Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for August 01, 2021

Oh, Goldie! It is those who have done without who know the true value of things.

I’m so glad I don’t have a 5 AM breakfast call. I don’t function at 5 AM. I’d have to invest in a timed feeder, and that’s not the same at all.

SUNDAY FUNDAY

We are all grateful for Buzzy Mouse.♥

Laughed at Elvis doing his “morning exercise “ on the Man’s chest. Continued to laugh all the way through rest of panels. Then shared Elvis’s exhaustion….so tiring riding around in Girl’ baby buggy! That hat is So Big and Heavy!

Toebeans and tongue!!!

Elvis is just so busy! However does he manage?

I used to dress Big Bad John, my Siamese Protector Cat, in doll clothes and push him around in my toy pram. He liked to take a nap inside the pram. The things a Siamese Protector Cat will do to please their little girls. He was such a good boy.

I love Elvis just a little more than the others.

When you’re the dignified master of all you survey, and supervisor of everything, your work is never done.

I don’t know if even Pucky himself could get me to be a morning person, but he’s by far the best bet.

Elvis, why don’t you get up with the children, who wake up early anyway?

I see a basic cat principle is being invoked:

The plate is empty. Therefore the cat is starving.

Wasn’t The Sun Rises On An Empty Tummy a long lost work of Ernest Hemingway?

Abba: Super Trouper

I was feeling tired of everything

When I got up and stretched this morning

It was time to eat and do my thing

Once again there was a new day dawning

So imagine I was waiting for my breakfast

Suddenly I feel all right

Until I realize it’s after 10 am

And must beg for my dinner for tonight!

…….

But like a super trouper I am gonna get through

From the rising sun,

Joining my girl’s fun

This meese is the Number One!

Tonight this super trouper’s gonna be exhausted

But I won’t feel blue

I love what I do

‘Cause my little girl’s there, too!

…….

Writing of the actions of my friends

Writing of all for which I’m grateful,

Every day the joy just never ends,

With my family forever faithful!

There are moments when they drive me crazy,

But it’s gonna be alright,

I enjoy my naps and meals with my friends,

And I’ll run around tonight!

…….

Today this Super Trouper’s capturing each moment

Writing everything,

With his journaling,

As everyone does their thing,

Today this Super Trouper’s taking pen and paper

Like I always do,

Colors bright and new,

Writing every day with you!

…….

So every day the day arrives,

We find a way to know it’s great to be alive!

And when it’s time to sleep again,

We know tomorrow we’ll be joining all of our friends!

…….

Today this Super Trouper’s capturing each moment

As the day arrives,

Every day we strive,

Even though some might connive! (Lupin!)

Today this Super Trouper’s waking up this morning

Loves to run and play,

Gonna seize the day,

Won’t have it any other way!

Frame #10 is at 0705…

My Cat Jeoffry is a Servant of the Living God

Christopher Smart (1722-71) spent a number of years incarcerated in St. Luke’s Hospital, London, because he was thought to be mad. While there, he wrote some of the most sublime spiritual poetry in the language. In his “Jubilate Deo,” a long meditation on the incursions of the Divine into the everyday, is a section that exhaustively catalogs all the qualities that make a cat a cat.

From that poem, this is a small part of his account of his cat, Jeoffrey, as the animal wakes up each morning :

For first he looks upon his forepaws to see if they are clean.

For secondly he kicks up behind to clear away there.

For thirdly he works it upon stretch with the forepaws extended.

For fourthly he sharpens his paws by wood.

For fifthly he washes himself.

For sixthly he rolls upon wash.

For seventhly he fleas himself, that he may not be interrupted upon the beat.

For eighthly he rubs himself against a post.

For ninthly he looks up for his instructions.

For tenthly he goes in quest of food….

LOL – Elvis’s “paw to the face” in panel eight! His warning paw in panel nine. His dramatic “behold the empty bowl” arm sweep in panel ten.

I imagine when Elvis eye boops the Woman, it’s a gentler boop than he gives the Man.

Time to flip our BCN calendars to “Space Age Mouser!”

I’ve been enjoying Puck’s journaling and scrapbooking/artistic skills in the last panel. So impressive! Just imagine what Puck and Sophie could create together! 8)

We free-feed our cats with Nimitz’s Rx kibble for bladder crystals. Twice a day they get gooshyfood. That reference is from the Two Lumps webcomic.

Speaking of an empty cat food bowl …

I am grateful forFamilyFriendsBuzzy Mouse

Yes, Puck. Time for another great day. Especially when it a Sunday.

And I could bearly reads what’s in Puck’s journal. Even after zooming the screen to a maximum.

Georgia, does he really let The Girl put him in baby clothes? We want photos!! :)

I’m with Puck. I like to begin the day with some journaling also. Our cat likes to help.

And I thought a woman’s work is never done! ;-p

in addition to everything else that people have said they love – I love Lupin’s Little Pink Nose and the kitchen floor tiles/pattern.

Puck’s journal is exactly what I would expect from such an optimistic Good Boy!

It’s so cute how Elvis loves that little girl so much, that he’s willing to put up with her dressing him as a baby.

My cats morning routine is :

1. Get up

2. Wait at the door to be fed. (He’s a porch cat)

3. Once fed he gobbles up his food

4. Attempts to bite/scratch my feet

Sweet Puck’s days are filled with bliss

Who am I to disagree?

He loves his friends, food and mouse Buzzy

Pucky’s always grateful for something

- David Allan Stewart, Ann Lennox – “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)”

Even the “YAWN” in panel three is stretching.

I see Elvis was an southern Belle in an past life.

I think Elvis is missing an opportunity here. Aim your running exercise a little lower down. The Man is sure to get up and you might get an early pre-breakfast breakfast!

I wish I had Pucks attitude. Truth be told I’m more like Elvis, older and a bit grumpy.

Maybe it’s just me but these strips are all mini-masterpieces to my sensibility. Love the lettering on “YAWN..” and throughout; so glad Georgia hand letters these strips, it adds a lot that people may not even realize.

My cat Felix- Elvis’ brother from another mother!

what’s the white circle in panel 10? imwtk

Goldie’s more impressed with Puck’s start to the day. Especially being thankful for Buzzy Mouse.

Panel two, can anyone else see the animated version of Elvis’s eyes popping wide open from a sound sleep?

I got notice from the place where I preordered the next BCN Book, Behind the Scenes with Burt that it will be delayed until February 2. I think the original release date was for the week after Christmas. Oh well, it gives something to look forward to in February!

Thanks for sharing your morning routine, Elvis.

Awwww! So sweet