Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for April 02, 2022

“Cool. Sure. We’ll all be . . . GIMME!”

Not enough, Woman. Not nearly enough.

Meowtal Kombat.

Being cool would require a radical adjustment of reality, Woman. The best most of us can do is act cool.

I love cat logic. It’s the “new toys” fiasco all over again!

And I think today holds the award for Biggest Eyes. Such a good Woman to spell out exactly how cats can have fish from the table!

Eyes as big as saucers in middle panel…..but they’re not remaining cool.

Which is why, when we provide Toona for our cats, the Toona plates are at different ends of the kitchen. Less squabbling that way!

I have a fool proof salmon cooking technique. Requires a cast iron skillet and a 450 degree oven. But I’m guessing the kitties are okay with raw.

Poor Elvis! Goldie has her claws in his back and bum. I hope there’s enough poofage under his clothes to protect him. Maybe Lupin will lose his bell in the scuffle! Puck is smart to protect his plate. I LOVE that middle panel! Do I spy Lupin toe beans in that last panel?

Spread the dishes across the room, or you’ll not have peace.

This whole project is doomed.

Hey hey hey, who’s reporting on the channel though??

Check for bones? Me kitties used to eats whole fishies with no bones remaining. They also used to eats little bats and not even a little bone was left.

A breakdown in societal structure?

What are these little morsels…are you making sport of us ma’am? We require hearty chunks!

Elvis fang-age and Goldie claws!

In panel two, Puck and Goldie are obviously already plotting their strategies of attack. Panel three shows that Puck’s worked. As they say in real estate, Goldie, “Location, location, location.”

When the Woman eyes the amount of fish she’s going to give the feline sharks, unless she thinks “I’m going to need bigger plates,” it’s not enough. Not nearly enough.

All I can say is; hahahahaha!

With our two one, cat will eat his portion quite daintily while the other gives a sniff and then walks away. So the second portion goes to the first cat or the dog depending in which is faster. But there must be a second portion or there will be a wounded look from second cat. Silly little critter.

Abba: Gimme, Gimme, Gimme

Half past seven

And I’m grabbing a plateful of fish for my own

How I wish Lupin and Goldie would leave me alone!

Grabby paws

Reaching for my plate as I look around the room

And it makes me feel my plate may be doomed!

…….

There’s not a soul out there

Cat, please hear my prayer!

…….

Gimme, gimme, gimme a plate of fish right now

Woman, please come and chase the other cats away

Gimme, gimme, gimme a plate of fish right now

Who knows if there will be fish for another day?

…….

Hungry cats

Getting the plate from the Woman is a fortunate thing

But there are three other cats in the house I am living in

Hungry and waiting for their dinner as well

I look into the kitchen and see the fish, delight

But there’s my other cat friends all right there in sight

…….

There’s not a soul out there

Cat, please hear my prayer!

…….

Gimme, gimme, gimme a plate of fish right now

Woman, please come and chase the other cats away

Gimme, gimme, gimme a plate of fish right now

Who knows if there will be fish for another day?

It looks like my crew when I give them the water from the tuna fish.

Everyone tell me about your cats please (and add pictures if you can)

Puck must be quick to come out with the first piece like that!

Only one piece of fish is so perfect, so precious, the one that Good Boys (and Girls) deserve! I believe Pucky is deserving, but he will have to earn it.

I love panel 2 – wide eyes, on their best (better?) behavior.

I love their cute little innocent faces (the EYES!!) in panel 2 and then the mayhem in #3 !!!

So cool…

Yesterday was Mr. Herman’s 14th birthday. We celebrated with canned fish!!

Be cool…BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAA!!

That was like telling Black Friday shoppers to proceed into the store in a calm and orderly fashion with no pushing or shoving. It’s a waste of breath.

Lupin, ever the optimist! But that request was outrageously unrealistic.

I have a dog that gets medicine in his breakfast. I have a cat that demands being fed before the dog. So she gets a small amount of wet food before I even make my coffee. If I do not feed her first. she will go to the bedroom door and meow loudly trying to get hubby up so she can tell him. And gets louder if he does not immediately get up and fix it.

She plates paradise

Puts it down still hot

At the big pink house, you freak

As Pucky grabs his spot

Don’t it always seem to go

That you don’t know what you got

Till it’s gone

Puck’s in paradise

And puts up with an uncouth lot

He’s got the best fish

Now every cat wants to be him

They rudely crowd within

A swipe and a half just to see him

Don’t it always seem to go

That you don’t know what you’ve got

Till it’s gone

Handed paradise

We want what Pucky’s got

- Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi

My late loving wife and I never really gave any of our animals fish, however there was always what we called chicken from heaven whenever she made soups. When I/we deboned the boiled chicken all of the dogs and cats would be there waiting for some of it. The dogs also liked the carrots that had been boiled as well. I miss my loving wife and all of the animals that we lost in 2020 and 2021 and all of the rest too.

So very cat!!! I love it!

When Big Gray and his departed brother were little ones. Big Gray would always eat with his backside against the wall, so he could keep a look out for his brother trying to ambush him to eat his food.

I’ve told this story before but it is so on-topic for today.

When Colette was just a adolescent kitten, it was clear she was destined to be the top cat. One day, as a test, I prepared equal portions for her and the two adult cats, I placed the portions in identical saucers on the floor about two feet apart in an equilateral triangle.

Colette immediately jumped into the middle of the triangle and confronted the other cats, “Everybody be cool.” She proceeded to examine all three before deciding that one was marginally “better”.

“This one’s mine. Let’s eat.”

Woman, you forgot the rule when it comes to multiple cats: Each cat doesn’t want their own treat- they want all the other cats’ treats!

The only possible way this could be more chaotic is to put the fish bits into a tiny fish-shaped pinata, and then let the BCN crew swat at it until it explodes into a shower of fish-confetti ….

This reminds me of a true story about Joe Meek, the mountain man. He was chosen to present the Oregon Territory’s application for statehood. He was quite the celebrity in Washington. One evening, he was taken to Delmonico’s for dinner. He ordered a steak. The waiter brought it to him. Joe looked at it, consumed it in three bites, and said: “That will do fine. I’d like about five pounds of that.” They brought it to him, and he ate it all in the time the other guests finished their own meals.

Come to think of it, “Joe Meek” would be a good name for some cats I have known.

Telling cats to be cool when food is involved is as effective as telling them to order themselves into a nice neat herd.

Be cool? Not when it comes to food.

re: bell episodes brought to mind a stray that became an indoor/outdoor cat. When he wanted OUT he would scratch the door. I tied a bell to a string & tied it onto the doorknob-after 2 days show & tell he would ring the bell, which I would hear & let him out, saving the door. Yes, cats be trained—if its in their own best interests!

OT: For the Orb

And you only have 4 there! Try it with 9!

Yeah, right – like that’s going to happen!

Umm, did Lupin and Elvis bowl over Goldie in the race to nirvana or is Goldie trying to fight them both for a bite of nirvana?

Those huge eyes, lol

My cats love all meat and most dairy.

Then there’s this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Fkrq_0pfc

I quickly place the plates several feet from another . . . less chance of fighting!

I love how Ms. Dunn can give a cat eye with no a wide eye look of awe.

Woman POV: Everyone Everyone what are you doing? Have you cats lost your manners and common sense?"