Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for January 31, 2019

Elvis, your soap box is getting a bit slippery! You’re losing your audience as well as your focus.

And Lupin, you must have your claws crossed because there’s no way you’re ever going to be able to avoid a shelf!

The voice of reason rejected! It’s all about Elvis. Oh my!

Oooohh the righteous indignation! I can just picture Elvis after this, stalking off with his nose in the air and his tail twitching.

It’s not as easy as you think, Lupin. Shelves are hard for cats to avoid.

Exactly, Squawtron. Shelves lie in wait, luring cats with Siren-like song and promises of adventure. But if the cat steps onto the shelf, there is a good chance it is doomed.

Telling a cat to stay off shelves is like telling the tide not to come in. Ain’t gonna happen, man.

It’s those humans putting attractive teasers, like PLANTS, on the shelves, that cause a cat to lose his sense of propriety.

Oh nooooo Lupin! You done did it! Incurred the wrath of Mommy’s Special Boy!

Well, Lupin, they could avoid shelves, except that they can’t!

The Cat of adventure lives dangerously. Elvis lives haphazardly.

Good morning from the waning polar vortex. Currently -26 F with a high predicted for -1 F which is part of the upward trend that will be, wait for it, 49 F by midday Monday!!! That’s a 75 degree shift over 4 days! With snow today and then rain all weekend. So, rain and melting on top of frozen ground equals a wet soggy mess. Blech.

The headliner of “Lupin Leaps In” is asking this question??? It has to just be a rhetorical question.

You just had to go and make it personal, didn’t you Lupin?

My Cat, there are toe beans everywhere!

And we don’t just need RIGOROUS MEASURES put in place to prevent these cat-astrophes but RIGOROUS MEASURES with intense paw shaking.

Uh oh, Elvis is Outraged, bordering on Incensed, with a little ‘indignation’ thrown in for measure. Don’t worry Lupin, you will be fine as long as he is venting his spleen. However, if Elvis gets real quiet, back away quickly and avoid eye contact.

Three topics you never want to bring up with Cats and Siamese in particular: Liberal Dog* Nonsense, Missing Breakfast, and of course, Shelves.

*Our Bitey Enemy.

when Lupin appears to be the voice of reason, it’s time to question your position.

at least we know tweet hating Elvis won’t be stalking off to post one….

In the last panel, is Elvis scolding with his “thumb?” It definitely doesn’t look like a pointer finger . . .

Lupin is a dual-purrsonality kitty. Calm, logical newscat on air. When the tie & jacket come off, he’s Cat of Adventure!

No different from any mercurial feline found anywhere. I am looking at my sweet little Dusty, curled up in blissful snooze. How innocent! How adorable!

But the Dusty who tries to trip me on the way to the “necessary”, loudly demanding-HOLLERING for his daily shrimp? Where on earth did this little hellion come from?!?!?

"Cat"ch my drift? ;-D

Love, >^.,.^<

Happy Frigid Purrsday, orbsters and orbabies! My, my, our Elvis is certainly the picture of righteous wrath and indignation this morning, isn’t he? Yum Yum has the run of everything in the house, except the kitchen counter (at all times, although she pushes her luck). She knows that company is coming if we move the table into the middle of the floor, and the table surface is then verboten. I don’t have any shelves, but she likes to roost on top of the bookcases. And, beware her fury if you forget her treats at what she considers the required times!!

Oh that wry paw gesture and look on Lupin’s face in panel three.

You’d think Lupin was the one who talks with his hands, amiright? Get it?

LOVE the shaking finger of righteous indignation in the last panel!

I know it’s not meant to look like this, because this is not that kind of strip, but it sure looks like Elvis is flipping Lupin the bird in the last panel.

High leap to a tempting shelf where the knick-knacks all reside

Long fall to the floor from there, it was worth it every time

Tried to run across the ceiling, running every now and then

Land hard, sending stuff all reeling, and I crash the shelf again!,

…….

This jump’s the biggest leap I wish I hadn’t done

Running relentlessly, disastrous but so much fun!

…….

If all shelves are so dangerous, why do I enjoy them so?

If I know better than to jump onto them why do I still go?

Zedd featuring Foxes: Clarity

. . . Live active kittens, this morning! FIGHT! FIGHT! LOL! :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZtC9oQoHfY

…wow, I didn’t realize Elvis was such a snowflake…

Judging Lupin’s face in the third panel, I would say that he is playing devil’s advocate here. He isn’t actually seriously thinking cats should avoid shelves… but just giving another perspective, as it were, and at the same time, riling up Elvis. Because, you know, Elvis is a lot of fun to rile.

Jumping on shelves is unalienably a cat’s right. Or a counter or table…

OMC- I surrender. Multiple Lupin toe beans, Elvis toe beans, and tiny fist of rage. Lupin as the voice of reason. Ahhhhhhhh!

Oh, Mommy’s little Pirate Ballerina feels personally attacked! Gentlemen—get ahold of yourselves! This is a Serious News program, not some tawdry shock-talk show! Where’s Puck? We need the Voice of Reason to calm things down.

Where’s Puck right now? Probably 3-paw parkouring from the highest shelf to a tunnel between walls leading to the attic!

I never thought of Elvis as a snowflake before this but now, he sure is acting like one.

I thought cats were in a state of permanent personally-offended anyway. No?

When cats start obeying their humans it will be a sign the Second Coming is about to happen….

Oh the toe bean maniacs are having a field day, today!

Anyone notice the cover of Lupin Leaps In shows toe beans?

SJW: Siamese Justice Warrior. ;-)

I sense a duel coming to settle this matter of honour.

Cat safety is a paramount concern. It’s a central principle of Service to Cats.

That’s like asking a democrat about the wall.

Way to blame the victim, Lupin!

Keeping all the orbsters and their loved ones in need of prayer in my thoughts sending hugs and purrs

Not happening, Lupin…not happening.

What are the rigorous measures Elvis is talking about, and who’s going to put them in place? Because if he means anchoring the shelves more firmly to the wall – well, that’s a job for hands, not paws.