Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 15, 2023

Tomato sauce is . . . reluctant . . . to come out.

Of anything.

From blush to petal. I wonder if there is another step (or steps) on his way back to white.

My girlfriend’s old Maine-Coon “Sid” LOVED the water. Like, she’d have to keep him out of the shower when she was using it. He also loved walks around the neighborhood with his harness.Her followup cat, Homer, a Maine-Coon mix, hated the water and was terrified to go past her front door. shrug

Aww, Puck, you’ve always been the Petal.

“Tense” is a good word for it.

a rose by any other name is still an adorable, audacious Lupin.

Lupin will come back to snow-white eventually. And then he will be able to disappear again.

and like most things, cats tend to insist on it being their idea. my Sara dunks her head in her water fountain, but gets extremely upset if you should flick a single droplet of water on her. Gracie does not mind if she gets wet, but doesn’t wade in the water like Sara does. #calicotude

“you’ve taken him from blush to petal” is a great line, as is the revelation Lupin likes water… which isn’t much of one as he also had his tropical adventure in year one.

Tomato is a tough stain. As an RN, I learned how to get many stains out of white attire. Peroxide on a stain immediately is one technique.

As Lupin sheds, he’ll grow white fur. High quality food or a supplement for hair and fur can help, as will brushing.

Monroe has decided brushing is nice. It made him purr. Or was it attacking a rubber band I have on the oxygen cannula?

OT: Kitten antics

Nat King Cole: Ramblin’ Rose

Lupin in Rose, Lupin in Rose,

Get in mischief, we all know,

Pink like blushing, always rushing,

Now you’re all pink, just like a rose!

…….

Rush around, rush around,

Where there’s mayhem, you’ll be found!

Who will love you? Well, we all do!

Whether you’re white, or look like a rose!

…….

Lupin in Rose, Lupin in Rose!

Why we love you, only Cat knows!

We all love you, with a love true,

Even when you look like a rose!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PigMNwgufmk

As FreyjaRN said, a little more shedding and Lupin will slowly fade back to white. Unless his hair follicles have been infected by the tomato sauce and they keep growing tomato-colored hair :)

Too bad this strip was not in time for Valentine’s Day

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Elvis-Anum: Hello, Lupinium. Still enjoying your fruit salad look, I see. Ever since you thwumped into the fruit juice containers in the Royal Pantry.

Lupinium: I think this fruit themed tunic goes well with my fur.

Puckmosis: But now you can’t be invisible against a white background.

Elvis-Anum: And this is not a good thing, because?

Lupinium: Well, as a result of this I’ve been inspired to create some new routines with Ora Z. I’ve been thinking of calling it Multicolored Mayhem.

Elvis-Anum: It makes me want to poof just thinking about it.

Enter Iggy with a Pop

Iggy: Surprise, everyone!

Lupinium: Iggy, would you like to join Ora and Me in a new routine?

Iggy: Sure!

Puckmosis: Steady, Elvis.

♪"Splish splash, I was taking a bath

Long about a Saturday night, yeah

A rub dub, just relaxing in the tub

Thinking everything was alright

.

Yes, I was a-splishing and a-splashing

I was a-rolling and a-strolling

Yeah, I was a-moving and a-grooving

We was a-reeling with the feeling

We was a-rolling and a-strolling

Moving with the grooving

Splish splash, yeah"♫

That oink is going to have to wear/shed off to be completely gone. Love Puck’s description of shades of pink,

Lupin in the third panel looks both hilarious and adorable.

As Georgia has always shared with us, Lupin is not most cats. Come on, Lupin, Valentine’s is over. You might as well wash out the pink and go check out the Easter decorations.

Who knows how long you’ll be pink

It’s longer than you’d think

Does it take a nine-lives lifetime

To lose a Prego stink?

But if someone you might startle

Yeah, Louie is his name

Will his spray even really matter

While you’ve got tomato game?

Love you forever and forever

Love you and your rose art

Love you even in the altogether

Love your mischievous heart

- John Lennon / Paul McCartney – I Will

Time to take down the paper hearts and Valentine’s paraphernalia and put up the Green! St. Catty’s Day fast approaches. Do you have your:

1) Leprechaun traps?

2) Shamrocks?

3) Gold gelt chocolate coins?

One-half of the family is of bull-headed German descent. The other half is an amalgamation of the clans Finnegan, Fitzpatrick, Gaffney & Dowd.

Based on the cats I have owned, I thought he would have shed his entire coat within a week and be wearing a brand new one.

Puck could get a job naming colors for paint manufacturers.

Lupin is in the pink!

I wonder if Lupin really did like water … not even any of my dogs have enjoyed bath time!

I mean, it’s not hurting him. You may as well leave it.

It’s nice to see Lupin is still in the pink of health!

Think of it as ‘œil de perdrix’. Much more elegant-sounding, don’t you think?

Does Lupin have Turkish Van ancestry, I wonder?

And this is the closest Lupin will ever get to blushing.

Lupin is definitely a petal to the metal type …

Nekkid Lupin makes me blush

There was a stray cat at my cottage that used to come inside. She would sleep in the bathroom sink. One time she was doing so and the tap had been left dribbling to prevent the pipes from freezing. She stayed in that sink until the water was up to her ears, then simply stood up. The water drained and she laid back down. She loved water. If I was in the bathtub she’d get right in with me.

My niece, who was five years old at the time, named her Cigarette for some reason.

I had two siblings that adored water. He would get in the shower with us and even the tub a couple of times. He also would lay out in the cat run during rains. She would play in the lawn sprinkler. Both would sit under running faucets, getting soaked, to drink and both loved getting washcloth baths, her so much so that she’d roll in the whallow they made in the run until covered in dirt and then come so us so we’d bathe her.

I miss them both.

Significantly less pink today!

Lupin is definitely one of a kind.

Belated Happy Gotcha Day anniversary to Pucky!!!

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Lupin will find a way to put the petal to the metal!

I’m sorry, but I really, really want to see Lupin stay pink! He even cuter pink.

It figures. Lupin likes water.

well, Shelby did tell us that “Blush” and “Bashful” are two different pinks; one is much deeper than the other

My chubby, fluffy white Kuzco enjoys being wet. To the point that he will roll in mud puddles and then come inside to share with me. He also has a lamentable tendency to get completely coated in ice and snow, then demand cuddles.

Smokey at one time didn’t mind getting wet as long as the water was barely running. She’d just sit in the kitchen sink under the faucet and look bored.

Warm and sunny here in Missouri today. Strange winter.

I think pet saloons have a particular shampoo that they use on white dogs and cats to help keep their coat white. I think it’s called bluing, or something like that.