Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for July 16, 2023

I have a long-haired cat in the hottest summer in Texas for years. Tell me about it.

(My car AC is fixed now, though! It’s been out for weeks. Rush hour on the slowest highway in Texas in 110+F heat without AC? NOT FUN.)

Also, color me unsurprised that there’s a magazine called “Soap Studs”, that it features Kit Chase on the cover, and Pucky is reading it.

Ora Z’s lil swimsuit is the most adorable! Also loving Puck with his radio, girly, kitty magazine etc. So much detail to love here, as usual!

What are the robber mice carrying?

Are Violet and Natasha carrying a … dang, I forget what they’re called? It’s like a popsicle in a plastic bag?

It’s so hot that even the BCN mugs need a parasol to keep the drinks cool!

George definitely sheds more than Mac or PC. Though I don’t think he quite matches a previous cat I had, Zoe, who I would get hands full of hair off of at a time.

Sunday Funday

Elvis toe beans in the air! Goldie toe beans in a drawer!

Love, love, love the cats’ swimsuits! Squeeee all the way to August.

It’s a pleasant surprise to see such sharp instincts in Ora and Iggy, they’re so young to be so wise in their choice of “hotspot”.

I’m lovin the little umbrella in Lupin’s mug.

Loving Lupin in his sunglasses.

Tortimore..must be working lots of over time. Hope he doesn’t have a breakdown

Is that Kit? Sigh!

Darn! GEORGIA: help us out here, please! What ARE the robber mice carrying? And just for me, what is Queen Mag’s crown really made of? Thanks in advance, and I hope your paw, er, hand, is doing well!

It looks like OZ’s fur is shooting off of her body! That’s so Ora Zella!

Does Elvis have a tanning reflector? I can imagine him at the beach instead of the couch.

And it looks like Puck has sunscreen. I’m getting a whole new perspective of my cats’ shedding

And there’s my boy Lupin – on the way to becoming stark nekkid!

Ah yes, shedding season! I think Zelda got an early start on that, LOL. She hasn’t quite gotten to the point of defying gravity, though.

Lupins looking pretty cool gotta get me a shirt of that

My son has a black, fuzzy, dressing gown. It’s a favourite sleeping place. It will take hours of work with a sticky roller before we can put it in the washing machine.

Who knew you could have a “blizzard” in summer :)

Sooo. Given previous reports of similar times, who does everyone think is going to flash the views this year? We’ve seen Elvis get a full Censored bar. Lupin and Puck have both been nekid while in camo mode, but does that count? Or will one of the more recent additions give us the eyeful?

I want to see Sophie with a lace fringed parasol and a gauzy beach dress.

It’s the most fun time, of the yeeeear! Where the kitties are shedding on clothes and your bedding! It brings out a big jeeeeer! It’s the most fun time, of the yeeeeear!

Of course Ora’s going destructive in her quest for perfection.

The Humans should know better than to leave antiques out at any time.

If there’s a time of year that isn’t shedding season, my cats aren’t aware of it.

I forgot puck has that little white tuft on his chest. And Panel 5 and 6 feel like Georgia doing some big time venting in the most adorable way possible

This is the time when they shed enough fur to build another cat or two.

Oh, perfect timing, I just vacuumed and there are still tumbleweeds all over the place. I even saw a discussion group today where people were talking about making little toys out of them.

Roll in it, Ora Zella!

I gave up a long time ago with Loaner Cat. It’s like someone pushes a button and all of her hair comes out at once. The minute she starts to shed, what doesn’t get everywhere turns to horrible mats on her and I can’t brush through them because they’re SO matted, it’s like they’ve been woven together. I just start cutting them off whenever she walks by and eventually, I can brush her again but she ends up looking like some drunken, homeless cat or Bill the Cat, until her hair starts to grow back in.

I think Lupin wins, automatic shedding machine, hair spread everywhere and cooling at the same time!

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

At the Royal Dining Room

Thomios: As some of you know, I’ll be taking a week to visit my Uncle Floof at the Ceiling Can Be a Floor Culinary School.

Elvis-Anum: But what about our meals while you’re gone?

Thomios: Don’t worry. Everything is in Sue Chef’s capable paws, and Packer Chipmunk just passed his culinary apprenticeship with flying colors.

Iggy: I’ll be going fishing with Fresh and Salty Water Cats. Hopefully we’ll have a great catch.

Puckmosis: I’d love some Perfect Perch. Maybe Cat will smile down on you and send some Diem Carp.

Lupinium: I’m going to the Cosmo’s Nursery to plant my Blossom of Blessing. From now on it will be known as the Pink Lupinium.

Puckmosis: I see your fur is almost white again.

Lupinium: That’s right. I’ve been taking my beauty baths at Barbara’s Shop. Soon I’ll be invisible against the white walls again.

Elvis-Anum: You mean you think you’ll be invisible. And what will you be doing Ora Z?

Ora Z: I’m helping Iron Glove and Wally perfect their potato launcher.

My two seem to shed all year ‘round. Neither of them can hold a candle to the rabbit we had for 8 years, though. She’d blow her coat all at once like a dog and it would waft around the house in lighter-than-air clumps.

Coolin’ on a Sunday afternoon

Really couldn’t find a way too soon

I can’t imagine anything that’s better

Our world’s got fur clouds since we’re super shedders

There ain’t a place Puck’d like to be instead of

Perusin’ a “Soap Studs” mag or two

Doin’ anything he’d like to do

There’s always lots of ways that we can chill

We can lie anywhere and just be still

Two mice havin’ a freeze pop gives an icy thrill

Coolin’ on a Sunday afternoon

Really Kit Chase can still make us swoon

Whoa, oh, oh, oh

We’ll keep on spending sunny days this way

We’re gonna rest and dream our time away

I feel fall coming closer day by day

Fans blowin’ ecstasy, sippin’ ice tea endlessly

Coolin’ on a Sunday afternoon

Really haven’t moved today since noon

No, no, no, no

Coolin’ (uh huh, uh huh)

Coolin’

Edward Brigati / Felix Cavaliere – Groovin’ – The Young Rascals

Typical Mews rePurrters. They is turn blind eye to criminal rats right beneath their noses while they paints a nice and sunny picture of catsville as if there be nothing wrong going on in there.

I’m hoping for a episode of “Our IX Lives” before the end of the year!

Git Nekkid, Lupin!

Turn up the A/C!

Looks like a good time! I like the details of all the hair and the cats’ swimwear. Also the robber mice carrying what appears to be a pool noodle.

We had a large shorthair tuxedo that would sit on top of the A/C vents when it got hot. Then he would sit in the sun until he got hot. Go figure…

I just scraped about an inch of hair off the drapes where the cats like to peer out!

Down here in Hell (aka Texas) the Demon Sibs can usually be found sacked out on any flat surface directly under a ceiling a/c vent.

I’ve been reading from the beginning and up to 2018 and doing the present concurrently. I read about this strip on Flo And Friends when I was bingeing that. Love this strip. Can anyone explain the ORB thing? So many comments, I can’t read them all to find out.

Is that an Otter Pop I see exiting stage right?

On the towel that closest matches that cat’s fur because it is the towel you will grab when you are getting out of the shower and you are in a hurry since you are running late

Smudge and Mouse shed a little at a time, all the time. They would like to sun, but it’s cloudy today and we’re expecting thunderboomers.

No cat sheds like Mittens, with her copious amounts of long hair that gets everywhere. Hamilton is our next big shedder, then comes Holly Bear. Belle and Holmes have such fine, soft fur that you don’t see them shed.

However, Iko the dog sheds the most.

Every time I comb my cat, I get enough fur to make an entire second cat.

This time of year, we’re combing two or three times a week, minimum. I usually get partway through before I remember that if I don’t want fur all over my clothes, it’s better to take them off.

Lupin always does it wholesale.

Reminds me of my cat!

Both my girls are domestic medium hair. Gracie takes most of the weather in-stride. Sara is your typical always cold kitty. We have multiple hot spots for winter, but also a few spots for summer. We have a few sunbathing locales but the chewy box is where she goes to escape the A/C. She can curl up down in that large box, but she can still see what’s going on. She also has a spot on the couch where the pillows protect her from any cold air. They don’t shed too badly, but all that fur seems to end up in the hallway between the bedrooms and the main bathroom.

I see the girls are stealing a icy pop.

Ah. Lupin has it!

My girl Jez is definitely a… ahem… fan of that last technique.

What are the two mice carrying in the last panel?

Panel 7 gives new meaning to the phrase “make the fur fly.”

Oh come on, let’s get real here. Every season, in fact every day, is shedding season. Some days are just worse than others.

Corporal Mittens making an appearance on BrewsterRockit:

https://www.gocomics.com/brewsterrockit/2023/07/16

I always thik cat hair adds beauty

What are the mice making off with?

Let’s go shedding now

ev’ry body’s learnin’ how

come on a sheddin’ safari with me!

Panel 5: We had a cat who could open dresser drawers if they were on rollers. She liked my socks and underwear drawer.

I see all the gang have changed into their bathing suits.

RE: HEAT. During the Heat Dome here in the PNW a few years ago, I was resting in my bedroom which is the warmest area of the house. I realized I was getting way too hot, I also realized I was getting a fuzzy head. A FEW MOMENTS later, I got up slowly to move to a cooler room and I nearly passed out and barely made it to a safer place while holding onto furniture and walls. This Came On Very Suddenly and Unexpectedly. Please beloved Orbsters et al, pay close attention and take care.

Let’s shed on the bed

Shed on the chair

Shed here

Shed there

Shed everywhere

We do it with lots of style, dignity and flair

’Cause every little thing is better with cat hair.

Cats shed, especially in the summer. The spring shedding is nothing compared to July-August, especially for Longhairs. Better to get a brush and pamper them for 4-5 minutes a day for a week or two. Or make a comber they can go through on their own. Get a couple of the long bristle bathroom cleaning brushes, the kind made with the wrie wrapping, and that look like a guitar. Remove the handle and shape the bristle part into a simple hoop. then attach that to a piece of half inch plywood. about 18 inches square. sprinkle a bit of catnip on it once, and then stand back.

What are the mice carrying? And here’s a slightly blue mouse joke.Q: Why do mice have such small balls?A: They’re really little and can’t dance very long.

The Boy and The Girlfriend have two white akitas, Zeus and Finn. Hair. Everywhere. All the time. And they’re only downstairs a few minutes a day (they mostly live in the loft/spare bedroom upstairs).

I love that two of the robber mice are stealing a freezy pop at the end

I brush my cat in the morning

I brush my cat at night

She takes a big spliff of some good catnip

To make her feel all right

She gets catnip treats in time of peace

And more in time of war (like when all the blasted remodeling was happening)

I brush my cat and then I brush my cat

And then I brush her some more

Daddy always told me child, you be hardworkin’ man

Mama told me that’s all right, just do the best you can

Then one day I met a man, said that’s enough of that

Hard work good and hard work fine

But first take care of Cat

And so I brush my cat in the afternoon, and then I brush my cat

I brush my cat while I play video games, knit her fur into a hat (I brush my cat)

Then she rolls on rug while I smoke some nug

And purrs into the night

I brush my cat and then I brush my cat

Brush her mats out till she bites

Hey! Would you rather brush your cat or would you rather vacuum up the spring blowout?

I knew you were gonna say that!

( et sic de aliis )

The Toyes

“Smoke Two Joints”

Single, Ginger Coffee Records – PK 85003

1983

My eyes are itching just reading this.

OH MAN!

My voids have short hair and keep themselves well groomed. Rubbing against the corners of pastel walls, however, leaves “greasy kit stuff.” When I had to have the house renovated, we put thin clear plastic guards on every outward-facing corner in public areas to keep the paint clean.

Love this comic, Georgia! It’s so true!