Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for October 20, 2019

Serves her right for falling asleep in the bath… LUPIN CANNONBALL!!!

Solution: 1 – Strongly suggest to husband it is to look after, entertain the children – two, three and four legged, if he wants (fill in the blank) ever again, 2 – Lock the door, and 3 – Turn on wonderful music as as not to heard husband joining in the chorus of ’Ma’am’.

Calgon may take you away, but if you’re a mom of kids and/or cats, life calls you right back home again!

Bobby Darin didn’t have this problem

Splish, splash I was taking’ a bath

Quietly one Saturday Night!

Bubbles deep, I nearly fell asleep

Feeling that the World was all right!

…….

Well I laid back in the tub

And little did I know

I would be the subject of a Kitty News Show

Well-a splish, splash

And suddenly the bath

Became a meeting of the Gang don’t you know!

…….

Well there was Elvis, Puck, and Agnes,

My Boy and my Girl

All wound up and ready to play, hey, hey!

Well-a splish, splash, who else should jump in the bath,

My very own Lupin leaped in!

So… is The Woman ma’am or mouse??

It may be because I’m a bit sleep deprived, but at the moment this is like, the funniest thing ever.

“Come play with us, forever and ever!” :-O Is that from The Shining?!

The woman’s chances of a quiet bath are pretty slender.

Sunday Funday!!!! Ok, the Mega-Orb gives so much, I’d like to give back to the Orb, but of course, I can’t do it alone. Since soon we will no longer need a spoiler zone, I think if we had a designated spot each week for folks to share something fun, great news, a funny story, a joke, anything. This is not to prescribe that this is the only place or time to do it, if you have great news or something to share at anytime, by all means DO so!

Just like the spoiler zone, whoever thinks of it first on a Sunday should start it, even if you don’t have something to share!!!

Cannonbaaaaaaaaaall!!!!

There’s never a dull moment in the Big Pink House.

Is that a Lupin tail floof in panel 1? And what is the Boy holding in his hand in panel 5?

Mouse?

Teeheeheehee! :D

What? Have you no shame, you foul feline journalists? Harassing a hapless human when she’s bathing? This is outright outrageous!

mouse? <3

Seriously – what was she thinking?

Lupin hind toe beans!

Is Lupin’s suit drip dry or dry clean only?

There is anchor-cat Lupin, attempting a cannonball, catabunga dive into the Woman’s bath. He steps to the end of the platform, gathers himself into a ball and Leaps In! SPLASH Now we wait to see what the score the judges give him.

Is Puck levitating in panel four?

Uh-oh Burt won’t be pleased that Elvis dropped his mic in the last panel. Those things are expensive.

No rest for the weary.

Two of my cats crow (we sometimes call it shout-meowing) and it looks like Lupin probably does too, but does Elvis?

Yum Yum used to scream at both Paul and me when we were in the tub. Now she just looks at us with resignation.

I love how, in panel 2, the bubbles seem to wrap their arms around the woman’s neck…so peaceful and sweet. Yet, by the final panel, her fingernails seem to be evolving into claws of some sort? Yipes may be in order here.

“Mouse?”

I know how she feels. I look around and nobody in sight. Pass a little gas and people magically fill up the room.

CANNONBALL !!!!!

Be honest—every parent’s been here before at least once, and if you haven’t, apparently you weren’t doing it right. :P

All that’s missing is a phone ringing.

CATABUNGA!

The life of a mom

There’s a hotels.com commercial like this, only more disturbing.

I love how the Robber Mice have gone from cameos to regulars!

When I babysat my sister’s dog, the little sneak would creep into the bathroom while I showered and steal the bar soap then chew it up. That’s one of the reasons I went to liquid soap.

Poor Georgia! I know the feeling. I have a cat, a dog, and twin 16 year olds that always need the bathroom when I am in there. Even though we have another bathroom on the lower level.

She should know to lock the door by now.

CALGON TAKE THEM AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Several of our cats have tried to walk around the rim of our old bathtub (original 1911), which has a circular curve. They usually only try this until they fall in. Fortunately. Their exit closely resembles a Poseidon missile launch, which ends the bath. The bather then has to drain the tub, drain the floor, and staunch his or her bleeding. Cats don’t realize that claws have no purchase in water—until they catch human flesh.

We used to have a tomcat that liked to hop in the shower with us. Jet (AKA “Ratbane”) also liked to go out in the rain, get soaked, come in and get toweled off, go back out in the rain and get soaked again, come back inside and get toweled off again, go back outside…

Another reason to take showers.

UPDATE: I saw the hand specialist last week. I will not need any skin grafts. However, I have to exercise my finger so that it will bend normally again.

As a pet mom, wife and mother, I can confidently assert that I have not been alone in the bathroom since 1983.

Our cat fountain is in the bathroom, so we always leave the door slightly open. While we get an occasional visit (8-ball likes it when I pet him with my toes, and likes to sprawl on damp bath mats—eh, cats.) They generally don’t bother us too much. However, they are the only two of all our cats over the years who haven’t.

His Majesty has taken over 2 households now, mine and my parents. My dad has even bought him a pop ’n play. His Majesty has both Danes and my Weim wrapped around his paw. He loves to pull tails and slaps snouts and ears and the boys tolerate it well. Good thing too since he still would fit inside a Dane mouth in one bite.

Looking at the last panel, I think the Woman is milliseconds from her own mega-poof!

Welllll … That SOOTHING bath will give the Woman’s skin quite The Shining, now WON’T IT??!! :)

The Woman MAY say, “All of you need to be CORRECTED!!” :)

Cats are made of Iron, Lithium, and Neon. FeLiNe.

I like that!

Photo gallery of Puck with a couple of Elvis photo bombs included. Love them all, but I adore the final photo the most!

https://www.instagram.com/p/B32eW0CJWbQ/

ELVIS. JUST ELVIS.

Mouse?

I genuinely laughed when I saw Lupin jumping into the bathtub. Like, an ugly laugh that made me stumble back slightly.

stand up georiga

Oh, Lupin! In the final frame!

Um, did anyone think that what the toddler is saying in the last panel is a “Shining” reference?