Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for August 28, 2020

Nice to see the family harmony here.

If it’s motorized it’s a cat amusement park ride.

Ah, but as with so many good things, there can be danger – being underneath it when the “couch for cats” folds down can be quite unpleasant.

Watch your tails, boys. Watch your tails.

“…But wait, there’s MORE. This recliner comes with a living, breathing cuddle buddy…”

Oh, the recliner always scares me when the cats are around. I’m terrified I’ll try to put it back down and they’ll get a paw or tail trapped in the mechanism. For use only when I can see where all cats are!

All furniture should be designed to accommodate cats.

Ahhh, Georgia is drawing a scene from real life! From what I understand, Goldie does love to snuggle on The Man’s lap!

All three of my good boys love the reclining love neat—one next to my leg, one snuggled on my arm, and one between my feet on the “little couch”. Or sometimes one curled around my head like a big fur hat…

If one of my chonky cats lies on the little couch while I’m reclining, my recliner becomes an unrecliner.

Nice that Lupin is so thrilled with recliner. And what a lovely picture of Goldie curled on man’s lap in harmony with Lupin and Puck.

Elvis, get over there! It needs to be a unanimous report. (Grab Burt on your way over, see if the man notices.)

Everything is meant just for the cats, Lupin.

Can you imagine having all the cats sitting on your lap during winter?

That is my favorite spot on the weekends (especially in late fall when the weather has cooled off and FSU, USF or the Bucs are playing ball as I have an old Lazy Boy out on the lanai for days like that) when I have the chance to relax and yes the cats can be territorial about the footrest and will also take over the human’s spot if you get up for whatever reason!

My girl cat will climb on my left arm when I am in the recliner. She kneads my collar bone then puts her head on it and purrs loudly. She has put me to sleep more often than not by that trick. After she is sure I’m asleep and likely to move much, she gets down between my calves on the extension, pushes my legs apart a bit then cuddles in and goes ot sleep there for hours. Her brother waits until she has gotten between my calves then he lays across my chest, purring like a diesel engine. He’s heavy so I wake up and pet him, then he gets down on the outside of my left leg on the extension and goes to sleep. We can be there, all cuddled up for several hours since they target me about bedtime.

Oh, it’s so nice to be with you

I love all the things you say and do

And it’s so nice to hear you say

Come relax on this fine kitty tray

Man, I got the notion

You’ll be causin’ commotion when it folds

When you’re feelin’ down

We’re here to perk you up and help you to carry on

Aww, little things mean a lot

When you have a lap that’s empty

We’re here to fill the spaces in all the comfiest places

Aww, Man, I just gotta say

Oh, it’s so nice to be with you

I love to nap with you it’s true

And it’s so nice to hear you say

You’re gonna relax here every day

[Jim Gold]

This is SO our house! As soon as the recliner goes up, a cat is there to share. We have 3 boys and at least one of them is on a lap or on the feet at all times.

Time for Murphy’s Law of Feline Frustration….just when your cat(s) are curled up in your lap, fast asleep, and totally adorable, you will have to go to the bathroom. So true.

Look at Pucky draped over the armrest. And we have Goldie loaf of happiness.

I think Elvis looks a little jealous. Go and join them Elvis!

My fathers Schnauzer loved his Doggy Stage!

Every night when I turn the light off and get into bed, my big girl, Tigger will give me a good night lick and cuddle next to my shoulder. While my boy, Cassidy, will settle at my feet!

I live alone with 2 cats, in a tiny apartment. I only own a lazyboy, and yes, the cat couch is well used once elevated.

We’re still having Sultan and Sheba spats once in a while, but Jason has seen them side by side eating dry food! We keep Sultan’s on a storage box in our room, and she likes being in here as well. Waiting to get a photo of it :)

me trying to sit on that: hmm I wonder if I can OH SHOOT

Goldie is Daddy’s special girl.

Ah yes. I bought a lovely recliner for myself — I thought. Ha! Cats are quite happy with it!

They also love the top of the headrest. Unfortunately, one of them has gone to sleep more than once and slipped off (leather), then tried to recover dignity by pretending he meant to get off! LOL!

Let us not forget the 30 lb/14 kg “lap dogs!” :-o

The “impossible” angle of the man’s legs shows the only real problem with recliners and cats. I may wind up with bow legs but the cat is just so comfortable – warmed by my legs and the heat coming off the TV screen.

I can just see Lupin riding that cat couch up and down.

Obviously the People need to get a recliner that has four little “cat couches.”

Goldie has adapted well to indoor life.

But boy do mine get cranky when I adjust my feet and disturb their placement on the “little couch”!

My kitty Loves the recliner’s Kitty Couch!!

Just be careful when it closes.

So THAT’S what the recliner is for!

The Beatles: Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight

Once there was a way

To curl up and snuggle

Once there was a way

To be the big spoon!

Sleep kitty cats, happily purr,

And when you wake there will be kibble!

Thoughts of ham fill your dreams

Purrs and skritches await you when you rise,

Sleep kitty cats, happily purr,

And when you wake there will be kibble!

…….

Man, you gotta sleep with that weight,

Sleep with the weight

Of Kitties!

Man, you gotta sleep with that weight,

Sleep with the weight

Of Kitties!

We never need any pillow

We always sleep with no instigation

And in the middle of the celebrations

We jump down

Man, you gotta sleep with that weight,

Sleep with the weight

Of Kitties!

Have Lupin and Goldie reconciled? We can only hope.

The headrest is great for cats, too! I sometimes get a paw or tail in the ear, but its a small price to pay!

Today is:

“I Have a Dream” Day —This is the day Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his “I have a dream,” speech. Considering the things going on in this country right now, I wish I could broadcast a recording of it so that no one in the country could avoid hearing it.

National Bow Tie Day —Bow ties are so much more practical than the traditional “four-in-hand” nooses that many men wear. This is not to say that ties, a holdover from the 17th century craven cravat, are in any way practical in modern times.

Red Wine Day —If you get red wine stains on your bow tie, you’ve had too much—something those pale, anemic white wines can’t do for you. (I’ll try to say something nice about white wines on their day, if it ever comes.)

International Read Comics In Public Day —Considering the come back comics, or graphic novels, have made, this is no longer a big deal. However, comic books, etc., have saved a lot of poorly taught, bored children from illiteracy—myself included. “Classics Illustrated” got me interested. It didn’t take long, and with a big assist from the school librarian (Thank’s Mom!) and I was doomed to a life of insatiable reading.

Crackers Over the Keyboard Day —Sounds like Lupin found a new way to make the Man scream …

Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day —Another job for Lupin!

Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day —I think the love of our furpersons, and our love for them, is the only consistent, repeatable, though indirect, evidence of life after death. Why? Because it is questionable whether we, as a species, deserve the Rainbow Bridge. There can be no question about whether they deserve it, and any being with even a pretense of godhood will see justice done. Furpersons need no divine blessing. They are divine blessings.

Yup. That’s how one of our cats views it. The other one prefers to rest above my head on the back of the chair.

Lucy won’t sit on the ‘tiny couch’ but the big gray kitty will.

Recliners are even cozier with cats.

OT: Of A1c’s & 302’s

I see Goldie is in The Man’s lap as usual. Good on her.

AWWWWWW…. of course it does!

That used to be the only way to get Smokey or the boys to sit in someone’s “lap”. Just spread the legs out and let them curl up on that part of the recliner (what eactly is the name for that part, I always just called it a foot rest but thinking on it now I assume it has a different name). Although when she was a little kitten before she was fixed Smokey used to want me to sit indian style so she could curl up in the lap for real.

Now, with an extremely rare occasion for Smokey, none of the cats do this. You climb in the recliner and extend the foot rest and you get furry beasties sitting with you alright. Actually, they may be climbing up before it’s extended, may even have to force them to move over so you can sit. Their called dogs.

OT: Me-

I miss having a Lazy Boy Chair. My two cats had this crazy habit… They would come running… Together!… from the other side of the building. With a mighty leap they would pounce on the head of the chair… making it lay flat. They would hold on like a game of log rollers. After it settled down from all the rocking… one would curl up in the seat… and the other in the flat back. Sadly… Lazy Boy does not make chairs like they use to. I am a little ruff on them… and they break easily.

Lupin looks so happy ! I love it :)

Reminds me of the man who brought his dog to the furniture store to see if she liked the recliner too.

I agree with robin. Chair? BAM, mini chair. Get it?