C'est la Vie by Jennifer Babcock for May 30, 2013

The cat-thing must go! Now M. Smokey is endangered by it!

Lucas: “See I really want to move on with my life, find my own dreams, hook up with someone that doesn’t smell like the back part of a cigar bar.”Mona: “Sorry, I’m back now. What were you saying?”Lucas: [click]

Too late… Smokey is dead

So Smokey gets attacked by the cat, possibly preventing for a moment Mona getting attacked by reality.

All will be well.

Two simultaneous dramas! The tension, the tension!

Alternately the cat could be seeking amour?

“It is just a cat.”

You say that as if it’s meant to be reassuring…