''Breaking Cat News'' is a syndicated comic strip created by cartoonist

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. It is syndicated through

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Publication history

Dunn created the strip after moving back to her native

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after living in

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. The strip debuted on March 12, 2014, at first self-syndicated by Dunn; and has appeared on the

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website since October 20, 2014.

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published the first collection of the strip in 2016. Dunn wrote in the foreword that she got the idea when one of her cats made a mess and the others showed up as if to investigate, which led Dunn to create voices for them as if they were

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reporters.

Characters and story

The main characters in ''Breaking Cat News'' are based on Dunn's own cats Elvis, Lupin, and Puck, augmented by recent arrivals Goldie, Iggy, and Ora Zella. They are drawn in watercolor and ink. The characters' personalities are based on the personalities and behavior of their real-life counterparts. Also in the cast are a human family originally referred to as the Woman, the Man, the Toddler, and the Baby. In a January 5, 2020 broadcast, when the Baby becomes a toddler, they change the reference terms to The Boy and The Girl. Other people, cats, and a few other domestic and wild creatures appear as the live coverage continues. Because this is "news important to cats", a typical lead story might be "There's a great big box in the living room!" or "Someone ate all the flowers and threw up in the hallway." There are larger story arcs, such as Tommy the stray finding his Woman, the Children developing (learning to walk, potty training, becoming Toddlers), the weather, the People buying a house, et cetera.

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