Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 07, 2021

Yeah, Elvis, back off. My mail carrier brings me books and waves when I yell thanks from a safe distance. Books, at my door! Awesome.

Goldie and Lupin are in agreement again. I love catalogs, too, but I hardly ever get new ones any more.

The mailman….obviously a rare species that brings gifts. Some like those gifts and another blames mail carriers for parting the man and woman with giving up their gold! Gold that could be better spent on treats for Elvis!OT vaccine side effects:

TRUTH! Not so much lately, but for awhile I had to often search through the Sunday paper to immediately throw out the reeking perfume inserts. Worse than Smell-O-Vision :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smell-O-Vision

I still have a somewhat sore arm and this morning I had a headache upon awakening that went away within a few minutes after I arose. Also I’ve had some aching muscles and swollen lymph nodes . The swollen lymph nodes went away in a few hours and I have not had them since. I feel back to normal as I write this. Looking forward to my second shot in three weeks.

I LOVE my mail-order catalogues! I’ll order online, but I most likely saw the item in a catalogue first.

I thought that “cat a log” meant a scratching post for each of them.

Elvis is right about catalogs. Yes, I could have just said: Elvis is right❤️

The mailman saved Beatrix’s life, Elvis. Shame on you!

That alleged Mailman definitely looks like a dodgy character. Probably a shape-shifting trickster trying to stupify everyone with cheap perfume in order to steal their gold.

And I’m just gonna leave this here….

SUNDAY FUNDAY

Hey, the box with a towel in it on the kitchen countertop is real and apparently just as decadent as advertised: https://www.instagram.com/p/CK-BnQZpGY_/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

“You can’t trust strangers” – By Me

Wow, Puck is really angry. But, Elvis is right about catalogs separating people from their gold.

I’m so happy to see Lupin and Goldie getting along now! And Puck is right, Elvis. Stop pretending to be an expert. Nobody’s fooled.

Has Elvis forgot that it was the mailman who rescued young Beatrix from the tree with an assist from the squirrel?

Nowadays I do not get too many catalogs in the mail anymore but I remember the Avon bag that the neighborhood Avon rep sometimes left on the front doorknob if we were out and it often was loaded with different perfume and cologne samples. I remember one called Wild Country that my wife got for me a few times.

I think the greatest catalog of all time is one that many of us will remember from our younger days: The Sears Christmas Wishbook! Us kids would wear that thing out over the fall months before the holidays. A close second was the S&H Green Stamp catalog. My Dad always had the regular Sears catalog available for ordering Craftsman Tool products or to check on Kenmore appliances and also had a Radio Shack catalog handy for any electronic needs. I miss those days.

A) it’s nice to see Goldie and Lupin on the same side B) Puck is very defensive/protective of mail carriers. Don’t mess with mailmen if you don’t want to incur Puck’s wrath C) and although I too like catalogs (some more than others) I’d like them better if the same shops didn’t send a new one every week containing pretty much all the same merchandise as the last one with just a new cover (cataligs breed faster than rabbits) and D) Elvis does make some valid points here. A catalog’s main goal is the part people and their gold, plus a few contain perfume samples—but not many

Thank you all for your kind birthday wishes yesterday! I had a great day. Spent it with my sisters, had lots of good food, cake and presents! XOX

He’s right about Catalogues. But mail people also deliver Kittens, remember?

Pucky eyebrows!

Gold is very important and must be safeguarded at all cost. It provides Kittie Treats only.

Elvis Presley, you mad like rocksta??!!

Would fiat currency be too much for their cat minds to comprehend?

It’s snowing heavily here and there’s a wind chill factor of -7c. Why does Monty the cat, who’s never seen snow before, not only want to go out in it but demands that all the doors between the garden and the fire are left wide open? Monty now looks like a negative of a Dalmatian. Still, he’s having fun. I think.

Pucky toe beans!

Elvis stop and consider the plight of the unfortunate mail carrier on a day when multiple catalogs and magazines all containing cheap perfume have to be delivered all along their mail route.

Please, some good purrs and hugs for my Flynn. He’s in kidney failure. The vet thinks it’s chronic but he’s flushing his system this weekend and says even if it is chronic I may be able to help him along with a decent quality of life for a while by home IVs and kidney friendly food. He’s my best cat, my black Siamese, who’s slept on my pillow every night for his entire 17 years. His best cat friend, who doesn’t like anyone, man nor beast, but Flynn came up after I was in bed last night and sat on my shoulder and gently patted my face. They’re amazing.

Catalogs reek of cheap perfume

For a smile they can share the night

It goes on and on, and on . . .

My two most favourite catalogues were JCrew and Victorian Trading Co. Just the pictures alone were well worth receiving them. I bought the most incredibly beautiful hat pins and stationary from Victorian Trading. :)

Cheap perfume? LOL

Check out today’s Doonesbury. Look familiar?

https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2020/04/22

My favorite is the Vermont Country Store catalog. We have used that to send Mac fun stuff while at school.

A long time ago, I loved all the Christmas catalogs that use to start showing up in October. Nowadays, hardly any show up, they are all online. That is undoubtedly better for the environment, but not nearly as much fun.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Elvis-Anum: I just discovered a stack of tablets by the scroll box.

Beatrixia: Ooh, I can’t wait to see what the new hieroglyphs have for this season.

Elvis-Anum: Careful, these tablets are a nefarious way to part us from our gold.

Beatrixia: But I need to order a new filing cask, and you need some more scroll shelves.

Enter Puckmosis

Puckmosis: Has the Papyrus Cat been here yet?

Elvis-Anum: How many times do I have to tell you…?

Puckmosis: Oh good, here’s the new kibble tablet.

Elvis-Anum: Don’t read it, Puckmosis, you’ll be much poorer!

Enter Burt-Ra

Burt-Ra: Did the Papyrus Cat leave off the new seed tablet yet?

Elvis-Anum: It’s all a vast conspiracy to make us believe in the Papyrus Cat…Oh wait, is this the new office supply tablet?

I used to look forward to this time of year when all the seed catalogs showed up. They helped me remember that Spring was not far away. Now we don’t get any.

Thank Ceiling Cat Elvis is non-judgmental and open to new “suggestions”.

Yes, catalogs that target women do reek of cheap perfume that does not go away. ‘Cheap’ smelling until you try to buy it and then it is very expensive.

Look, it’s Elvis—if he can’t gripe about mailcarriers being “fake,” then he’s going to find something else about them to gripe about, dang it!

Yeah Goldie, BAM!!! :-)

He has a point about the perfume. They stink up the whole joint.

Off topic but I have a question: I know there are rescue people out here in kitty land. Someone who fosters kittens like I do called me yesterday with a possible project for me. She’s acquired an old, real mink coat. I did some research on it (the label is still there) and it appears to be from around the 1940s in NY. Anyway, we know that rescue and rehab people use little pouches for tiny baby animals. She doesn’t sew but I do. So, I’ve been looking for some instructions or help on the web on how to make something. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I have never had any trouble finding something I needed to buy. The last thing I need is a book 99.9% full of things I don’t need. Especially now that we-all got indoor plumbing.

Wait Mister Postman

Oh yeah

Is there a cat’log in your bag for me

Please, please Mister Postman

Why’s it been a very long time – Oh yeah

Since “L.L. Bean” warmed my fuzzy behind

There must be some ideas today

From “IKEA” and jewelry from “Kay”

Please Mister Postman, look and see

Is there a cat’log, or perhaps 23

I’ve been watchin’ here waitin’ Mister Postman

So patiently, for just a “Blair” or just a “Burpee”

Or a scratch’n’sniff “Catnip Quarterly”

Please Mister Postman (Mister Postman, look and see) Oh yeah

Is there a “Current” or “Dollar Tree” for me?

Please, please Mister Postman

Why’s it been a very long time – Oh yeah

Since I sunned on “Easy Comforts” so fine

So many days you passed me by

I heard you whistlin’ and I wondered why

You didn’t stop to make me feel better

By leavin’ me a “Ham & Cheese” newsletter

Please Mister Postman look and see (Postman postman)

Is there a “J ‘Mew’” oh yeah in your bag for me? (Postman postman)

You know its been so long (Postman postman)

Yes since I heard from “Miles Kimball”’s cat line (Postman postman)

You better wait a minute, wait a minute

Oh you better wait a minute

Please, please Mister Postman (Wait a minute Mister Postman)

Please check and see just one more time for me

You better wait, wait a minute

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute

Please Mister Postman

Deliver “Trendsetter” de sooner de better

Wait a minute, wait a minute

Wait a minute, please Mister Postman

Wait a minute, wait a minute oh oh

(Brian Holland / Freddie Gorman / Georgia Dobbins / Robert Bateman / William Garrett – Please Mr. Postman)

https://www.catalogchoice.org

I have to agree with Elvis on not liking the stinky perfumey catalogs….

Catalogs have largely been replaced by electronic spam. I have worn out seven “Delete” keys …

I don’t miss catalogs at all, though I do remember the old days, and how much I enjoyed some of them back then. Our security software includes “solicitation reduction,” and it has drastically reduced the amount of physical (snail mail) and electronic spam we get. Almost worth the price for that, alone.

Goldie and Lupin agree. Wow.

Elvis, just admit you know extremely little.

OT Puppy Bowl this afternoon The great SuperBowl alternative will be on! https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/puppy-bowl-2021-time-channel-lineup-and-everything-you-need-to-know/ar-BB1dsGGm?ocid=uxbndlbing

Catalogs are useless until people stare at them, then they instantly transform into the most desirable bed in the entire house!

Panels 6-8: Lupin and Elvis both make accurate observations.

OT: Other Comics you like.

Mail Carriers are a blessing, Elvis.

Remember when magazines used to have those perfume samples in them, folded into a sheet of paper? I guess too many people had allergic reactions.

Nice to see Lupin and Goldie on the same page about something. (Pun NOT intended, but I’m running with it. X3)

Elvis is right about the perfumes. Some catalogs absolutely reek….