Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for September 30, 2020

A microchip is a pretty good idea but it would not help rescue a cat in a tree. And WHAT is happening in another exam room with Baba Mouse!?!?

Someone’s been watching too much Our IX Lives again, and I’m not sure if it’s Beatrix or Burt (quick on the chyrons as ever!) We’ll know if the news report starts developing a soundtrack big on dramatic stinger chords, I suppose…

You will get all your shots and you will appreciate modern veterinary medicine, young lady. It saves lives.

So the visit to the vet is not much fun. Dramatic paws!

Are dramatic paws like jazz hands? I hiss at shots too, Beatrix. Also, Giant toe beans!

You’d do better to put a tracking app on her phone.

Dramatic “Paws”? I see what you did there. XDD

It’s ok Beatrix; you’ll be feeling chip-her again in no time.

I have a phobia about needles. So I understand the reluctance to get a shot/chipped. But as I said to my dentist… as she stopped after the first shot because I was very violently shaking… “No, I don’t want to stop. I want to get it over with!” Somethings are just necessary.

Oh man. At least its not a Spay.(Yet)

All those baby toebeans!

Is Man the doctor’s name, or just his species?

C’mon, Beatrix! James Bond was microchipped, and he was a mere human. If he can take it, so can you.

She’s been watching THAT program, has she?

SO MANY TOE BEANS.

Dramatic paws indeed!

Dagnabit hyoomans. Always want to track everyone with their darned chips and cookies.

Poor Bea. First being treed and lost (Dude, the worst!) and now getting a shot (baby hiss).

C’mon now Beatrix

No time for theatrics

If you’re going to rise up the tree

And be outside running so free

then it only makes sense to sensibly

Put down that paw, and show that Bea

Knows Freedom requires Responsibility!

SO, you gotta take that shot

Girl, you gotta take your shot!!!

DRAMATIC PAWS

:-D

8-)

OT. Yen and her People

OT – Mallomars

From smiling, happy kitten enthusiasm to baby hissesssss in four panels.

noooo not the micro chip -my cat

Got a good reason

For taking Bea to the vet

Got a good reason

For taking Bea to see Dr. Man now

She’s a day tripper

Likes to kick it, yeah

It took me so long to find out

And I found out

It’s not gonna please her

I took her to get some I.D.

It’s not gonna please her

But she got stuck up a tree, now

So let’s micro chip her

One way to get her back, yeah

It took me so long to find out

She sneaks out

Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

Day tripper, let’s chip her, yeah

Day tripper, store skipper, yeah

Day tripper, colonel flipper, yeah

(John Lennon / Paul McCartney)

There are still male vets?

In the background, I hear dramatic music reaching a crescendo: Duh duh duh duuuuuUUUUUUHHHHH!!

It’s just a “pinch”.

From Crosby, Stills, and Nash: Teach Your Children Well

You who are at the Vet

Know sometimes that there must be some pain

And so just take a moment

Because the pain will lead to some gain

…….

This helps you to be well,

It feels like hell, for just a moment

It’s done to keep you safe

If you get lost, we’ll know where you went

Sometimes we just don’t know why, if you know, you will cry,

Take a moment’s pain and sigh

And know they love you.

Loved “dramatic paws”!

It was inevitable with Beatrix’s frequent adventures outside the book store.

Toe beans!

OT: The visit to the vet was a success, Ginny is feeling well again! I never did find out what exactly was causing her to wheeze like that, but I don’t think it was serious.

Beatrix’s baby hiss!

Today is:

Chewing Gum Day —Not a popular as it once was, to the relief those who hated scraping it off their shoes. I may have found the reason it’s popularity has declined: apparently most of it is now made with synthetic rubber. Hork! However, I do have a lifetime supply of Beeman’s. Considering my age, I’d best get chompin’.

International Translation Day —Since the Babelfish does not yet exist, and the Universal Translator will currently require many networked supercomputers of the quantum type, it is surprising anyone can communicate, even in the same language. Apropos of the situation, it is also:

International Blasphemy Rights Day —The right to cuss is, I think, a fundamental human right. Surprisingly often, it requires little, if any translation. If I say: !$%&#%#!!!, for example, you know perfectly well what I mean.

Ask a Stupid Question Day —There may be no stupid questions, but there are plenty of unintelligible answers … which demonstrates the need for more stupid questions.

National Hot Mulled Cider Day —As you are mulling over the next answer to a stupid question, have some hot mulled cider to clarify your thinking. And talk about a question of translation: there are five distinct definitions of the word “mull,” some of them spicier, or earthier, than others.

Save lives, help those lives be long and happy. Get your furbabbies fixed and chipped, they will live longer and you will have less stress.

Bea’s calling the Doctor ‘Dude’ reminds me of a story when I was trying to sort out a problem with my Dad’s medication with a persnickety phone attendant:

Me: Look Dude, my Dad does is not going to take that medicine….

Attendant: Don’t call me Dude.

Me: What ever you say Bro!

It is injected under the skin like a shot. While a microchip is potentially useful, be prepared for a lifetime of mailings from the company that handles the database.

Dramatic kitty beans!!!

Baby hisses. Adorbs. My guess is poor Baba and, for reason, Elvis, are all going to be chipped today. Does anyone know whether chipping is really safe? I’ve heard cancers grow around them.

Apropos of not much, there was a fun pinball machine called “Dr. Dude and his excellent ray”:

https://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=737

Micro chipping is good but I have a better idea, bookstore woman…. KEEP HER INSIDE!!!!!!!!!!!

Are “Dramatic Paws” anything like “Jazz Hands”?

Agreed, she needs a chip and a GPS collar if Bookstore Woman intends to keep letting her go outside. They are getting smaller and more sophisticated all the time and some even connect to your phone so you can keep track.

Definintely chip all your animals. Even our bunnies are chipped. We found a cat a couple of years ago we assumed was a feral, but then she got friendly. When we could finally get her in a carrier, PetSmart checked her chip – turned out she had been missing for TWO YEARS! That was an emotional reunion for sure.

I’m sure her hiss is terrifying. Combine that with the extra claws and you’ll see panic.

Get a GPS collar as well. With the state of modern technology it’s going to be a while until those are small and powerfull enough to be injected.

Interesting plot thought. What if Dr. Man has the ability (still) to understand animal speech, “the way the best vets do”? Or at least reads whiskers? I keep thinking about Bea’s answer to him, and what if he could actually understand it?

It’s the return of Dr. Man!

Delilah Bijou is an indoor cat so we were not going to chip her, but then she made the first of her many, many, runs into the great outdoors. She got chipped when we had her fixed.

OT. Late breaking Yen news

Anyone else watch Crusoe the Dachshund on YouTube? I’m hearing Bea as Daphne after that last panel.

OmC. Isn’t that the cutest baby hiss?

O.T.

I wonder if this guy in real life is actually named Dr man? that would be extremely confusing, especially if you were a woman. No offense to anyone of that name or gender, If I have caused offence I am sorry and will now go hang my head in shame.

Also I love the “dramatic paws” are we on my lX lives right now?

I know there are a lot of movie enthusiasts in the Orb so I’m hoping someone can offer some info on this. Some time back, I was watching TCM and and saw something, it may have been one of those shorts they run between movies and i would like to identify it and maybe find it somewhere online. It had a young (and very handsome) Desi Arnaz in a jungle setting, singing and playing his conga drum. I think the song was Babalu but could have been something else. The main focus was on a dancing couple, the woman dressed in a very form-fitting snake suit that concealed her face as she slithered all over the man (I swear this was not a dream or figment of my imagination). Has anyone else seen this, and if so do you know the title of the film? Any help would be appreciated!

Dramatic paws lol !

*free hugs to anyone who needs one *

Oh, Beatrix! You won’t even feel it!

Baby hisssssss