Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for January 29, 2024

Oh My Cat! This is a case for Detective Goldie! She always gets her cat! A real Feline Whodunnit! Lupin? Iggy? Ora Zella? Pucky? Elvis seems to be missing. Coincidence?

Scratched up The Big Red Couch! The horror! (They probably should have led with a disclaimer not to let kittens watch this part of the broadcast.)

Hmmm. Some potential evidence on the carpet behind Puck in the last panel?

No! Not the Big Red Couch!

Horrors!

Round up the usual suspects. Oh wait, there they are!

In a six cat household, the couch was always doomed.

You can see a bit of Goldie’s shoulder and some of the Big Red Couch through Goldie’s magnifying glass. The details! The details! In panel 2, Lupin looks excessively sad, hmmm, and in the last panel, is that a guilty look on Iggy’s face or is he just insecure and afraid he will be accused?

Goldie, our top investigating reporter, on the job!

The guilty party might as well confess right now.

I have a couch cover over my couch, to delay the inevitable, and one of my girls will painstakingly weasel her way under the cover to claw the couch.

Detective Goldie versus the Couch Fiend. (Probably OZiarty…)

“Something Happened Here” — far less prejudicial than “Crime Scene Do Not Cross”!

Looks like this investigation is starting from scratch. Their best bet is to bring in an investigator named Claude. The investigation is proceeding smoothly, sofa so good…

My money’s on Ora Zella. (ﾐゝᆽ･ﾐ) She looks so innocent, but is that “surprise” I read on her cute furry face simply a look of reactionary, “Oh no, they’ve discovered what I did last night!”

Certainly nobody would do that on purpose!! Everyone loves the big red couch. Iggy does look a little guilty – of maybe just sad. 6

“Mrs. Peacock, in the Lounge, with a knife”

Being behind the Something Happened Here tape might mean you are evidence

With six cats in there it was a crime waiting to happens. That couch was like sitting ducks.

And now to sniffs out the criminal cat, we is calls in a doggie.

I see two very unhappy suspects whose guilt has not yet been proven. Let us not jump to conclusions.

Well at first appearance it looks like we may have some juvenile felines who might be the culprits but recall how Lupin was accused of destruction and mayhem a couple of years back and Detective Goldie found out the truth and revealed in a scene reminiscent of Rick’s in Casablanca that the boy was the guilty party so lets not be too hasty in judgement. So far Goldie is perfect ala Jessica Fletcher or Colombo (sans saying " Oh, just one more thing" about 100 times a crime) in solving mysteries so let her do her magic!

Iggy is looking nervous. Was this an unintentional scratching? Was someone having the zoomies and forgot to retract their claws? Stay tune to Cat CSI for the latest developments.

Been there. That’s what couch covers are for.

Who could do such a thing?! Luckily we have Detective Goldie on the case!

Anyone else noticing that Burt hasn’t been working the chyron the past few broadcasts? What up wi’ that?

Why am I laughing so hard at “something happened here”

Terrible timing for the tiny tortie terror and her compatriot. They both look kinda guilty, hanging back like that.

I want a roll of that yellow tape!

Our couch is ruined because of Hamilton A. Cat.

I’ve had a series of cats for almost fifty years, but I have to say the three I have right now are the most destructive ever. It’s like they wake up every morning and shout “It’s demo day!”

Scratches? Didn’t someone (you know who) just get a chainsaw a month ago?

Buffalo Springfield: For What It’s Worth

Something just happened here

Who did it ain’t exactly clear

Goldie has cordoned off the crime scene

What happens next remains to be seen!

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I think the time is getting late

Everybody help investigate!

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Lupin looking rather sad

Puck gives all the news to be had

Iggy and Ora are right there

Everyone shows that they all are aware!

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I think the time is getting late

Everybody help investigate!

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Six cats and kitties can be tough

A Big Red Couch can only take so much!

Sometimes it seems really unfair!

But maybe the Woman can create some kind of repair!

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I think the time is getting late

Everybody help investigate!

Goldie just look for which cat is innocently whistling.

I got some of that double-sided tape to put on the chair that my late MippyCat liked to scratch. I watched as he pulled the tape off with his teeth to get to his favorite scratching spot.

Who Dunn it?

Where’s Elvis? I don’t think Lupin did it. Iggy looks very worried and rather guilty.

Maverick moderated our expectations for having nice furniture when he scratched the daylights out of a leather recliner we once had.

It was good practice for when we replaced it about six months before we were introduced to The Girl.

Cant blame the kitties. Placing a couch in the room is like bait. Humans at fault.

Love their crime scene tape !!

This is my first day here reading Breaking Cat News. Looks like fun! I’m looking forward to getting to know these cats.

Lupin looks so solemn. I love the “police tape.”

Yes, that DOES include you, Iggy and Ora Zella. You’re both on the wrong side of the “something happened here” tape, so by default, that makes you both evidence until told otherwise. :P

I inherited my Grandmother’s 30 year old couch which was in perfect condition. Didn’t take my two kitties at the time very long to change that. It had perfect 1960’s loopy fabric.

Everyone suspects, The Inquisitive Kitten!

My daughter sometimes comes to visit for an extended period and brings her cat along. We tried to prevent the destruction of our couch but he always managed to get to it at some point. My wife decided to replace it when there was an after Christmas sale and had two choices she liked, one was fabric and a more expensive one was leather. I said definitely buy the leather, which we did, and now kitty sadly doesn’t have a couch to scratch, and it stuck with the scratching post he should have used.

I’m giving 5 to 1 odds that it was done by a cat.

I know there are a number of Monty Python fans who post here. Please have your “I wasn’t expecting the Spanish Inquisition” jokes ready for when Goldie starts questioning the suspects, hopefully tomorrow. I have faith in your ability to come up with some purrfect cat puns. :)

My old cat never touched my furniture, although she did a number on my kitchen cabinets.

Then I went away on an extended trip, and she stayed at my mother’s house. I got a tour of the damage when I returned. It was extensive.

Fortunately, Goldie will solve the case. She’s a really good detective.

Lupin looks guilty, but he always does when mischief is involved.

The guilty party in the case of the broken owl vase, see August 3, 2020 for the start of the storyline and if you haven’t read it before you might not want to keep reading this comment since it is going to have a spoiler for that storyline, was the boy. Maybe this time the guilty party is the Girl. She does like to pretend she is different animals. Not sure what she would have used to scratch the Big Red Couch, but maybe we need to go beyond just the cats as suspects.

Goldie looks so happy to have something to detect!

I suspect Mme. La Cuisinarte.

Shouldn’t have put that claws in their contract.

What’s that, on the floor, in panels 3&4? What’s Goldie holding in panel 4?

There are several suspects. Sounds like the makings of a country house mystery.

My money is on Lupin!

Uh oh, think I know who the culprit(s) could be.

It is fun. The cats are great!

I’m late to the posts, but Elvis scratched the couch when the guys were left alone in June 2018. The Siamese “doth protest too much, methinks.”