Hello Ellie! I sent you an email back on that a little while ago! I usually ask permission before posting art that is shared with me. Sometimes people don’t want it online, and I especially ask when the art is by a child. Abigail did an amazing job! I would love to post it!
It was sent out last night, I’m sorry it hasn’t been received yet somehow. Maybe it is ending up in a spam folder? But yes!! Thank you for permission, I will post it up tomorrow! If the original message is not found, let me know and I will post it here for Abigail Rose to read!
I love the Woman’s expression in panel 3 with the puffed up Elvis (that’s how we knew the outside cats were hanging around, too!), the Man’s hat hair in panel 9, and especially how Elvis has depuffed and gone to concern in panel 9. And Tommy and his Woman must have broken SOME sort of speed limit, if not a law of physics or two, on their way over!
“Aww geeze.” That is the required phrase when you find kittens in snow drifts. And your dry, “I just have a feeling” while trying to contain a hysterical Elvis is spot on. Well, now I can sleep again. I echo the fb poster who says you are so good you make us worry about fictional kitties! <3
Puffy Elvis is back in the building! Man’s hat hair. Tommy in his harness even though he’s clutched in his human’s arms. The details are perfect as always Georgia.
Oh my goodness, I was worried about that little cartoon kitty all weekend ! I am obviously addicted to this strip. Also love the goggles on Tommy, puffy Elvis, and the charts, as ever, attempting to explain people clothing. Thank you, thank, thank you for bringing the little girl inside. Freezing her tail off…
Elvis is a true lightning rod for another cat being outside! Excited to see this episode- the kitten is found and inside- a load off everyone’s mind. Elvis has calmed down when he sees strange cat is a half frozen kitten- Great story unfolding!
Tommy’s face LOVE LOVE LOVE that ever-exuberant smile of his. I’m glad to see him in his harness and with his “new leash on life” so he doesn’t get lost. Hmm……I wonder if she had been spotted and Tommy and his Woman were out looking for her. The tip of her little tail beneath The Man’s arm in panel 9 is beyond cute.
Okay. 1. I live that the “Man? CN news, Man” is back. That has always been one of my favorite parts of the strip. And 2. I LOVE TOMMY AND HIS WOMAN! They are my spirit animals.
I love that the reporters are say “Man? CN News, Man?” instead of “Sir.” It’s almost as if Elvis instructed everyone to use the less formal, less respectful address for the Man. Hehehe.
Somehow that hadn’t occurred to me, but now it makes sense! My cats are very talkative but they never sound like they’re saying “meow,” for some reason. That may be why I was confused!
How appropriate! We just rescued a little green-eyed, black female. No collar, no chip, and definitely not feral. She must have read the little hobo markings: “Soft touches live here.” Glad we got her when we did—expecting several inches of snow and falling temperatures.
Oh, she’s already been transported to the Animal Shelter. Which, if her Person doesn’t claim her, will send her to Orphans of the Storm.
Those catly hobo markings keep bringing lost kitties to us. We firmly refuse to adopt them ourselves (2 cats are enough, really), but always make sure they get fed, warmed, and then transferred to the professionals. Except for ShadowCat, who had to be livetrapped because he was trapped in our neighbor’s basement, and then went through Spay ‘n’ Stay.
Well, I guess that’s the professionals, too, although the final outcome was that he was re-released to the outdoors.
I always said our old house had cat hobo markings! As soon as there was a “vacancy” (and often when there was not), a cat would turn up seeking asylum. “Hi, I’m your new cat!”
Have you ever read “The Silent Miaow,” by Paul Gallico? If not, you should, if you can find a copy. It’s a manual for cats on how to take over and manage humans. Every word is true.
Oh, Elvis is mighty puffy! Love Tommy’s ski goggles. (And I’m very much looking forward to a compilation of Pucky’s charts/infographics sometime in the future.)
Wonderful! Like so many others, I have a lump in my throat already about the kitten!
Several years ago I was buying cat food at the vet on a Christmas Eve afternoon when a crying woman came in with a carrier with a kitten inside. She had been driving on a busy street in town and the car ahead slowed down and someone tossed the kitten into a snowbank. She stopped and dug him out and since she had dogs she couldn’t take him home. The vet was full and couldn’t take him (No room in the inn!) and a whole waiting room of people just sat, so I said I’d take him. Claude is a big fat cat now, a bit whiny at times, but maybe he’s just reminiscing. I hope this little girl has as happy an ending!
Oh! That was so sweet and caring of you to take home that poor little kitten who is now a big fat cat (love it!)–what terrible person would be so rude to toss a kitten out of a car into a snowbank???! Or to toss a kitten out anywhere?! It angers me to think of it.
“The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!” ~ Ansel Adams In this case, it’s the brain directing the pen & brush ! Gorgeous, Georgia.
As a top officer – and admittedly one of the most annoying – in the Grammar Police, I’d have to disagree. Considering the previous headline was “There’s nothing outside”, and considering no one had as yet positively identified the “something”, Lupin got it right.
Lupin had previously only identified it as a “something”, Elvis still hadn’t seen it at all, and Puck only tentatively identified it as a tiny cat, though he didn’t sound too sure of himself. I suspect that when the kitten tapped on the window, it caused him to lose his hold on the window sill and fall back into the snow, so Elvis had nothing to go on but the rudimentary descriptions from his mates and a very startling tapping sound. Hence his especially poofy self in Panel 3. Then again, seeing cats outside (even when Elvis himself was outside) has always made him go poofy, so it’s also possible that Elvis really did see the kitten before he fell down. Besides which, the tapping sound alone would have been enough to trigger his alert system.
The way she was talking sounded like she might have been on her last legs. Loved the chart of protective gear and how Elvis went from angry to worried.
A.) YAY!! Kitten got rescued!!
B.) I think the cold frozen Elvis’s fur in panel 3
C.) Hello to Sionyx!! After running calculations, equations, the only pawsibile solution was that Tommy’s owner and Tommy was flying down the street on a snowmobile, hence the goggles… Hehe “There’s snow more” hehe… Classic…
kitten is inside yay! the whole strip is so sweet. even puffed up Elvis though please don’t tell him i said so.
faster then supergirl tommy and the woman show up at the door awsome.
Ditto on all the other comments! They nicely covered what I would’ve written. Are you sure our little polydactyl kitten isn’t part raccoon with her sweet striped tail?
Lovely! I was so worried about Lost Kitten since Thursday, but I knew that the Boys would find a way to get the Woman and the Man to find her! As an earlier poster wrote, it’s true that you, Georgia, are so talented that you make us care *deeply* about fictional kitties; I already want to name the kitten Poly for her extra toes {g}!
Oh! Tommy and his Woman to the rescue! Horray!
I got a kick out of that chart about winter gear: Location Beacon–guards against insanity! Haha! That’s just so true! I don’t go anywhere outside without wearing one of those these days.
It looks like the Man got her just in the nick of time!!
This is something that always seems to happen to us with dogs. We must have an invisible sign (well, invisible to humans anyway) that says “All wanderers welcome.”
When we lived in the country in TX, we would see people dump their dogs out of their vehicles and the poor dogs racing after them. We tried to get to the dogs before they hit the main road. At one point, we had 5 extremely sweet dogs, all dumped in the dead of winter that we fixed up and healed before finding them great homes.
Our gate is always open for sweet animals that need shelter and food. Though only one cat has shown up on our doorstep… Must be all the dogs!
People can royally stink. My father’s family adopted a dog who they figured out was dumped (clue was his reaction to the first car ride) and once Nick realized that car rides with THIS family always ended up back at home he was thrilled. Dad says Nick was one of the best dogs you ever could want.
Most of what I’d say has already been mentioned by other people. XD One thing that HASN’T been is that I’m now picturing Tommy giving the kitten a big, fluffy, kitty hug to help warm her up (what with him being long-haired and all). I somewhat doubt that would be part of the procedure (at least in real life), but it would be adorable. ^_^
Ryan’s hair looks like mine when I take off my tuque !!!
(That’s a Canadian term, from where I’m from, up on the St. Lawrence River in NY, on the border). Je ne suis Canadienne, eh?
“Just a feeling I have” and “LET’S SAVE A CAT”. Once again, I disrupt my office environment because I could not contain the vast amount of awesome I absorbed from this comic. BCN continues to bring me joy after well over a year. Thank you, Georgia.
Thank you Georgia for this wonderful story. I love the pitiful look on Lupin’s face. He is really worried. Elvis all poofy is so cute. Puck was determined the Man would find the baby. The smile on Tommy’s face made me laugh out loud. Love it all.
Thank you so much for BCN. I was hospitalised yesterday, which turned into a nightmare when I was injured because if the hospital. Other than driving over 125 miles to get back home to my Man and our cats, BCN is the only thing that has put a smile on my face. The kitten got rescued and you helped rescue me. Thank you for the smile you gave me.
Let’s save a cat! Bless you, you kind soul, you. This friend of yours (the real life version and the BCN version!) is a true hero! Anybody who will go to such lengths out of compassion for an animal should be honored and praised in the highest.
Tommy’s Woman is a fabulous force to be reckoned with, especially when it comes to caring for/protecting animals! She’s fantastic, I’m so excited to have her in the story a little bit more during this series of strips.
Late this last fall a woman called the shelter to say she found a little kitten in the middle of the road on her way to work. She said he was very cold, had a bad URI and his eyes were stuck shut. Needless to say I told her to bring him out as quickly as possible. He weighed only 1/2 a pound, was indeed very cold and because of his clogged nose couldn’t nurse. Warm sub Q fluids, antibiotics warm towels, a heating pad, warm goat milk delivered into his mouth by syringe and a lot of nose cleaning, eye wiping, nebulizing and the determination of this little bundle of fluff and our grim determination that this kitten live paid off. While he never cried or rejected treatment, he purred almost non stop when he was awake. It took a week to get his eyes opened. An ulcer was discovered in one eye and it took several weeks of intense treatment to make it go away. He came in covered in fleas, of course, and examination showed that his back legs were coated with CAT LITTER. This poor baby had been in a home, but apparently when he got sick was put outside to fend for himself. I shouldn’t judge, but how else did he find himself in the middle of the road on a sub freezing morning? It took a couple of months to make him well, but after Christmas I decided the only thing to do was take him home. He still does cry, but purrs non stop.
It’s 8:58 am here and I am posting the comic while Toddler and Baby eat their breakfast. Right now in my life, this is the earliest possible moment I can post the comic and stay sane enough write the comic.
Hey, two kids, three cats, and they are in the process of relocating. She’s doing the best she can, and I’d say that’s pretty darn good under the circumstances.
I’m just grateful to have it, any time, any where.
I, too am very grateful to have it at all. I am on west coast time as well, and although it was really great to have you on Rhode Island time, since I got it early in my day, it is well worth waiting for. I consider it the best bi weekly gift I have ever received.
I really love this comic strip. My old cat Whiskey was a mixture of the personalities of Elvis and Lupin, with more than a little Puck thrown in. Defender of the family, yard guardian and best friend. People don’t realize how unique cat personalities are. Thank you Georgia.
So pleased to see Lupin wearing his hat of adventure
Yes! Let’s!
“There’s snow more”. Genius, Georgia! Also, is this based upon the time mentioned in the “About Elvis” section in which a stray kitty stays with you?
A little bit!! The story is based on a few different happenings, the little kitty is based on another cat though.
Also, how long does it take for fan art to get posted? My niece, Abigail Rose, sent some in and she is dying to know if it will go up.
Hello Ellie! I sent you an email back on that a little while ago! I usually ask permission before posting art that is shared with me. Sometimes people don’t want it online, and I especially ask when the art is by a child. Abigail did an amazing job! I would love to post it!
Oh, I don’t think it was received. Would you mind sending it again to my email, the one listed on this comment??
I will! It may come a little later this evening, but I will get it out to you! There are many glowing compliments to Abigail Rose’s work!
All right! Thank you so much!
We still have not received it… has it been sent? Can I just state here that permission is given to post her work?
It was sent out last night, I’m sorry it hasn’t been received yet somehow. Maybe it is ending up in a spam folder? But yes!! Thank you for permission, I will post it up tomorrow! If the original message is not found, let me know and I will post it here for Abigail Rose to read!
surprise she says!
I love the Woman’s expression in panel 3 with the puffed up Elvis (that’s how we knew the outside cats were hanging around, too!), the Man’s hat hair in panel 9, and especially how Elvis has depuffed and gone to concern in panel 9. And Tommy and his Woman must have broken SOME sort of speed limit, if not a law of physics or two, on their way over!
Yes! I LOVE her expression in that panel!
The Woman’s expression reminds me of Dennis the Menace’s mom!
HOORAY! Tommy and his Woman to the Rescue!
Tommy and his Woman to the rescue!
Hooray! Tommy to the rescue! (He’s had experience being out in the cold, you know.)
Man? Man?
Elvis. Panel three. Love.
Oh hooray! I was so worried about that little (fictional, I know) kitten!
Tommy in goggles!!!
Bit cold out ……… wonderfully understated and the chart just kills me
“Aww geeze.” That is the required phrase when you find kittens in snow drifts. And your dry, “I just have a feeling” while trying to contain a hysterical Elvis is spot on. Well, now I can sleep again. I echo the fb poster who says you are so good you make us worry about fictional kitties! <3
“Just a feeling”. IE Elvis giving off his usual subtle signals.
Puffy Elvis is back in the building! Man’s hat hair. Tommy in his harness even though he’s clutched in his human’s arms. The details are perfect as always Georgia.
So, that’s what hats are for.
Love how Elvis has his claws “puffed out” as well as his fur. And the Man’s hat hair is perfect!
Oh my goodness, I was worried about that little cartoon kitty all weekend ! I am obviously addicted to this strip. Also love the goggles on Tommy, puffy Elvis, and the charts, as ever, attempting to explain people clothing. Thank you, thank, thank you for bringing the little girl inside. Freezing her tail off…
The explanation of people clothes is perfect. It all makes sense to me!
Elvis is a true lightning rod for another cat being outside! Excited to see this episode- the kitten is found and inside- a load off everyone’s mind. Elvis has calmed down when he sees strange cat is a half frozen kitten- Great story unfolding!
“Just a feeling I have.” Your expression is priceless. Duh. Can’t stop laughing.
So much to love. Puffy Elvis, Tommy and the new kitty who seems to be a very happy kitty.
The protective gear was so great. Love the charts.
“Just a feeling”.. ~~~~~ I…I….I…I’m hooked on a feeling and high on believing….~~~~~~
I really enjoyed this installment, especially the puffed up Elvis.
Tommy’s face
LOVE LOVE LOVE that ever-exuberant smile of his. I’m glad to see him in his harness and with his “new leash on life” so he doesn’t get lost. Hmm……I wonder if she had been spotted and Tommy and his Woman were out looking for her. The tip of her little tail beneath The Man’s arm in panel 9 is beyond cute.
Okay. 1. I live that the “Man? CN news, Man” is back. That has always been one of my favorite parts of the strip. And 2. I LOVE TOMMY AND HIS WOMAN! They are my spirit animals.
I love that the reporters are say “Man? CN News, Man?” instead of “Sir.” It’s almost as if Elvis instructed everyone to use the less formal, less respectful address for the Man. Hehehe.
Don’t we just hear ‘Man’ and Ma’am as ‘Meow’? That’s how it’s always sounded in my head.
Somehow that hadn’t occurred to me, but now it makes sense! My cats are very talkative but they never sound like they’re saying “meow,” for some reason. That may be why I was confused!
How appropriate! We just rescued a little green-eyed, black female. No collar, no chip, and definitely not feral. She must have read the little hobo markings: “Soft touches live here.” Glad we got her when we did—expecting several inches of snow and falling temperatures.
Not many people know about the hobo markings to let other passers-by know what sort of welcome to expect. Any plans for your little rescue?
Oh, she’s already been transported to the Animal Shelter. Which, if her Person doesn’t claim her, will send her to Orphans of the Storm.
Those catly hobo markings keep bringing lost kitties to us. We firmly refuse to adopt them ourselves (2 cats are enough, really), but always make sure they get fed, warmed, and then transferred to the professionals. Except for ShadowCat, who had to be livetrapped because he was trapped in our neighbor’s basement, and then went through Spay ‘n’ Stay.
Well, I guess that’s the professionals, too, although the final outcome was that he was re-released to the outdoors.
I always said our old house had cat hobo markings! As soon as there was a “vacancy” (and often when there was not), a cat would turn up seeking asylum. “Hi, I’m your new cat!”
Have you ever read “The Silent Miaow,” by Paul Gallico? If not, you should, if you can find a copy. It’s a manual for cats on how to take over and manage humans. Every word is true.
Oh my. I read that book *so* many times as a kid. I have got to get myself a copy.
Yay! Kitty has been saved! I feel better now! Thanks Georgia!
Oh, Elvis is mighty puffy! Love Tommy’s ski goggles. (And I’m very much looking forward to a compilation of Pucky’s charts/infographics sometime in the future.)
I just love the Man’s hat hair!! Hahaha!
Wonderful! Like so many others, I have a lump in my throat already about the kitten!
Several years ago I was buying cat food at the vet on a Christmas Eve afternoon when a crying woman came in with a carrier with a kitten inside. She had been driving on a busy street in town and the car ahead slowed down and someone tossed the kitten into a snowbank. She stopped and dug him out and since she had dogs she couldn’t take him home. The vet was full and couldn’t take him (No room in the inn!) and a whole waiting room of people just sat, so I said I’d take him. Claude is a big fat cat now, a bit whiny at times, but maybe he’s just reminiscing. I hope this little girl has as happy an ending!
What a lovely happy ending for Claude.
Oh! That was so sweet and caring of you to take home that poor little kitten who is now a big fat cat (love it!)–what terrible person would be so rude to toss a kitten out of a car into a snowbank???! Or to toss a kitten out anywhere?! It angers me to think of it.
I love poofy Elvis! And how smiley Tommy and his owner are! They are such a happy pair!
The protective gear chart had me laughing out loud !!
“The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!” ~ Ansel Adams In this case, it’s the brain directing the pen & brush ! Gorgeous, Georgia.
Lupin, that should have “May have been someOne outside”.
As a top officer – and admittedly one of the most annoying – in the Grammar Police, I’d have to disagree. Considering the previous headline was “There’s nothing outside”, and considering no one had as yet positively identified the “something”, Lupin got it right.
Lupin had previously only identified it as a “something”, Elvis still hadn’t seen it at all, and Puck only tentatively identified it as a tiny cat, though he didn’t sound too sure of himself. I suspect that when the kitten tapped on the window, it caused him to lose his hold on the window sill and fall back into the snow, so Elvis had nothing to go on but the rudimentary descriptions from his mates and a very startling tapping sound. Hence his especially poofy self in Panel 3. Then again, seeing cats outside (even when Elvis himself was outside) has always made him go poofy, so it’s also possible that Elvis really did see the kitten before he fell down. Besides which, the tapping sound alone would have been enough to trigger his alert system.
Daw’! Is she kneeding (or as Grandma says ‘making dough’) on the Man’s arm when he picks her up in panel 8? That is so sweet!
I think she’s shivering.
The way she was talking sounded like she might have been on her last legs. Loved the chart of protective gear and how Elvis went from angry to worried.
A location beacon? A good explanation for the pompom on many tuques.
Let’s steer the cats away from Cthulhoid explanations, shall we? Especially now that they know that there *can* be things Out There.
I laughed so hard at the “protective gear” descriptions.
A.) YAY!! Kitten got rescued!!
B.) I think the cold frozen Elvis’s fur in panel 3
C.) Hello to Sionyx!! After running calculations, equations, the only pawsibile solution was that Tommy’s owner and Tommy was flying down the street on a snowmobile, hence the goggles… Hehe “There’s snow more” hehe… Classic…
kitten is inside yay! the whole strip is so sweet. even puffed up Elvis though please don’t tell him i said so.
faster then supergirl tommy and the woman show up at the door awsome.
Ditto on all the other comments! They nicely covered what I would’ve written. Are you sure our little polydactyl kitten isn’t part raccoon with her sweet striped tail?
Lovely! I was so worried about Lost Kitten since Thursday, but I knew that the Boys would find a way to get the Woman and the Man to find her! As an earlier poster wrote, it’s true that you, Georgia, are so talented that you make us care *deeply* about fictional kitties; I already want to name the kitten Poly for her extra toes {g}!
Awwwww…
Thanks for saving the little fur ball.
=^~^= =^~^=
Did you see how fast Tommy and his owner got to Lupin, Puck,and Elvis’s house?
=^~^= =^~^[
Aw, sweet little girl. She gonna be okay?
Heartstrings plucked!
Oh! Tommy and his Woman to the rescue! Horray!
I got a kick out of that chart about winter gear: Location Beacon–guards against insanity! Haha! That’s just so true! I don’t go anywhere outside without wearing one of those these days.
I love that Tommy and his human have matches snow goggles.
Also is the kitten a Maine Coon, given her poly toes?
I’m hoping so too.
Elvis Puffed out with claws extended. Whew! Every time I hear my Shelly “talk meow” to me for a long time, I’ll hear “man, man, man…..”
It looks like the Man got her just in the nick of time!!
This is something that always seems to happen to us with dogs. We must have an invisible sign (well, invisible to humans anyway) that says “All wanderers welcome.”
When we lived in the country in TX, we would see people dump their dogs out of their vehicles and the poor dogs racing after them. We tried to get to the dogs before they hit the main road. At one point, we had 5 extremely sweet dogs, all dumped in the dead of winter that we fixed up and healed before finding them great homes.
Our gate is always open for sweet animals that need shelter and food. Though only one cat has shown up on our doorstep… Must be all the dogs!
People can royally stink. My father’s family adopted a dog who they figured out was dumped (clue was his reaction to the first car ride) and once Nick realized that car rides with THIS family always ended up back at home he was thrilled. Dad says Nick was one of the best dogs you ever could want.
Love it! The drawings are so good always captures so many different expressions.
Thank you Georgia for keeping it short!!! I, like eveyone else was worrying about freezing kitty pawsxxx
Most of what I’d say has already been mentioned by other people. XD One thing that HASN’T been is that I’m now picturing Tommy giving the kitten a big, fluffy, kitty hug to help warm her up (what with him being long-haired and all). I somewhat doubt that would be part of the procedure (at least in real life), but it would be adorable. ^_^
oh great goodness I must be emotional, this seriously made me leaky..
Ryan’s hair looks like mine when I take off my tuque !!!
(That’s a Canadian term, from where I’m from, up on the St. Lawrence River in NY, on the border). Je ne suis Canadienne, eh?
Sorry, that should be “Je ne suis pas”
This kind of reminds me of Lazarus the kitten.
https://youtu.be/ClcCBii9iQw
This is so cool!!!
Panel 3: your (the Woman’s) eyes, body posture, and puffy Elvis. I can feel her dialogue.
Cat. Comedy. Gold.
“Just a feeling I have” and “LET’S SAVE A CAT”. Once again, I disrupt my office environment because I could not contain the vast amount of awesome I absorbed from this comic. BCN continues to bring me joy after well over a year. Thank you, Georgia.
I don’t think I will ever see anything cuter than Tommy wearing ski goggles and a parka!
Thank you Georgia for this wonderful story. I love the pitiful look on Lupin’s face. He is really worried. Elvis all poofy is so cute. Puck was determined the Man would find the baby. The smile on Tommy’s face made me laugh out loud. Love it all.
LET’S SAVE A CAT!
Best line ever.
Thank you so much for BCN. I was hospitalised yesterday, which turned into a nightmare when I was injured because if the hospital. Other than driving over 125 miles to get back home to my Man and our cats, BCN is the only thing that has put a smile on my face. The kitten got rescued and you helped rescue me. Thank you for the smile you gave me.
Eva, I am so glad the comic could help, and I’m so sorry you were injured! I hope you will be feeling much better soon!
Man, the last five days felt like TWO MONTHS!
I’ve got a feeling this storyline will be good!
Let’s save a cat! Bless you, you kind soul, you. This friend of yours (the real life version and the BCN version!) is a true hero! Anybody who will go to such lengths out of compassion for an animal should be honored and praised in the highest.
Tommy’s Woman is a fabulous force to be reckoned with, especially when it comes to caring for/protecting animals! She’s fantastic, I’m so excited to have her in the story a little bit more during this series of strips.
It concerns me the little girl’s name isn’t in the cast listing. I’m still worried for her!
From her not minding the cold so much, may I hazard a guess that the polydactyl girl is a Maine Coon or Norwegian Forest breed?
I like the look of the Woman’s face when she is holding poofy Elvis.
Late this last fall a woman called the shelter to say she found a little kitten in the middle of the road on her way to work. She said he was very cold, had a bad URI and his eyes were stuck shut. Needless to say I told her to bring him out as quickly as possible. He weighed only 1/2 a pound, was indeed very cold and because of his clogged nose couldn’t nurse. Warm sub Q fluids, antibiotics warm towels, a heating pad, warm goat milk delivered into his mouth by syringe and a lot of nose cleaning, eye wiping, nebulizing and the determination of this little bundle of fluff and our grim determination that this kitten live paid off. While he never cried or rejected treatment, he purred almost non stop when he was awake. It took a week to get his eyes opened. An ulcer was discovered in one eye and it took several weeks of intense treatment to make it go away. He came in covered in fleas, of course, and examination showed that his back legs were coated with CAT LITTER. This poor baby had been in a home, but apparently when he got sick was put outside to fend for himself. I shouldn’t judge, but how else did he find himself in the middle of the road on a sub freezing morning? It took a couple of months to make him well, but after Christmas I decided the only thing to do was take him home. He still does cry, but purrs non stop.
I am so glad you adopted him!! Oh, my heart!
I like the “Tommy’s Woman” in the character list.
Ohmigoodness. I just noticed the kitten’s shiver lines. Aww…
I wish you would post them earlier in the day Georgia
It’s 8:58 am here and I am posting the comic while Toddler and Baby eat their breakfast. Right now in my life, this is the earliest possible moment I can post the comic and stay sane enough write the comic.
Noon east coast time is great because I get to read it with lunch!
Hey, two kids, three cats, and they are in the process of relocating. She’s doing the best she can, and I’d say that’s pretty darn good under the circumstances.
I’m just grateful to have it, any time, any where.
I don’t think I will ever see anything cuter than Tommy wearing ski goggles and a parka! (Except maybe Puffy Elvis in a sweater!).
I, too am very grateful to have it at all. I am on west coast time as well, and although it was really great to have you on Rhode Island time, since I got it early in my day, it is well worth waiting for. I consider it the best bi weekly gift I have ever received.
I really love this comic strip. My old cat Whiskey was a mixture of the personalities of Elvis and Lupin, with more than a little Puck thrown in. Defender of the family, yard guardian and best friend. People don’t realize how unique cat personalities are. Thank you Georgia.
Seriously “Time to walk through the snow, best bring my cat!”
I try to bring my cat in the snow, but my girlfriend goes no no no.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT! I have been out of commission for awhile and I am so glad to be back to BCN. The best cartoon of all time!
“Guards against insanity”. Is this a “Cards Against Humanity” reference?