Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for April 03, 2024

What happens when Wesley begins eating her art? I can only imagine, but a woman, female artsy cat, scorned…Fill in the blanks!

That saw blade looks familiar. Where have we seen it before?

Cats eat garbage too. Many years ago I had a Maine Coone that could eat anything. I was always seeing chewed up remnants all over the house. And cleaning out the cat box was a very colorful affair. To top it all off, he would chew the wool blanket on the bed at 3 AM to floss his teeth!

I’m trying to picture them going to a modern art museum together, with Wesley getting arrested for trying to eat a painting of a soup can. I mean, yeah, the ferret is cute, but he’s a philistine.

When one of my ferrets ate the sweat-salty neoprene grips from my exercise weights, and they expanded in his stomach after he drank some water. The Exotic Animal Vet was not surprised, “Happens all the time.” The surgery was expensive. The ferret was bouncing around the next day, trying to get into my closet to eat my wetsuits. Salty neoprene must taste like potato chips. And you can’t eat just one. One thing I learned about ferrets is that they don’t generally learn from their mistakes.

The things I learn.

This can’t end well.

I feel she may be reaching here…

Okay so Gutter has an even better shot, and Sophie does deeply respect racoon culture. As for Wesley I love this dum dum. He shoudln’t be with sophie but he is deeply entertaning. Maybe go up a level bud. You seem more Lupin’s speed. His vet bills are also likely intense.

Wesley seems oblivious to Sophie’s romantic interest in him. Sophie clearly goes for neither brawn nor brains..

I wonder if Sophie is seeing Wesley almost as an extension of art rather than a being in his own right? Kind of like how girls would be swooning after the images of Frank Sinatra or the Beatles and not the real people. She strikes me as being very fangirlish here.

Poor Sophie. I don’t think, what’s his name, Wesley? I don’t think Wesley even cares that Sophie is around. Sophie and her unrequited ‘love’ and she’s too foolish to see that Gutter has been pining away for her forever. This is going to be nothing but trouble.

Off Topic: I finally got my Lupin tattoo. folk asked (demanded) I post pictures of it when got it done, so here it is. https :// TinyURL (dot) com/3k7z7dbs link broken up as Gocomics doesn’t support full URL in comments (links to my public Facebook Post. workplace safe post)

Well in that case you shoulda swoons over Heathcliff.

Carole King and Toni Stern: Sweet Seasons

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose

Sometimes you miss what’s most important to you

Making a wrong decision.

On the news scene, no one is really mean

But maybe what you really want to find

Is not in your vision!

…….

Looking for the sweet reasons you need to find

Ferrets may appeal, you see

But they have their limits as they’re running free

Sometimes they are just a pleasant fantasy!

…….

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose,

A raccoon may be much better for you,

Oh, wondering if your choices are for the better

But you have your friends, you can make your plans

Enjoy the seasons as they are running away

And enjoy your life, your life with your cat friends!

…….

Looking for the sweet reasons you need to find

Ferrets may appeal, you see

But they have their limits as they’re running free

Sometimes they are just a pleasant fantasy!

Sad news this morning. I may have mentioned here that my adult daughter moved back home a little over a year ago and brought her two chihuahuas. Well, last night she was at her dad’s house with the dogs and some time in the night one of them got out of the house and fell in a creek. She called me in a panic at 3:30 am to say she was taking him to the emergency vet. Unfortunately, he didn’t make it. I will be calling the funeral home that took care of my Max to arrange for cremation. He was a nice quiet little pup. I’m going to miss him.

I have several questions about the discarded saw blade and whatever Wesley is chewing on in panel four, but I will ignore them and just appreciate Sophie’s art.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

At the Artisans’ Studio

Maat-Tilda: I liked this tapestry yesterday, and I still like it today.

Adobe Style: It just needs a few finishing touches. Like maybe a bit of spider silk fabric.

Voice: Someone call for a spider?

Sophititi: Arachna! How did the locust plague go?

Arachna: Excellent. I just left off some Nommy Nom Spider Treats for Thomios. As well as giving a supply to Those Who Never Tell.

Adobe Style: You’re just in time for the Literary Festival, Ari. Queen Mags and her entourage are coming to hold it at the oPyramid.

Ari: I thought they always had it in Afar.

Soph: They did, but with the discovery of the oPyramid it was the perfect venue. I’m meeting Queen Mags’ bodyguard Sidewalk for Punn State Ice Cream.

Ari: How do they manage to transport ice cream across the desert?

Four Voices: We’ll never tell!

Well this relationship is definitely going into the trash.

Egads, somehow I missed yesterday’s edition. Poor Gutter. Hang in there, kiddo. The ferrets are visiting temporarily. If nothing else, these strips have reinforced the fact that I don’t ever want to have a ferret around!

Yeah, I remember ~swooning~ over incredibly dumb choices of dates. Sophie, dear, you can do better, but I know there’s no point telling you that now. Just hear this advice: have some Kleenex and Our IX Lives ready for the inevitable crash.

I do like Wesley, but I think he and Sophie would do better to remain friends.

Wesley reminds me of Kevin the cat!

Roses are foodViolets are foodGarbage is foodI go to the vet a lot

(Go look it up because no URLs anymore and The Empress is very annoyed about it.)

I really like Sophie’s current art piece. I could see that on exhibit in a People museum! The composition is really nicely unbalanced, and the contrast of the jagged table saw blade with the smooth peppermint is intriguing. The significance of the wire and the cat toy puffs can only be wondered about. Are they mounted on a mirror? I love it?

I like Sophie’s current art project.

Maybe Sophie is happy that her art has gained function as well as form. Unfortunately, that function seems to be “roughage”.

Ferrets like to get into everything. However, they aren’t notable garbage eaters. I would rather this strip highlighted how intelligent and mischievous they are.

One of my troupemates is also a talented artist who loves to work with trash. She has made some beautiful creations out of discarded materials.

Some say great art requires inspiration from a broken heart. If they’re right, Sophie I may be destined for greatness.

I hope Sophie isn’t too crushed when this relationship crashes and burns.

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Sophie has a creative mindset when it comes to garbage. It’s truly inspiring.

Just wait till he eats the art piece she spent hours making!

(Come to think of it, that’s not so much different from a cook or baker spending hours of effort creating a marvelous meal or dessert, which the ravening hordes devour in minutes.)

I am reminded of a quote one of my kids saw online:

Through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.

I’m late to the comics today, and no one has mentioned Tommy toe beans?!?

A producer and a consumer.

There was no bad weather here yesterday despite warnings. The last three nights I’ve slept quite comfortably with the window fan (blowing out) running. Tonight, the peep toads are out, but sometime before daylight and for several hours after, we might have accumulating SNOW! 》: ( Appalachian Spring, indeed…

With only a few exceptions, so many of us are warning Sophie about her impending doomed relationship with Wesley; that he’ll break her heart.

Ya, I know I’m late to the party, but I haven’t peeked. I’m thinking that Wesley will just keep being Wesley and Sophie will become disillusioned by his behavior (re: lack of returned affections).

Right now she’s riding high and I say, Let her! We’ll all catch her when she falls, and so will Tommy and Gutter.