Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for October 21, 2018

OMC!!! Loving the Werefloof’s ears, everyone popping and Buzzy Mouse pipping & Puck wanting to know where their pants go! And poor Elvis… if he had an anxiety closet I think hawaiian shirts and no pants would be in there.

what’s in the bottom left corner by Lupin in the last panel, more smores fixins?

I want chapbooks of these wonderful story arcs—lost Elvis Christmas, the two Halloweens (one isn’t even done yet), shelter cats. This one could be called “scary camping stories for cats.”

Yikes, I think I’d get scared if my pants disappeared!

It may not be scary, Lupin, but it sure is adorable and sweet!

OMC. Why is this not happening right now? I must have a werefloof! (And nice priorities there, Pucky.)

Okay, who hugged Tabitha the Crabby Tabby? She does not look pleased to have been floofed.

Robin, it seems that Elvis thinks he’s doomed!

LOL – Elvis’s Hawaiian shirt matches the inside of his ears.

Sir Figaro: “Ay, mi gato.”

Tommy is definitely highly contagious.

Elvis hates being floofed into a Hawaiian shirt.

“Now when the day goes to sleep and the full moon looks

Night is so black that the darkness cooks

You come sneakin’ around my dreams

Making me see things I don’t wanna see” (Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac)

Even a cat who is pure of heart and says his prayers by night

May succumb to a floof when the floof-cat hugs

And the Autumn moon is bright. (Thank you, Maria Ouspenskaya)

A purple shirt with yellow flowers? That isn’t scary. It’s absolutely terrifying!

The dots on Puck’s mug form a grinning face.

Is Elvis telling this one or did Lupin scare Elvis that badly?

Which would (cartoon) Elvis rather be dressed in – a bee costume, a taco costume, a Pirate Ballerina costume or a werefloof Hawaiian shirt with no pants?

Do you get a new shirt with each hug? No such thing as too many spifftastic shirts!

Looks like it. I would love a new shirt each time I hug my floof (Maine Coon).

Elvis is definitely more pear-shaped these days! Maybe he likes to layer in the cooler weather?

I can’t even express how much I love this!

Love the way that Elvis’s “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO” carries through to the end of today’s strip.

So scary, even the space heater looks terrified!

My favorite Gerry Goffin/Carole King song. The Drifters did it best. Other versions don’t hold up as well but it’s such a catchy number (“Up On The Floof” of course).

Having had a beautiful were-floof in our fur-family, I can attest to the unbelievable abundance of fur those little critters produce! They can merely walk by you trailing wisps of the stuff. And when handsome Cary arose from a nap, he would leave a perfect swirl of fur in the carpet.

Yet, he NEVER seemed to run out of fluff! Apparently, Maine Coons metabolize 90% of their intake into fur production.

We referred to his feet as “hooves” & “clodhoppers” for the size. He had a very firm foundation.

And he was clearly, for pure looks, the handsomest baby we ever had!RIP dear Cary (Grant)! You did your namesake proud!!! ♥♥♥

Love, >^.,.^<

TOMMY! I’ve missed you.

I love that buzzy mouse gets flooded too!

Buzzy Mouse snuggled up to Pucky in the last panel — too sweet for words!!! ♥♥♥

Love to everyone!!! If you’re needing boops, heart hugs, or other forms of comfort, you have them from me!!! I’ll be out of town today, so I’m broadcasting love by the bushel until I get back!!!

Blessings!!!

>^.,.^<

I adore the colors in this strip! That first panel of the moon is absolutely gorgeous! There are so many great details in this strip… Everyone getting their own Hawaiian shirt color (we need to see a BCN luau with those shirts and some catnip cocktails in tiny coconut cups!), the fact that Buzzy pips rather than pops, the fact that everyone’s ears get extra floofified after they have been were-floofed, the enamel camping coffee pot and matching mugs and plate (I have the same pot and mugs, mine are green though), the fact that the heater clearly agrees with Elvis about the scare level of this story, Pucky’s concerns about the lack of pants (he is a very sweet and modest boy). My only wish is that Sophie would have shown up floofified. I bet she would be completely adorbs kn a Hawaiian shirt (I am visualizing pink with lovely blue and purple flowers) and (more importantly) it would men Tommy finally got a chance to hug her!

Lotsa toe bean-age today.

As Count Catula noted: ‘Listen to them. Kitties of the night. What music they make’.

Yes Puck, where DO the pants go??? I guess there’s enough floof to cover all! :D Tommy, I want to be hugged and floofed too! ♥♥♥ Look at Tabitha’s cute purple Hawaiian shirt! And she’s still angry despite the floofing! (cheeky giggles)

Were-floof?

Were-floof?

There floof.

There floof.

There castle.

(Apologies to Mel Brooks.)

This is priceless! Lupin is thrilled; Puck is confused, and even Buzzy has the floofy ears! Beware the were-floof, indeed!

After today’s strip, I expect I’ll be reading Tommy’s dialogue in the voice of Gabriel Iglesias for a while.

I have lots of Were-Floof shirts in my closet.

. . . wouldn’t cats toast fish sticks instead of marshmallows? lol! :)

Button down Elvis in a Hawaiian shirt…the horror, the horror :-)

Cat pants huh, got to give that one a try

Aack!

Good morning and happy Bunday, orbsters and orbabies. A pantless Elvis is not to be imagined. The insult to his dignity! The felinity of it all!

Today’s Ask a Cat talks about “Ba-Ke Neko,” the Japanese ghost cat. I left a comment there about BCN’s ongoing ghost cat arc.

When this old world starts getting me down

And it’s too hard to face the truth

I don my favorite Hawaiian shirt

And look to go and hug

My favorite werefloof!

My werefloof is friendly as can be

And I can count on him to make me feel glee

Let me tell you now

When I come home feeling tired and beat

I go out where the hugs are sweet and free

I get away from the grumpy crowd

And hug a floof and feel

Happy as can be

Hug a floof the bestest way I know

To chase away the blues, let’s make it so

And hug a floof

Carole King and Gerry Goffin: Up on a Roof

re: colors—L . . . S . . . U

I gotta go with Elvis on this one. Long ear hair, Hawaiian shirts and no pants aren’t my style either.

SPECIAL FLASH UPDATE:

Its 5:15 and the Stampede Partners are wrestling on the bed. Mrrpph. Wait a minute. That’s not wrestling. They are playing pounce on the toes beneath the blanket. grumble grumble. But they’re doing it all over the place. huhhhh?

I refuse to open my eyes. I refuse to move. If I don’t they will go away and I can go back to sleep.

Now they’re up near my chest level pawing at the quilt. Oh for Murphy’s sake, go to sleep you goobers. Why are you pulling on the sheet?

Oh my, a thought just occurred to me. paw paw paw pull tug slap bat. What if they brought up a…….ahhhh crap. And there it goes. Either Lupin has shrunk like a Rick Moranis movie kid or a mouse just scurried past my chest and down my leg. Under the sheet.

“Lisa?”

“Yes?”

“I think we have a mouse in the bed.”

On the Jasper report for today. He thought he was feeling better than he actually was. He has been gingerly putting his foot down more and more. Well this morning he was tripodding along a little too fast and put he foot down and it didn’t hold him. It has happened 4 or 5 times before no big deal. This time however he was on the sidewalk leading up to the front door and did a face plant. I freaked a little and he was kinda stunned for a couple minutes. I got him in the house and stopped the bleeding. Yep right on the end of his huge chin. He still won’t let me look at his teeth but I think he’s OK because he ate a little food. Good thing I didn’t get the huge guy for his brains.

This has to be one of my favorite strips in a while. Don’t get me wrong — I love following our intrepid reporters daily, but today is just extra cat-tastic! And I have to say, the Sunday strips always make me extra happy because they remind me of the early strips (back when everything was on breakingcatnews.com). I loved the longer strips (even if there were only 2 per week); it felt like getting a whole episode twice a week whereas the dailies feel more like getting a little teaser every day. I realize it’s done to accommodate the newspaper format, but I do miss those long strips so…

love how the heater is yelling too.

No pants can contain the floof!

Georgia, you’ve topped yourself. This is the most hilarious BCN of the year, IMO. Truly worth howling over. Beware the floof!!!

Not apropos of anything.

https://youtu.be/oF5WjElgEyg

I can’t help smiling every time I even think of this one, or a part of it. Georgia has outdone (outDunn?) herself! (And that’s NOT easy!)

I may be just a smidge biased, but is anyone else legit disappointed in GoComics that the were-floof is not in the Editor’s Top 5 today? I’m sorry, but I find this is a way better strip than at least 2 of the ones that made the list today…

Sixty-two years ago today I was my dad’s birthday present and we are going to my folks to celebrate mine and his. Also, 62 means I can start SS so not working anymore, at least not for others. PLENTY to do at home!

I can’t stop laughing at this. My boyfriend just came in from the other room to see what was making me crack up so hard.

Some want to be grumpy. When even the grumpiest get foofed, then the grumpy person gets terrified that he too will become “nice”

History question: Does anyone else remember being told, as a kid who asked “What for?”, “What fur? Cat fur to make kitten britches!” Or was that original with my mom? (this was rural SW Ohio)

I am embarrassed to say I never really noticed that Tommy doesn’t have pants on when all the other cats do (or dresses). I blame Disney. Makes sense that so much floof would be hard to…contain. Have there been any other pantless characters???

This is adorable!

I’m down to 3 Maine floofs. They and tommy dont need pants—-God gave them “britches.”

Puck is pondering the ever asked question that started with Donald Duck.

Forget the Great Pumpkin. I’m spending Halloween waiting for the were-floof!

They must be burning up under their winter fur, clothes and love. The suffering must be terrible.

My son, no longer with us, made the best gift I have ever received. He had my Hawaiian shirts and my Grateful Dead concert shirts made into quilt. I plan to be put to rest warped in it. But on a happier note, I think FLOOFING is the best way to describe what happens when you give a really good hug. I LOVE Tommy!

I want to be a Were-Floof!

Sandra Boynton, Walt Kelly’s Pogo, Sir Terry Pratchett, Star Trek, etc., etc., with kitties!! [Happy sniff!] You guys are my kind of people! Thank you!

To floof or not to floof: that is the question!

And as an aside for the last two panels …

http://nooooooooooooooo.com/

The Were Floof. Something all Maine Coon’s aspire to be.

That’s funny……I have flowery shirts