precisely the way THEY want it, they’ll liable to just abandon it entirely for someplace else where they can have it their way.

Some cats you can eventually teach to be willing to compromise, so both cat and owner can get what they want, as demonstrated with Puck here. But then you got cats like Elvis… :P

Elvis is sitting on her hair, which of course is her own fault.

EXACTLY!

Scooty over is our phrase of choice – and it works

I always used the open-handed gentle shove I learned from working with horses. Having a 600 pound horse leaning on you is not fun.

Some cats are easily offended. However, I had one I could just roll over when she crowded me. My current cats are trained to “Up! Up!” and get down politely.

My amazing Ericka, whom I have mentioned before as being truly extraordinary, and I had a signal. When I wanted her to move, I lightly tapped my fingertips on her side just behind her shoulders. She knew what that meant. If I wanted her to go to a specific spot, I would pat that spot with my hand, and she would go there.

Seems like that phrase has the opposite effect for a Siamese.

Try working treats into the mix.

My power just went out. Pray for me!

I’m sorry, but I agree with Elvis on this one. “Don’t go, just move” is plain RUDE with a capital “R”. No one wants to be told to move. It’s a cat’s divine right to park his/her caboose wherever they deem good and proper. It’s our job to make way for them. That’s how our Trouble rules.

Trust Elvis !

Yes, the Siamese gets HIGHLY offended at the suggestion that you need to move or cough or heaven forbid, get into your own bed!

I adopted my kitten today. He was born November 4. He mews soft and high, and has the cutest “Little Hiss” when he sees one of the big cats. They just look at him like “what are you??? a guinea pig?”

O.T. – Ricky Bennett needs healing prayers and wishes

Love the Li’l hop in panel 6.

(Can’t believe no one’s mentioned it yet … )