Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 14, 2023

That pretty white stuff was cold and wet!

And today it’s a change of heart with a side of fangs.

I know a lot of people who have the same reaction!

I just adore her nope nope noped, all the way home.. this lil piggy went to play in the snow. followed by a cup of kitty hot cocoa and a snuggle with HER boys. not to mention her lil feeties with TOE BEANS!

Ora Zella has just learned the 5-Second Rule: after lying on the snow covered ground for 5 long seconds, she needs to warm up with fuzzy blankets, furry friends, roaring fire, and a mug of hot chocolate big enough to soak in.

Some folks just have to learn the hard way………

Panel 1: “Woo-hoo!”

Panel 2: “Ah!”

Panel 3: “Woah!”

Panel 4: “Ahhhhhh!”

Shooting stars with cat faces? Wishing upon them must be extra lucky!

There’s nothing like the cold to make you appreciate the warm.

O.Z. one black foot and one orange foot. Love it. She’s the cutest.

Those mugs of cat-cocoa look like they are topped with whipped cream. If there were a fifth panel, I would expect to see a white mustache on Ora Zella’s face, lol!

A certain kitty looked especially fierce in the snow.

Well, Ora, at least you got farther than this one did: https://memeguy.com/photos/images/the-cutest-nope-in-history-196057.jpg

I have seen young cats first encounter with snow before. The usual reaction is step in the snow, shake their paw, step again, act disgusted, go back in the house.

But did she devour any snow as she had originally planned?

I understand Ora, but I enjoy walking alone in the fresh fallen snow. Particularly at night. The world is so quiet and peaceful.

One time, Snowball had the zoomies and I opened the front door for the FedEx guy. She ran straight out into the snow, stopped, looked around, then straight back inside and curled up next to the heat vent and licked her feet. Normally, they hesitate when the door is open, but this time, there was NO FEAR!

Our little Pk started as a feral, the 1st 4 years of her life was spent outside with the others ferals on our property. We provided them with a heated box, which she ignored, still don’t know how she survived 4 bad upstate NY winters, She lived on cheap canned food and kibble and whatever she killed, which was a lot, including a poor little male cardinal whose red feathers we saved. I remember a particularly bad blizzard when she was 6 months or so. In almost whiteout conditions, she chased a laser pointer all the way across our snowbound, frozen parking lot. I was entertaining the inside cats with, she was right on that dot and didn’t care how cold or how much snow was in her way. After a few seconds I felt guilty for making her do that, honestly, I didn’t think she would follow it that relentlessly.Now she hates winter and is content to be my shoulder buddy here in the office when I am working at home

Ora Zella’s mug is so nearly horizontal that I worried it would spill. But you know what? I think it is just a mug full of whipped cream. Mmmmm! Also, IYFRTB!

I grew up on a farm in Iowa, most of our house cats were allowed out whenever they wanted out. I remember our part Siamese male LOVED being outside and watching him bound across the snow to get in when it was cold was adorable.

Eyes, eyebrows and fangs: panel 3 says it all. Georgia is a master of expressing feline thoughts and emotions without words!

Aw, look at Pucky’s li’l white floof patch.

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! (pause to catch breath…) Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!

Her face in the third panel! LOL! That’s me in the snow: nop’ing all the way back in the house.

Irving Berlin: I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm

Outside it’s storming, with snowdrifts forming

And I’ve been out in the storm!

Nope, not for me, I’ve got my friends to keep me warm!

…….

Been outside, done that, the kids in their hats

And I’m all dressed in my star!

It’s cold and wet, a nope for me

I’ve got my friends to keep me warm!

…….

Off with my star suit, onto the couch

Bring on the cocoa, it tastes so good now!

The snow is storming, I’m in here warming

I nope my way out of the storm!

Now for a cup of hot cocoa and my friends to keep me warm!

There’s three inches of snow overnight as predicted. It’s supposed to stop snowing today. The way I like snow – short and sweet Cannonball looked outside and stayed in. No adventure kitten anymore, that C’ball.

There’s the Ora Zella we know, taking full advantage of the different forms of star-shaped locomotion. Hopefully she did not eat any snow before she noped home.

There she is

Looking just the same as she did last time she touched snow

And there they are

Snuggled close in one bright star Valentine glow

Don’t you love her?

As much as they love her?

Warm’s where she belongs

When snow feelings start to stir

Looks like she made it

Left her safe home on the way

To bonkers of nope

Looks like she made it

No need for snow today

Feels the sweet love there everywhere

And sips hot cocoa the way the Woman made it

- Will Jennings / Richard Kerr – Looks Like We Made It

I pre ordered Everything’s Coming Up Beatrix last night. Delivery date September 5!!

This is the 33rd Valentine’s day I have spent with Marie.

The first one was, shall we say, a train wreck. I didn’t realize we needed reservations for dinner on this particular day (insert dumb guy joke here). So after figuring out that we couldn’t get in anywhere, we ended up eating White Castles by candlelight at her apartment.

The next ten Valentine’s days were okay; I learned my lesson from the first one and made my reservations in August.

Valentine’s was a shared holiday when the kids arrived in our lives. Different vibe, but still a lot of love.

The 18th Valentine’s was when Marie got really sick for the first time. Eight weeks in the Hospital and twice as long of a recovery made this Valentine’s special.

The next ten Valentines were okay, with the usual trials, tribulations, and curveballs you get from life; the kids grew, and our business had ups and downs. Arguments about money, the company, the kids, the designated hitter rule…you know…life. Love changes as you get older. The “we-can’t-keep-our-hands-off-each-other” style of love morphed into the warm glow of having that special person always there in your life.

Then Marie got really, really sick last August. I wondered if there was going to be another valentine’s with my co-collaborator, partner, and best friend. But, through the miracles of modern medicine, the support of our friends here and there, and Marie’s Extremely stubborn Irish personality, she is still with me.

I am stubborn, opinionated, think (knows) I’m always right, guy. And despite all that, that woman still loves me.

Happy Valentine’s day, Marie.

I love that Georgia found a way to sneak Valentines into her arc about a kitten’s first snow!

Love Ora Zella snuggled up with Puck, even if he does look a bit like a watermelon. (But a cute watermelon! A cuddly watermelon!)

Happy Valentine’s Day to all my fellow orbsters!

Ora Zella is especially cute in the third panel, with her little fangs hanging out; then she nope, nope, noped all the way home!

Will we get see her “Circle of Nope” in the snow?? ♥

What do you give your Valentine in France? I big quiche! (Ora Zella is so cute today, I want to put her in a quiche and eat her all up… not really, but you get the picture.)

Where oh where is Elvis in all this coziness?

At least she got to play a little before deciding it wasn’t for her. The end shot though of all the v’day decorations and the cats all snuggly warms the heart though. Happy Valentine’s Day!

Where’s dadcat Elvis? He should be right there admonishing OZ for her recklessness ;-)

Had a cat that tried to sneak out. Did it one very snowy, freezing January morning. Got to the end of the porch, turned and ran back in. I held the door for her. Never tried to get out again. Big nope!

Yeah, that’s pretty typical of a cat. Think they want to go outside super badly until they get out the door and realize it’s actually super cold and wet, and then, go figure, suddenly start singing a different song. :P

My tuxie Oreo loved to go out and bat at snowflakes. He was double stuffed so the cold didn’t bother him.

“Nature, the expectation” vs. “nature, the reality”: One folds fast, and it’s never the latter.

Pink Lupin is perfect for Valentine’s Day. He loves romance!

Smart kittie to come back in! Happy Valintines day News crew!

Pink Lupus is just <3 <3 <3

A real kitten’s kitten.

Have a lovely Valentine’s Day, everybody! ❤

A very Happy Valentine’s Day to the Orb and all its “satellites”! <3. Now, on to Mardi Gras and St. Catty’s Day!

Sweet ❤️

I was just looking at the cover of the new book more closely and I see there are two robber mice on it (I think Violet and Natasha) and a number of mouse sized books.

Ora Zella’s bliss…

…was very brief!

I see Lupin is still pinkish! Nice color for the season:) Thanks for the update someone…I just preordered the Beatrix book; had no idea it was even in the works!

Iggy looks very content to let Ora do the exploring. I haven’t heard his voice in a long time. Is he OK?

Whelp, we know Ora Zella isn’t a snow leopard.

She thinks of the BPH as home!

Bad final panel.

Speaking of getting comfy…Puck & Elvis make a ❤️:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cokoy-CvyaA/

https://dumpoir.com/c/0462196023741376303

She was warned! Angry eyes with fangs. Didn’t like the cold after all.

I don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day because it’s my birthday.

God bless Marie and you and Happy Valentine’s Day to you both.

Awwww!

In our first winter in our current apartment, we got snow. As I opened the back door to take out the garbage, Penny zipped past me and onto the lawn. She froze for a moment, eyes wide, and then loped back inside the apartment. I took a picture of her footprints – deep little steps going out, lengthy strides coming back! Definitely “noping it” back home. :) Ora Zella’s so lucky to have hot chocolate waiting!