Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for July 04, 2023

I’m with Pucky! Free to nap in the laundry, but Beatrix is a cat after my own heart. Karma for the late night fireworks jerks! Still going on here BTW.

Good girl, Beatrix-baby! I know Trevor appreciates your vengeful spirit on his behalf.♥

You go, Bea! Good girl.

I volunteer to provide Beatrix with an alibi!

Yes, Bea hates fireworks https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2021/07/04?ct=v&cti=2176431

Beatrix making crank calls? I’m shocked, SHOCKED I tell you. I wish I had the nerve, not to mention the phone numbers, to make such phone calls to folks who set off fireworks after 11:00. (Where I live, it doesn’t get dark until around 10:00 this time of year.)

And I’m free to enjoy BCN whenever I want.

Happy Independence Day to those who celebrate. ☆♒

You go, Bea!

Happy Independence Day to all! Have fun and be safe. Also, happy birthday to anomalous4!!!

I can’t sleep right now, because some neighborhood nitwit has been randomly setting off firecrackers, so I’m free to make a Comforting Chocolate Cake with Double Effing Fudge Frosting. You know, to calm my effing nerves.

The only good cat call. :)

I thought eating plants was more puck’s thing. Like big brother like little brother I suppose. Also good for you bea, good for you.

OH, THIS IS KARMA SIR

Notice that Puck is covered with something that has a flag motif.

Surprisingly enough, it’s been pretty quiet this weekend. Last year I remember it being non-stop fireworks for 4 days+

‘Instant Karma’s Gonna GET You’ !! … YAY for Bea!! – And All the Rest of US !!

Happy Fourth of July, everyone !! … :)

When my late Mollycat had her first July 4th, she jumped up to the windowsill and watched the neighbors’ fireworks and listened to the city’s. Enjoyed herself. Every year following, under the bed. Last year was my first year with Zuzudog (then 4 yrs), she ignored all booms. Tonight, the evening of the 3rd, she’s implementing the Elvis as-close-to-your-face-as-I-can-possibly-get coping strategy as one neighbor disturbs the peace of us all.

Your a bad girl, Beatrix! Bad bad girl! (whispering, now send him 20 cold pizzas…that’s my girl!)

Elvis is eating with a vengeance. Puck has a great idea.

Can she call my neighbors next? The neighbors’ fireworks are playing hob with my PTSD. I’m not a veteran, I just have excellent reasons to fear guns going off.

Taylor Swift did say “karma is a cat”.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Queen Catshepsut the Golden: I declare the Freedom Celebration festivities to commence.

Thomios: Burgers and hot dogs are ready! Along with various sides and desserts.

Iggy: And anyone who would like to go for a sail can see me.

Puckmosis: I think I’ll have an existential hot dog along with a bacon cheeseburger. And lots and lots of potato salad.

Elvis-Anum: I’ll have chips with my burger and a side of fruit salad.

Lupinium: I’ll have a tomato on my burger.

Beatrixia: Are we having fireworks this year?

Iggy: We can watch them from the boat.

Ora Z: Can we light fireworks on the boat?

Iggy: No, we need the boat to stay afloat. But we can toast marshmallows when we get back.

We brought a rescue Dobe home yesterday after a three hour drive one way to Cleveland to pick him up. For him and my husband, it was love at first sight. There have been fireworks and guns going off at night for a week already out here (we’re pretty rural and there’s usually some form of hunting anyway) and so far, he hasn’t batted an eye. Murphy was petrified with any noise that resembled a bang of any kind including a dropped lid, something on the TV…which he wasn’t prior to losing our Red Girl. So this will be interesting. I haven’t seen Shorty since we walked in the door, but all in good time. She’ll meet him on her terms when she’s ready, but the first home with the rescue org that he stayed with had cats and he ignored them which was another reason we were interested in him. She’ll inch her way downstairs eventually.

♪"Bad girl, bad girl

Whatcha goin’ do when she calls for you?"♫

Love Pucky’s patriotic laundry.

Bea’s mad investigative skills make it easy for her to get those phone numbers.

Must have been loud

But it’s over now

Covers her head with a pillow

To escape the raucous sound

She lies there angry, hoping for silence

In the bedroom and all around

Cursing now, at three am

She dials away

It must have been loud, but it’s over now

It must have been rude, and she lost it somehow

It must have been loud, but it’s over now

From the moment they’re torched, ’til the rockets flared out

Hoped and prayed for wet weather

So the fireworks cannot start

But instead she will wake you

Like a bomb blast in your ear

And after Bea has her say

She dreams away

It must have been loud, but it’s karma now

- Per Hakan Gessle – It Must Have Been Love

Happy 4th of July.

Yup. Thus proving the saying. Karma’s a Bea…ch all right.

I wish I had the phone numbers of all out neighbors who set them off all night long. Tonight will be bad.

My husband and I try to go stay in the Mountains on the 4th where fireworks are illegal to shoot off. Then we get some peace.

Happy 4th of July to all my friends in the U.S. May there be plenty of hot dogs, hamburgers, potato salad and dessert to go around.

Good Kitty, Beatrix! Good girl!!

Is *69 even still a thing?

Don’t go giving me good ideas like that, Beatrix. :P

Freedom takes many forms. I am sure Lupin will be exercising his freedom to be invisible and climb in weird places once he leaves the anchor desk.

Karma? Eh? Karma is Sanskrit word that means work, action, duty, etc. You should stops misusing that word to means something else.

Happy Independence Day everyone

When I see videos of these idiot amateur pyrotechnicians having to run away with their pants smoking because their overwrought and underthought fireworks display went awry, I wonder if I’m supposed to feel bad for them.

Our family 4th of July story, before I was born: family was in the backyard, with a bag of fireworks to set off later. However my grandfather was smoking, some ashes fell into the bag, and well – you can imagine: they all went off at once! No one was hurt, but the cat jumped up, ran straight through the house, and through the screen door on the other side! Poor kitty.

Happy Independence Day everyone. Celebrate with good food and fun companions and be careful with fireworks.

Happy 4th of July! Hope everyone has a safe and fun time.

May the Fourth be with you, but not too loudly. Tonight we’re having General Tso’s Chicken (home made) and watching either The Crossing or 1776.

On this day all US citizens should celebrate not only independence, but also John Adams, George Washington, and Benjamin Franklin. Without their efforts and sacrifices, this country would not exist.

" This air to ground saga – Gotta launder . My KARMA !! " … :)

Justice for Trevor! I saw a short video last night of a man suggesting we buy and donate dog food to shelters with the money we were going to buy fireworks with.

cute little patriotic laundry basket :)

Ugh, my neighbors were firing off rockets at like 5:30 (not even dark out) and they kept going till 11:30. On the third.

Bea’s is great!

Though I do wonder how she gets the phone numbers. (Must be one of her skills as a bookstore cat.)

Last night I heard a heavy distant rumbling and wondered was it the predicted thunderstorm arriving two days early. Then I remembered one of the small towns down here was doing their fireworks show on the 3rd. Why, I do not know.

Anyway, all the pops and pows and booms set off a case of kitty zoomies.

Elvis and Trouble have a lot in common. Trouble’s been eating plants and throwing up everywhere. :( Hubby and I are SO worried about him. David says he’s back to his perky self after his latest upchucking, but I can’t help but worry. Can’t wait for noon so I can go home for lunch and then work from home for the remainder of the day. (sigh)

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ANOMALOUS4!!!

Happy Independence Day to all my American cousins. :)

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I know it’s late, but out of curiosity—how many of you follow the mostly southern tradition of putting salt on your 4th of July watermelon? It does help add electrolytes on hot, sweaty days. But, where I come from, we were also told an old wives tale as children that eating watermelon without salt would give you diarrhea (not true, of course, unless, I suppose, you ate an awful, awful lot of it).

Once again I am in admiration of Georgia’s talents, as she once again uses her artistic pen in her text. You can hear just how Bea speaks her last line from a stroke of the pen.

Get it, Bea!! They shoot them off for a week before and sometime all the way through the night and into the morning. The cats and I have not slept well at night since June 27th. I’m with Bea on this one!!