Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for March 19, 2021

Oho, the heavy paw of the Grandmas will now descend on the rambunctious small children – on both sides!

Bitty little woman leprechaun! Looks like Natasha went back for the itty bitty hat!

Is Granny Bitty drinking her tea out of a thimble? Cute!

Could this explain how Thumblefist obtained his thimbles? And why Baba was able to return the one he lost arm wrestling with Bad Leprechaun?

I think I’m going to like Granny Bitty!

Granny Bitty appears to be a magical Irish creature, and Natasha does NOT think they will become friends.

Quite the tale indeed – Natasha even has the hat!!!

Reminds me of when Mrs. Claus went over Snow-Miser & Heat-Miser’s heads, straight to Mother Nature. The conversation in the immediate future could go something along the lines of:

“Now that looks familiar. And how did ye come by that hat, dearie?” (eyeing Natasha suspiciously)

“I took it from a little man who was threatening the children in the Big Pink House.”

“He was doing what?” (Turns to the side) “Seamus! Get in here this instant!!”

(Poof) “Yes, mother.”

I wonder how much of the leprechaun gold and wallet contents the Robber Mice will be keeping after this. I can see Granny letting them keep the gold (“Serves him right!”) but making them return the wallet (“It’s got his ID and credit cards, y’see.”).

Maybe the grandmas can invite the children to this truth telling tea. With a little perspective they could be building leprechaun houses instead of traps! These grandmas give me hope for the BCN kindness that usually abounds in this world…we certainly all can use it!

I don’t know why this comic, especially, but I’m really appreciating Georgia’s watercolors here. What a narrow escape we all had, so lucky that she decided to go back to doing her own beautiful painting instead of leaving it to a colorist like other cartoonists!

Oh, something tells me the leprechaun who invaded the BPH is about to be in Big Trouble.

Baba Mouse is probably the only person who can maintain good relations with the fey folk, but it seems a dangerous enterprise even for her.

Granny looks a bit skeptical in the last panel.

So the leprechaun has a grandmother? This ought to be interesting. My grandmother from my mother’s side was from County Kerry in the Emerald Isle, in the far SW of the island with the closest big city being Cork. Her name was Hannah and she had a love of cats which all of her children, grandchildren and so on also love as I do and her great daughter Amy does. When I was a kid I remember her always having cats around her house in St Pete, especially after my grandfather died in 1975.

My Mom’s favorite story about grandma Hannah happened before I was born by several weeks. In January 1965 my mother was very pregnant with me. My sister Susan, who just turned one year old, was very sick with flu. My Grandma Hannah offered to look after my 2 older sisters: Diane and Gayle who were 9 and 7 at the time. Anyhow my Grandma took them to a Celtic pub over in Pinellas County where she did several Jameson shots to commemorate the passing of one Winston Churchill with a boatload of other expats from County Kerry and Cork as he brought the “Black and Tan bullies” into the south of Ireland who ravaged the villages and forced many people like my Grandmother to go to the States or Canada during the Irish Civil War of the early 1920s, so they did not see him as a hero as many history books report. My Mom was mad as hell but in time it became a story to tell the family and my oldest sister Diane said the Irish folks in the pub were really nice despite the fact that they drank like fish and a cab had to be called to bring everyone home….

Be careful with your wording, Natasha…

I love Baba Mouse’s china pattern.

Now who or what is this teeny tiny granny who talks to cats?

Wouldn’t be surprised if Granny bitty had a thing or two to say that to that leprechaun for scaring the kids.

Uh-oh!!! When Gramma enters the picture, somebody is in deep, deep, deeeppp trrrouble!!! I predict an ear-pulling, nose-tweaking, scrum perpetrated upon the lil monster that Natasha vanquished.

Oh, I think a certain angry leprechaun is going to get a talking to…

It looks like a fringed shawl and colorful apron are prerequisites to be a member of the Granny League.

Like the saying goes: “If mama ain’t happy, nobody’s happy. If Grandma ain’t happy, RUN!!”

At first I thought the china pattern must be Royal Albert’s “Old English Rose” but after a bit of research I believe it is Lefton’s “Americana.”

Now I think there is some serious anti-leprechaun bias in this crowd. It’s not like the human kittens are all innocent in this matter. They are the ones who tried to kidnap the Fey folk and ransoms them for their gold. Is this a behavior that should be celebrated? If so, I know of some cute Somali pirates you can adopt.

Wow! Hi Granny! And Hi, Barn Cat!

Natasha with her crossed arms looks very peeved. No one but Baba Mouse could chastise Natasha! And I think Baba made Natasha wear the hat that Mr Leprechaun lost.

Granny doesn’t look happified at this news.

Ah the plot thickens……..

I’m hearing the theme from Dragnet in my head ….

CN is back on line! Lupin manning the front desk, and the scene moves to Baba Mouse and her friend, Grandma Bitty.

Here’s hoping our fair and balanced field reporters can find out more. Puck? Elvis?

Para visitar a Baba

Para visitar a Baba se necesita una poca de gracia

¿Un poco de problema para ti, para ti y arriba y arriba?

Ah y arriba y arriba por ti seré, por ti seré, por ti seré

Baba, baba

Baba, baba

(Bryan Smith – La Bamba)

¡Natasha – pobrecita, Gato mio!

someday those crazy kitty in tutu !

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Elvis-Anum: So, how are you guys getting back to Eireann?

Trish: The Royal Procurers have agreed to take us on one of their paths. But we can’t tell you which one.

Duffy Yeah, if not for them we’d be traveling from glen to glen tryin’ to get back.

Lupinium: Wait, I think the mice, the mice are calling!

Puckmosis: Well then, you must go and we’ll abide!

Beatrixia: But come ye back! Don’t be strangers!

Trish: Sure, we’ll be here. In sunshine or in shadow!

To Georgia and the Orbsters: Love you guys so!

Lupin has abandoned articles.

And sadly she doesn’t know the truth as the vile baby raccoon’s disguise wasn’t successfully removed. The vile raccoons get away with it again.

Is that a thimble cup?

Now THIS will be an interesting story.

Nice to meet you, Granny Bitty.

A grandmother leprechaun will grant you three stories, but don’t push it.

uh oh… they are so dead

OT: I HATE Windows 10!

Oh my goodness! A tiny gma and the look on nstashas face!

I just hope those people who don’t think I have a “right” to ask them about their vaccination status understand when I shun them. Actually, I don’t really care if they don’t don’t understand, because their attitude tells me they don’t care about others. NOT sorry I said that.