Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for December 14, 2019

The joys of Christmas…

The woman’s Christmas’s cards are doomed!

And yet she’s got a potential 4th cat waiting in the office. This woman is a true cat lover!

I’ve never seen anyone send greeting cards in recent times. It’s usually the WhatsApp messages nowadays.

The Woman has lots of “help”.

Funny, she seemed so relaxed and happy in the first panel.

Now see, this is why Christmastime is so chaotic…

OT: Nushi test results and my surgery

We now go to the BCN newsdesk for a SPECIAL REPORT: Nervous Breakdown of a Nervous HouseWoman!

Elvis, come help with my Christmas cards and I will help you with your stamp problem.

Another wonderful scene from Georgia! Wanted to share a scene from my home that reminded me of an earlier scene done by her. Four kittens launching themselves at a curtain and climbing it. Some could make it to the ceiling at 7’ (basement), and then climbed backward til they could safely drop. They loved doing this! But it was a temporary thing pinned up to make a smaller space and eventally unpinned itself.

OT: The kittens, born from stray/feral young mommy cat (in my basement), are old enough to adopt and have an appt. to go to humane society coming up. Its not in best interest to keep six kittens and mommy when I have two fifteen year old cats already. I am back and forth on keeping mommy cat and maybe one kitten. The older and younger cats have not been integrated as mommy has been showing aggresiveness, and everyone needs shots and such, so it seemed safest to keep them separate until most/all kitties go, then I can concentrate on just mommy with my original cats. I am looking for advice from people who have fostered cats/kitties on what they’ve experienced. thank you!

I make my own greeting cards. I have an assembly line. Cut the cardstock, stamp, embossing powder, punch the corners with a suitable pattern, fill out inside, place in envelope, address add postage. Bam! Done!

A strip taken from real life, much?

Oh, Elvis. Didn’t you learn your lesson from the band-aids last year? Apparently not…

Three cats and a toddler? Her chances of writing the cards are definitely lower than average.

Any project worth doing, is required to have feline help, or it just WON’T get done right!

Cats make everything 50% more fun.

Chaos, kids and Kitties…that’s how you know it’s Christmas! Sounds like the opening to a new Christmas song! (Not sung by the loud, Chipmunks!)

According to the “Twelve Pains of Christmas,” this is the fourth thing that’s such a pain to me. I bet Lupin would have fun “helping” with day number two – rigging up the lights.

It appears that you’re in a sticky situation, Elvis.

Now that the cocoa is more easily accessible, are you going to do anything about it Puck? Or maybe as an envelope glue chaser, Lupin? Elvis, I’m not sure you can overcome your stamp problem, but if the Woman and/or Toddler helps, maybe you can get in a nip as well.

(Yes, I know chocolate is bad for cats, but the image of kitties who by means of living in a comic strip can’t be hurt by drinking it doing so just appeals.)

Oh dear. Cocoa stains on the festive candy cane tablecloth. The Boys will just have to lounge around on top of the table to cover those up.

Everybody is having FUNNNNNNN!

OT – It’s a true Aussie Christmas! Robin keeps telling us about the wildlife there and it’s true. This woman is going to have to change the lyrics from now on to “And a python in a tree.”

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/13/australia/three-meter-python-christmas-tree-intl-scli/index.html

Lupin fangs!

Meanwhile, the river of cocoa flows towards the Woman’s finished Christmas cards …

sigh all this is reminding me that I haven’t done mine this year. Not that my list is long. But Turkeyday was late, the house had some repairs that I was pulling hair to schedule, and then travel for work, and and and . . .

She should go in the room with Goldie. It would be 1/4 the cat-tastrophy.

“…can i help?”

You see now? When everyone does their part, it’s hardly a chore!

The only ‘people’ missing are the Robber Mice!

I suppose this presents a good argument for doing all of this digitally, doesn’t it?

Thought the Orb might like this from BCN last year – enjoy!

https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2018/12/23

We have installed a new cat toy. Perhaps the BCN crew would benefit.

The toy is the same size and shape as a Christmas tree. At various locations on the toy are found Objects Of High Interest (OOHI’s) designed to test and reward feline athleticism and inventiveness. The objects bear a striking resemblance to the most study subset of ordinary Christmas tree ornaments.

So far, the servants have proven willing and able to reset Objects as they happen to found found in various locations around the house.

Dear Orb,I would greatly appreciate it if you could send some good vibes, hugs, purrs, prayers, nose boops, head butts, and any other good things towards my mother. Yesterday she had to make the very difficult decision to take her friend of 18 years, Little Runt, to be put to sleep. She was 19 years old. Little Runt had developed some thyroid issues, but seemed to do ok on some meds for it. Then, she started losing weight even though she was eating a prescription wet food 6 times a day, and waking my mother 2 and 3 times a night to eat. She started drinking a ton of water as well. The vet gave the diagnosis of diabetes, and Little Runt, despite eating quite a bit, had gone from 8 pounds to 5. She had other ailments, but the daily insulin injections was something my mother was not willing to put her beloved friend through. I know this was very hard for her. So please, just keep her in your thoughts. It would mean a lot to me, and to her. Little Runt was such an amazing cat, and loved everyone.

On vacation at mom’s, spending Caturday morning with Onyx!

https://www.instagram.com/p/B6DwPydpX8X/

And of course, with BCN:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B6DxNl9J9I7/

I love Elvis trying to look angry, but with the stamp on his nose, he’s adorable!

MERRY XMAS!!!!

PUCK, HOW COULD YOU!!!!!!!! The coco was the only thing allowing the woman to keep a shred of her sanity.

Looks like the Toddler has managed to stamp himself right between the eyes!

From Camera One: “It’s Christmas Card Carnage and Written Ruination as far as the cat’s-eye can see!! … Reporting for CN ! … Back to you!!” :)

The Woman must have yelled REALLY LOUD (even louder than the Shoutmunks?) if even deaf Lupin was startled!

“Tidings of comfort and joy???”

People, please send cards! They are treasures. I always saved the latest cards I received. I have the last card sent by my mother, father, sister, brother, grandmothers, aunts, and several close friends, all now deceased (my last relative died when I was 58). I pull them out of the drawer every Christmas and remember them and have a good laugh over some silly Christmas memory and shed a tear over the loss.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I love this comic so much!

So sweet of the good boys doing their part to help the Woman with her Christmas cards. My mom’s cats did their share of disruption in their days.

Meowy Catmess!

https://youtu.be/rIn-kZiaVA8

Is it bad that I usually stay awake until 12:05am (my time) to catch the BCN broadcast fresh?

Such a neat little darling. So tidy!

https://youtu.be/9KyptOMi-5E

My girl-cat of 20 or so years ago had a name, but we discarded it in favor of the one which most fit. She was ever after known as ‘help’.

It’s nice to have help.

Anyone taken a look at Instagram in the last little bit? BTW looks amazing!

https://twitter.com/breakingcatnews

https://www.instagram.com/p/B6EgGZwptSb/?igshid=1j2br46vju2pq

Somewhat OT: Tommybaum on Zazzle

Our cats ignored me as I did our cards. Our granddaughter on the other hand……

Heh. We just did ours tonight.Had to run out because we ran out.

The Woman is a Lefty!! Lefties RULE!!

Looks like even Lupin heard that!!!