If they are all in the same place and all staring in the same direction then I have to conclude that someone has finally learned how to herd cats.
So this is obviously fiction, and not very science….
@JJYoyo: More likely @Tor’s idea of a laser pointer getting them all fascinated at the same spot. Or maybe an extraterrestrial mouse. (Can’t be a bird — none of them are chattering)
October 26th, 2022 at 8:46 am
I cat quite put my finger on it, but something tells me it should have been called “Decision At Dinner”…
October 26th, 2022 at 12:09 pm
Funny that it’s a Corgi book.
Judging from their fixed, staring eyes, I think the decision was … to chase that laser pointer.
October 26th, 2022 at 12:21 pm
Corgies of Doona…meet your new feline overlords.
October 26th, 2022 at 12:22 pm
@Tor – you beat me to it!
…and GSS 🙂
October 26th, 2022 at 12:39 pm
They are standing for their national anthem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9I7U4nuR_I
October 26th, 2022 at 1:25 pm
fred@5: Nah!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gd_ohoPzYc
October 26th, 2022 at 2:11 pm
Here in Australia a doona is a type of quilted blanket so I imagine the decision is whether to shred it or piss on it.
October 26th, 2022 at 3:09 pm
@Fred, NomadUK: I suspect it was more like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlUoaXXG_YY
(Or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSTBFZ-To2E – the original mix was meaner but I can’t find a video with the 70s CoI film he sampled.)
October 26th, 2022 at 3:42 pm
@FB: Or on “Star Trek.”
Ah doona think th’ shields wull withstand anither Klingon blast!
October 26th, 2022 at 4:50 pm
After the votes had been counted at Doona, the decision was that the “Nays” had defeated the “Yays”, but only by a whisker.
October 26th, 2022 at 5:29 pm
Quick! Call Confuse-A-Cat!
October 26th, 2022 at 5:37 pm
@Ryan
The defeated “Yea” voters responded with catcalls.
October 26th, 2022 at 6:11 pm
Time for some tuna!
October 26th, 2022 at 10:11 pm
GSS to the mouseover text.
I read this book many decades ago, and while the aliens were cat-like, I don’t remember them all looking alike and staring en masse.
@FB: why not both?
@JuanPaul: too late for CoC?
October 26th, 2022 at 10:19 pm
If they are all in the same place and all staring in the same direction then I have to conclude that someone has finally learned how to herd cats.
So this is obviously fiction, and not very science….
October 27th, 2022 at 1:14 am
Woohoo !
I just subbed a cover 🙂
October 27th, 2022 at 1:16 am
@GSSxn – Mobile phone here. What’s the mouseover text say ?
October 27th, 2022 at 2:00 am
@Fred, Nomad, and Tat – I think you’re ready to see how the Decision at Doona really went down:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spuoivlh79I
@GSS x-n – I also vaguely recall reading a couple of the books in this series. If this was the first cover I had seen, I’d have given it a hard pass.
@JuanPaul – ah, childhood well wasted. Again, no idea where my car key is at this moment, but I remember that skit vividly…
October 27th, 2022 at 3:57 am
Looks like they’ve been hitting the gym (clearly, not terrestrial cats.)
October 27th, 2022 at 4:50 pm
@The Blue: It says Pussy Galore.
October 27th, 2022 at 5:25 pm
Thanks, Tor !
October 27th, 2022 at 8:09 pm
@JJYoyo: More likely @Tor’s idea of a laser pointer getting them all fascinated at the same spot. Or maybe an extraterrestrial mouse. (Can’t be a bird — none of them are chattering)
@Emster: I think I read it in this cover:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/5118k9FHscL.jpg
Which is also meh, but at least the aliens don’t look like cloned moggies who’ve been hitting the gym.
Why “at” Doona? That’s the name of the whole planet, it should be “on”.
October 27th, 2022 at 9:09 pm
@GSS ex-Noob: ‘Decision at Doona’ is every audience-member’s choice as to when to bail when watching ‘Jupiter Rising’ or ‘Cloud Atlas’.
Or it’s whether to have a dessert after a Goan Shrimp. Just five minutes from this cinema.
October 28th, 2022 at 3:02 am
The Decision at Doona that I want to be made is:
is a group of Zombie Clone Cats still called a clowder(Yes/No)?
October 28th, 2022 at 5:11 am
@Hammy: Zowder, obvs.
October 28th, 2022 at 3:56 pm
TM@20: Then maybe it should be retitled ‘Decision at Druuna’.
November 6th, 2022 at 12:28 pm
I must say I am sorely disappointed. Not one cheap joke referring to CATS: The Musical! What’s the world coming to?
November 6th, 2022 at 5:12 pm
@ARY: It must have slipped my Memory.
November 7th, 2022 at 12:59 am
@ARY: There are no putative buttholes to see in this shot. Doesn’t look like any singing or dancing either.
Maybe this is the much less successful rip-off, “Catatonic Cats”.