February 15th, 2010
This is the final update of The Cat Comic. I hope you have enjoyed the cats’ silliness. Thank you so much for reading.
I am pleased to say that this is not the end of my cartooning but is, in fact, merely a transition from one comic to another. On the 1st of January this year I started a new comic: Girls in Space. This new comic tells the ongoing story of two spacegirls who land on an unfamiliar world. The new comic is full of jokes, spacegirls, sci-fi and… there’s a cat in it (or at least, there will be very soon.)
Once again, thank you for reading The Cat Comic. See you again, over at Girls in Space
October 7th, 2009
The Cat Comic regularly reports on cats who have made interesting journeys. Today’s story certainly fits the bill.
Geoffrey, a fifteen month old bengal travelled from his home in the Isle of Wight to Whitby in Yorkshire… in the luggage compartment of a bus!
Owners Cindy and Tim Whitbread feared that they would never see Geoffrey again after he disappeared three weeks earlier. The last thing they expected was that he would have hopped on board a bus headed for the mainland, especially as he is not a good passenger and the journey would have taken 10 hours and involved a ferry ride. It is thought that Geoffrey had found a tourist bus with an open luggage compartment and had decided to explore.
When found, vets had scanned Geoffrey for a microchip and, because he had been tagged, they were able to reunite him with his family.
If he tries it again, Geoffrey’s going to have to get a bus puss!
Read the full story on the Telegraph website.
October 5th, 2009
Whe
n a new-born Chihuahua’s mother died giving birth, Halo Animal Rescue, based in Phoenix, urgently had to find a solution to save the puppy’s life.
Worker Heather Allen called Animal Control to find another dog that was nursing but, worryingly, there were no dogs nursing at that time. All hope of saving the little black puppy seemed to be fading fast.
However, Allen applied some lateral thinking and came up with a remarkable and unconventional solution. She asked if there were any other animals nursing and discovered that there was a black cat who had recently had a litter of four kittens roughly the same size as the puppy.
The puppy was carefully introduced to the mother and her feeding kittens and, amazingly, she accepted it. The kitten’s mother seemed to have no objections about feeding an extra mouth, even if it happened to belong to a dog.
A week has since passed and the puppy, now named Leia, is thriving. Could this be the first step in building a bridge between cats and dogs?
Read the full story (and watch the adorable video) on the USA Today website.
October 2nd, 2009
The phrase “there’s not enough room to swing a cat” is used to describe cramped, enclosed spaces, but it may have left you wondering who, exactly, came up with the phrase and what reason they would have for swinging a cat around in the first place.
It is widely believed that the origin of the phrase has nothing to do with a real cat but a type of whip known as a cat-o-nine-tails.
The cat-o-nine-tails was used as a form of corporal punishment and it was a common form of discipline on sea voyages. Sailors would be taken on to the deck of the ship to be whipped because below deck there was not enough room to swing the cat, and this developed into the expression we are familiar with today.
Source: Wikipedia
September 30th, 2009
Ding dong bell
Pussy’s in the well…
You may be familiar with the nursery rhyme, but who could have known that the prophecy would come true?! But that’s exactly what happened when Mira the cat from Epping Forest became trapped half way down a 40 foot deep well.
Luckily for Mira, help was at hand thanks to the local Fire Brigade from Ongar. Using the latest vertical human relocation device (a ladder), the heroic fire crew were able to climb into the well and put Mira into a rescue bag, which was then hoisted up using the latest in rescue bag pulling technology (a rope).
Although cold and wet, Mira survived the experience unharmed and was glad to be reunited with her owners and a generous helping of cat food!
All’s well that ends (rescued from a) well.
Read the full story here.
September 28th, 2009
If you have mice, you get a cat. But what if you have supermice?
Enter the Supercat.
The Supercat is a type of hybrid cat bred by crossing African or South American wildcats with domestic cats. The most popular is the Savannah, half moggy, half serval (a cheetah-like African wildcat) which can be as much as three times larger than a regular kittycat and carrying a hefty £6,000 price tag.
Other breeds include the Safari (domestic cat meets South American Geoffroy’s Cat) and the caracat (created when a lynx-like Middle Eastern wildcat puts on a Barry White album and invites your home pussycat to dinner).
However, concerns have been raised over how dangerous these animals can be. In some parts of the US and Australia, it is thought that they are capable of killing koalas. In Britain, thanks to the Dangerous Wild Animals Act (DWAA), first generation supercats can only be kept under licence and in outdoor cages. Subsequent generations can be kept as normal pets.
There are fears that these powerful, potentially aggressive cats could be a threat to families with small children. The Savannah Cat Club of Great Britain (SCCGB) warns owners not to leave supercats with young children, adding that this is good advice for any breed of cat.
Hmm… could there be a business opportunity manufacturing “Beware of the Supercat” signs? To the sign-make-o-tron!
Read the full story at the Telegraph website.
