Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 24, 2021

Poor kitty!

Elvis coming to a sad realization.

Looks like Elvis IS DOOMED!!!

Has Elvis forgotten the joy of burrowing under the covers and curling up with one of the People?

Instead of a “heated blanket”, hug the Girl.

It’s like someone died.

I feel the same way about my electric blanket.

So smug, and then so …COLD.

Well, that was a cute, content Elvis-loaf in panel three before the “…Oh, yeah…” in panel four. Elvis, you have a Woman and Girl (and Boy, and maybe even the Man if he asks nicely) who would be thrilled to share heat with you. We had one of the best foot-warming cats for fifteen years, and almost all of the family cats during my life have responded to the heat dipping by informing the People that we were now on Radiator Duty.

We have a pink wool blanket that our cats just LOVE. When the weather gets cold enough for that blanket to come out, it’s a safe bet that there’s a cat on the pink blanket. The only exception has generally been Sparky, who is happiest in the same room as me while the pink blanket lives on my parents’ bed. Mom got me an electric blanket a few years ago, though, and boy howdy does Sparky love it! Never all that happy when one of the other cats realized that the blanket was on, but she doesn’t have to worry about that now that she’s got Only Cat status.

It’s like Superman discovering Lois in that car.

We’ feel your pain,, Elvis,, We’ve ve all had that type of moment,

Elvis feels the lack of burn…

Gasp! Somebody please think of poor Elvis!

Elvis’ zippered sweater is cute.

That’s exactly what my Mom said, Elvis. We feel ya.

That camera angle in the fifth panel is perfect.

Oh Elvis, relax! It’s just not plugged in. Scootch it over near a socket and plug it in. (Then you can panic!)

Well, look at Mr Grouchy’s smile in frame three! Poor guy. Reality is tough sometimes. Go snuggle with your hoomans.

No electricity means woe is us.

Elvis looks so happy and peaceful in panel 3, complete bliss and not a care in the world. Too bad all good things must come to an end, especially so quickly!

Reality has reared its ugly head. He may as well curl up with his brothers and the people.

Elvis looks like a Russian nesting doll in Panels 3 and 4. He does a wild Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker , “NOOOOOOO!” imitation in Panel 5.

Oh poor Elvis! At least you have a cute sweater…

Not at all Off-Topic Post:

There are such items as “self-heating” pet beds – they have a reflective foil-covered pad inside a washable fleecy outer cover (think “Space Blanket” inside a fuzzy blanket). Akiro doesn’t care for it, but he is a relatively young cat; when Boomer reached old age (16 years and beyond), he was extremely fond of it! Since it reflects the pet’s own body heat, it is completely independent of the grid. Granted, self-heating Humans are best, but when no people are available, these beds can be helpful.

I wouldn’t trusts em electric blankets. What if there’s a short circuit or something? Nope. Nope. Nope.

Poor Elvis…

By the by, Georgia, will Swan Eaters be updated any time soon?

OMC !! This is so funny and so true of all of us. We forget how much of our lives is electrified !!

Oh, dear. Something Must Be Done and it Must Be Done Immediately.

Pussycats are not very big on physics, huh? ;-)

Elvis, you are the heated blanket!

Hot mound, summer for the kitty

Crank that blankie’s dial all the way past fifty but

Grid’s down, isn’t it a pity?

Doesn’t seem to be any heat in the city

All around, critters feeling half froze

Running to their closet, puttin’ on some warm clothes

But Elvis has sadly just now found

Blankie’s not hot when the lines are down

Come on, come on don’t worry all night

Despite the cold it’ll be all right

And peeps, don’t you know it’s a pity

That no one can turn on the lights

In the blackout, in the city

In the blackout, in the city

(Mark Sebastian / Steve Boone / John Sebastian – Summer in the City)

As performed by Ethel Merman and others: Everything’s Coming up Roses

I feel swell, I feel glad

’Cause I have my own heating pad!

Sitting in the loaf form

Really, everything’s coming up snowflakes!

…….

Staying warm! It’s a fact!

I’ve got nothing to do but relax.

Curl up close. Stretch out fine.

Really, everything’s coming up snowflakes!

…….

Now’s my nap time! Sleep the outage away it’s so clear!

Warm and toasty! On my pad I’ll be nice and roasty!

So what if there’s no lights!

I’ve got nothing to hit but the heights!

I’ll be warm, it’s so great.

I can tell. Just you wait.

Oh, no this can’t be true!

Oh no, everything’s out of power for me and for you!

Heated mattress pads—that’s the ticket.

(Until the power goes out, of course. Turns out Tempur-Pedic material holds heat well…a little too well.)

Elvis. Unplugged.

DOOOOOOOMED!

One of our outside cat shelters is a plastic drum with a door cut in the lid, and a footwarming heating pad in it. Was very popular with our ferals and our guys in the recent cold snap.

The other shelter is better insulated than our house, because I made it and I over-engineer everything I build. In other words, I build it the way it should be.

Um, Elvis…. It gets worse – the electric can opener won’t work either!!! If the Man doesn’t have at least a Swiss Army Knife, you’ll have something to moan about…

Reality bites, ElBif-

i understand your pain elvis

Elvis looks like an Easter Egg!!

Penny in the air…

And the penny drops!

lol poor elvis

Elvis obviously didn’t think his comments through

Sudden realization that he needs electricity more than the people do. Although imitating a duck maybe he could fly south of the equator for the blackout.

Poor Elvis. Another magical item turns out to operate on mundane principles.

And, out of nowhere, the realization struck Elvis. And it hit HARD!

I have a battery pack that I can plug my electric blanket into

Elvis is about to find out that electricity only grows on special dead trees which are arranged in rows and connected by decorative wires.

Hopefully, the power gets fixed soon.

As I posted a couple of days ago:

When the power went out last Monday morning, my oldest girl was helping me put more blankets on my bed and asked why I didn’t just plug in the electric blanket. All I could do was give her the “mom look.”™

Elvis was me when I realized there would be no hot tea for breakfast!

Uh-oh. Restore that electricity—stat!

http://nooooooooooooooo.com/

Great skyward scream

Oh! Poor Mr. Elvis Cat! My Tazi (pictured) had a “warm dispenser” (heating pad) and he simply could not live without it in the cold weather.

NOOOOO

Um, Elvis, the plug is out, but yet the power is out, so even if he sticked the plug inside, it still wouldn’t work.

DOOMED