Pickles by Brian Crane for May 23, 2020

This is why we can’t have nice things.

That’s why they invented Christmas ornaments that bounce. That might be even more fun for the cat.

now why, Opal, would Roscoe destroy the figurine?

“A cat is living sculpture.” — Wanda Toscanini Horowitz

“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.” — Leonardo da Vinci

Well I don’t think much of that figurine but it’s true when you have kitties there are things you can’t have. I haven’t had a Christmas tree in years. Anything breakable on tables. Small items they can knock off and break or bat around the house. A cat can make a toy out of anything.

“When you’re right, you’re right.”

Cats are not the only ones that have to have things put up to prevent breakage: Children, relatives nasty children, etc. Buy an artificial tree and decorate with plastic or hot sauce on ornaments, or even better, spend Christmas with relatives, they always over decorate with some breakage with me in the lead.

Christmas or any holiday is to be enjoyed. If it were perfect thre would be nothing to remember. “Do you remember the time……when…….” Two years in a row we had cedar trees cut from the property. Could not understand why they were so stinky. Realized the second year. The felt tree skirt had been liberally soak with cat urine each year. Cedar has a distinctive order that had attracted the cats. That was the last of our real Christmas trees. now we have nice, unbreakable ornaments that we have made over the years.

Back in the “good old days” when there big derriere TV’s we had a Siamese cat that like the warmth he would get on top and stretch out. Too bad for anything on top.

Blame it on Roscoe.

Typical cat behavior !

Proof that Earth is not flat. Cats would’ve knocked everything off by now. (old joke)

Maybe because the Japanese knew how destructive cats could be?

The REAL saying is: you can have nice things, or you can have a cat….

I always knew: cats in the house is valling for misery!

Well Opal defend this action by your cat !

Ya know, now that I think of it, I don’t see so many figurines offered in magazines anymore. . .or is it just that I don’t get any of the “Seven Sisters” anymore?

Gasp! Opal will hit the roof when she sees this…

Well, there went the Franklin Mint antique.

My cat is surprisingly careful about objects on shelves. So far I’ve found him sleeping against a lego AT-TE and on top of some books.

Or curtians.

Kind of agree with Muffin on demolishing that piece of “art”.

The only difference between cats and small kids is, that at least with kids, you can load ’em up on sugar and send them home to their parents as sweet revenge.

When you have a catsky, you don’t need tschatzky.

Growing up, we called those small tables for holding potted plants, “Cat stands.”

That’s a foot-high table??????????

We are blessed with our current pets who show know interests in being destructive. Having said that, who would put a breakable figurine there? If it wasn’t a stray tail hitting it, it could be a grandchild’s elbow. If it was still standing, I might trip and cause the table to wobble.

I had a little urn on my piano which held a tablespoon of my dad’s ashes. With one swipe, kitty knocked it off, the lid gave, part of Dad fell through the piano keys, the rest landed on the carpet. I had no recourse except to vacuum up my dad. Sorry, Pop!

Just Jim Dandy, but not Nasty-Cat.

In our case, it is my husband’s onyx chess set. The kitten loves to knock the pieces over and watch them roll off the table. I’ve been putting them along the side of the board as if they were pieces that have been “taken”. So far black is winning.

Having lived with extremely large dogs ( Great Danes, St. Bernards, Russian Wolfhounds, etc. ) as well as feisty felines, I learned to keep breakable objects away from wagging tails and kitty swipes. What little destruction ( accidental or deliberate ) that occurred, wasn’t caused by my big, clumsy dogs but by the lithe and lethal cats.

Guessing I have been fortunate enough to have good cats over the years. None of them deliberately have pushed thing off surfaces just because and they have never bother the Christmas tree. The only time an ornament was broken by a cat was an accident. She had be under the tree (a fake one) and started to walk towards me for some attention. Just as she was out from under the tree her tail bumped an ornament and it fell to the floor shattering. It scared her a bit.

This is all wrong. Our cat wouldn’t check to see if anyone is watching, and he would just jump up on the table and crowd Hamilton on to the floor.

I had enough cats in my life to learn that cats will either (a) knock anything on the floor or (b) sleep on it. Or both. Let’s not forget © – pee on it.

One of several reason we have no pets. I am reminded of the biggest reason every time I see a neighbor standing out in a cold rain waiting for a dog to poop.

I love that second panel.

Our cat is too lazy to swat that hard. She just jumps up there and… oh, oops… it’s on the floor now.

P.S. That’s not art. That’s kitch.

I think the saying should be changed to “A house with no cat needs no cat”!

NO! BARE NEKO! WAIT TILL OPAL SEES WHAT YOU DID, MUFFIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The saying should be “No house Needs a cat”.

I don’t know about a Japanese saying, but it’s not wrong.

Best thing that could happen to a Hummel, or a pellet gun.