Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for June 18, 2023

Gotta love the red dot!

Oh those little tails, sticking out the back of those pants! Love it.

I was cooking the other day and using my infrared thermometer to check the pan temp. I inadvertently let the red dot stray to the floor and Gracie POUNCED on it. Thus began a game of kill the red dot, which also delayed our supper. Very useful gadget, if you don’t get sidetracked playing with the cat.

Interesting the variety of feline responses you can get to the red dot. For example, Keeper (my avatar over there <—), would chase it all night, especially if you occasionally substituted something he could actually grab ahold of. Minga, a neighbor’s cat who decided she would rather live with us, usually acted like she couldn’t even see the red dot. She pretty much ignored it. Chessene, our crabby old lady, was afraid of the red dot. She would just back away from it. She wanted nothing to do with it.

Because . . . Cats.

IT’S EVERYWHERE, GUYS!! Up the “Curtis”, out in the “Lemmon” tree – seems like “Some Like It Dot”

Sunday Funday: let your jokes and good new loose here.

Lupin has changed the most from the early days of the cartoon.

It’s no use trying to catch it. It will outmanoeuvre you every time. You are doomed, doomed , DOOMED!

I wonder what the Man has to say on this. Cn he shine any light on things?

Oh no, the red dot is on the loose! Where’s Tabitha when you need her?

We must catch and kill it, for the sake of all catmanity!

Happy Father’s Day!

A little light humor today, I see…

One of my friends would always get a present for me and one for Jasper for my birthday and Christmas. One year she got the red dot for Jasper, but I only used it once. It seemed more like a mean trick or practical joke. His favorite toys were furry, feathery things at the end of stretchy bands on a stick and jingle balls.

BoCHs! Cat posteriors!

And, as Le’Letha mentioned earlier, cat tails

Look, in two of the panels it’s just taunting them. Like French knights taunting English K-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-niggits.

Of course you knows who and what is behind these mysterious unexplained events. Them little green aliens and their little red dots.

Loaner Cat must feel she’s above Mr Red Dot. She ignores it with every fiber of her being. Murphy, on the other hand, would chase Mr Red Dot for hours! We couldn’t even say the words let alone pick it up and he was already spinning. Having a 110 pound Doberman spinning in circles in the living room, chasing a red dot, and barking his fool head off at it while he chased it, was a sight to behold. But he fell over too soon all the time because he put his everything into it and that took a toll at his age. Loaner Cat would just sit on her aloof perch on the couch and judge him.

I saw a vet recommendation to shine the dot on a treat after a bit. That way they have something to catch afterward.

All of my cats love(d) chasing the red/grey dot.

I still think that when under catnip’s influence they can see red. “Oh, wow! The colors!”

“Have you ever really looked at your paw?”

Smudge and Mouse have no use for the red dot.

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there, both alive and in Heaven. I miss you, Dad and Paul.

OT: i got the kittens out of the boxspring and into a proper box and they are frisking about, much to Mouse’s chagrin. I have found homes for all but one of them. I’m going to try to talk my daughter into taking it.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Ora Z: Tabs, what is it you do with the red dots?

Tabith-Isis: There are a lot of different types of red dots. They each have their unique use. For example, these squishy ones are strawberry candies. Have one.

Ora Z: Thank you. They are delicious.

Tabs: And these hard ones are used in slingshots. I only had to use them once, when Amen-Thief and Azibo were still highway cats. Now that they sell spi… you-know-what I don’t need them as much.

Ora Z: And what about these crumbly ones?

Tabs: I collect them for Elvis, he uses them to make red ink.

Ora Z: I have to write all this down. Alright “Dots.”

Enter Lupinium

Lupinium: Ora Z, it’s time to do our tumbling demo.

Ora Z: Right there. See you later, Tabs.

Tabs: See ya.

Puckmosis: Did Ora Z finish her list?

Tabs: No, “Dots” all she wrote.

Hadn’t Tabitha from BGN caught it?

We recently had a new attorney join our firm. His initials are BPH. It kind of startles me every time I see it on the calendar because all I can think is “Big Pink House”. I’m sure I’ll get used to it eventually, but right now it still kinda confuses me. (I’m easily confused these days anyway.)

I remember this strip! Was this the first one for which Robin pronounced we’re all doomed?

This is a good choice for a classic Sunday. I wonder which human is wielding the red dot. For some reason, I’m betting the Man.

It’s Father’s Day and the man got a new laser pointer.

Happy Father’s Day. To all the Dads out there and anyone who has been a Dad for someone who needed it, a small gift.

This is the continuation of the story on 05/14/2023 (Mother’s Day)

Cheers!

Well boys, I would suggest that you laser in the heart of the problem.

I think that this is one of the more lame cartoons. The cats seem much too cool about this.

If Ember sees the sunlight reflected off my cell phone onto the wall/ceiling, she will stalk it.

Happy Father’s Day to Dad Cat Elvis!

I got my tonsils removed on Thursday and it’s the wooooooorst but my small army of kitties (plus hubby and kiddo) have been taking great care of me. Buttercup the Flüffenbeast even let me be big spoon during naptime yesterday. The BCN crew is right – it really does help to be the big spoon! https://64.media.tumblr.com/905e2dd6d059f093d4ab4c84a2f030e6/4be7d44fc4ce9ee4-e0/s2048x3072/46cde106592d5d1ca85704e12dc6d6346bef4862.jpg

The cursed red dot must be vanquished this instant!

Georgia sells a T-shirt showing Tabitha saying smugly, “I have caught the red dot.”

Looks like they need to bring in Tabitha.

Dots all there is, there ain’t no more!

“We will remain laser-focused on the red dot!”

https://ibb.co/D8fBND8

Bartholomew has figured out where the red dot comes from and will pull the laser point out of the basket to let us know it’s time to play.

my previous cat would follow the red dot everywhere – my current one does not even acknowledge its existence

OT: Beanie Baby

Wasn’t Sophie the cat who actually caught the Red Dot?

We bought this laser robot toy for Mischief & Trouble, and it seems we FINALLY have an interactive toy that WORKS to get them off our backs (they constantly want attention, like 30 hours a day): https://img.kwcdn.com/product/Fancyalgo/VirtualModelMatting/a64633051d7dfcad01270737a3578bdf.jpg?imageView2/2/w/800/q/70/format/webp

The red dot has a pattern that drives them absolutely crazy! :D

The real-life Elvis is wise to the red dot and will swat the laser pointer out of the perpetrator’s hand.