The Cat Comic » Blog http://www.thecatcomic.com Quirky Cat Cartoons every Monday, Wednesday and Friday Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:00:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Cat Comic Re-runs http://www.thecatcomic.com/2010/04/19/the-cat-comic-re-runs/ http://www.thecatcomic.com/2010/04/19/the-cat-comic-re-runs/#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:01:18 +0000 James Spence http://www.thecatcomic.com/?p=868 Hi folks,

Rather than The Cat Comic sitting doing nothing, I thought I’d reschedule all the old comics to run again, so every Monday, the site will update. The complete archive will continue to be available, should you wish to see all 55 cats.

Sorry there’s no new material here. However, my new comic Girls in Space brings fresh new sci-fi fun twice weekly.  Hope you can stop by to read the story.

Spencey

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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.

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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.

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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.

Whee!

Source: Wikipedia

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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.

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