Yep…my three girls understand the word “LADIES” in a loud, annoyed tone means—no fighting!
They’re sisters from the same litter, but there are occasional dominance fights.
I win!
;-)))
The fights is my house are generally the younger three going after the eldest, the sweet-natured and mellow fellow who welcomed each one of them with kisses, never hissed or growled at them when they were kittens, and put up with their antics. Now I hear him hiss a lot, because he simply doesn’t want to fight, so the phrases heard all the time in my house are, “Leave Milo alone!” and “Quit harassing Milo!”
Oh, haha! I love when their little fangs come out. Literally makes me laugh out loud.
Beatrix with the camera is priceless… I love reading through the comments; you guys always end up seeing something I will miss. Gives me a chance to slow down for a minute and comb through each picture for those hidden gems.
Ah, the spray bottle. I tried it to dissuade my little Meg from going on counters or some such nonsense. It did had no effect but to result in her furiously staring at me and and bottle. It was obvious what she was calling me…
Ah yes…. The dreaded squirt bottle. All I have to do is point the bright blue one and the Fuzzballs scatter. I have a big one like yours as well, but it hasn’t the same dramatic impact.
Jingle Belle Katz used to have a part-time roommate, (he spent most of his time outside and came in for meals), a black and white neutered male called Oreo. Her Rotundity would stalk and pounce on him every time he came in, then there would be squalling, swatting and chasing no matter how much I wielded the deadly bottle o’ squirt. Oreo finally quit coming in at all.
Every cat owner I know has a spray bottle handy. I only have to pick mine up, it doesn’t even have to have water in it, and the fight suddenly comes to am end. Saves me from having stuff get wet. I only need it now and then so I guess it isn’t so bad. Love this strip as it reminds me of all the fur babies I have had all my life. Thank you Georgia.
I just mentioned this on Facebook, but I wanted to let everyone here know too: My book editor let me know a few days ago that the first printing of the book is almost 75% sold out through pre-orders! This means there may be a second printing soon–and the book does not even come out onto book shelves until May 10th!
Thank you, so, so much!! The better the book sells the better chance we have of eventually getting ‘Breaking Cat News’ into newspapers, and maybe hopefully a few more books down the road? (Nothing has been said on more books yet, I’m not teasing anything–I’m just being optimistic! Optimism’s free, but I’ve found it pays off when invested well).
I am so happy so many of you have already purchased the book! I can’t thank you enough! Even now, most of this post is just me shouting happy things at you all with exclamation points. I AM SO HAPPY! I HOPE YOU ARE HAPPY TOO!!! And now that there will be a second printing, so many of you will have books from the first printing! Hooray!!!
That is so wonderful Georgia! Congratulations! I hope you get a second printing right away! You have lots of fans who love to read about your kitties and your kiddies. Hooray!
I’m still hoping that the Christmas adventure of Elvis lost in the snowstorm gets published as a stocking stuffer book. It would be nice to see the same happen with the story of Freddie and Tillie.
Wonderful news. I pre ordered several copies as gifts and could not be more thrilled that I am not the only one. You have such a talent, and seem such an obviously kind person-I love it when good things happen to good people, and I am just delighted that I can be a very small part of that. I don’t have any artistic talent myself, but have long been of the view that those who do should be supported and encouraged. You go, Georgia !
Years ago I had a tiny kitten I decided to train with a water pistol. She was hovered over and protected by Norton, my alpha male. Everything was going well and she thought discipline was raining – literally-from above whenever she transgressed until one day when Norton saw me use it. It disappeared right after that and I never found it, even when I moved from that house. I know he put it someplace.
Georgia Congratulations whoo hoo let the balloons drop from the ceiling and the confetti fly. It’s time to celebrate!!!
picture me dancing an tossing confetti. SO HAPPY FOR YOU. You bring so much joy and laughter into our lives. LOVE BCN and YOU AND YOUR FAMILY that you share so generously with us.
your talent with this comic strip to which nothing else out there comes even close to being so unique and wonderful will have books flying off the shelves.
Love it, Its a perfect representation of what my 3 cats occ do, Including me squirting them with a water bottle to break it up.
Thanks you Georgia for these wonderful representations of cat life.
Terrific fangs there, for all! Our three fight sometimes, but not over territory – nobody has one special place that the others leave alone, they rather take turns using the various cat stands, boxes, etc. (We’ve got too many boxes on the floor, again!) But once in a while they getting into boxing matches anyway; it’s only the two siblings who sometimes actually tear out fur, though. And the water pistol, well, haven’t seen it around lately…. Congrats on the near full sales on your book, Georgia! I pre-ordered mine from Amazon months and months ago, now maybe I’d better increase the number from one to, oh 6 or so while I still can get the First Edition {g}!
I’m hoping this is a moment where the Woman announces her arrival with “BOYS…” in that threatening tone that all people in a multicat house know and which breaks up not-quite-catfights four times out of five. Glaring and posturing isn’t QUITE squirtbottle territory in out house.
Though I am quite prepared to accept that this is for comic effect.
Love Bea on the cameraphone! Bonus panel of her showing the recording to the Upstairs Cats, maybe? I can see Tabitha laughing herself silly.
I have three cats. The two youngest will “fight” sometimes and when the oldest cat gets tired of it he will walk between them. End of fight. Spraying with water doesn’t work for me. They look up as if to say “Is it raining in here”? And keep right on doing whatever they were doing in the first place.
The Woman should be wearing a blue helmet with UFN on it (United Furry Nations), as she looks nothing like Teddy Roosevelt or the US Marines …. Good luck with the peacekeeping efforts. Funny how a spray bottle (a Weapon of Mass Sogginess) is the ultimate deterrent.
We added a third cat to our household early in the new year, after he wandered into our garden and stuck around for awhile. It was a slow, somewhat difficult integration, but we’ve reached a point where all three can be on the bed at night without too much fuss.
The two boys still have regular paw slap fights, however, very similar to panels 2 and 3. But given that the claws aren’t out, I’ll take it.
Lol! I hiss or growl at my kitties when they fight…it totally confuses them and makes them stop to stare at me. I have a feeling they’re thinking, “your accent is terrible and you’re using those words completely wrong!”
Our 2 cats will do this now and again, usually ending with Brianna (6lb female) beating the snot out of Bixby (14lb male).
My wife and I usually only have to say “Enough!!” or “Be nice” and they both stop, unfortunately they will start it back up again in about 10 mins.
Bixby and I used to box at times, was cute, I always got the point when he had enough, he would grab my hand and hold it fast in his paws and pretend bite it then lick where he bit, repeating it a few times.
Oh, I’ve seen those kind of fights before. I actually adore that moment that they are just holding their paws up above their heads trying to be menacing.
Atticus did it to me once, but my paw was bigger!!
Our oldest cat, Champagne, does NOT like the other cats and would much prefer to be left alone. She also is prone to bladder crystals that can be triggered by stress and cause her to urinate outside the litter box.
So we have only one rule when the cats fight: “Chammie wins!”
My friend Gerry’s cat actually LIKES being sprayed with the spray bottle and if he sees her carrying it into the room to water the plants he will go to his spot on a towel and wait for her to mist him as well!!!
When I was a child, my Dad decided it would be fun to let our Siamese cats have kittens and then sell them. He didn’t do it for the money. He did it because he wanted to play with the kittens. Unfortunately, he would fall in love with at least one kitten from each litter. My mom put a stop to the operation when we ended up with 5 Siamese cats, four of whom were females. This was back in the late 50’s when spaying wasn’t a big deal, the only litter available was ground up corn cobs, and you couldn’t buy scratching posts in the local pet shop. Try to imagine having 4 female cats in heat at the same time. Anyway, most of the litters consisted of 5 kittens. We had a large scratching post that my dad constructed out of a small log and the burlap strips used in upholstery. The kittens loved to play king of the mountain on the scratching post. One would make it to the top where it would have to fend off the other four. Thanks for the memories, Georgia. Rest in Peace Squaller [aka Georgina], Big Bad John, Annabelle, Minnie the Moocher, and Sadie the Lady. Rest in peace, Dad, who named all the cats and Mom who put up with us all.
I have used the Squirt Bottle of Justice / Doom / whatever. My cats did not like it. Since it did not do them any harm (as a swatting might), it also meant that when a cat was very bad, the cat became very wet. They noticed when I went for the bottle: chilling effect.
As always, love the comic. And congrats on the success of the book!. One thing that never fails for my cats (two alpha females that tolerate each other) drop a few pennies is a clean soda can. If they misbehave, shake it. They stop whatever they are doing and run. Works every time. They don’t like that sound.
Oh, oh! hope all is well and all are healthy … we wait with baited breath for the next installment but know there are many things more important than giving us all our “fix” of breaking cat news! When the next episode appears we will all love it as we all love you.
What I love most about using the spray bottle is when one notices, and then the other turns to see what has the first spooked, and they both run without a shot fired, or with just a little spritz fired short of the battle.
Oh Dear, is Bea going to tweet the fight?
The same thing happens at my house. I wonder if Beatrix will post pictures of the fight on twitter?
Awww, poor kitties… about to be sprayed and they’re not even really fighting!
And Beatrix is just live-tweeting the battle.
And Beatrix capturing it all for posterity…
I ask for so little…PRICELESS! Stand your ground, Pucky!
uh oh, you know it’s bad when the squirt bottle of goodness shows up!
I see a certain young intern busy with a camera!
Yep…my three girls understand the word “LADIES” in a loud, annoyed tone means—no fighting!
They’re sisters from the same litter, but there are occasional dominance fights.
I win!
;-)))
The fights is my house are generally the younger three going after the eldest, the sweet-natured and mellow fellow who welcomed each one of them with kisses, never hissed or growled at them when they were kittens, and put up with their antics. Now I hear him hiss a lot, because he simply doesn’t want to fight, so the phrases heard all the time in my house are, “Leave Milo alone!” and “Quit harassing Milo!”
In our house it’s, “Break it up!”
Best. Fight Sequence. Ever.
SOCIAL MEDIA KITTEN IS ON THE JOB! <3
Yup. The ol’ spray bottle. That’s what we use at our house. Whoosh!
Oooh Beatrice in the corner hee hee
She’s posted one shot already! Who knows what she’ll do next.
OMG Beatrix in the last panel!
Ah yes, sometimes my grandmas cats play fight
Until I whistle, then they break it up..
Oh and I’ll bet 3 kitty treats on Puck to win over Elvis.
He has calm and wisdom…wins every time
Elvis: protective, yes, but easily poofy fur, lost a fight to an alpha female and also a mouse ( really now… )
Oh, haha! I love when their little fangs come out. Literally makes me laugh out loud.
Beatrix with the camera is priceless… I love reading through the comments; you guys always end up seeing something I will miss. Gives me a chance to slow down for a minute and comb through each picture for those hidden gems.
Oh no! The squirt bottle appears. Good way to put out the “fire.”
The Kittie No makes an appearance.
ah, the ole squirt bottle of justice!
That”s what happens when you ask for so little………And Beatrix snapping the picture…..priceless!
BTW, am I the only one hearing “I ask for so little” as David Bowie in “Labyrinth”?
The only thing missing is Tommy dressed in a wrestler cape and mask jumping onto them from the window!
Had to run over to Twitter to see Beatrix’s photo!
The Woman will give you boys a reason to not be happy!
Ah, the spray bottle. I tried it to dissuade my little Meg from going on counters or some such nonsense. It did had no effect but to result in her furiously staring at me and and bottle. It was obvious what she was calling me…
Love it!
Quick note: grammar/typo oopsie in Puck’s speech. Bird perch *belongs* to him, not belong.
Nope! Nopenopenopenope. ‘Frayed Georgia’s got it right:
simplified: “I ask that this perch belong to me.” (Does sound a bit odd though; probably because we seldom talk that way these days.
)
All the perch are belong to him! :p
Puck, being the good grammarian, is speaking in the subjunctive tense.
But Puck is a cat–and an annoyed one at that. Just be happy they don’t speak in LOLspeak.
I’m not so sure: “belong” might be correct in the infinitive. “I ask that this perch belong to me.”
Ahhh Pucky so polite …………. IT’S MINE! grammar sorted
The Woman’s face in the last panel! I love it!
Does BCN also have Instagram?
Sort of–there is an Instagram @breakingcatnews where I share real life photos of the boys! (And sometimes us).
Oh, my CAT ! NOW you’ve done it ! Here comes the Squirt Squad…and Bea is recording for CatTube and Kittygram…
BOYS! SETTLE DOWN!
Ah yes…. The dreaded squirt bottle. All I have to do is point the bright blue one and the Fuzzballs scatter. I have a big one like yours as well, but it hasn’t the same dramatic impact.
“Freeze tag combat.” So *that* is what it’s called. LOL
Thanks once again, Georgia, for creating a perfect comic!
Thank you, Lara!
Jingle Belle Katz used to have a part-time roommate, (he spent most of his time outside and came in for meals), a black and white neutered male called Oreo. Her Rotundity would stalk and pounce on him every time he came in, then there would be squalling, swatting and chasing no matter how much I wielded the deadly bottle o’ squirt. Oreo finally quit coming in at all.
These are so charming. And I own those cats.
Every cat owner I know has a spray bottle handy. I only have to pick mine up, it doesn’t even have to have water in it, and the fight suddenly comes to am end. Saves me from having stuff get wet. I only need it now and then so I guess it isn’t so bad. Love this strip as it reminds me of all the fur babies I have had all my life. Thank you Georgia.
Charming. I own these cats.
I just mentioned this on Facebook, but I wanted to let everyone here know too: My book editor let me know a few days ago that the first printing of the book is almost 75% sold out through pre-orders! This means there may be a second printing soon–and the book does not even come out onto book shelves until May 10th!
Thank you, so, so much!! The better the book sells the better chance we have of eventually getting ‘Breaking Cat News’ into newspapers, and maybe hopefully a few more books down the road? (Nothing has been said on more books yet, I’m not teasing anything–I’m just being optimistic! Optimism’s free, but I’ve found it pays off when invested well).
I am so happy so many of you have already purchased the book! I can’t thank you enough! Even now, most of this post is just me shouting happy things at you all with exclamation points. I AM SO HAPPY! I HOPE YOU ARE HAPPY TOO!!! And now that there will be a second printing, so many of you will have books from the first printing! Hooray!!!
Thank you!!!!
Wonderful news!
That is so wonderful Georgia! Congratulations! I hope you get a second printing right away! You have lots of fans who love to read about your kitties and your kiddies. Hooray!
Thank you, JoAnn!
I’m still hoping that the Christmas adventure of Elvis lost in the snowstorm gets published as a stocking stuffer book. It would be nice to see the same happen with the story of Freddie and Tillie.
I would love that too, Sue Ellen!
Wonderful news. I pre ordered several copies as gifts and could not be more thrilled that I am not the only one. You have such a talent, and seem such an obviously kind person-I love it when good things happen to good people, and I am just delighted that I can be a very small part of that. I don’t have any artistic talent myself, but have long been of the view that those who do should be supported and encouraged. You go, Georgia !
This is because your talent shines through your work. It’s great. Can’t wait for my book
Thank you, Andrew!
That means I will have a first edition..Yay!!
Years ago I had a tiny kitten I decided to train with a water pistol. She was hovered over and protected by Norton, my alpha male. Everything was going well and she thought discipline was raining – literally-from above whenever she transgressed until one day when Norton saw me use it. It disappeared right after that and I never found it, even when I moved from that house. I know he put it someplace.
love the ‘ mom look ‘ in the last panel.
Georgia Congratulations whoo hoo let the balloons drop from the ceiling and the confetti fly. It’s time to celebrate!!!
picture me dancing an tossing confetti. SO HAPPY FOR YOU. You bring so much joy and laughter into our lives. LOVE BCN and YOU AND YOUR FAMILY that you share so generously with us.
your talent with this comic strip to which nothing else out there comes even close to being so unique and wonderful will have books flying off the shelves.
Thank you, Alexa!!! *joins your confetti dance party*
Love the fangs and the positioning of the Boys. And, of course, it all being covered electronically by the tireless intern!
Love it, Its a perfect representation of what my 3 cats occ do, Including me squirting them with a water bottle to break it up.
Thanks you Georgia for these wonderful representations of cat life.
Why did you stop there?!
I wanted to see their grumpy ears after getting sprayed…
I love that Beatrix is capturing the fight with her phone!
Terrific fangs there, for all! Our three fight sometimes, but not over territory – nobody has one special place that the others leave alone, they rather take turns using the various cat stands, boxes, etc. (We’ve got too many boxes on the floor, again!) But once in a while they getting into boxing matches anyway; it’s only the two siblings who sometimes actually tear out fur, though. And the water pistol, well, haven’t seen it around lately…. Congrats on the near full sales on your book, Georgia! I pre-ordered mine from Amazon months and months ago, now maybe I’d better increase the number from one to, oh 6 or so while I still can get the First Edition {g}!
Aw, just a little love spat. Not fighting.
I’m hoping this is a moment where the Woman announces her arrival with “BOYS…” in that threatening tone that all people in a multicat house know and which breaks up not-quite-catfights four times out of five. Glaring and posturing isn’t QUITE squirtbottle territory in out house.
Though I am quite prepared to accept that this is for comic effect.
Love Bea on the cameraphone! Bonus panel of her showing the recording to the Upstairs Cats, maybe? I can see Tabitha laughing herself silly.
With my ferals it’s “none of that!” They seem to get the meaning.
wow, amazing presales Georgia. Great news.
Thank you!!!
I have three cats. The two youngest will “fight” sometimes and when the oldest cat gets tired of it he will walk between them. End of fight. Spraying with water doesn’t work for me. They look up as if to say “Is it raining in here”? And keep right on doing whatever they were doing in the first place.
Lupin is also completely immune to the spray bottle technique, sigh!
Heck, if two of ’em are from Purrfect Pals, they should’ve got used to rain before you got them. It IS the Pacific NorthWet for good reason.
The Woman should be wearing a blue helmet with UFN on it (United Furry Nations), as she looks nothing like Teddy Roosevelt or the US Marines …. Good luck with the peacekeeping efforts. Funny how a spray bottle (a Weapon of Mass Sogginess) is the ultimate deterrent.
We added a third cat to our household early in the new year, after he wandered into our garden and stuck around for awhile. It was a slow, somewhat difficult integration, but we’ve reached a point where all three can be on the bed at night without too much fuss.
The two boys still have regular paw slap fights, however, very similar to panels 2 and 3. But given that the claws aren’t out, I’ll take it.
I second that! So nice to see true talent rewarded and appreciated!
Thank you, Denise!!!
Dear Lady: Words cannot express my joy in your success!
may you continue to grow and accomplish great things. As to that, you already have!
Thank you, Taffy!!!
Lol! I hiss or growl at my kitties when they fight…it totally confuses them and makes them stop to stare at me. I have a feeling they’re thinking, “your accent is terrible and you’re using those words completely wrong!”
If I may be so bold as to quote a dog (albeit a famous dog)
Ruut Roo!
Gato Libre!
Our 2 cats will do this now and again, usually ending with Brianna (6lb female) beating the snot out of Bixby (14lb male).
My wife and I usually only have to say “Enough!!” or “Be nice” and they both stop, unfortunately they will start it back up again in about 10 mins.
Bixby and I used to box at times, was cute, I always got the point when he had enough, he would grab my hand and hold it fast in his paws and pretend bite it then lick where he bit, repeating it a few times.
In our household, the younger (by a couple weeks) male cat will sometimes come charging across the room at the older (barely) female cat.
Generally, all she has to do is look up and he stops. Sometimes he starts again, she raises a paw, and he slinks off.
Hi all, go to Twitter it’s so funny
Oh dear! Soon they will be all wet!
it’s like American Gladiators with them up on that podium, fantastic.
Oh, I’ve seen those kind of fights before. I actually adore that moment that they are just holding their paws up above their heads trying to be menacing.
Atticus did it to me once, but my paw was bigger!!
Congratulations Georgia !! *Joining the confetti conga line celebration *
Our oldest cat, Champagne, does NOT like the other cats and would much prefer to be left alone. She also is prone to bladder crystals that can be triggered by stress and cause her to urinate outside the litter box.
So we have only one rule when the cats fight: “Chammie wins!”
That is SO soooo awesome possum Georgia!
*hi-five* I read it on FB and I feel so glad that I ordered my copy! *happy jig*
My friend Gerry’s cat actually LIKES being sprayed with the spray bottle and if he sees her carrying it into the room to water the plants he will go to his spot on a towel and wait for her to mist him as well!!!
Of course I went to the Twitter feed as soon as I finished reading this, and wasn’t disappointed by Beatrix’s play-by-play of the outcome!
Makes us wonder if there were similar fights when Puck and Lupin first arrived. Maybe Beatrix could do a records search? Flashback Fotos!
Best face of the woman i’ve seen yet!
When I was a child, my Dad decided it would be fun to let our Siamese cats have kittens and then sell them. He didn’t do it for the money. He did it because he wanted to play with the kittens. Unfortunately, he would fall in love with at least one kitten from each litter. My mom put a stop to the operation when we ended up with 5 Siamese cats, four of whom were females. This was back in the late 50’s when spaying wasn’t a big deal, the only litter available was ground up corn cobs, and you couldn’t buy scratching posts in the local pet shop. Try to imagine having 4 female cats in heat at the same time. Anyway, most of the litters consisted of 5 kittens. We had a large scratching post that my dad constructed out of a small log and the burlap strips used in upholstery. The kittens loved to play king of the mountain on the scratching post. One would make it to the top where it would have to fend off the other four. Thanks for the memories, Georgia. Rest in Peace Squaller [aka Georgina], Big Bad John, Annabelle, Minnie the Moocher, and Sadie the Lady. Rest in peace, Dad, who named all the cats and Mom who put up with us all.
“”Seconds away……..Round 1……..”ding”””
Camera 1?
I have used the Squirt Bottle of Justice / Doom / whatever. My cats did not like it. Since it did not do them any harm (as a swatting might), it also meant that when a cat was very bad, the cat became very wet. They noticed when I went for the bottle: chilling effect.
NOPE! “Just fear me. Love me. Do as I ask, and I shall be your slave.”
Subjunctive mood-vesdtigial in English. Apparently he had a thorough English teacher in middle school
As always, love the comic. And congrats on the success of the book!. One thing that never fails for my cats (two alpha females that tolerate each other) drop a few pennies is a clean soda can. If they misbehave, shake it. They stop whatever they are doing and run. Works every time. They don’t like that sound.
This is just too funny!!!
My Feliz Navidad poster came today! Never too early for Christmas. Love the selfie, Lupin and buzzy mouse stickers too -adorable
Yay!!! Thank you for ordering that print!
great news on the book- can’t wait for my copy!!
Sorry for the stray “d” in “vestigial.” Typing on tablet.
It’d love to see how the picture the robber mouse turned out and what it looks like.
You mean the picture Beatrix is taking in the last panel?
This comic is now my phone wallpaper. Love that Puck!
Why does everyone in the world have a lovely ‘male-cat-protecting-helpless-kitten’ story but me? Why does my Buddy lack the caretaker gene???
But seriously, great story!
How do you thread comments? I’ve tried clicking on the “Reply” link and my comment appears as a new one.
Trying Permalink
Lol so funny
Oh, oh! hope all is well and all are healthy … we wait with baited breath for the next installment but know there are many things more important than giving us all our “fix” of breaking cat news! When the next episode appears we will all love it as we all love you.
Thank you, Taffy! All is well here, this one just took me a bit longer to paint than usual.
I know they can’t talk in real life, but I keep picturing Puck and Elvis having this conversation In real life.
What I love most about using the spray bottle is when one notices, and then the other turns to see what has the first spooked, and they both run without a shot fired, or with just a little spritz fired short of the battle.
The biggest fights in my home happen when the younger of my two cats decides the best cat toy in the world is his older brother’s tail.