Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for September 11, 2022

Once again, I am certain that this cartoon is in no way based on real life. The Real Life Puck would never do such a thing.

A TRIUMPH! Congratulations, Pucky! Every panel of this made me snort-laugh. Look at that mouthful of pillow!

…is there a singular of ravioli? Is it a raviola? A raviolo? A raviolum?

True, even the sub-species with meat sauce is neither venomous nor poisonous. (Both species can, however, burn your tongue if you do not let them cool after capture.)

Also, props for the venomous/poisonous distinction!

Both ravioli vineyards and spaghetti trees are very difficult to maintain. I could never get my ravioli to “fruit” properly, I think maybe the soil here isn’t sufficiently cheesy enough …

I like ravioli filled with butternut squash and covered in alfredo sauce.

Ravioli should stick to their vines in Italy. When they wander away, they risk being seen by a hungry predator, and then, no matter how fast they run, they are doomed.

While we are talking about foreign foods, I like char siu bao.

Georgia, I deeply love that you are the kind of nerd who both knows and enforces the proper use of venomous vs poisonous.

Ya means like pizza, eh.

I’ve seen the most fiercest of hunters catch leaves and tea bags and sponges, oh my, but few would be brave enough to take down a mighty ravioli! What a good house panther you are, Pucky!

O ravioli mio! According to the “The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain!”-rhyme, I like to proclaim:

Golly! The ravioli in this frolic comic makes me jolly…

Puck vs food.

Puck is obviously not into sharing!

Just about every culture has some kind of “stuffed dumpling”. Italians have their ravioli, Russians their pelmeni, other Eastern Europeans have pierogi, East Asians have potstickers (except for the Japanese who have gyoza), the Spanish have empanadas, India has samosas, Israel has kreplach.

Monroe likes chicken teriyaki ramen. He jumped on my lap during lunch, sniffed my bento box, and started licking up my ramen noodles. It was hilarious! His appetite is clearly better.

We looked at the ingredients for the Rebound the vet gave us to supplement his nutrition, and despite the fact that it smells like vanilla Ensure (yuck!), it has various chicken components like spray dried chicken liver, poultry broth (concentrate), poultry fat, and amino acids and vitamins/minerals. He does take it pretty readily. Heck, he even puts up with getting his antibiotic and the eye drops.

Achilles keeps chasing Monroe and wanting to wrestle and play. He’s polite enough to bat him lightly, but Monroe doesn’t want to wrestle or tolerate light bites. He squeals, and Achilles stops, then watches him, following him when he goes anywhere.

Raviolis can’t sting or bite. … Just like Tribbles!! … :)

Panel 4 has the best picture of Puck I’ve ever seen! It even rivals Invisible Lupin! X^D

I’ve got me some hankerin’ for some potato and cheese pierogis …..just sayin’.

Is wild ravioli better than farm raised?

Panels 1 & 3 – Lupin rejoices and celebrates (see fangs and twitching tail) the success of a fellow apex predator.

From now on, raviolis peacefully waddling through the Big Pink House will need to designate a ravioli to keep watch for these fearsome apex predators.

Wonderful

This prey must have escaped the dinner plate, they can be slippery little buggers. Hopelully there was no onion in the soil to get into the filling.

I love today’s strip. It shows all three of our boys’ personalities so well. I absolutely love Lupin in panel three with his somewhat bloodthirsty glee. And we see both Elvis’s feline pride in panel two along with his wise caution in the later panels. And sweet yet mighty Puck in both hunter and professor modes. Brilliant job allround

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

At the Great Pyramid

Beatrixia: Hello, everyone. What brings you to the No Longer Hidden Library?

Maat-Tilda: Actually, we’re here to get gold for repairing Thomios’ tray.

Bea: Oh, my! What happened?

Tillie: Lupinium.

Bea: Gotcha.

Sophititi: Ohariko-San and Li-San have a way of fixing the tray and making it even more beautiful.

Shisho-San: Do you mean kintsugi?

Li-San: Yes. Iron Glove has graciously agreed to prepare gold from the room in front of here so we can begin.

Iron Glove: I’ve made some of the gold into powder. Now you can add it to the lacquer to make the adhesive.

Li-San: Now Tillie-San, if you wouldn’t mind holding these pieces together for a few minutes.

Tillie: Not at all.

Bea: It’s so beautiful!

Li-San: Now its story can continue.

Shisto-San: And you can find scrolls about it under the number 738.18.

Meanwhile, Back in Rhode Island

Sophie: Thank you for letting me use your tray to hold my art project, Thomas. How long has it been in your family?

Tommy: I don’t know. It seems like we’ve had it since forever.

Gad, now I want Ravioli for lunch!

I think Puck is right!

BTW, I’m also loving Burt’s friendly snark. Double-sided underbelly, indeed.

also, Cats with Hands is fun today:

http://www.catswithhands.com/cdaily.html

WARNING:

Ravioli are easily defeated in their natural state; however, if they are toasted, their shell develops an almost armor-like coating. Marinara sauce is your only defense when subduing these mutated, cheese-filled delicacies.

The scourge of toasted ravioli was started by mad scientists/chefs in St. Louis. The first toasted ravioli escaped the lab/kitchen in the 1950s at a restaurant called Angelo Oldani’s on the Hill, the Italian neighborhood of St. Louis. By the way, Yogi Berra and Joe Garagiola grew up on the Hill in St. Louis.

Hamilton A. Cat has battled these toasted wee-beasties before, and I am happy to say he has always come out on top.

MMM…ravioli in a nice brown butter and sage sauce…

Proud Pucky fangs!

Che gatto feroce!

Happy Iggy Gotcha Day!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a brilliant comic, but I particularly love panel 3. Lupin wants to hear all the juicy stories! Puck is a mighty hunter. For Sunday news, a little diversion into sports and leisure is certainly appropriate.

Todays BCN is totally hilarious!

Puck has done his research.

Great work Pucky. You does well. Next me trains you to steals a whole picanic basket.

This comic one of the very few ones (perhaps the only one?) these days to has beautiful colouring work, especially something that is coloured by hand by cartoonist herself instead of computer colouring. And that’s a very nice yellow-red backgrounds variation in them panels.

Great strip! I’ll be smiling all day until my NFL team loses :(

It’s an itty bitty pillow that looks like it’s the size of his head!

I can picture Puck chasing the slippery pasta pillow across the kitchen floor. Every time he grabs for it the elusive raviolo slips away.

“Double sided underbelly” (grin, snort, chuckle) Perhaps it is a member of the order Testudines… And one side is the plastron and the other is the carapace…?! But puck is definitely their natural predator, note the dentition specifically evolved to crack the Ravioli’s defenses (Panel 4).

It can squirt cheese if attacked too aggressively, and the cheese can burn. Puck is practicing for his annual attack on the leaves to save everyone, once again. What a brave and noble kitty!

Love the fang fest! Lupin and Pucky!

You mean toxic, and if there are onions in the filling, be careful!

So here’s something I find interesting: I learned from a voice therapist that different languages are stored in slightly different areas of the brain. Many people lose their ability to speak, due to a stroke. But in some cases, bilingual people lose one language, but retain others. Even if they lose their native language, they can sometimes still communicate in their second language. (It all depends on where the stroke hits.) I find that hopeful news.

Ravioli, I can’t remember the last time I had some!!! no trees anywhere close!!!

Love it Georgia! Reminds me of a cat I knew that use to steal pats of butter and run around the apartment to avoid capture and retrieval.

I have a new neighbor! It’s mean looking and I don’t think it likes me but it is the second Halloween decoration in my neighborhood.

I love the spaghetti tree reference! BBC!

“Ravioli” is the plural, the singular is “raviolo”.

Raviolis may also be meat filled. Too bad for me I can’t have any. Not because of alergies, because there are folks here who don’t like them and refuse to let anyone have them in this house.

Is Puck related to Garfield?

Here we have the hard-shell “toasted” variety. Crunch crunch.

Oh my goodness! Puck and his Ravoli:]

This is an extra-cute strip. Love Puck’s victorious fangs and Lupin’s quizzical ears.