Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for December 31, 2019

Happy new year to all, and thank you all for your prayers and thoughts, and thank you Georgia for all this and peep toads.

There is babyproofing and then there is babyproofing 2.0! New levels of imagination are required to anticipate this little dynamo’s next steps!

You sure she’s not a cat?

Never underestimate what a baby can get into.

Look at he baby she is having the time of her life running everywhere, then look at poor Puckys eyes with a worried look. Mom and dad are going to have a great time with this little spitfire. Watch out for your tails boys,

the question still remains….where is Elvis!?

Is that blue stuff on the man’s pajama top and chest and the woman’s hair ink?

Happy and safe New year Orbsters. Be Safe! I will be at home with my Furkids, so they know the fireworks won’t hurt them

It can always be more babyproof, man!

The house can’t be babyproof. A baby got in.

Oh. Just you wait, hyoomans. This is just the beginning.

That looks like an artist’s easel that something spilled from. So it could be ink or her water color brush wash. Oops! They did not see that coming!

Happy New Year, BCN family! I will hopefully be asleep at midnight. What is everyone else doing?

Just more proof that cats and toddlers are interchangeable!

That is one hundred-proof baby.

She looks so proud of herself… gleeful even!

OT: Nushi and me

I had to baby proof my home after I took in a pair of Bengal brothers, they got into everything, including the fridge!

I have actually seen some adults who were stymied by baby proofing, while the babies figured it out!

Love the dramatic angle in panel 3!

Her little “Ha Ha Ha” giggles are actually “Bwahahahaha!”

I would have thought the Cat of Adventure would be down on the floor drag racing with her.

There is a big difference between baby proofing and mobile toddler proofing lol!

And a not completely doomed and disastrous New Year to you all.

In the words of King Theoden: “And so it begins.” LOL!

Happy New Year to all BCN readers! Best advice I ever got in my 60+ years on this planet: All we have is today. Yesterday is done and tomorrow is only a vision. Do your best to be your best for TODAY and the rest will work out fine. Be happy, healthy and safe, my friends!

Wishing every a happy and prosperous Mew Year!

There is no such thing as babyproof. The best that can be hoped for is baby resistant. Babies are Murphy’s Law embodied.

Watch (constantly, from now on) for ambulatory antics!

Happy and safe New Year to all of youse! :-D

Once the walk is accomplished, the arms extend 3 feet.

It looks like in panel 3 that Puck moved up a level to be out of baby’s way. Smart cat.

Ain’t no stoppin’ her now!

She’s on the move!

Ain’t no stoppin her now!

She’s got something to prove!

She’d been very happy staying on the ground

But now seems happier finally runnin’ around

We know she’s got a long, fun way to go

And how many things’ll be wrecked, we don’t know

But she won’t let nothin’ hold her back

She’s got her act together

She’s on a gleeful destructive track!

If we felt she’s been slow to walk before

We now know she’ll refuse to just crawl anymore!

She won’t let nothing, nothing

Stand in her way!

We want y’all to listen, listen

To every word we say, and get out of her way!

Ain’t no stoppin her now!

She’s on the move!

Ain’t no stoppin her now!

She’s in her groove!

(And no one and nothing is safe. HA HA HA!)

Source: LyricFind

Original songwriters: Jerry Allen Cohen / Gene Mcfadden / John Whitehead

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

Happy New/Mew Year’s Eve, everyone. I don’t know what your plans are, but Paul and I will probably be in bed around 9PM, and get up next year to mimosas and whatever celebratory breakfast I decide to make. Yum Yum, of course, will be getting her little nose into everything, and putting in her two cents’ worth whenever she has the opportunity.

Too bad her hair isn’t waterproof.

Foolish parents. There is always more that needs babyproofing. ALWAYS.

The Baby is having a grand old time running around at warp speed like a little mad thing!

To all, Happy New Year, and may the last year of this decade be the best one!!

I have to work on New Year’s Day, which suits my usual bed-by-nine schedule.

Looks like January is arriving here more like March, very gray and windy today, and our little heat wave has skipped town. No big celebration here, I will continue my tradition of watching New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, haven’t missed one yet (what I miss is Dick Clark) while Partner falls asleep long before midnight. I fervently wish for a much happier, healthier, safer year for all of you and your loved ones, hooman and otherwise. We can do this, one day at a time. I love you all, celebrate safely!

Tracking says my new display will be here by tonight. Just as well, as it keeps going black on me, staying that way for 2 to 20 seconds, then turning back on. Can’t fault the equipment. When I looked it up, this display is around nine years old, so I got my money’s worth, I think.

Luckily Puck is an excellent climber! I’m assuming that Lupin will feel the vibrations and be able to join in the fun or escape as needed! Not sure about Elvis, though?

Puck needs to get out his Venn chart – the one showing toddlers as the overlap between tornadoes and black holes!

( https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2018/06/17 )

Happy New Year to the Orb. I remember sitting in grade school and the teacher showing us what are age would be in the 2000’s. 2020 seemed so far away then….

Daughter 2 was always one creatively bad step ahead of me. I am praying that someday she gives birth to herse!f.

It’s never babyproofed, they continually show you your weaknesses.

May everyone have a happy, healthy, and prosperous New/Mew Year!

To ALL my BCN friends

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In a roundabout way, that means that the Boy isn’t a baby any more.

Baby 2.0 always finds the holes OG Baby never found…so it is written, so it will be. (Also, Happy Totally Arbitrary Measurement of the Year! https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2275407909152085 )

Local authorities are scrambling, baffled, and overwhelmed!! …

On that lovely thought, Happy New Year!! :)

Traditional: Auld Lang Syne

Should past infractions be forgot, and never brought to mind?

Should past infractions be forgot, now the recorder’s mine?

For new cat friends be kind, my dear,

For new cat friends be kind!

We’ll drink a cup of kat-koffee yet,

And try to be kind!

…….

Beware the toddler running wild,

And knocking down her finds!

Beware the toddler running wild,

And tables re-align!

For days of mayhem yet to come,

We’ll still work out just fine!

We’ll have to nail everything down,

And it will work out fine!

…….

And to my friends around the world,

The orb-friends I hold dear,

May all great blessings to you abound

In this upcoming year (which has already come for some of you)!

May all great blessings to you abound,

All great blessings abound!

All my best wishes I send to you!

In the new decade and year!

Ah, the joys of parenthood.

Ah, it’s finally time to change the calendar here. We’re officially in 2020 now. I don’t see the promised flying cars yet, but I’ll wait. Happy New 2020 CE, folks.

Peculiar thing about that baby proofing. It doesn’t seem to have been tested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGzgPt9-_DY

I want to know where Elvis is during all of this. I thought he might be cheering the Baby on. It is of course possible that now the Baby is mobile his love affair is cooling.

Van update: pre-purchase inspection completed, deal completed, paperwork completed, just waiting on the insurance check for the keys to change hands!

Come to think of it, I wonder why their previous baby didn’t teach them everything they needed to know about babyproofing? Of course, each kid (and cat) is unique and perhaps their son didn’t go from 0 to 60 like his little sis?

Looks like Puck decided to head for the high ground in the third panel. With the baby on the loose, is he really safe there?

Babyproofing starts with zip ties.

“Tonight’s December thirty-first,

Something is about to burst.

The clock is crouching, dark and small,

Like a time bomb in the hall.

Hark, it’s midnight, children dear.

Duck! Here comes another year!”

― Ogden Nash

A bayberry candle

burned to the socket

brings joy to the heart

and gold to the pocket.

Happy New Year, everyone! May your orbs be blessed!

Thank you Georgia for the wonderful Breaking Cats News. Happy New Year to everyone, whether 2019 was good or bad for you, may 2020 be a hundred times better.

HAPPY 2020 (which is already starting out right, since I had a lap full of Onyx) & GOOD RIDDANCE 2019!!!

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Follow up to my post from yesterday, as requested by Granny Roberta. Our cat that passed on 12/29 was named Minkus by the shelter where we got him and I liked it, so it stayed – I googled the name once because so many people asked about, I believe it is the last name of a minor 18th century composer. He was a half Maine Coon and that’s all we know. We adopted him when he was 8 weeks old and 1 month after 9/11 (easy to remember his age). Our kids were 5 and 3 at the time, and he was absolutely patient with both of them (the then 5 is autistic but loves animals). He quickly formed a bond with our daughter (the 3). He loved hanging out in her room, no matter what she was doing – the only time he ever wanted out of her room was when she dressed him in Build-A-Bear clothes. An hour later he was back in her room looking for attention. In Dec 2005 when we were in the middle of a move to Hawaii, he got outside at my MIL’s and lived in a culvert for 2 weeks. My daughter was devastated when Santa didn’t bring her buddy to her for Christmas – it was all she wanted. Luckily, a neighbor was able to catch him and he flew by himself to HI instead of with his feline and human sister. He was a trooper – he moved three times (military family), outlived to feline sisters, and had an amazing personality. He was just a good boy. About three years ago right before the girl child left for college we noticed he was losing weight. It took a couple of months but his thyroid level finally showed what our vet suspected was going on – hyperthyroidism. At that point he was 15 and we were leary of the radiated iodine treatment for him and did meds twice a day. He would maintain his weight for a bit, then get a little worse. His health had been a roller coaster the last two months. We had hoped he would be able to make it to next week.

They do look so joyful when they take those first steps. There is nothing like the look of empowerment and the self awareness of freedom.

quick! babyproof Gocomics before I go astray!