Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for August 16, 2020

SUNDAY FUNDAY

Here’s a post from Maizing:

I’ve recently finished an editing run on my stories and have made a number of changes (though I’m still making changes to some of them). I’ve also added color to the title pages for each story. Anyone interested in reading my stories can find them here:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1G-5lV7XVSQMaVsqzMbur0iH19utWvJnc

Such epic poofage. I love poor Goldie’s first reaction to the monster. Poor girl.

Puffy Goldie is so adorably scared… Esp in panel 6.

Also, nice to see the vacuum and her offspring again. =3 Love the hearts in the last panel.

I’m guessing this is based on real life?

Oh, poor Goldie! She’s so scared… The first few times I ran the vacuum after Raven came to live with us, I put him in the other room and closed the door so that the scary noise would be somewhere else. He still doesn’t like it and puts himself in the other room when the vacuum comes out.

Somewhat OT: I don’t want to add more pressure to Georgia’s life – she does so much! – but assuming that there actually is a 2021 and 2020 finally ends, and not in fire, I wonder if there will be a 2021 BCN calendar? With so much crazy and stress going on this year, I would totally understand if there won’t be. But I can hope.

My cat just flees outside and returns when the carnage is over. Even in wintertime.

Oooo, I wonder how Pucky got a hold of that old photo of a herd of vacuums?!?

I think that there are ultrasonic overtones to the vacuum’s motor that really annoy, and possible hurt the ears of, cats and dogs.

I was hoping for Puck or his chart to say “Nature abhors a vaccum” to explain why they are no longer in the wild.

LOL!

Lupin, of course, is only running because everyone else is.

All I have to do is move the vacuum… Poof! There goes one cat into hiding until the next day. Then I plop the cord down on the floor… Poof! Zoom! There goes the other cat until the vacuum is put back in its storage spot.

This one made me laugh out loud, and it’s been a long time since I’ve done that. I have the sound turned off on my computer, so I hope that means the sweet BCN kitties didn’t hear me laughing at them. I know that cats are deeply offended when you laugh at them. But I can’t help it! That last panel…bwahahahahaha!

When I vacuum downstairs, all my cat’s are upstairs. But, when I vacuum upstairs they know what’s coming. All I have to do is to start putting their toys up, shaking out their cardboard scratcher, then they scatter to safety downstairs. So, they don’t get the sound to be frightened.

She-Whose-Frown-And-Twitching-Tail-And-Stare-Of-Cold-Command-Keep-Order-Among-Her-Slaves does not approve of the vacuum cleaner, but She does not flee from it in terror. Merely chooses a high place to glare at it balefully.

1. panel 2 & 8: The woman is wearing shorts. 2. panel 5: the photo says 1913. 3. panel 6: the perspective! 4. panel 8: “SHRIEEEEEK!” “We got too close to her baby!” and the hearts from the mother and baby vacuum cleaners!

Philosophy aside, what is the baby?

“ Run, away, run awaaaaay!” Shades of Monty Python! And the woman is contentedly oblivious to the havoc she is reeking! I’d like to see theirs reaction to a Roomba!

Most of my cats scramble for the hills when the vacuum appears but one is fearless. She will stand her ground, giving it haughty glares and daring it to fight her.

Fraidy cats!

Don’t tell me today’s Sunday Funday is cancelled because social media distancing or something.

Don’t use vaccuum cleaners in me bear cave. But some cats used to get scared of the broom and run away.

Goldie has been inside how long now? The woman vacuums as infrequently as I do (so as not to upset the cats – we’re courteous that way).

My big boy is not afraid of the vacuum – he grew up around big mowers at the park. The others have gotten better – not sure if it is watching him or their hearing is going.

“Once herds of vacuum cleaners and their young freely roamed the land …”

Goldie’s up so high it’s going to take a firefighter with a ladder to get her down.

My four are terrified of the vacuum. The oldest, Samantha, has been watching me vacuum for almost sixteen years. You’d think she would have made peace with it by now.

poof goldie

I actually have a cat that you can vacuum. He’s not scared of it at all, in fact he gets in the way when you’re vacuuming. When you put the vacuum on him, he shows you his belly.

I do recall when I was very young, on some rare occasions, a random vaccum would show up at the front door. We even let one in once to show of its tricks. But alas those days of random wild vacuum appearances are long gone now, sigh

Oh, poor Goldie. It’s OK, sweetie, the big bad vacuum will go away soon.

Hey Gent!! Is this you?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8616959/Black-bear-casually-joins-family-picnic-remote-woodland-Maryland.html

Looks like the vacuum cleaner has broken the truce by showing its trunk with furniture attachment…..what will happen now?

Saxon is the only cat I’ve ever had who has no fear of the vacuum cleaner whatsoever. He just sits there and watches me clean.

My favorite part of today’s strip (though there are so many gems from which to choose!) is Panel 6 – the perspective is unique (as Ikini pointed out) and Lupin seems concerned for Goldie. ♥♥♥

Once again Georgia has left an instagram link

https://www.instagram.com/p/CD8W9WmJd9s/?igshid=qw5xxf6pe64g

An episode of Forbidden Perching with your host Elvis.

Very cute and I love Georgia’s collection of embroidered stuffed cat dolls.

This is the funniest one in a long time! “it has a trunk!” LOL! Poof, Poof, Poof!

If you start me up

If you start me up I’ll never stop

You can start me up

You can start me up I’ll never stop

I’ve been running loud

I love my baby & I feel so proud

If you start me up

If you start me up I’ll never stop

Never stop, never stop, never stop

I make a grown cat scream

I make a grown cat run

I make a grown cat hide

I suck the dirt, make all squeaky clean

I roll smooth, I am a mean, mean machine

Start me up!

[Mick Jagger / Keith Richards]

This has got to be the most hilarious strip I’ve seen in quite a while that made me laugh out loud.

The poofage is strong in this one.

She’s unrecognizable in panel 3!!

“My Cat! It has a trunk” !! Puck, of course, has an explanation for the break in the truce. “We got to close to her young!!” Love their expressions of horror and surprise.

I dunno Elvis. Is it a trunk or ….. a tentacle?

Sorry to be ignorant, but I don’t know what the yellow thing on the couch is supposed to be, so I don’t get the point.

Our little Goldie is no longer a “virgin”!

Is that an archival photograph of wild vacuum cleaners? Who was the brave feline photographer who managed to capture this image of the once great feral herds?

Poor Goldie. All I have to do is open the closet door where our vacuum is and our cat runs..(BTW it is also the closet that has our coats)

A tip of the hat to Monty Python – with “Run Away!”

The 1913 herd of outdoor vacuums has no canister style vacs, I notice. Did their tribes (e.g. Hoover, Electrolux) not get along? Were they extinct by 1913?

This is definitely a poster worthy strip! So many are but I’m going to add it to my collection.

OMC!!! There is so much to un-pack in this strip.

I love the pooffed Goldie (“Beast Spawn of Heck”) and, of course, Pucky’s chart from 1913 of herds of wild vacuums!

But what caused me to laugh out loud was Lupin channeling Monty Python with: Run Away…Run Away!

Beast spawn of heck-fire and brimstone. Three of my cats would say Goldie nailed it with that description.

I love the hearts between Mama and Baby!

Outdoor cats have to deal with the massive garbage truck demon. My cat had to wear a “cone” collar because of a minor injury, so I was walking him in a quiet suburban area on a leash, for a change. A garbage truck came over the hill 20 yards away. My cat leaped toward the bushes so hard, I thought he was going to dislocate my shoulder. Fortunately, the 20-year-old leather leash broke. The garbage truck passed. A minute later my cat came out of the bushes and we resumed our walk, without a leash.

OT: Hope I didn’t speak too soon…

We use the line from an earlier strip on this topic: “if it’s not a broom, leave the room”. The cats can stay at their own peril. When we see a car during walks with my dog ‘if it has wheels, time to heel’

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Baba-Stet: I see you’ve been busy, Broom-Sweepa. (Baba’s Enchanted Broom). Teaching the little one how to clean?

Broom-Sweepa: Yes. Little Whisk is old enough to learn the ins and outs of cleaning.

Baba-Stet: Well, Whisk, how do you like cleaning?

Whisk: It’s fun. I sweeped out Tabith-Isis’ Red Dot shelves, and cleaned Maat-Tilda’s tapestry.

Broom-Sweepa: Very good, Whisk. But I think there are a few things we need to work on.

Today is:

National Airborne Day —This is the day in 1940 on which members of the Army Parachute Test Platoon committed an unnatural act by jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft in flight. This day commemorates that heroic act, and all those who followed. The rest is history.

National Roller Coaster Day —For those looking for an unnatural act that isn’t quite so risky as jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft.

National Bratwurst Day —Do not eat bratwurst before committing either of the above unnatural acts. Sometimes what goes down must come up.

National Rum Day —Do not drink rum before committing either of the above unnatural acts. (No, eating bratwurst is not an unnatural act. but the same caveat applies.) There are two alcoholic beverages that can be truly called American: rum and rye whiskey. Both were invented and brought to perfection here. Rum, if you believe the play 1776, was instrumental in the founding of the US. Sadly, rye fell out of favor with the very unnatural act of Prohibition. It is now recovering, and there are many fine examples to sample today—a natural act I can recommend. Did you know that George Washington distilled rye whiskey?

National Tell a Joke Day —I’m done. If you want more, see SUNDAY FUNDAY.

It has adapted! … With an ADAPTER !!! … RUN!!

Love the sepia photograph in panel 5. Herd of vacuums, 1913. Love it!

Those “1913” valcums are all wrong. Looks more like they oughta be 2013.

A truce. Of course. That’s why my vacuum never comes up on the couch either.

Awwww…. poor Goldie and her big fear-eyes. An eternal struggle between cat and sentient machine.

The Imagination displayed in Breaking Cat News continues to amaze me. I look forward to checking in every day to see what is happening.

OK, I seriously LOLled at the herd pic from 1913.

The little vacuum hearts kill me

i don’t use the vacuum enough for my cats to even know what it is. dust bunnies mate freely at my house…

Love the chart in panel five. It’s hilarious.

Today, when I vacuumed, Vlad didn’t go and hide like he usually does when I say “hidey hole baby boys, hidey hole”. He was being a brave kitty today!

And LOVE the poof on Goldie in the first panel! I thought Elvis got big!

I think it hurts their ears when we vacuum. I know it hurts mine!

Local cats betrayed by human.

I have lost Foxy. Please help me bring her home. Purr for her. More later.

Lots of good stuff here. I especially like the lines about heck-fire and vacuums in the wild.

Fun one.

Can you believe that Woman?? Humming and singing as she brings chaos and terror to her cats. Hmmmph!

Don’t let go, Goldie! Slide down those drapes, claws out, and let the shredded fabric lower you to safety.

ACCCK!

♪Oh give me a home

where the wild vacuums roam

and the dust busters gather to play ♫

Mother nature hates vacuums as much as the cats do. She got rid of all the wild vacuums a long time ago!

That vacuum’s dynamite!

Foxy is fine. Hiding under the patio couch, flattened out like a giant fluffy pancake. I enticed her out by opening a can. I found something else under there, too. I’ve got to spray with Miss Muffet.

Brilliant.

Today, the teacher I work with came over and built a porch and steps for the side door into the guest room. Now I can come in by that door instead of the front door, kick off my shoes as I come in, and head straight down the hall to shower off the school virus. I don’t have to walk past the kids room at all until after I have disinfected and the kids stay in their rooms with the door shut until after I’ve had a shower. I want overkill when it comes to the virus.

I always thought it was a quiver of vacuums.

My parents’ cats (okay, my mom’s) didn’t have trunks.

Is this real? NEVERMIND PLEASE SAY ITS REAL

also goldie poof is amazing

But Goldie lived in a house…