Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for August 03, 2020

Oh, no! Not the white owl vase!

RIP owl vase – perhaps with enough superglue you may yet be saved. Kintsugi ethos to the rescue?

what’s Natasha doing?

A new case for Goldie! Is she responsible for the chalk outline around the remains?

Also, what does the Boy have in his mouth? I’m thinking maybe a PopTart. A sandwich, maybe?

It’s usually the one who looks most innocent…

Nobody saw anything. The authorities can’t prove anything. It was like that when he got there.

Lupin, call your lawyer.

Oh no! It looks like it’s beyond the “Let’s see if we can glue it” level of broken.

And somebody in the last panel is looking just a little bit too innocent.

Love how they outlined the breakage.

I love it when Lupin goes wide-eyed. That’s such an “I didn’t do it” face.

A Mystery for Goldie! Can she save Lupin? (Does she want to?)

Obviously it’s the handiwork of that reeky rat. You should know better than to let mangy mice live inside your house! And there’s four cats but not even one of them catches the mice and eats them!

I wonder why do all these breakable things exist in a house with four cats. I don’t have cats but I don’t have a single vase in my bear cave. What are vases used for anyway? To drink water? I drink water from the big water pot itself. I’d rather have some use for beer glasses instead. It’s only the bear essentials for me.

After a thorough investigation, Detective Cat comes to a conclusion about the mystery of the brown vase.

All the suspects are rounded and summoned together, which is everyone in that house. And then, Goldie the detective cat reveals the culprit — “The butler did it!”

“But we don’t have no butlers in this place”, say the others.

“Oh. In that case, would you believe it was the mouse who did it?”

Lupin just remember – deny, deny, deny.

Is this a case for Goldie, the in house sleuth??

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Bye bye, owl vase. Lupin, you are looking waaaayyyy too innocent.

Lupin’s all Big Eyes and Innocent Ears.

It looks more like a Humpty-Dumpty vase right now.

Dragnet Opening Theme

This is the kitty: Lupin Cat of Adventure

Lupin is known for his adventures throughout the Big Pink House. Sometimes these adventures end up in tragedy. That’s when I go to work. I carry a badge.

Dunn Dunn Dunn Dunn

Dunn Dunn Dunn Dunn Dunn

The story you are about to see is not true

The names have not been changed because it never happened

No, really, things like this never happen there!

Can cats whistle innocently?

I’m going out on a limb here…I think the Boy did it.

@rs0204-Yeah, I think so too! Just look at his,‘I did it, but I know Mom will blame Lupin,’ face!

The boy looks guilty.

Something tells me there is more to this than meets the eye. Though Lupin on the other hand is one of those cats that could break something and not even notice.

Me three! Those eyes look genuinely startled, I think Lupin even grows eyelashes when he is trying to “act” innocent and his eyes go much bigger. The boy seems just a little too interested in the aftermath.

“No no no it wasn’t me.” (George Thorogood and the Destroyers)

Looks like Lupin might actually have to turn to Goldie and let her save his bacon this time…

…assuming he actually didn’t do it. I mean, it’s Lupin. Can’t exactly rule it out juuuuust yet…

Poor owl vase…it looked so pretty Sunday full of bright flowers and looking nervously at Elvis pussy footing around the table settings.

" I’m innocent. See this golden ring over my head? Meow! "

I spy Robber Mice!

Hmmm I think I might be seeing the start of a story arch here. lupin denies it and accuses goldie or he is innocent and someone else did it or something along those lines.

Blame it on the mice, Lupin. The youngest or smallest always get the blame by the older and bigger.

Today is Clean Your Floors Day, which seems apropos to this strip.

It is also National Watermellon (or Watermillion) Day. Sounds pretty seedy to me.

Today is “Do Not Pet the Working Dog,” or Assistance Dog Day. Also do not even think of feeding the working dog unless you are the dog’s keeper.

It is Airplane Crop Duster Day. Much as I love aircraft, this is one job I would never take. It’s not the hazards of flying nap-of-earth, rather the nasty chemical exposure.

Finally, it’s Grab Some Nuts Day … so I guess all of us here can expect to get a hug of some sort … Be wary of large squirrels …

I, too, would be giving kitties the stink eye if I had a suspiciously broken owl vase!

I’m getting the sense that “Everything is broken and we don’t know who did it” is a recurring headline around here. :D

I noticed one of my cats walking across the cornice atop the living room curtains. He dislodged a flat straw basket which fell to the floor. He looked at me; I looked at him. He clearly implied that “someone” should pick that up, then continued his prowl.

Around here things don’t get broken very often. The recurring mystery at my house is who horked up that huge wad of cat food precisely in the foot traffic area where someone is bound to step in it. There is no going barefoot in this house.

OT today is the day I start a new decade of life. Retirement is on the horizon!

I like to set a small item on the edge of a counter or table near one of my cats. I do it slowly, carefully with cat watching. Then wait for the inevitable. One little paw, tap, tap, nudge, nudge and down goes the item.

The Boy’s expression seems to say “You’re going down, cat.”

The Adventure Cat of No Impulse Control.

♫”Crawlin’ from the wreckage, crawlin’ from the wreckage

You’d think by now at least that {Lupin’s} brain would get the message”♫

(Dave Edmunds)

I feel Georgia’s pain. Taz threw up on my tax return and my laptop. Thank god the computer was closed. But for the life of me I can’t figure out how she managed to delete and save an entire Word document I was working on that time I left it open, and she decided to nap on the keyboard. Six hours of work ….. thank god I had a backup … for most of it.

It was such a nice vase.

It’s never Lupus… but it IS always Lupin.

NOT THE OWL VASE! Lately, Covid has been flirting with a little knick knack my Daddy left me. I must move it before it’s too late.

bad white kitty !!

I wonder if the fanciest cat in the land may have done it. Lupin looks shocked. I choose to believe him, even though Pucky is not impressed.

Even the cat of adventure cannot cause havoc all the time, there needs to be room for others to do this as well.

Owl be starting an investigation.

Serious Mode ON:

We cannot display nice things on counters, tables, shelves or any open space. We all KNOW this but we persist in our foolish behavior.

We all KNOW that the kitties cannot resist batting, slapping, tipping and swatting. Blame not the innocent feline, acting on its most essential instincts.

Lock up the women. Secure the valuables. CATS LIVE HERE!!!!

I was tossing a coin between Lupin and the Boy until Lupin said they had the wrong cat.

This really is Breaking Cat News.

Reminds me of the strip that started it all “Everything is broken.”

http://www.breakingcatnews.com/comic/everything-is-broken/

Hmmmmm. Plot Speculation: Lupin is the Prime Suspect. But if Goldie were to investigate and find him innocent, that would go some way to bridging the gulf between the two of them. As for who is guilty…what was stored in the Owl vase? Would it be anything similar to what the Boy is eating?

Not pointing fingers. Let the detective investigate and let the clues lead where they may.

Just the fragments, ma’am.

No blame kitty

You sure it isn’t the microterrorist she’s holding?