Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for June 19, 2022

Wow! The Boy has really good hand-eye coordination. I could never make those ball-and-paddle things work.

Sunday Funday

Not out of nowhere, and Elvis has the critical update to prove it.

It moves and makes noise, two things kids and cats like.

WOW. Is that a new record for Pucky’s tail poof? I’m impressed!

Don’t try it, Goldie.

The boy is getting big…thawck is exactly the noise.

The Flying Red Thwack is a brand of pepperoni paddle ball/cat toy, isn’t it? and if it isn’t, it really should be …

I was never any good at those things.

Pucky’s tail, AND toe beans! Also, Goldie’s fangs! Squeeee!

Paaaaadlebaaalllllll…. (No, Bloo!)

It wouldn’t taste nice, Goldie.

Guys and dolls – eat your heart out but don’t eat the paddleball!…

It’s just a paddleball

Folks that’s all I report to you

(bouncy, bouncy) (bouncy, bouncy)

Just a paddle ball

And if you think you can eat it in one or two

(bouncy, bouncy) (bouncy, bouncy)

You could upset your stomach now

(But the boy doesn’t even put it down)

It’s just a paddleball, it comes bouncin’ back to him

Paddleball, it comes bouncin’ back to him

(Rubber Ball / Bobby Vee)

PS: And when some toebeans we can see

Even Bobby Vee goes SQEEEEE!!!

Oh, noes. When Goldie is enthralled by something (she shouldn’t do) her eyes start to look like … [gasp!] Lupin’s!

Mysterious red spots and bouncy red balls. Just what diabolical activities is these hyoomans up to now?

*Olivia Newton-John: Magic (from Xanadu)

It’s back again

A red object

Looks like an ordinary ball

It doesn’t come when I call

Wonder how it works?

Is it a dream?

Comes and goes now,

With no warning to give?

Could it be alive?

Wonder how it works.

…….

I do believe it is magic,

Nothing else believes quite that way,

I do believe it is magic,

A toy rubber ball goes astray,

And while I am giving the news,

The ball comes into view,

I’m hearing the dreaded Thwack

Again!

…….

Goldie: It’s like a dream

Looks delicious

Like a nice big strawberry shake,

A risk I will take,

I will chase it now.

Elvis: I see the boy,

He is playing, the red thing is really his toy,

Get careless and it will destroy,

Everyone steer clear!

…….

I do believe it is magic,

Nothing else believes quite that way,

I do believe it is magic,

A toy rubber ball goes astray,

And while I am giving the news,

The ball comes into view,

I’m hearing the dreaded Thwack

Again!

House of Wax with Vincent Price! When they opened the museum, there was a Barker in front performing trying to draw people inside. He had a paddleball and the movie was done a little bit in 3D. I wanted to be that good. He was amazing! Maybe the Boy will be as good. Thwack, Thwack, Thwack!

At first, I thought it was Elvis (and his tail) saying nope, until I realize it was the wrong color of fur! I’m surprised Lupin is not stalking the ball, too!

Love Puck’s bottle brush! It’s sssssooooooo adorable.

Don’t do it, Goldie! You’ll get thwacked in the eye and need a trip to the vet!

Poor Pucky has poofed out!

Will one of them be able to tell Tabitha, “I have caught the red ball!?”

Happy Father’s Day! To all of those who are living, and to all of those who are gone.

Dear Daddy, “Happy Father’s Day” in heavan.

Elvis fleeing rear toe beans with poofed tail! (FRTBWPT, for future reference). And oh, what a punch-drunk look on Goldie’s face!!

Given the source, ‘critical’ is a key element.

Happy Father’s Day to Ryan (The Man), and to all the Dad’s out there!

Go for it, Goldie. It should be much easier to catch than the red dot! If I know these things as well as I do, the ball will shortly be flying across the room with an indeterminate amount of string attached and some form of feline pursuit.

Goldie: I can eats it!

Paddle balls are still being made?

Welp

I think “exercising” cats with a laser dot is extremely cruel. They never know the joy of the “catch”, which is as gratifying as the “hunt”. Of course, a red rubber ball bouncing off your nose is a real game spoiler.

In a sort of parallel observation, my neighbor’s young boy had great fun and exercise chasing a remote-controlled electric car up-and-down the cul-de-sac. So they bought him a battery operated child-sized ATV to ride. Now he gets no exercise and frequently whirrs around the corner beside the highway without supervision. People!

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there and all the other people who have stepped into Dad-Shoes to be there for someone who needed it.

The update is: You can’t eat it.

THE PPPPPOOOOOFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The original ball on a rubber band with the paddle was created by the Fli-Back Company in my home town. This was soon after the invention of the rubber ball. My hand to eye coordination was so poor I never got the hang of it.

Looks like potential prey to me.

The Boy is a paddleball master!

I just noticed that the trouser hole where Puck’s missing leg should come through is sewn closed. Georgia has such a wonderful eye for detail.

OT:

Man, they grow up fast. Wasn’t that boy born a few months ago?

Those of you who have good relations with your fathers, have a happy day, and those of you who are fathers and have good relations with your children, have an exceptionally happy day!

Very nice comic

I couldn’t even do that with a paddle ball.

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY!!!

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I always get a warped one!

“Give these out to some of the boys… in lieu of pay”

alsoThese things are defective"