It has been freezing here in the North East, so I thought I’d warm things up in the comic with a strip about heating vents! We had heating vents in the floor at our old house in Seattle and the boys just loved them! (And in real life, Puck and Lupin conspired to take the covers off. Puck would pull them up and off with his paw, and Lupin would stick his head in, while one of us ran at him in a panic like above).
Same here with the cold. I don’t think our cats know about the heat vents, they prefer our toasty beds – especially with the blankets and sheets fresh from the dryer!
Used to have a gas stove with a pilot light. The kitties would all pile on. They used it more than I did. Georgia, when are you going to publish a book of cartoons of these sweet boys?
Hi Georgia, I can’t thank you enough for posting your wonderful art of the kitties (and the real life pictures). I miss not having kitties around, and Lupin and Puck remind me of white and black kitties I had (when I was young). Our first family cat (Fluffy — big, white and fluffy) used to sit at night on the oil burner in the basement, or on the top of the oven, and put her paws by the pilot light. Thank you! JoAnn
You’re welcome JoAnn!! And that is adorable–isn’t it amazing how they seek out heat? And somehow never manage to get too fire-damaged in the process, ha!
ROFL on the last panel! Lupin is a real character. I have a gray Rotisserie Method kitty plastered up against a heater vent right now, and the pet beds are on (they are special beds that only get up to about 102F and only increase in heat with pressure.)
Our heaters are on the wall (mostly below windows, which I have never understood), so our fur-babies can’t sprawl, sadly! One part of our very very cold winter this year is that there’s been *lots* of sunshine, though, and in the early to mid-afternoon it’s not unusual to find all three of them in our bedroom on the third floor, luxuriating in sun patches and looking positively decadent in their happiness….
The heaters are below the windows to prevent the feeling of drafts. Depending on how good your windows are, turn the heat off for a while and stand near one, you will feel a current of cool/cold air going down the wall from the window (if you have old, inefficient windows as I do). By heating the air or blowing the heated air from below the window, it heats that cold current and eliminates it.
Thank you for that explanation, Gene! I was always puzzled by the positioning of heaters here in Montreal, but your description of the rationale behind it makes perfect sense. It’s a good day when I learn something new, so thanks again {g}!
We lived in a house with a floor furnace in Austin and all the cats would crowd around it in the morning to warm their faces. Of course, the humans would stand OVER the grate, with robes billowing. It was heaven!
I wish we had heating vents. I’ve never lived in a place where I control my own heat, so it’s been a constant dance with landlords to provide us what the law requires. Our current one “forgot to flip a switch” a few days ago and we were frigid (it’s since been fixed). Thank goodness for space heaters!
We have some of those kitty heaty pads, and they are the most popular things EVAR, even in the summer. >_<
(I originally bought one for old thin cat, then bought one per cat to make sure old thin cat would always have one available. Old thin cat has passed on, but the heaty pads remain.)
Long time ago I had a ‘meezer named Zooey, she used to sit on the heat vents and kinda burned the fur off her butt..try explaining THAT to the vet during her senior check-up! P.S. She was fine,she’d move before it hurt her.
Brings me fond memories of my old gas space heaters. Sometimes I feared the cats and dogs sharing the rug in front of the heater would combust and disappear like “the gingham dog and the calico cat.”
In our home, the heating vent outlets are in the walls next to the floor, and Elwood can be found snuggled next to one any time my wife is not sitting in the recliner with her legs elevated. Then he will be on her lap or laying between her calves. Jake likes to be in the Cat Play Pen in the four seasons room. Its cushioned shelves are just above one of the forced air outlets that warm that room. Smart boys know how to stay warm and cozy!
LOVE YOUR STRIP! Today’s reminded me of our old dude (16), Cassius, who sits in front of our gas fireplace, staring until I take the hint and turn on the fire. Then he lies down in front of it, totally blessed out.
When I lived in a mobile home park, our house’s heating vents were under the floors and had very loose grills, so at least once or twice I had to pull our cats out from them…
Funny… I thought everyone had floor vents! 🙂 My 16 yr old girl loves the one in the floor in the kitchen. She doesn’t sit on it, but she sits very near it. Her most favorite place, though, is on top of the DVR, which keeps her old bones very warm, too.
haha. After I got the 2nd of my 2 kitties I realized I hadn’t seen them in awhile, started searching and found out: a) my floor register covers weren’t screwed down, and b) both cats were in the ducts. Much scarier than the laundry chute!
I enticed them with food and they popped up – covered in dust. Registers are now screwed down.
Our two Heatseekers were Duke and Cabie. Routinely blocked two kitchen vents and the room temp dropped. Duke often pulled out the vent cover to get closer to the heat source.
Amelia Pond is the first cat I’ve had who likes to hog all the heat in a room by going into turkey/meatloaf pose and covering the entire vent: wasn’t big enough to cover the whole vent last year, but this year … took me a minute to figure out why a room wasn’t getting warm.
I do worry about her getting a burn from the metal, tho’ …
It’s nice to see Elvis smiling for a change. Only one of my two kitties goes for the heating vent. I finally placed a comfy basket over his main vent so he’d still get the heat but I no longer worry about him burning himself on the metal. He pretty much stays there all winter long. I would love to see an episode that involved catnip. I’m so glad I found this website. I look forward to Mondays now & that helps me make it till the next strip on Thursdays.
Georgia,
there has been great contention all over the internet for many days. I think it is time to end this with the word from the woman who knows. Please settle a debate for us…
Is Lupin a black cat with blue eyes or a white cat with gold eyes?
My cats are the same way, except the heat vents are in the wall in my room. One of them is right under my desk, so I have to check underneath it before I push my chair in now. :3
The ones downstairs are all floor-type ones, though. They haven’t tried pulling the vents up, but then most of them are hiding under furniture with covers to redirect the hot air. When we were kids, my brother and I used to grab a blanket and sit right next to the register with the blanket on the vent while we read for a bit. My old kitty, Iddy Biddy, did the same when she was older, thought she skipped the blanket and the book. I’ll have to post a pic to twitter and show you, next time I’m on the compy (on my tablet right now).
My girl cat sits in a basket next to the woodstove for 18 hours a day during the winter, occasionally rotating for even distribution. When my dad starts the fire sometimes on a cold night, he backs up to the table the basket is on, and she stands up and kneads his back. It’s adorable.
It has been freezing here in the North East, so I thought I’d warm things up in the comic with a strip about heating vents! We had heating vents in the floor at our old house in Seattle and the boys just loved them! (And in real life, Puck and Lupin conspired to take the covers off. Puck would pull them up and off with his paw, and Lupin would stick his head in, while one of us ran at him in a panic like above).
I added a picture of Puck and Elvis enjoying one of them on the “Real photos” page! http://www.breakingcatnews.com/about-breaking-cat-news-2/photos-of-the-real-elvis-puck-and-lupin-and-the-people-too/
Same here with the cold. I don’t think our cats know about the heat vents, they prefer our toasty beds – especially with the blankets and sheets fresh from the dryer!
Rollin’ in the warms!
It’s great that something makes Elvis so happy – panel three is beatific! They are the sweetest cats and they do love those warms, as do my cats.
Shout out to Elvis with his “cutes” on in panel three. Love the “cutes.”
Used to have a gas stove with a pilot light. The kitties would all pile on. They used it more than I did. Georgia, when are you going to publish a book of cartoons of these sweet boys?
Hopefully someday!!! It’s on my “hopes and dreams” list, ha!
Hi Georgia, I can’t thank you enough for posting your wonderful art of the kitties (and the real life pictures). I miss not having kitties around, and Lupin and Puck remind me of white and black kitties I had (when I was young). Our first family cat (Fluffy — big, white and fluffy) used to sit at night on the oil burner in the basement, or on the top of the oven, and put her paws by the pilot light. Thank you! JoAnn
You’re welcome JoAnn!! And that is adorable–isn’t it amazing how they seek out heat? And somehow never manage to get too fire-damaged in the process, ha!
the rotisserie method!!! Puck is so silly! Thanks for continuing to make me smile twice a week!
ROFL on the last panel! Lupin is a real character. I have a gray Rotisserie Method kitty plastered up against a heater vent right now, and the pet beds are on (they are special beds that only get up to about 102F and only increase in heat with pressure.)
They all look so blissful! I love the rotisserie roll.
Our heaters are on the wall (mostly below windows, which I have never understood), so our fur-babies can’t sprawl, sadly! One part of our very very cold winter this year is that there’s been *lots* of sunshine, though, and in the early to mid-afternoon it’s not unusual to find all three of them in our bedroom on the third floor, luxuriating in sun patches and looking positively decadent in their happiness….
The heaters are below the windows to prevent the feeling of drafts. Depending on how good your windows are, turn the heat off for a while and stand near one, you will feel a current of cool/cold air going down the wall from the window (if you have old, inefficient windows as I do). By heating the air or blowing the heated air from below the window, it heats that cold current and eliminates it.
Thank you for that explanation, Gene! I was always puzzled by the positioning of heaters here in Montreal, but your description of the rationale behind it makes perfect sense. It’s a good day when I learn something new, so thanks again {g}!
We lived in a house with a floor furnace in Austin and all the cats would crowd around it in the morning to warm their faces. Of course, the humans would stand OVER the grate, with robes billowing. It was heaven!
ROASTY TOESIES!!!!
I wish we had heating vents. I’ve never lived in a place where I control my own heat, so it’s been a constant dance with landlords to provide us what the law requires. Our current one “forgot to flip a switch” a few days ago and we were frigid (it’s since been fixed). Thank goodness for space heaters!
We have some of those kitty heaty pads, and they are the most popular things EVAR, even in the summer. >_<
(I originally bought one for old thin cat, then bought one per cat to make sure old thin cat would always have one available. Old thin cat has passed on, but the heaty pads remain.)
Long time ago I had a ‘meezer named Zooey, she used to sit on the heat vents and kinda burned the fur off her butt..try explaining THAT to the vet during her senior check-up! P.S. She was fine,she’d move before it hurt her.
Brings me fond memories of my old gas space heaters. Sometimes I feared the cats and dogs sharing the rug in front of the heater would combust and disappear like “the gingham dog and the calico cat.”
In our home, the heating vent outlets are in the walls next to the floor, and Elwood can be found snuggled next to one any time my wife is not sitting in the recliner with her legs elevated. Then he will be on her lap or laying between her calves. Jake likes to be in the Cat Play Pen in the four seasons room. Its cushioned shelves are just above one of the forced air outlets that warm that room. Smart boys know how to stay warm and cozy!
LOVE YOUR STRIP! Today’s reminded me of our old dude (16), Cassius, who sits in front of our gas fireplace, staring until I take the hint and turn on the fire. Then he lies down in front of it, totally blessed out.
When I lived in a mobile home park, our house’s heating vents were under the floors and had very loose grills, so at least once or twice I had to pull our cats out from them…
We have radiant heat. We know where the pipes criss-cross due to divining rods also known as Heidi, Sean, and Jenny.
Funny… I thought everyone had floor vents! 🙂 My 16 yr old girl loves the one in the floor in the kitchen. She doesn’t sit on it, but she sits very near it. Her most favorite place, though, is on top of the DVR, which keeps her old bones very warm, too.
There’s a heating vent under my desk – not unusual to surprise a cat (or two…) basking in the hidey hole there.
haha. After I got the 2nd of my 2 kitties I realized I hadn’t seen them in awhile, started searching and found out: a) my floor register covers weren’t screwed down, and b) both cats were in the ducts. Much scarier than the laundry chute!
I enticed them with food and they popped up – covered in dust. Registers are now screwed down.
OMG! Not just scary but holy moley that must have been funny! Thanks for the chuckle!
Yelling at Lupin? isn’t he deaf? Yelling at a deaf cat is about as useful as … I dunno, yelling at a cat that CAN hear.
It’s so true! If it helps, 90% of the time we immediately follow it up with, “…Why am I—?” and frantic waving/signing to him, hahaha!!!
Is ok…I constantly talk to my blind/deaf dog…”oh look at that!” Then roll my eyes at my own silliness! haha!
Puck’s strategy is the same as his “roll with the tide” strategy from last week. He’s consistent. 🙂
rotisserie for the win!!
Has Lupin actually done that?
Head first, yes, but never past his shoulders, thankfully!
I love the photos of the boys in ties. Heating vents are awesome. I like the rotisserie method too
Athena also likes vents, and recently the internet modem: [img]http://i.imgur.com/6yLPkJO.jpg?1[/img]
Our two Heatseekers were Duke and Cabie. Routinely blocked two kitchen vents and the room temp dropped. Duke often pulled out the vent cover to get closer to the heat source.
I cannot believe how jealous I am of cartoon cats! I want a heating vent to cuddle on – it is freezing at my desk!
I love this comic!
Me too, although being in England not so much snow and cold this year, as rain, rain and oh, yet more rain.
Don’t know how you all cope with the snow, as the whole country grinds to a halt with 2cms of the stuff over here! and it always takes us by surprise
Amelia Pond is the first cat I’ve had who likes to hog all the heat in a room by going into turkey/meatloaf pose and covering the entire vent: wasn’t big enough to cover the whole vent last year, but this year … took me a minute to figure out why a room wasn’t getting warm.
I do worry about her getting a burn from the metal, tho’ …
It’s nice to see Elvis smiling for a change. Only one of my two kitties goes for the heating vent. I finally placed a comfy basket over his main vent so he’d still get the heat but I no longer worry about him burning himself on the metal. He pretty much stays there all winter long. I would love to see an episode that involved catnip. I’m so glad I found this website. I look forward to Mondays now & that helps me make it till the next strip on Thursdays.
Yay! Catnip kitties, not that I want to encourage drug use or anything
Georgia,
there has been great contention all over the internet for many days. I think it is time to end this with the word from the woman who knows. Please settle a debate for us…
Is Lupin a black cat with blue eyes or a white cat with gold eyes?
HAHAHAHA!!!
Tomcats on the underfloor heating? Kind of a tom-ic hypocaust. (Runs like hell)
Oh, no, you didn’t!
My cats are the same way, except the heat vents are in the wall in my room. One of them is right under my desk, so I have to check underneath it before I push my chair in now. :3
The ones downstairs are all floor-type ones, though. They haven’t tried pulling the vents up, but then most of them are hiding under furniture with covers to redirect the hot air. When we were kids, my brother and I used to grab a blanket and sit right next to the register with the blanket on the vent while we read for a bit. My old kitty, Iddy Biddy, did the same when she was older, thought she skipped the blanket and the book. I’ll have to post a pic to twitter and show you, next time I’m on the compy (on my tablet right now).
As always, wonderful, fun comic! 😀
Please do, I’d love to see! 😀
My girl cat sits in a basket next to the woodstove for 18 hours a day during the winter, occasionally rotating for even distribution. When my dad starts the fire sometimes on a cold night, he backs up to the table the basket is on, and she stands up and kneads his back. It’s adorable.
That last panel just kills me!