Somewhere there is a photo of our dear late Roscoe (the sweet, gigantic Siamese we had when I was a kid, who lived to be 17) wearing a very small pair in the late 1970s. I have no idea where my parents found them (and they were a little different, the mustache and eyebrows were black plastic rather than full fuzz) but I wish to heck I knew where they had gone to! And the photo too! If I come across it, I will definitely post it.
Groucho Marx glasses were a running gag in my family for about a solid decade. Everyone had them, including small ones for children and–apparently–pets.
Now that you say that, as I picture them again in my head–I am 99% certain you’re right!! That makes so much sense, and my parents had a fondness for Mr. Potato Head too, ha!
Bwahahaaahaa! Oh my- that is fabulous, and an ongoing scenario at my house. Those furry little thieves are FAST – including my own tripod, Nika, who can outrun the rest!
So, was that in honour of Int’l Bacon Day? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bacon_Day
I love Puck on the table nonchalantly reading a newspaper to get closer to the bacon target. And then in disguise. Elvis and Lupin have a more direct approach which seems to have worked well for them!
If I get out a knife and cutting board, let alone sharpen a knife, I’m swarmed in the kitchen. A few years ago, during the Occupy movement, they all lined up in the kitchen and proceded to “Occupy Nom Street”
Charlie, rescued off the streets of our Overland Park KS neighborhood, survived eating dog food or people food. One evening I left the dinner table to get something, & Charlie pulled my slice of roast beef off my plate, splat on the floor. I picked it up, & washed it off. However Charlie
never cared much for bacon, & usually snuggled in my wife’s lap.
Jackson, my snowshoe would be wearing the disguise and Gio my Abby would say the tummy line..lol..you have a magic Georgia, that makes us see the both the funny quirks and best in our cats and in ourselves. I can’t wait til the rest of the world gets to discover your comic in the paper everyday..
Our late great Charlie rather be in my wife’s lap than nip the bacon. But never leave the table with your plate of roast beef slices. Charlie would have them on the floor, with a wet splat sound.
Udo was the kind of cat who could care less about wet cat food or people food. With massive exceptions for green olives and yes, you guessed it, BACON. Whenever I made bacon, I would get the full on poor starving kitty routine. Which worked every time
I laughed until I cried & I’m still laughing. Puck’s don’t mind me, & the Groucho glasses, OMG the Groucho glasses are pure genius!!! Elvis’s philosophical outlook, Lupin’s face as he shovels it in & bacon’s savory siren song, too wonderful for words.
We eat vegetarian at this house so the cat doesn’t think that people food is proper for cats to even consider. However, should he ever get into the doggy treats…
I lived briefly with a vegetarian roommate who wanted to become a “fruitatarian” (which I’m not sure exists in human nutrition) and who had 5 cats whom she wanted to feed as vegetarian as possible: tuna-for-cats (i.e., offal), cabbage and wheat flour is what she gave them. I gave my two cats regular cat food, and her 5 mostly wanted inside my room when I fed them, not surprisingly! Luckily, the house had an overgrown backyard with plenty of field mice, otherwise her 5 cats would have starved….
Apparently your cat hasn’t discovered lasagna yet. Our cat (and the dog) goes nuts over lasagna. But he’s only interested in the sauce. He’ll lick every drop of sauce, and leave a pile of naked noodles lying there!
Oh dear! Is this the kind of bacon that comes in a box the reporters were hoping for in the “Quinoa” episode?
My kitties will go after any meat we roast out in the yard but bacon is a favored target!
Poor Pucky! Perhaps if he agrees to resume grooming duty, Elvis will snag a piece of bacon for him?
If I leave the bacon skillet on the stove too long after it has cooled down, my tabby boy Jasper will sneak onto the counter and lick it clean. He also loves ham.
I like Lupin’s tail in panel 7. I don’t ever make bacon, but my cat Maxie is quite fond of its close relative sausage. We had some tonight in pig-in-the-blankets, one of her favorites.
My good woman, it is hard to come up with enough praise for the way you portray your three incredible cats! Not to mention Tommy, Tabitha and Sir What’s his name. (Sorry, old ladies do get forgetful!) There are just some things that this or that cat will find impossible to resist. I had a cat who would kill for peas in butter sauce! He was given some every Christmas Eve on his birthday!
When I’m frying bacon, my big boy Buddee, (about a 16 pound black and white big boy), sits next to my feet constantly meowing….until I ‘drop’ a piece of bacon on the floor. I have the cleanest floor in front of the stove after cooking bacon!
I don’t cook bacon often enough for my cat to really go nuts over it, but you should see her when I bring home take out sushi. She will actually try to knock the chopsticks out of my hand!
Hehe…she’s somewhere between Elvis and Tabitha in temperament, so that probably wouldn’t go so well, at least on her end! I’m not surprised to hear that Puck loves sushi too, though
Puck behind the newspaper just makes me laugh! Our black cat also “hides” in newspapers, behind fast food bags, and anything else he can in order to “stalk” food on the table. He is particularly fond of slithering up to fast food fish sandwiches and chicken. We have photos of him with his head and upper torso stuffed inside a McBag that holds a fish sandwich.
One little troublesome question though: if Lupin had his back to the people when he was commandeering the bacon…how did he know they were yelling at him? :-/
That may be it in real life too. Lupin is the one who gets in and out of the most trouble, and his deafness really only seems to come into play when he is fast asleep or we are talking at an average level around him. If it’s happening in the same room and it’s a big enough display, he notices right away. Kind of like the earlier strip about the cricket. He finds bugs more often than Elvis does. (No one beats Pucky). We did have men working on the roof recently, who kept calling to him in the windows and could not figure out why he would not turn around, ha! Otherwise though, there is hardly anything he misses. This is very close to how he behaves–minus a little suit and coffee cup! Haha!
Even in real life, if there’s a big enough commotion he seems to pick up on vibrations or sudden movements in his peripherals. The moments I write with him in the comic are silly, but they’re still based closely enough on what it’s like to interact with him that sometimes I write in moments like this without realizing. His other senses are sharp and he picks up on a lot. Lupin’s deaf, but he doesn’t miss a beat!
Puck with the traditional fake noseglasses……how INSPIRED is that. You, dear lady, are a genius.
Somewhere there is a photo of our dear late Roscoe (the sweet, gigantic Siamese we had when I was a kid, who lived to be 17) wearing a very small pair in the late 1970s. I have no idea where my parents found them (and they were a little different, the mustache and eyebrows were black plastic rather than full fuzz) but I wish to heck I knew where they had gone to! And the photo too! If I come across it, I will definitely post it.
Groucho Marx glasses were a running gag in my family for about a solid decade. Everyone had them, including small ones for children and–apparently–pets.
we did reindeer antlers
Love Pucks disguise!
Groucho Puck? Is he to host “You bet your life?” That would be hilarious.
That would be so cute! (Uh oh, now I have an answer if I ever need a game show sequence…) ‘Duck Soup’ is on in our apartment about once a month, ha!
And today’s secret word is…. “tasty”
Our boys are incredibly well-behaved when it comes to leaving people food alone. Either that or I’m a very lousy cook, lol!
Maybe Roscoe’s glasses came from a Mr. Potato Head set?
Now that you say that, as I picture them again in my head–I am 99% certain you’re right!! That makes so much sense, and my parents had a fondness for Mr. Potato Head too, ha!
have to make the boys their own plate of bacon, then maybe they’ll leave yours alone!
3 cats/2 humans + bacon = happy cats + 0 bacon for humans
Bwahahaaahaa! Oh my- that is fabulous, and an ongoing scenario at my house. Those furry little thieves are FAST – including my own tripod, Nika, who can outrun the rest!
So, was that in honour of Int’l Bacon Day?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bacon_Day
Gasp!! It was not, but what a happy coincidence!
PANEL 5!!!!
“It only exist in the past and my tummy!”
As a culinary chef, I salute you for that Zen quote!!
I love Puck on the table nonchalantly reading a newspaper to get closer to the bacon target. And then in disguise. Elvis and Lupin have a more direct approach which seems to have worked well for them!
Love the bacon hijinks!
Lupin’s tail in panel 7!!
If I get out a knife and cutting board, let alone sharpen a knife, I’m swarmed in the kitchen. A few years ago, during the Occupy movement, they all lined up in the kitchen and proceded to “Occupy Nom Street”
How apropos as we had bacon today.
Although our Elvis impersonator is not a bacon consumer (he leaves that to the humans).
On any You Bet Your Life sequence, who would come down for Say the Secret Word and Win something. Maybe Tommy?
Tommy would be perfect, haha!!
Another laugh-out-loud funny one – I can still taste the turkey bacon I had this morning, yum!
LOVE the Groucho Marx glasses! Clearly, it is THE attire for the devious kitty in the know. Thanks for another enjoyable comic.
Charlie, rescued off the streets of our Overland Park KS neighborhood, survived eating dog food or people food. One evening I left the dinner table to get something, & Charlie pulled my slice of roast beef off my plate, splat on the floor. I picked it up, & washed it off. However Charlie
never cared much for bacon, & usually snuggled in my wife’s lap.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0liWES6qgxjTkpNQU83SlpWWUU/view?usp=sharing
Jackson, my snowshoe would be wearing the disguise and Gio my Abby would say the tummy line..lol..you have a magic Georgia, that makes us see the both the funny quirks and best in our cats and in ourselves. I can’t wait til the rest of the world gets to discover your comic in the paper everyday..
Our late great Charlie rather be in my wife’s lap than nip the bacon. But never leave the table with your plate of roast beef slices. Charlie would have them on the floor, with a wet splat sound.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0liWES6qgxjTkpNQU83SlpWWUU/view?usp=sharing
Sorry folks, don’t know how to erase a 2nd post when I thought the first didn’t go.
that’s alright, Gordon… You’re not the first person to double post, and you certainly won’t be the last!
Udo was the kind of cat who could care less about wet cat food or people food. With massive exceptions for green olives and yes, you guessed it, BACON. Whenever I made bacon, I would get the full on poor starving kitty routine. Which worked every time
Poor Puck over-thought things and lost out.
Poor Pucky gets no bacon!
I laughed until I cried & I’m still laughing. Puck’s don’t mind me, & the Groucho glasses, OMG the Groucho glasses are pure genius!!! Elvis’s philosophical outlook, Lupin’s face as he shovels it in & bacon’s savory siren song, too wonderful for words.
Oh, the joy of bacon. Thank the Maker for its salty savoryness.
I love everything about you and the strip! X
Thank you!!
I love how Lupin is stuffing 6 or 7 peices of bacon in his mouth!LOL!
love panel five – cheeky elvis
Yum, bacon! Our cats don’t seem to have discovered it (so far), for which I am very thankful. And Pucky in Disguise, yowzaa!
Your bacon thieving boys are as adorable as always, but boy, am I glad mine only acts this way about canned cat food.
We eat vegetarian at this house so the cat doesn’t think that people food is proper for cats to even consider. However, should he ever get into the doggy treats…
I lived briefly with a vegetarian roommate who wanted to become a “fruitatarian” (which I’m not sure exists in human nutrition) and who had 5 cats whom she wanted to feed as vegetarian as possible: tuna-for-cats (i.e., offal), cabbage and wheat flour is what she gave them. I gave my two cats regular cat food, and her 5 mostly wanted inside my room when I fed them, not surprisingly! Luckily, the house had an overgrown backyard with plenty of field mice, otherwise her 5 cats would have starved….
That’s terrible. Cats need taurine else they can end up blind or have heart failure. Taurine isn’t present in fish either.
Apparently your cat hasn’t discovered lasagna yet. Our cat (and the dog) goes nuts over lasagna. But he’s only interested in the sauce. He’ll lick every drop of sauce, and leave a pile of naked noodles lying there!
Naked noodles? Sounds absolutely obscene! Teehee!
And today would truly be Bacon Cat News!
I notice Elvis doesn’t have his mad eyes and frown when he’s snitching bacon.
Oh dear! Is this the kind of bacon that comes in a box the reporters were hoping for in the “Quinoa” episode?
My kitties will go after any meat we roast out in the yard but bacon is a favored target!
Everyone on the planet likes bacon. And anyone who doesn’t is a space alien. I hope you come in peace.
I must remember that quote!
It’s BACOOOOON!!!
This is excellent, every little detail! Thanks for providing us with heartwarming laughs twice a week.
Hi! Bad,bad to leave enticing food for the kitties!#
My cats ignored people food UNTIL the first time I opened a can of tuna.
…now I have to submit EVERYTHING for inspection!
Poor Pucky! Perhaps if he agrees to resume grooming duty, Elvis will snag a piece of bacon for him?
If I leave the bacon skillet on the stove too long after it has cooled down, my tabby boy Jasper will sneak onto the counter and lick it clean. He also loves ham.
I like Lupin’s tail in panel 7. I don’t ever make bacon, but my cat Maxie is quite fond of its close relative sausage. We had some tonight in pig-in-the-blankets, one of her favorites.
My good woman, it is hard to come up with enough praise for the way you portray your three incredible cats! Not to mention Tommy, Tabitha and Sir What’s his name. (Sorry, old ladies do get forgetful!) There are just some things that this or that cat will find impossible to resist. I had a cat who would kill for peas in butter sauce! He was given some every Christmas Eve on his birthday!
When I’m frying bacon, my big boy Buddee, (about a 16 pound black and white big boy), sits next to my feet constantly meowing….until I ‘drop’ a piece of bacon on the floor. I have the cleanest floor in front of the stove after cooking bacon!
I’m seriously considering buying chicken wings so I can fry one for Chanur when I fry a bigger piece for myself…just so I don’t have to share so much.
I don’t cook bacon often enough for my cat to really go nuts over it, but you should see her when I bring home take out sushi. She will actually try to knock the chopsticks out of my hand!
She would be friends with Puck! He loves it.
Hehe…she’s somewhere between Elvis and Tabitha in temperament, so that probably wouldn’t go so well, at least on her end! I’m not surprised to hear that Puck loves sushi too, though
BACON!
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Puck behind the newspaper just makes me laugh! Our black cat also “hides” in newspapers, behind fast food bags, and anything else he can in order to “stalk” food on the table. He is particularly fond of slithering up to fast food fish sandwiches and chicken. We have photos of him with his head and upper torso stuffed inside a McBag that holds a fish sandwich.
Is it safe to fry fish in your house? Or fix sushi, either one?
Frying fish are closely watched! I have yet to prepare sushi, but it comes into the house often. Puck is a fan.
Oh my. That last panel needs to be made into a shirt, somehow. XD Love the entire sequence of events, here.
One little troublesome question though: if Lupin had his back to the people when he was commandeering the bacon…how did he know they were yelling at him? :-/
From the looks on the Man and Woman’s faces, their yell was loud enough that Lupin felt the yell through the vibrations in the table.
That may be it in real life too. Lupin is the one who gets in and out of the most trouble, and his deafness really only seems to come into play when he is fast asleep or we are talking at an average level around him. If it’s happening in the same room and it’s a big enough display, he notices right away. Kind of like the earlier strip about the cricket. He finds bugs more often than Elvis does. (No one beats Pucky). We did have men working on the roof recently, who kept calling to him in the windows and could not figure out why he would not turn around, ha! Otherwise though, there is hardly anything he misses. This is very close to how he behaves–minus a little suit and coffee cup! Haha!
Even in real life, if there’s a big enough commotion he seems to pick up on vibrations or sudden movements in his peripherals. The moments I write with him in the comic are silly, but they’re still based closely enough on what it’s like to interact with him that sometimes I write in moments like this without realizing. His other senses are sharp and he picks up on a lot. Lupin’s deaf, but he doesn’t miss a beat!
Lupin is officially my spirit animal