Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for August 06, 2024

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    uncle snipe  2 months ago

    Glad to see the Tidy Woman is learning something. And no, Microchips are not a fancy type of mini chocolate chip! Although, some chocolate chip cookies would be DANG GOOD about now.

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    McColl34 Premium Member 2 months ago

    Yay! Burt has been listening to us! “About dang time,” indeed!

    (Okay Burt has probably been saying this all along, right with us.)

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    JLChi  2 months ago

    I’m glad we’re all friends now. But I miss the purple hair.

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    FreihEitner Premium Member 2 months ago

    I believe there is likely nobody better suited to being a therapy cat than our big ol’ floofy boy Tommy. Like, I can’t envision Elvis being a therapy cat, for example.

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    andycat Premium Member 2 months ago

    Best therapy cat ever!

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    Le'letha Premium Member 2 months ago

    Wow, she must have spent the whole weekend at the salon. Wonder how many washes it took to get Sophie’s art off her?

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    Le'letha Premium Member 2 months ago

    Pay attention, Tidy Woman. There will be a quiz!

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    Sue Ellen  2 months ago

    Please don’t put Sophie through the trauma of being in the same room with that woman ever again!

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    WelshRat Premium Member 2 months ago

    Tidy Woman gets a gentler dose of reality than the Existential Dread gave her.

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    azkfwecho Premium Member 2 months ago

    I wonder if Georgia had any idea how much so many of us would be so disgusted by TW to the point of not wanting to see them ever again!

    And, I sure hope our remaining questions get answered: Where are Gutter and the Warrior Mice. Where is L’il Starfish Squeaker? Will Gutter and Sophie see each other again soon so they can thank each other? Anything I’m forgetting?

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    FreyjaRN Premium Member 2 months ago

    Good news!

    I’ve had all my cats chipped. The shelter chips all of their animals.

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    stairsteppublishing  2 months ago

    Chippig is important even for house cats as they too can slip out, get disoriented. We saw saw what could happened when Elvis got out.

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    face.less_b  2 months ago

    We can be heroes just for one day.

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    Lily.spokescat  2 months ago

    Yes you can be a hero to a lost animal… try that sometime instead of just stealing them off the street and locking them in a cage!

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    anneffa  2 months ago

    Will Kidnapper Man have an actual conversation with his wife?

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    Ricky Bennett  2 months ago

    I learned that a bag of micro chips is so small, you have to use tweezers to open the bag…

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    Robin Harwood  2 months ago

    I’ve tried micro chips. Bung them in the microwave, heat them up, and they’re quite edible. Not as good as freshly made chips from the chip shop, of course.

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    Pucky  2 months ago

    Microchips are very usefull.

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    turner7811 Premium Member 2 months ago

    I love you, Dr Mann!

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    leftbehind004  2 months ago

    Even though Sophie had gone several days without her eye medicine I like that Dr. Mann said here eye looks good.

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    I AM CARTOON LADY!  2 months ago

    My forgiveness level of TW, is at a 2, right now!

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    ElliottB.C.Rennie  2 months ago

    Chipping you pet is all well and good, but you MUST REMEMBER to register and keep the database updated. Every time you move, get on line and update your info.I can’t tell you how many cats we scan, and find that they’ve come here from another country, and the owners haven updated the info.

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    win.45mag  2 months ago

    Animal thieves don’t check for chips.

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    Snowy&Finlay  2 months ago

    Are we going to get to meet some new cats at the shelter?

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    cat19632001  2 months ago

    As they say at Tiny Kittens, #Adoptdontshop

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    Miss Mina  2 months ago

    Appropriately enough, we just received Jack’s tag from the chip registry. He’s all officially registered to us now.

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    artchick530  2 months ago

    I know TW has been a polarizing story line/figure, and most of you never want to see her again, but I just want to play devil’s advocate here: Sophie’s woman taking time to educate her may have a longer lasting effect than ripping her a new one. (I think she could have used a little bit of scolding, however.) I’m coming at this from my belief that she is more misguided than malevolent. Most important of all to me is that Sophie was the only pet in tidy house. It wasn’t as if she was picking up every dog or cat she saw along the way. She does seem to have a narrow view of the world – as soon as she saw Gutter he was a “rabid raccoon,” – but in fairness to her, I remember a time that most wild animals, especially if they wandered into residential areas, were assumed to be that! Lord Pomegranate looked happy and handsome in his finery and we know she found Sophie to be beautiful – but maybe her next pet will be one that doesn’t appear perfect from the outside, but with some TLC and attention can give back to their human more than they receive.

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    Katzen1415  2 months ago

    I am with Burt. Still, a little education goes a long way.

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    anomalous4  2 months ago

    OT: Windows! (& mom stuff later, I’m sure)

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    golfgranny47  2 months ago

    I loved this story line!

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member 2 months ago

    Well, it seems the whole arc was to bring this good helpful message!

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    bonita.eley  2 months ago

    So- woman not bad- woman just sad and uninformed? Would you not want to hug Tommy??? So big. So Fluffy. So CAT!!!

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    Kitty Katz  2 months ago

    Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

    Beatrixia: I found a scroll from the 900s section about Sophititi’s descendant.

    Elvis-Anum: What happened then?

    Bea: Here is Sophie’s journal entry:

    I am home safe under the bureau with my journal and pencil. All is well. The Tidy Woman may not be all bad. After all, she had a pet she loved. I hope she may find the pet she needs and who needs her.

    Puckmosis: Aw, it looks like it ended well.

    Bea: And we know All’s Well That Ends Well.

    Ora Z: What is a boo-roo Sophie talks about?

    Elvis: It’s a piece of furniture with a lot of drawers and a mirror.

    Ora Z: It seems to me I’ve heard of that.

    Elvis: Well, time for a nice relaxing nap.

    Ora Z: Not quite yet. Mallets Towards None is having a rehearsal with Lupinium’s tumbling class.

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    taraski24  2 months ago

    What about Jules? Where did he fly off too?

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    gigagrouch  2 months ago

    When Ollie decided he wanted to stay, we took him in for a chip check… In our neck of the woods, chipped cats are rare. The vet wondered why we would bother…

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    Solarbear Premium Member 2 months ago

    I’m very glad TW is learning. I did imagine Georgia would make her redeemable; as others said, virtually everyone is, other than Wicket the owl (whose mature is to feed on other animals, so it’s not like it’s a choice).

    And, re: microchips — the first dog I had chipped was my Maltese puppy. They all look pretty much alike, so I knew it was important. Every one since has come chipped, or I’ve had them chipped. I’ve never needed them, but better safe than sorry.

    My current dog, Bucky, actually has two chips. He was left outside an animal shelter around Thanksgiving 2020, in a carrier in the cold, no note or anything. Fortunately he did have a chip, and they tracked down the owner, since they didn’t know if someone found him, or he was a surrender. I don’t know his back story, but they’d called him Buster, and he was 12. A rescue group woman went to the shelter to pick up another dog, saw him (he was about to be put out for adoption), and took him with her too, as it seemed like the right idea (it was). When I went to pick him up, I asked about a chip, and she said she almost forgot, and chipped him with their chip. But, when I looked at his paperwork, I saw the old chip information; so I was able to change his registration for that one to myself, after they confirmed with his previous owners. That made me feel good, that they knew he had a new home. Despite their having been someone who mistreated him, I know he had a loving person in his life as well, and I’m sure they were glad he was adopted.

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    diskus Premium Member 2 months ago

    Please help TW

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    diskus Premium Member 2 months ago

    One day we will all be chipped. Wont have to carry these phones around any longer. Just hope we can turn the thing off

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    ladykat  2 months ago

    So Tidy Woman may have a redeeming quality or two, after all.

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    Space_cat  2 months ago

    But only if you keep up with the registration, if you move, you need to update. Poody is chipped, Roy we didn’t bother, since both are exclusively indoor. A week before he got sick, I took come hardware cloth and some leftover wood and built a Catio on one of the bedroom windows. Poody absolutely loves it, and she hates going outside except for a few seconds. Roy likes it, but we’re waiting til fall when he will go crazy watching the leaves fall, and he tries to catch them as usual.

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    Nuliajuk  2 months ago

    Microchips have been in use for at least 25 years in many places, so it’s surprising that some people would still not have heard of it.

    I wasn’t offered the option in 1994 when my 2 kittens of the time were spayed and neutered – they got ear tattoos – but by 2012 it was the norm for the shelter and foster rescues in my current city.

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    Granny Roberta  2 months ago

    Well the one thing that makes this comic so unbelievable— total lack of glitter on Tidy Woman! [studiously ignores talking cats in gorgeous clothing]

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    davanden  2 months ago

    Not many men in this strip, are there?

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    scaeva Premium Member 2 months ago

    I’ve yet to see any real sign of contrition from TW. Without that, she’s just going through the motions.

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    xsintricks  2 months ago

    OT: Glad there is a relative lull in the weather.

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    scyphi26  2 months ago

    Hah, knew it, she never even knew enough about chipping to even consider it could be a thing to check!

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    Decius Premium Member 2 months ago

    The PSA about chips is so important—- but let’s not give that lady a pass for the crate in her living room.

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    Denny Wheeler Premium Member 2 months ago

    OT Cat News

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    Red Bird  2 months ago

    Next, she can learn about NOT putting animals in a cage. That is just inhumane on so many levels.

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    Ignatz Premium Member 2 months ago

    Sophie’s woman doesn’t know the back story. She doesn’t know that Sophie was taken from her own front yard, so it might seem plausible that TW thought she was actually homeless. She also doesn’t know that Sophie was kept in a cage.

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    Fennec! at the Disco  2 months ago

    Hey, she got her hair color back!

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    willie_mctell  2 months ago

    It does seem a little soon for the catnaper to get a chance at redemption. She needs a little time with the mice.

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    Pucky  2 months ago

    About time she learns about them, we wouldn’t have had this whole “Missing Sophie” fiasco if she had learned earlier.

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    Taracinablue  2 months ago

    I like Tidy Woman’s brown eyes. Most of The People around the cats have green or blue eyes, it seems. =)

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    Tie Defender Pilot  2 months ago

    BCN is actually almost the place I first learned of microchips (almost means that I was briefed on the subject by national geographic)

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