Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for September 02, 2021

Language! This is a family strip! Somebody get Tommy over there to counsel or mediate (or scare them away simply by his size), or something!

Or subtitles, amirite Lupin???? >:D

UDLwTBoG!! (Upside down Lupin with toe beans on glass!)

I love that the cats are answering her rhetorical question and she probably has no idea what they’re saying. Lupin’s hanging upside down from the upper window sash is so Lupin! How appropriate it is that Lupin is the one suggesting boundaries.

My guess is it’s a love triangle gone horribly wrong!

I told you that blue jays were bad news.

Lupin can read beaks too? He is talented.

I thought blue birds were supposed to be all about happiness, not bedroom drama! ;p

GASP! They’re using grawlix! Somebody break them up, quickly!

My grandfather hated them with a passion. Too noisy and mean.

Look! It’s an Inverted Lupin!

Sounds like something a fighter pilot would say: "So then, just when he was about to pull the trigger, I pulled an Inverted Lupin, and . . . BAM! I was on his tail!

Pretty soon, the feather plucking will commence.

Lupin the stick on Garfield…

So much to love here: Puck answering the woman’s question, upside down Lupin, and the gasp in the final panel

Deplorable, but not surprising. I hear birds using that sort of language to each other all the time.

And it might be a political debate, Puck. Or a philosophical discussion about metaphysics.

Good morning. We are killing a bit of time before we head over to the hospital; what better place than here

Reminds me of some noisy neighbours. And I used to get popcorn too to listens to their free broadcast.

When we fill the bird feeders the back yard gets really noisy. They put the word out to the whole neighborhood. But when it gets eerily quiet you can usually look up and see a hawk in the area.

So much to love today, but my favorite bit is Puck’s “I can’t tell if this is a love triangle or a failed business venture.”

I love Lupin in the first panel! Cat of Adventure!

Upside down Lupin, wow! Toe beans galore on glass, squeee!! Rare New England usage of the Southern vernacular “y’all,” wow… But my fave detail today has to be Goldie’s genteel pearl-clutching gesture that accompanies her gasp.

Meanwhile Back on the Nile

Adobe Style: Aurelia and I go way back. Her whole family are golden sheep.

Aurelia: Yes, we’re just a day’s journey by camel.

Jason: So simple. I’ve spent my whole life as a sailor, I didn’t even think to go by land.

Aurelia: Well, come with us when we go back to Afar. It’s shearing time anyway.

Jason: Thanks, I’ll do that.

Enter Lupinium and several insects

Lupinium: Your Majesty, please give us a few minutes to set up.

Queen Catshepsut the Golden: I just love the tiny circus!

Maat-Tilda: So shiny!

Jason: I’ve sailed the seven seas, and at last I found the Golden Fleas!

Just now, had four beautiful Blue Jays arguing things out at our backyard platform feeder.

Keep us updated, Puck!

I can so picture corporeal Lupin hanging upside down off a window sash. Such a classic Lupin move.

By the way, I believe Jason…and I think Jason is a liar.

Not sure why, but “Failed business venture” cracked me up! :-)

This is my #1 favorite bcn comic. About half of the comics are. The rest are #2 on the list

I hope BCN isn’t broadcasting this. That’s not FCCable language.

Release the cats!

Have Trevor amble over and WOOF at them.

It’s serious now—they’re starting to pull out the big bird words.

This arc is BEAKIN’ hysterical!!!

“I think they- no, they couldn’t have- they DID! They flipped us the bird!”

Lupin never met a boundary he didn’t try to cross. He thinks boundaries are for the birds!

I hear bluejay fights and I just assumed it was a love triangle. It never occurred to me it could have been a failed business venture

Someone get this comic strip into featured

How is Lupin in that position!?!?

It’s a good thing Lupin’s fully dressed, or language wouldn’t be the only censorship issue!

Jay 1: What’s your name?

Jay 2: Tony

Jay 1: Yeah? Well %#* you Tony!

…. Search TikTok what’s your name.

During mating season jays can be quite aggressive. One of them harassed my cat Johnny Depp, one time too many. A big crowd of noisy jays came to the “funeral” but he didn’t care. He right felt he was under no obligation to let birds peck him on the head with impunity.

Here in northern California it’s acorn season, and we have a HUGE scrub oak in our neighbor’s back yard. Here, it’s not jay vs. jay; it’s jays vs. squirrels. “Shriek! Shriek!” “Chitter chitter chitter!” From dawn till dusk.

Like my house whenever there is a jaybird fight. All cats to the windows. Tails flicking and even getting into a pouncing readiness wiggle.

LUPIN?!?! On about boundaries? I didn’t think he knew the concept.

Exactly!

Birds are believed to be the last remaining dinosaurs. Whenever I hear the earsplitting shrieks of a blue jay or magpie, I try to imagine the same noise scaled up to an Allosaurus size body.

Y’all, Lupin is Southern! Gasp!

Thank Cat the kids aren’t there. To quote Captain America, “Language!” I have blue jays, but they are so territorial that they never squabble. My back yard is no bird land for them, and I only see them during snows when surviving by eating my seed is more important than the squabbles.

A little while ago, I was watching the hummingbirds attack each other at my window feeder, and a large yellow swallowtail butterfly barely escaped the dogfighting going on. Not cool, guys.

Bluejays have an attitude, all right.

Why can’t it be both? Blue Jays: beautiful to look at, not to listen to.

I’m surprised that any language surprises cats considering some of the things cats have said to me.

From what I’ve seen, this is basically every bird to every other bird most of the time.

“Gasp!”

Yeah, that last panel sounds like blue jays alright. And hummingbirds, hummers swear enough to make a blue jay blush with shame.

I was sorry to see the end of August’s line-up of BCN’s cats reading, but September has pirates! Puck’s peg leg, swoon. And a bonus of baby Elvis as the pirate ballerina!

I love Lupin clinging upside-down to the window.

“A love triangle or a failed business venture—” BWAHAHAHAHA!

Boy, their language is very colorful.

Is lupin reading their beaks?

I know that this was 11 days ago, but I just re-read this strip. With that last panel, I just realized that Lupine is a Southern Cat!

LUPIN knows what boundaries are?