Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for April 16, 2023

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    Notaspy  over 1 year ago

    Elvis still remembers the last time he was threatened by a small creature with a sharp weapon.

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    uncle snipe  over 1 year ago

    Who had Ora Z as a pirate, I mean Parrot? Cutest bandit on the high seas!

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    AllishaDawn  over 1 year ago

    I love Ora Zella’s little tooth in panel three! Reminds me of my Frankie. He had a tooth sticking out, too.

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    Sue Ellen  over 1 year ago

    “Sliver me splinters” is very timely for me right now. I had to have a sliver of a splinter surgically removed from my right foot on Wednesday, and I’m hobbling around like a dread parrot!

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    kangtourcat Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Tusslemania? The dread parrot.

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    Sue Ellen  over 1 year ago

    And here we all assumed Iggy would be the parrot, I mean pirate!

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    kaylin  over 1 year ago

    Love the poof tail from Elvis with him being “startled”…

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    alcorn  over 1 year ago

    Sunday Fun Day:

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    Lady Bri  over 1 year ago

    This is Mischief incarnate! She just has to be on top of David’s shoulders (mine, too, when she can get away with it). ❤ Our little pirate kitty ෆ╹ .̮ ╹ෆ

    https://imgur.com/GnuCDD9

    https://imgur.com/iyeGPjI

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    dadoctah  over 1 year ago

    Correction to panel five. A “pyrate” is someone who likes to set fires. Keep a close eye on the new kids for a while.

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    WelshRat Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Small creature. Sharp Weapon. Bird. Yup three of Elvis’ most beloved things…

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    I need a burrito  over 1 year ago

    SUNDAY FUNDAY

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    FreyjaRN Premium Member over 1 year ago

    OZ is hilarious! She is also adorable.

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    Spiffy  over 1 year ago

    It must be talk like a parrot day!

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    Hedgehog  over 1 year ago

    That smug little boat reappears!

    https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2018/04/29?ct=v&cti=1473561

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    cb8ty  over 1 year ago

    You’re right Elvis. This is going to be much harder than raising Lupin.

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    Crann Bethadh  over 1 year ago

    OK, the next time I’m in that Disneyland ride, I’m going to sing along, “Yo ho, yo ho, a parrot’s life for me!,” just for the stares.

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    uncle snipe  over 1 year ago

    Your crackers or your life. Pirate life ain’t all it’s cracked up to be? insert groan Also, I’m imagining Pengo the Pirate now.

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    YulanaLow Premium Member over 1 year ago

    The Man cut his hair!

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    Calvinist1966  over 1 year ago

    Ora Z is right to point out that Bluebeard wasn’t a pirate like Blackbeard. Bluebeard was a wife murderer in a folk tale who kept a room with the heads of his dead wives inside. The real-life murderer Henri Llandru was known as “The Modern Bluebeard”.

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    Gent  over 1 year ago

    No no. This not complete without Iggy the one eyed pirate cat. Me disappointed.

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    xsintricks  over 1 year ago

    No one said the classic Jack Benny: “I’m thinking about it!”

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    cat19632001  over 1 year ago

    This ought to take Elvis back to his days as a Pirate Ballerina.

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    Kaputnik  over 1 year ago

    My father had a cat (small even when fully grown) that would sit on his shoulder while he played the piano. I don’t know if she thought of herself as a parrot, though.

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    Robin Harwood  over 1 year ago

    Many years ago (I try not to think how many) Heineken ran a series of ads on the slogan “refreshes the parts other bees cannot reach”.

    https://creative-ads.org/heineken-slogans/heineken-refreshes-the-parts-other-beers-cannot-reach-ad-3/

    One ad changed the slogan:

    https://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-in-ads-2194-heineken-refreshes-pirates/

    After a little while, they followed this with one which started with the same pirate, but had the slogan “refreshes the parrots the other beers cannot reach”. And when the pirate drank the beer, his parrot turned into a bird of paradise.

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    katey11 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    OT: vacay

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    Jungle Empress  over 1 year ago

    Okay, I know Matt Nelson is a common name, but I immediately thought of the guy who does We Rate Dogs.

    It’s about 4 AM here and I actually read “parrot” as “pirate” and then had to reread when Goldie showed up.

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    katey11 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Rocky likes to perch in my shoulder (and he’s 20 pounds, ugh). Gerry likes crackers, pretzels, any crunchy treat.

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    Kitty Katz  over 1 year ago

    Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

    Ora Z: Yes, these are Fe-Anaro’s jewels. They are beautiful and indestructible. At least so far.

    Puckmosis: I’m sure you’ll put that to the test. t

    Beatrixia: These are the most beautiful treasures we’ve found. Maybe the Artisans can use them.

    Elvis-Anum: Here are some gold coins.

    Ora Z: And pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!

    Violet-Ifa: We’ve found another Awile-Fixit trademark by this wall!

    Iggy: Got it. Wally, want to do the honors?

    Wally: Got a hammer right here.

    SMASH!

    Ora Z: I’ll help with the wall, too.

    Sometime Later

    Bea: It’s beautiful!

    Elvis-Anum: I’m almost pleased!

    Beaver Lee Cleary: It’s just as I pictured it!

    Puckmosis: Scrolls as far as the eye can see!

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    Robin Harwood  over 1 year ago

    And let us take a moment to appreciate how our ideas of pirates have been influenced by Stevenson’s “Treasure Island”. A book that starts with a map and creepy mysterious characters, goes on to adventures at sea, a tropical island, and buried treasure is the sort of thing we really want. (Wikipedia lists the dozens of films, plays, and adaptations that have been made, showing the stunning popularity of the book.)

    Tedious tripe about memories from eating a cake dipped in tea, or “celebrations of the human spirit” just don’t have the same impact, even if the Sunday Times critics applaud them.

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    dessertlady Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Love the Princess Bride reference!

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    cat19632001  over 1 year ago

    Panel 6 – in which a smol cat condescends to her elder. Panel 10 – in which a smol cat continues to believe in her reality.

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    LtPowers  over 1 year ago

    I think that’s a blue jay, not a bluebird.

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    misty  over 1 year ago

    Everybody have you heard?

    Ora’s gonna be a parrot bird (she’s gonna be a pirate bird)

    And if that cute smol bird don’t fly (if that tiny bird don’t fly)

    She’s gonna perch on some friendly guy (she’s gonna perch on some pirate guy)

    And if that Man don’t sail the seas (and he doesn’t give her cookies)

    She’s gonna surely bug her fav’rite Siamese (surely gonna scare this relaxed Siamese)

    And that’s why I keep on tellin’ everybody, say

    Yeah, yeah, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

    Hear me now and understand (understand)

    He’s gonna lose his peace of mind (ain’t gonna find no peace of mind)

    And ‘cause that peace of mind won’t stay (and ‘cause that peace of mind won’t stay)

    She’s gonna behave in a better way (she’ll try to behave in a better way)

    She might rise above, she might go below

    Ride with the tide and go with the flow

    And that’s the reason why she’s a shoutin’ buccaneer, yo

    No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, baby, yar!

    - Charlie Foxx / Inez Foxx – Mockingbird – Carly Simon & James Taylor

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    ladykat  over 1 year ago

    Oh, Ora Zella, see what you’ve done! You made Elvis poof and spill coffee all over his tail!

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    Katzen1415  over 1 year ago

    Nothing to add here, it is purely delightful! Love these characters, this comic, pirates, all of it!

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    RussHeim  over 1 year ago

    Dread Parrot Roberts?

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    Space_cat  over 1 year ago

    New season new Avatar, after 15+ years, besides the fresh-faced 38-year-old on the picture has gone a bit gray since then.It was time for a change, and the avatar is one of my most recent paintings I’ve lately become enamored with. Hope everyone has a great weekend! Monday arrives all too soon. Bleh!

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    scyphi26  over 1 year ago

    Folks have a cat that likes to do this currently too. She’s getting a little big to keep doing it though, and unfortunately my mother has a bad back, so she can only put up with it for so long.

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    kappy.mrnustik Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Lupin refers to OZ as “little cat.” Has anyone noticed if the older cats use Ora Zella’s or Iggy’s names when referring to them? The older ones call each other by name.

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    Fennec! at the Disco  over 1 year ago

    The Dread Parrot Ora Zella! Wonderful!

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    Nuliajuk  over 1 year ago

    Oh captain, I’ve important information

    Sing hey, the bossy feline that you be

    About a certain imminent staycation

    Just for a cat o’one tail that’s a she

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    DawnMcCandless  over 1 year ago

    I went to a fundraiser for a pet rescue yesterday. I won a bucket raffle. I will attempt to put the picture and a video in the comments. Please don’t yell if it don’t work LOL

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    prrdh  over 1 year ago

    Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of catnip oil.

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    Rabies65  over 1 year ago

    I read “dead parrot” in panel 3, and was expecting something completely different.

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    Miss Mina  over 1 year ago

    Albert A. Cat loved to ride on his Man’s shoulder, but he was 18 pounds and very long, so, even though his Man has broad shoulders, only his head and forepaws fit on the shoulder and the rest of him was carried.

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    rs0204 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Hamilton rides over my shoulder sometimes. It’s like carrying a large sack of potatoes.

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    ekw555  over 1 year ago

    today, I get the “small world” effect, as I “know” Matt Nelson through “Robot Co-Op”, a Twitch stream I watch that riffs on video games but originally started as a movie riffing homage to MST3K.

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    ltrauth  over 1 year ago

    We had an orange tabby who loved to ride on our shoulders. He would even ride on my shoulder while I vacuumed…

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    Red Bird  over 1 year ago

    We birds make really awesome pirates. ARRRGHH!!

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    The Wolf In Your Midst  over 1 year ago

    My girl Jez doesn’t mind being held, but being carried is a bit too much. She’s got four paws and they can get her where she needs to go just fine, thank you very much!

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    metagalaxy1970  over 1 year ago
    Luckily all my kitties weren’t “parrot” cats. Love Elvis’ tail puff. Yeah, I think she’s claimed the Man as her own.
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    GaryCooper  over 1 year ago

    I’ve always wanted a cat that would ride around on my shoulders. Some would sit their briefly, but they’d jump down after a minute or less.

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    scaeva Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I think Ora Zella is crackers!

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    sisterea  over 1 year ago

    Ora Zella is evidently a holy terror.

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    skipper1992  over 1 year ago

    An alternate take on Bluebeard …

    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8gy6l1

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    Daeder  over 1 year ago

    Are we sure her name isn’t Ora Zealous?

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    miscreant  over 1 year ago

    This is funny. Dad has a Blue and Gold Macaw named Blackbeard, because right under their beaks are black feathers resembling a beard. We just call him Blackie though. Although I can understand preferring to be a Macaw over a cat. Macaws can live to 80, cats well we know that sad story.

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    bajacalla Premium Member over 1 year ago

    this is the most ADORABLE strip EVER. and just wait until Ora Zella learns about PARROT Jenny!!

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    mepowell  over 1 year ago

    Brief facebook update from Georgia with pictures of the cats on her bed, “Visitors to my bedside this week. It’s been a quiet week with a lot of rest and a lot of cats. Puck did make an appearance or two, but mostly at the side of the bed. My hand is still quite tender; giving it a lot of rest for the moment.”

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    willie_mctell  over 1 year ago

    More about Catbird, please. Nothing could replace "Our IX Lives " but it sounds fun.

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    kittylover.truitt  over 1 year ago

    Oh my goodness lol. Oh no poor Elvis got coffee on his tail

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    asrialfeeple  over 1 year ago

    Today’s Cul de sac is for you, Robin.

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    LeslieAnn Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I love the Catbeards in panels 7&8.

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    LeslieAnn Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I love being here with Georgia’s family, which includes all of the Orb. Thank you all for this beautiful place to go.

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    ShadowBeast Premium Member over 1 year ago

    One of mine loves jumping on shoulders. I can see her excitement when I’m close enough for her to jump.

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    knight1192a  over 1 year ago

    Ora Z, you have it all wrong. Polly would have to teach you a lesson, but he keeps blaming the crackers.

    (Make the story short, I played a pirates themed computer game years ago and while playing I’d pretend to have a parrot named Polly singing his own versions of Margaritaville and Sailing just to amuse myself while playing the game)

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    crazeekatlady  over 1 year ago

    Nummy liked to shoulder surf only in the kitchen. She loved to cook pasta, and was the best pasta tester to to tell if it was cooked. She liked all veges and luncheon meats, not to mention tuna juice.

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    erinurse2000  over 1 year ago

    As long as she’s not a Norwegian blue

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    turner7811 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Oh dear. Poofy tail and splooshed coffee!

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