Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for July 16, 2023

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    Le'letha Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I have a long-haired cat in the hottest summer in Texas for years. Tell me about it.

    (My car AC is fixed now, though! It’s been out for weeks. Rush hour on the slowest highway in Texas in 110+F heat without AC? NOT FUN.)

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    Le'letha Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Also, color me unsurprised that there’s a magazine called “Soap Studs”, that it features Kit Chase on the cover, and Pucky is reading it.

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    uncle snipe  over 1 year ago

    Ora Z’s lil swimsuit is the most adorable! Also loving Puck with his radio, girly, kitty magazine etc. So much detail to love here, as usual!

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    Susanna Premium Member over 1 year ago

    What are the robber mice carrying?

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    dmah Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Are Violet and Natasha carrying a … dang, I forget what they’re called? It’s like a popsicle in a plastic bag?

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    dmah Premium Member over 1 year ago

    It’s so hot that even the BCN mugs need a parasol to keep the drinks cool!

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    Susanna Premium Member over 1 year ago

    George definitely sheds more than Mac or PC. Though I don’t think he quite matches a previous cat I had, Zoe, who I would get hands full of hair off of at a time.

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    Ahsum  over 1 year ago

    Sunday Funday

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    DorseyBelle  over 1 year ago

    Elvis toe beans in the air! Goldie toe beans in a drawer!

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    DorseyBelle  over 1 year ago

    Love, love, love the cats’ swimsuits! Squeeee all the way to August.

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    Gloria Fleming  over 1 year ago

    It’s a pleasant surprise to see such sharp instincts in Ora and Iggy, they’re so young to be so wise in their choice of “hotspot”.

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    uncle snipe  over 1 year ago

    I’m lovin the little umbrella in Lupin’s mug.

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    Gloria Fleming  over 1 year ago

    Loving Lupin in his sunglasses.

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    Gloria Fleming  over 1 year ago

    Tortimore..must be working lots of over time. Hope he doesn’t have a breakdown

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    marilynnbyerly  over 1 year ago

    Is that Kit? Sigh!

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    jemelvin  over 1 year ago

    Darn! GEORGIA: help us out here, please! What ARE the robber mice carrying? And just for me, what is Queen Mag’s crown really made of? Thanks in advance, and I hope your paw, er, hand, is doing well!

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    maggijoseph Premium Member over 1 year ago

    It looks like OZ’s fur is shooting off of her body! That’s so Ora Zella!

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    cb8ty  over 1 year ago

    Does Elvis have a tanning reflector? I can imagine him at the beach instead of the couch.

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    cb8ty  over 1 year ago

    And it looks like Puck has sunscreen. I’m getting a whole new perspective of my cats’ shedding

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    Charliegirl Premium Member over 1 year ago

    And there’s my boy Lupin – on the way to becoming stark nekkid!

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    Jungle Empress  over 1 year ago

    Ah yes, shedding season! I think Zelda got an early start on that, LOL. She hasn’t quite gotten to the point of defying gravity, though.

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    I need a burrito  over 1 year ago

    Lupins looking pretty cool gotta get me a shirt of that

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    Robin Harwood  over 1 year ago

    My son has a black, fuzzy, dressing gown. It’s a favourite sleeping place. It will take hours of work with a sticky roller before we can put it in the washing machine.

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    David 42  over 1 year ago

    Who knew you could have a “blizzard” in summer :)

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    Liz the Lucky Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Sooo. Given previous reports of similar times, who does everyone think is going to flash the views this year? We’ve seen Elvis get a full Censored bar. Lupin and Puck have both been nekid while in camo mode, but does that count? Or will one of the more recent additions give us the eyeful?

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    Sue Ellen  over 1 year ago

    I want to see Sophie with a lace fringed parasol and a gauzy beach dress.

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    I AM CARTOON LADY!  over 1 year ago

    It’s the most fun time, of the yeeeear! Where the kitties are shedding on clothes and your bedding! It brings out a big jeeeeer! It’s the most fun time, of the yeeeeear!

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    WelshRat Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Of course Ora’s going destructive in her quest for perfection.

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    emiesty Premium Member over 1 year ago

    The Humans should know better than to leave antiques out at any time.

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    Daeder  over 1 year ago

    If there’s a time of year that isn’t shedding season, my cats aren’t aware of it.

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    Jacob Mattingly   over 1 year ago

    I forgot puck has that little white tuft on his chest. And Panel 5 and 6 feel like Georgia doing some big time venting in the most adorable way possible

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    FreyjaRN Premium Member over 1 year ago

    This is the time when they shed enough fur to build another cat or two.

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    Aspen_Bell  over 1 year ago

    Oh, perfect timing, I just vacuumed and there are still tumbleweeds all over the place. I even saw a discussion group today where people were talking about making little toys out of them.

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    cat19632001  over 1 year ago

    Roll in it, Ora Zella!

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    Tigrisan Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I gave up a long time ago with Loaner Cat. It’s like someone pushes a button and all of her hair comes out at once. The minute she starts to shed, what doesn’t get everywhere turns to horrible mats on her and I can’t brush through them because they’re SO matted, it’s like they’ve been woven together. I just start cutting them off whenever she walks by and eventually, I can brush her again but she ends up looking like some drunken, homeless cat or Bill the Cat, until her hair starts to grow back in.

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    Snowy&Finlay  over 1 year ago

    I think Lupin wins, automatic shedding machine, hair spread everywhere and cooling at the same time!

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    Kitty Katz  over 1 year ago

    Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

    At the Royal Dining Room

    Thomios: As some of you know, I’ll be taking a week to visit my Uncle Floof at the Ceiling Can Be a Floor Culinary School.

    Elvis-Anum: But what about our meals while you’re gone?

    Thomios: Don’t worry. Everything is in Sue Chef’s capable paws, and Packer Chipmunk just passed his culinary apprenticeship with flying colors.

    Iggy: I’ll be going fishing with Fresh and Salty Water Cats. Hopefully we’ll have a great catch.

    Puckmosis: I’d love some Perfect Perch. Maybe Cat will smile down on you and send some Diem Carp.

    Lupinium: I’m going to the Cosmo’s Nursery to plant my Blossom of Blessing. From now on it will be known as the Pink Lupinium.

    Puckmosis: I see your fur is almost white again.

    Lupinium: That’s right. I’ve been taking my beauty baths at Barbara’s Shop. Soon I’ll be invisible against the white walls again.

    Elvis-Anum: You mean you think you’ll be invisible. And what will you be doing Ora Z?

    Ora Z: I’m helping Iron Glove and Wally perfect their potato launcher.

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    Nuliajuk  over 1 year ago

    My two seem to shed all year ‘round. Neither of them can hold a candle to the rabbit we had for 8 years, though. She’d blow her coat all at once like a dog and it would waft around the house in lighter-than-air clumps.

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    misty  over 1 year ago

    Coolin’ on a Sunday afternoon

    Really couldn’t find a way too soon

    I can’t imagine anything that’s better

    Our world’s got fur clouds since we’re super shedders

    There ain’t a place Puck’d like to be instead of

    Perusin’ a “Soap Studs” mag or two

    Doin’ anything he’d like to do

    There’s always lots of ways that we can chill

    We can lie anywhere and just be still

    Two mice havin’ a freeze pop gives an icy thrill

    Coolin’ on a Sunday afternoon

    Really Kit Chase can still make us swoon

    Whoa, oh, oh, oh

    We’ll keep on spending sunny days this way

    We’re gonna rest and dream our time away

    I feel fall coming closer day by day

    Fans blowin’ ecstasy, sippin’ ice tea endlessly

    Coolin’ on a Sunday afternoon

    Really haven’t moved today since noon

    No, no, no, no

    Coolin’ (uh huh, uh huh)

    Coolin’

    Edward Brigati / Felix Cavaliere – Groovin’ – The Young Rascals

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    Gent  over 1 year ago

    Typical Mews rePurrters. They is turn blind eye to criminal rats right beneath their noses while they paints a nice and sunny picture of catsville as if there be nothing wrong going on in there.

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    artchick530  over 1 year ago

    I’m hoping for a episode of “Our IX Lives” before the end of the year!

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    cat19632001  over 1 year ago

    Git Nekkid, Lupin!

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    wolfiiig  over 1 year ago

    Turn up the A/C!

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    Katzen1415  over 1 year ago

    Looks like a good time! I like the details of all the hair and the cats’ swimwear. Also the robber mice carrying what appears to be a pool noodle.

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    Steverino Premium Member over 1 year ago

    We had a large shorthair tuxedo that would sit on top of the A/C vents when it got hot. Then he would sit in the sun until he got hot. Go figure…

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    hfelder7219  over 1 year ago

    I just scraped about an inch of hair off the drapes where the cats like to peer out!

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    elhorr  over 1 year ago

    Down here in Hell (aka Texas) the Demon Sibs can usually be found sacked out on any flat surface directly under a ceiling a/c vent.

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I’ve been reading from the beginning and up to 2018 and doing the present concurrently. I read about this strip on Flo And Friends when I was bingeing that. Love this strip. Can anyone explain the ORB thing? So many comments, I can’t read them all to find out.

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    Lauren Kramer  over 1 year ago

    Is that an Otter Pop I see exiting stage right?

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    WickWire64  over 1 year ago

    On the towel that closest matches that cat’s fur because it is the towel you will grab when you are getting out of the shower and you are in a hurry since you are running late

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    ladykat  over 1 year ago

    Smudge and Mouse shed a little at a time, all the time. They would like to sun, but it’s cloudy today and we’re expecting thunderboomers.

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    rs0204 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    No cat sheds like Mittens, with her copious amounts of long hair that gets everywhere. Hamilton is our next big shedder, then comes Holly Bear. Belle and Holmes have such fine, soft fur that you don’t see them shed.

    However, Iko the dog sheds the most.

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    conuly  over 1 year ago

    Every time I comb my cat, I get enough fur to make an entire second cat.

    This time of year, we’re combing two or three times a week, minimum. I usually get partway through before I remember that if I don’t want fur all over my clothes, it’s better to take them off.

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    davidob  over 1 year ago

    Lupin always does it wholesale.

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    dputhoff62  over 1 year ago

    Reminds me of my cat!

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    uncle snipe  over 1 year ago

    Both my girls are domestic medium hair. Gracie takes most of the weather in-stride. Sara is your typical always cold kitty. We have multiple hot spots for winter, but also a few spots for summer. We have a few sunbathing locales but the chewy box is where she goes to escape the A/C. She can curl up down in that large box, but she can still see what’s going on. She also has a spot on the couch where the pillows protect her from any cold air. They don’t shed too badly, but all that fur seems to end up in the hallway between the bedrooms and the main bathroom.

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    metagalaxy1970  over 1 year ago

    I see the girls are stealing a icy pop.

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    kathybear  over 1 year ago

    Ah. Lupin has it!

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    The Wolf In Your Midst  over 1 year ago

    My girl Jez is definitely a… ahem… fan of that last technique.

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    JJTLR2 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    What are the two mice carrying in the last panel?

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    Red Bird  over 1 year ago

    Panel 7 gives new meaning to the phrase “make the fur fly.”

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    Daltongang Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Oh come on, let’s get real here. Every season, in fact every day, is shedding season. Some days are just worse than others.

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    Zoomer&Yeti  over 1 year ago

    Corporal Mittens making an appearance on BrewsterRockit:

    https://www.gocomics.com/brewsterrockit/2023/07/16

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    bonita.eley  over 1 year ago

    I always thik cat hair adds beauty

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    Fennec! at the Disco  over 1 year ago

    What are the mice making off with?

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    scaeva Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Let’s go shedding now

    ev’ry body’s learnin’ how

    come on a sheddin’ safari with me!

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    willie_mctell  over 1 year ago

    Panel 5: We had a cat who could open dresser drawers if they were on rollers. She liked my socks and underwear drawer.

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    GaryCooper  over 1 year ago

    I see all the gang have changed into their bathing suits.

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    LeslieAnn Premium Member over 1 year ago

    RE: HEAT. During the Heat Dome here in the PNW a few years ago, I was resting in my bedroom which is the warmest area of the house. I realized I was getting way too hot, I also realized I was getting a fuzzy head. A FEW MOMENTS later, I got up slowly to move to a cooler room and I nearly passed out and barely made it to a safer place while holding onto furniture and walls. This Came On Very Suddenly and Unexpectedly. Please beloved Orbsters et al, pay close attention and take care.

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    asrialfeeple  over 1 year ago

    Let’s shed on the bed

    Shed on the chair

    Shed here

    Shed there

    Shed everywhere

    We do it with lots of style, dignity and flair

    ’Cause every little thing is better with cat hair.

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    jamesakronson2  over 1 year ago

    Cats shed, especially in the summer. The spring shedding is nothing compared to July-August, especially for Longhairs. Better to get a brush and pamper them for 4-5 minutes a day for a week or two. Or make a comber they can go through on their own. Get a couple of the long bristle bathroom cleaning brushes, the kind made with the wrie wrapping, and that look like a guitar. Remove the handle and shape the bristle part into a simple hoop. then attach that to a piece of half inch plywood. about 18 inches square. sprinkle a bit of catnip on it once, and then stand back.

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    notannaf  over 1 year ago

    What are the mice carrying? And here’s a slightly blue mouse joke.Q: Why do mice have such small balls?A: They’re really little and can’t dance very long.

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    skipper1992  over 1 year ago

    The Boy and The Girlfriend have two white akitas, Zeus and Finn. Hair. Everywhere. All the time. And they’re only downstairs a few minutes a day (they mostly live in the loft/spare bedroom upstairs).

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    PaulTS  over 1 year ago

    I love that two of the robber mice are stealing a freezy pop at the end

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    Aspen_Bell  over 1 year ago

    I brush my cat in the morning

    I brush my cat at night

    She takes a big spliff of some good catnip

    To make her feel all right

    She gets catnip treats in time of peace

    And more in time of war (like when all the blasted remodeling was happening)

    I brush my cat and then I brush my cat

    And then I brush her some more

    Daddy always told me child, you be hardworkin’ man

    Mama told me that’s all right, just do the best you can

    Then one day I met a man, said that’s enough of that

    Hard work good and hard work fine

    But first take care of Cat

    And so I brush my cat in the afternoon, and then I brush my cat

    I brush my cat while I play video games, knit her fur into a hat (I brush my cat)

    Then she rolls on rug while I smoke some nug

    And purrs into the night

    I brush my cat and then I brush my cat

    Brush her mats out till she bites

    Hey! Would you rather brush your cat or would you rather vacuum up the spring blowout?

    I knew you were gonna say that!

    ( et sic de aliis )

    The Toyes

    “Smoke Two Joints”

    Single, Ginger Coffee Records – PK 85003

    1983

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    Sencilia  over 1 year ago

    My eyes are itching just reading this.

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    coffeeturtle  over 1 year ago

    OH MAN!

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    emiesty Premium Member over 1 year ago

    My voids have short hair and keep themselves well groomed. Rubbing against the corners of pastel walls, however, leaves “greasy kit stuff.” When I had to have the house renovated, we put thin clear plastic guards on every outward-facing corner in public areas to keep the paint clean.

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    Tonksquawk  over 1 year ago

    Love this comic, Georgia! It’s so true!

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