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The Pride Cartoon for October 2011: "Inception, Part Deux"
BOMBSHELL UPDATES! from The Real Housecats of Queens County and The Young & The Feral
THE RUN FOR THE NOBEL PEST PRIZE!
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WELCOME! to the October 2011 issue of The Pride Cartoon E-news.... a publication of The Pride, The Award-Winning Reality Cat Cartoon Starring Crazy Johnny™.

Can you forgive me for being a disgraceful 6 months behind in my cartoons?  In my defense, it takes a cat 1 second to do something hilarious.  It takes me 2 hours to draw it.  Cats do hilarious things 24 hours a day.  Do the math and you'll forgive me.


Inception, Part Deux is finally here (hope it was worth the wait!) as well as BOMBSHELL UPDATES! in our continuing dramas, The Real House Cats of Queens County and The Young & The Feral.

Enjoy laugh, shop, forward to your friends, and send Johnny fan mail.  As you know, he doesn't get enough attention.

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The Pride Cartoon for October 2011
The sequel to Johnny's birthday cartoon from March 29th, 2011
(a little late... sorry)
"Inception, Part Deux"
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AND NOW...
 
.................................. Previously on Real Housecats
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... two pitbulls ripped each other a new nostril in the Real Housecats' back yard.  The bloody brawl resulted in a lawsuit against Julie's building which ended in a draconian ban on all pets from the yard by the evil co-op board. Poor Julie, who's most favoritest place in the world is her back yard, was sick with grief.  She tried the park, the front garden, even visiting friends' yards.   It was just no good. 

BOMBSHELL UPDATE: In a stunning legal upset, Julie won her yard privileges back!  On the warpath over this injustice, her mom campaigned for a seat on the co-op's board of directors, and with 4 other candidates from the shareholder body, won 5 of the 7 board seats. Top of the agenda (with restructuring increases that would have raised maintenance an exhorbitant 35%) was restoring yard privileges to the co-op's pets.  Horrah!  Julie has been out enjoying grass salad, the 3PM sun wedge and Brown Dove Theatre every good-weather day this summer.  In the afternoon she has the place pretty much to herself (excepting the odd porter, mover or mosquito which she does not mind so long as they don't call her "eff-ay-tee").  All is again right with her world (except when her "stupid little brother, Jack" is training for his Judo black belt or rehearsing TrueBlood on her neck). 

Will Jack ever stop biting Julie?  Will Mom keep her co-op board seat and continue to fight for the rights of the Real Housecats?  Will those brown doves ever stay still long enough to catch one?!  Stay tuned to The Real Housecats of Queens County!

   


................ Previously on Y&F...............
.. Sylvia, the beautiful, long haired alpha female of Aunt Betty's porch colony, was held in quarantine with a flu during recovery from routine spaying.  During an ab
sence of only two weeks, her husband, Adolfo, the alpha male of Aunt Betty's porch colony (already neutered but still, apparently, attractive to the ladies), took up with a new younger woman!  HalfTail (a very young, very pretty, all gray female cat with only a stump of a tail) was pregnant by Bangs!  Knowing the unfaithful Bangs would not provide, HalfTail used the opportunity of Sylvia's absence to move in on her husband, an older, stabler man (and a  property owner) and had her kittens in their house! (the very cozy, triple-insulated winter cat shelter designed by Ashot, created by Reinier, purchased for them by Jane and placed on Aunt Betty's porch.) Sylvia returned from infirmary to find her husband shacking up with another woman, divorced Adolfo, and left the porch.

  

Jackie and Sandra, a.k.a. The Piranha Sisters, lost their (cat) brother Lionel to bone cancer, their (cat) sister Caroline to liver disease, and the worst blow of all, their (human)  mom, Dottie to C.O.P.D. all within a few short months. They lived virtually alone in their house for almost a year during the turbulent crisis and aftermath (family visiting every day, of course) until arrangements could be made.  They then endured a chaotic renovation of their house from a 100-year-old dustbin into a cool, cat-centric NYC vacation rental house for tourists (the brainchild of their (human) sister, Jane, who inherited them plus their 18 feral cousins outside, with no way to maintain them all).  Jackie and Sandra were confused and devastated. They did not understand that Aunt Betty's Isabelle, a long-haired Birman with congestive heart failure, could not endure the excitement of two new cats in her home, or that Jane's asthma precludes any more cats than the two she lives with already (thanks only to Benadryl and Prednisone).  But they need not have feared. Their family always had their back.  After what must have seemed an eternity to them (not that they wished her ill, but) Isabelle lost her battle and Jackie and Sandra moved in with Aunt Betty.  Both cats were instantly happy.  Jackie claimed the kitchen table as her base of operations, and, exactly as in her own home before, cannot abide any object to be placed upon it.  Sandra (who used to hide in the mattress and scream at the sight of any living thing) was right at home the first night!  

BOMBSHELL UPDATES!

Fearing Halftail's kittens would fall from the porch, or fall victim to Sylvia's revenge, Aunt Betty took the dainty and pretty young mother and her family in.  They lived in her guest room during the two months the kittens were nursing.  When the kittens w
ere of a proper age, Aunt Betty got them adopted to good homes.  Andrea and Sophie from the Upper West Side were overjoyed to adopt Izzy and StuMouse (together with a red kitten from another litter) went home with Tom and Adam from Columbia University.  And many congrats to my good friend Sarah on the adoption of Squeak!, who is now called Puccini (a.k.a. "Pooch") and quite possibly the most loved cat on earth.  Pooch's Mom, a DIY Goddess, made Pooch a custom cat tree and a toilet training apparatus (which appears to be working) with her own bare hands!  Wow!  Now that's a good home!

But in a dramatic turn, our Ms. HalfTail now spayed and an indoor/outdoor cat, is a rags to Alexis Carrington story!   She has declared herself Queen of not only Aunt Betty's porch, but her whole house!  Although deferential and submissive when her kittens were in the picture, HalfTail emerged from motherhood bossy and controlling, and will not suffer Jackie and Sandra to have anything of their own, or do anything of their own choosing.  She herds them around like cattle, stands on their backs, and takes their toys and food at will.  Jackie and Sandra are being treated like Cinderellas by a wicked step sister!  Having suffered so many losses, they don't deserve this!  Who does this upstart think she is!?  

Aunt Betty's efforts at "discipline" with HalfTail are weak.  She shakes a finger ineffectually and says, "Stop it!", then kisses HalfTail on the head.  HalfTail says, "I'm going to eat Jackie's dinner." Aunt Betty, instead of giving her a smack on the bum says, "No, sweetheart, here's your own plate."  Then HalfTail eats her plate and Jackie's too. 

Jane visits often while minding the guest house, which is just up the street.  She is horrified by the stories Jackie tells of HalfTail's abuse, and encourages her to stand up for herself. 
"A bully can't bully you if you don't take it!" she says.  But Jackie wants no part of battle, and would retires to her box at the top of the stairs.  Is this a way to live?  Jane wishes she could take Jackie and Sandra home with her, but even if she could it would be no better for them with Judo Jack the Vampire Cat who is just like HalfTail but twice as big.  It's his teenage dream to have a harem of girl cats to boss around. 

Jane said to Aunt Betty, "if I had the money, I'd
buy Jack and HalfTail an apartment and put them together.  They're made for each other. <sigh>  what am I going to do with all these cats....."

Meanwhile.... Call it comeuppance for stepping out on his sick wife: Adolfo contracted a mysterious and terrible illness this summer.  He was half dead from malnutrition, unable to eat from some fearsome affliction of the mouth and gums.  Forever alpha, and confirmed feral, he had to be wrestled into a cage by professional trappers in order to get him to a vet.  He was on meds for 3 weeks before showing any sign of improvement.  As stubborn as he was sick, he refused Aunt Betty's repeated invitations to stay indoors while recuperating, and insisted on holding his post on the porch.  He is recovered now, although shaken by his brush with death, and remains King of the Porch.  Only his friend Snake and HalfTail are allowed to visit.  However, HalfTail, who used to cling to him and gaze at him adoringly when she was a cat in need, is now Queen of her own home, never mind porch, coming and going at will with her nose in the air.  Black Shuck is still his sworn enemy and is thrown down backwards in clouds of black hair and claws if he tries to come up the stairs.  (Black Shuck will often wait until the wee hours of night when Adolfo is asleep in his house to sneak up the stairs and steal a few bites of tuna from his bowl.  God have mercy on his soul if he is caught.) 

Sylvia has not been seen since leaving Adolfo.

Will Sylvia ever return?  Will Adolfo's health hold through another winter outdoors?  Will Jackie stand up to HalfTail?  Will Jack and HalfTail end up together in their own apartment?  Will Black Shuck ever get a bite of tuna?  Stay tuned to The Young and The Feral.

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NOBEL PEST PRIZE UP FOR GRABS
Nobel No-Peace Laureate, Crazy Johnny
To Name Successor

The hell-raising star of The Pride Cartoon is now taking nominations from the feline public for his very own Nobel Pest Prize.  The pestigious award (also known as the Nobel No-Peace Prize) has thus far been awarded to only one cat, Crazy Johnny himself.  Hailed as a genius and true innovator in the field of mayhem,  Johnny is the Founder and Chairman of the Nobel No Peace Committee and has earned the award hands down for twelve straight years.  Applicants will be judged against his lofty standard.  If your cat has the makings of a Nobel Pest, he or she may apply for the prize by posting resumes at the Discussions area of our Facebook page.  Candidates must be able to demonstrate a genuine talent for, and history of creating, fostering and perpetuating an atmosphere of Bedlam.  The winner will receive a framed, personalized Nobel Pest Prize certificate, and his or her bio & resume will be printed in a future edition of The Pride Cartoon™ E-news.  Best of luck to all applicants.  May the worst cat win!  -JD

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Purrs,
Jane Denny  l   Creator, The Pride Cartoon™
(NOT that crazy cat lady) 
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