Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for August 01, 2024

Better hang up THAT call…

Momma knows her girl. Tidy Woman’s got some splainin’ to do! So now do we have a battle that can only be settled with a check of the microchip? Bring on Dr. Man!

Oh dear, we’ve (well, she’s) escalated to “Intimidating, vengeful!”

Be very careful opening that door!

I love this, but I just can’t wait for the tomorrow’s strip, where I hope to see a very joyful reunion.

This answers the question of the TW’s intentions. Seems she wasn’t clueless and knew what she was doing.

Watch it, Sophie’s woman. You may now be in danger…

I thought the Tidy Woman would put Sophie in another room before she opened her front door.

YES! TOMMY’S WOMAN TO THE RESCUE!

Every member of the rescue team had an important role to play in this saga. Things would not have proceeded to this point if even one of the team had failed in their tasks. I like that. And, at the very least, the next two days are going to be verrrry interesting.

sigh I really did want Gutter to be able to rescue her. Call me a hopeless romantic.

Dmah, FrannieL, T_Lexi, arolarson, cnk381 and all the rest of you guys telling Sophie to YODEL, SCREAM, HOWL, HISS, and sing the SONG OF HER PEOPLE!

(¯`•.¸,¤°´✿.｡.: You guys CALLED IT!!!!!!!!!! .:｡.✿`°¤,¸.•´¯)

Oh holy heck, Tidy Woman isn’t just thoughtless, she’s an actual villain! She knows she stole a cat and is hiding it!

Are we sure that’s Sophie in the bathroom? Where did Tidy Woman put Gutter? Isn’t that who Sophie’s Woman was called for?

Btw, where exactly is Gutter? I know he got through the ceiling, but that doesn’t that mean he’s trapped between two floors? How will he escape the Tidy Purgatory?

There is glitter all over the air yet Sophie’s mom’s white outfit is spotless. What sort of glitter-repellent clothing doe she have? I hope it doesn’t use a PFAS coating.

Now just throw the book at TW for cat stealing and raccoon abuse!

Yes, you do know that call!

“Call of the wild”. XD

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!

Where is tidy man?

Awwwww, Sophie’s woman knows the call of her favorite Existential Dread-beast… <3

I remember being on lunch duty when we all heard a scream from the playground that was not a playful scream but a scream of pain. The cashier immediately jumped up and ran out through the kitchen calling the name of her son. A moment later she came back into the cafeteria with the arm around her boy whose arm was bent at a place below the elbow indicating a severe break. A mother recognizes the distress call of her own child even amid the inside noise of a full cafeteria and the outside noise of noon recess. (The paramedics had to yank the bone back into position as soon as they got to the school because the break was so bad it was cutting off circulation. That was a scream I never want to hear again.)

YAY!!!! Sophie is safe!!!!

Yeah you do know that call!!! We are moments from Happy Reunion time! What a relief. When I think of Tommy’s Woman going to work with heartbreak and anxiety about her own missing baby, I want to cry.

Here she comes, to save the DAAAAAAAAY !!

Are we going to have another “Tommy’s Woman reunites with her lost cat” moment?! Please.

Grappling hook! Grappling hook! Grappling hook!

I love the sheer joy on the face of Sophie’s Woman when she recognizes the call! I am sure she has been anxious about her special girl (referencing back to the January 13, 2019 strip).

Of course I am THRILLED that things are finally all coming together here for Sophie and all the rescuers. But I think I’m not quite understanding all the connections Georgia planned here.

How did ‘Seeing the June bug’ lead to ‘Gotta get back inside’ and then ‘Can I use your bathroom ?’

Whoohoo!!!!!! Yodel like your freedom depends upon it, Sophie, ’cuz your Woman is here!!

Sing it Sophie!

What can Sophie’s woman do if formerly tidy woman refuses to open the bathroom door? If she believes there is an animal in danger, does that qualify as “exigent circumstances” and give her the right to force the door open?

Yes you do! Your Woman is coming, Sophie!

August 1st, time to flip those BCN calendars!

Papa Elvis knows that one of the last things Ora Zella needs is catfeine as there would definitely be more consequences from her actions.

Also – toe beans!

John Denver: Calypso

Fall from a window on a night full of starlight

Waiting for rescue when sunrise begins

Taken by someone who may or may not mean well

Waiting for rescue and missing my friends!

…….

Ah, my friends who did not give up to find me

To the rescue they all did arrive

Now my Woman has come to the rescue!

I’ll send her my yodel, my hopes all revive!

…….

Me-ee-ow-ow! And maybe a purr!

Me-ee-ow-ow! Here I am!

Me-ee-ow-ow! I knew you’d come through!

Me-ee-ow-ow! My spirits revive once again!

…….

Trying to remember the lessons I’ve learned

Reading the diary of Dear Lady Jane

Know in my heart my friends would come through now

Knowing my hopes were never in vain!

…….

Ah, my friends who did not give up to find me

To the rescue they all did arrive

Now my Woman has come to the rescue!

I’ll send her my yodel, my hopes all revive!

…….

Me-ee-ow-ow! And maybe a purr!

Me-ee-ow-ow! Here I am!

Me-ee-ow-ow! I knew you’d come through!

Me-ee-ow-ow! My spirits revive once again!

Sophie’s robust yodeling for the win!

OT: Mom’s lumbar puncture

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

At the Royal Palace, Elvis’s Office

Kat-Mandu: Special papyrus deliver for Elvis!

Elvis-Anum: Just in time! We’ve won the Papyrus Cathalon! How about a celebratory scone and tea?

Kat-Mandu: Yes. A Xanadu honey scone would not come amiss.

Elvis: It just so happens Sue Chef has completed a batch.

At the Royal Snack Room

Kat-Mandu: Delicious as always, Sue. Have you heard from Thomios?

Sue Chef: Yes. He and Packer (Iron Glove’s younger brother) are in Away cooking for the athletes in the Village.

Kat: They are all in for a treat. And here come the Artisans!

Sophititi: Congratulations on your Catathlon win. I hear you took the Gold.

Elvis: Well, not quite.

Adobe Style: But you came in first, didn’t you?

Kat: Yes. But there is a complication.

Maat-Tilda: What happened?

Elvis: Ora Z.

Kat: But we’ll be awarded the Gold when she’s done playing with it.

Isn’t that Tommy’s person, who runs the rescue, not the woman who lives in the Pink house who would be Sophie’s person? Doesn’t Sophie live in the pink house with the rest of the BKN primary bunch? Or has my MECFS brain muddled things up?

YESS!!

Yes! Yes! Yes! (shouts for joy)

Lets get ready to rumble!!!!

On a completely different topic, tidy woman should consider dying her hair purple. It kind of suits her.

Locked in a bathroom is lonely Sophie

Layee odl, layee odl layee-oo

Angry, intimidating, yodeling Sophie

Layee-odl, Layee-odl-oo

Loud was the voice of our lonely Sophie,

Layee odl, layee odl layee-oo

Heard by her woman who’s there to rescue,

Layee-odl, Layee-odl-oo

Oho layee odllee-oo

Oho layee odl ay

Oho layee odllee-oo

Hododlleeolay

H/T Rodgers & Hammerstein, The Sound of Music (Sorry, I have to get ready for work and don’t have time for more. May post a more complete version later!)

OT: New TinyKittens, & new chaos…

What an ironic twist of fate. Who knew that a woman’s need to pee would lead to the solving of such a great mystery. If only Hercule Poirot had, had a weak bladder, many a mystery would have been solved at a much more rapid pace.

Call of the Wild!! … Must … suppress … David Attenborough … Narration !!! … :)

Go, Sophie! Sing and yodel as though your future life and freedom depend on it!

so many questions!

is Sophie & Tommy’s Woman wearing a protective white jumpsuit? (raccoon proof?)

will Jules play a larger role?

it feels like “Sophie & her Woman are reunited & go home now” is to simple of a wrap up.

I am preparing myself for a cliffhanger on Saturday.

Great job Jules! You herded Sophie’s Woman right back to where she needed to be. I do hope Sophie has had time for another one of her masterpieces while she was trapped in the bathroom.

Gutter initiated the Great Distraction! He started the tear in the cage that allowed Sophie to escape.

Ah-HA! And Sophie’s Woman knows tidy woman is lying, too!

Yeeeeeeeesssss!

Since Georgia titled this arc “Sophie’s Summer Adventure”, I don’t think she is done with us yet. I hope that:

1. Violet cuts the power again just as the bathroom door is opened (remember, Violet said she wanted to)

2. Gutter sweeps down from the ceiling vent on the grappling hook to help Sophie out of TW’s house

3. Sophie makes her way home through the woods with Gutter’s help meeting new friends along the way ( a big confidence boost for her)

4. the robber mice grab Li’l Starfish Squeaker before they leave and return it to her at home

The mouse that dropped the fourth bag—did she have it filled with purple paint and/or grape juice along with glitter?

In the bathroom, the tidy bathroom, Sophie sings tonight

In the bathroom, the tile bathroom, yodels echo so bright!

Yowl-yowl-yow-yow! Get me AWAY!

Yowl-yowl-yow-yow! Get me AWAY!

- With all due credit (and apologies) to Solomon Linda and The Tokens.

RESCUED AT LAST!

Hope this lady knows Sofie and takes her back home!!!!

When would Sophie have occasion to yowl like that at home? Maybe just when being taken to the vet…

Hmph. The only thing out of order is Untidy Woman’s sensibility.

HOORAY!!!!!

Yay!

I think the formerly fancy lady is realizing something is off…

Things are looking up. Sophie’s Woman has been alerted.

I’m sure that Sophie’s Woman will handle this in a perfectly civil, civilized, non-violent, and benign manner ………… darn it!

This may have been mentioned before, so forgive me if I’m repeating. Is that Sophie’s trash bag cape that formerly tidy woman is holding in the 3rd panel?

Perhaps Sophie will ride gutter as her noble steed, mice in pocket, on a journey of adventure back home… Or the woman with the crate will take her and Gutter can trudge home with the mice and the air force.

So wait. . . how did Sophie’s Woman know she was here?

Wondering how much of this is captured of Burt’s webcam. Can you imagine what Burt’s group is doing right now???

While the calendar has flipped, I do still hope Jules (in comic time) will dive-bomb (U)TW a few times — with his iconic “Hee hee!”

On another note, and this might have been mentioned when Chitter and Chatter first found Sophie, I was wondering how they knew to look more closely if the alarms were so sensitive. I finally thought of a possibility — they would have known what the car looked like, so maybe they saw it in the driveway.

Additionally, I imagine the Tidy Couple have a garage, so maybe it was left out to be washed. If so, I do hope the Chickadees did a strafing run or two, a la The Goodfeathers in a particular Animaniacs short.

Save Starfish Squeaker!!!

Gutter Rescued Sophie! with a little help from some friends. If Gutter hadn’t gone to rescue Sophie, Tidy Woman wouldn’t have called Animal Control, and Sophie’s Woman wouldn’t have gone there and heard Sophie.

That’s her woman, right?!?!?!?!?

It ain’t over till Baba Mouse sings!

I hope tomorrow’s comic shows Sophie’s woman turning on TW and yelling: WHY IS MY LOST CAT LOCKED IN YOUR (SUPPOSEDLY) OUT OF ORDER BATHROOM!

Wait. Is Sophie’s Woman the local Animal Control lady???