Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 22, 2023

Iggy with the most adorable tap-pity tap! Sophie as a Celtic Goddess? and Lupin is being Lupin!

Sophie, you’re a cat, not a pompomeranian!

The Mysterious Nighttime Pom-pommer. That sounds like a great name for a Best Cat Wrestling performer.

“Hwook?”

I love what Sophie has done with the pom poms. Is Tommy holding a painting or photo of his racoon disguise when he was helping Goldie solve her first mystery, The Case of the Missing People? Or is it a clue to the identity of the mysterious nighttime pompommer?

Iggy’s nearly polite poking reminds me of my Sara. i’ll be sitting, minding my own business and i’ll feel a poke, poke on my leg. I look down and she’s smiling at me. sweetly demand my hand.

Remember when Tommy was a raccoon named Pom Pom when Sophie used them on his costume/disguise?

Lupin gets the Heimlich again.

OT

I told you they were Pom-poms of Doom. They are taking Lupin first.

Alas?

Iggy wants the pompoms. Big time.

Lupin, Lupin, Lupin. You’re a terrible influence on young, impressionable kittens!

Why them pom pompous aliens from outer space. Me just knews they was up to no good. Now they is wants to chokes poor kitty to death. The foul fiends.

Leave it to Lupin to prefer the “perfect choking hazard” pom-poms.

I was going to ask if that tail in the last panel is Iggy’s, but found that it is. I had to trudge back many days, through the snow (uphill both ways!) to confirm it — https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2023/02/05

Ah Lupin, the sheer pom-pomposity…..

Iggy seems pretty interested in the pom-poms. My guess is he may be the mysterious nighttime pom-pommer.

Iggy seems to be interested in pom poms . . . .

Hey, where did they go?

Now that Lupin came

Down in his throat, no

Playin’ an old game

Laughin’ and a-chompin’, hey, hey

Poor Woman’s a-jumpin’

To clear a chokin’-hazard clog with

Her, her heart a-thumping and whew!

A pom pom hurl

And hwook, one pom pom hurl

Does he even know why he does those things?

Sha-la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la tee-da

Sha-la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la tee-da

- Van Morrison / Mario Nikolov – Brown Eyed Girl

I had completely forgotten about Pom Pom, short for Phomas (yes, I will include the link this time: https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2019/10/25?ct=v&cti=2617492). That gave me a good laugh. The final panel reminds me of Puck’s saga with the meatball. This is somehow both better and worse.

Puck needs a new chart! one that shows the line from cautious play, through to dangerous play, then ending it what i’ll call the Lupin Line of certain doom!

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Puckmosis: Ora Z, let’s go running through some other flowers and let the bees gather pollen.

Ora Z: The Pom Pom flowers are such pretty colors, though!

Puck: Yes, but there are other pretty flowers. Let’s go running through the Zoomie Zinnias.

Ora: Do they like to run and zoom around?

Puck: No, but they are fun to run through.

At the Zoomie Zinnia Patch

Puck: Zelda, here is my kitt, uh small cat friend Ora Zed.

Zelda: Pleased to meet you, Ora. Feel free to run as much as you please.

Ora Takes Off

Zelda: Nothing like the energy of a tortie. Are worried about her getting lost?

Puck: Not really. After awhile she’ll be sound asleep and I’ll carry her home.

LUPIN. Lupin, no. Love Iggy trying to interfere – to me it feels like he’s trying to take the pom-pom away for Lupin’s own good!

my cats favored this option, find pom-pom, play with pom-pom, shred pom-pom, eat pom-pom, p**p pom-pom.

Sophie looks like a flower child with her crown and bouquet of Pom-poms.

I think we found our pom pomer

I love Sophie in the first panel; she is an early harbinger of spring!

“None of us HAS . . .”

The Mysterious Midnight Pom-Pommer, what pom-poms at midnight!

i love how iggy is trying to bat every single one

Lupin!! DO NOT SWALLOW that unless you want surgery! Just ask my dead cat how that goes. (He’s not dead from that but he did have 3 operations to remove ear plugs and spent many days and nights at the vet for eating things like plastic bags. The gave him something like cod liver oil so he could pass it. He died of cancer)

I not suprisingly called Lupin almost dying eating them. But I like the little touches here, Iggy trying to bat them hnting who the nighttiime pom-pommer is (and being purely adorable while he does), and Sophie bedecked in a flower crown made of pom pomps and holdling a pom pom boquet, a visual I never knew I badly needed.

Lupin defies both death and commonsense in one fluffy mouthful!

If they can gag on it, they will find it.

We have some cat balls that are like pom poms with some shiny threads mixed in. But I seldom let the boys play with them because, yes, they look like choking hazards to me.

I remember when Tommy disguised himself as a raccoon. Good times.

I’m surprised Ora Zella isn’t the one eating the pom-pom.

“LUPIN, NOT AGAIN!”

Why am I not surprised that Lupin loves choking hazards. I’ll bet he eats string and twist ties too.

I said on Monday that I thought maybe Iggy was the one who brought out the pompoms. I’m getting more sure I was right.

Serious question: None of my cats have ever choked on anything. If it were to happen, what would you do? Any experience in this? It just got me to thinking and worrying.

Ours love pom poms

O.T. Hello Everyone. It’s 3:30 in the afternoon. Normally, I start my morning around 6 a.m. with BCN but alas, this morning after a very stormy night, I had no internet until a few minutes ago. It was very strange. I had not realized I was addicted to BCN. I’ll have to join BA, except it’s such a nice addiction.

Just read an article in the newest National Geographic about the Rainbow Bridge. An art historian from Arizona, Paul Koudounaris, has tracked down the original author of the Rainbow Bridge poem. Her name is Edna Clyne-Rekhy, an artist. She wrote it in 1959 at age 19 after the death of her family Labrador Retriever, Major. The article has photos. I’ve never seen any representation of the poem/story with an author attribution.

Iggy looks like choking scares him in the last panel. That tail is starting to get ready to poof.

OOOHHHH, he’s trying so hard to play with them.

For all the toe bean crazies out there: there are Ruke’s Snowshoe toe beans. Let the squees begin.

I love Iggy’s playful taps when Goldie is holding the pom-pom (and the more energetic attempts to bat the pom-pom from Lupin’s mouth!)

Unrelated to the comic itself: the ads I get on this site are a confusing mix. They seem to think I’m a senior citizen in need of all sorts of medication who’s looking into attending college (done that already), who has a pet (no pets in the house), and who loves crafts (that part’s true =P).

Aw, Sophie’s little flower crown & bouquet

We had a very warm day today, 79°F. Stepped out on the deck a few minutes ago, still 63°F, and heard a lonely little peep toad singing the song of his people. I’m sure he will go back to sleep soon, it won’t be consistently warm here for a couple of months. Local farmers are actually going to lose some of their crops, ( I think the couple on the news grow peaches and plums) because the trees are blooming now and it is a 100% sure thing that we’ll have more freezes. If the blooms freeze and die, no fruit, and they won’t come back until next year. This sort of makes me feel guilty for enjoying the nice weather.

Itwas beyond nice weather here (San Antonio, TX) today with the tempurature hitting the 90’s!

It’s nice to see Sophie relaxed and creating art already in her new home!Do the Jr. cats know a way to get into the 1st floor apartment? Is Iggy importing pom poms from there?

Iggy wants it!

I hope that Sophie gets a chance to reassure poor Iggy that he is okay and can enjoy playing with pom poms without being an alien!

Oh! Look at Iggy’s poofy tail!