Carnival of The Cats #576

Hello, all you happy pussies!

How's it hanging?

No, no, no, silly, your TAIL! Straight up, straight down, at an angle, a bit twisty, or are you one of those felines saying "tail? what tail?" because you no longer have one, or never had one in the first place?

Sneakers tail is about 11 in. straight, from butt to tip, how about yours?

It's me, Elvira Mistress of Felinity, with the latest edition of the new-look Carnival of The Cats.

If you are late to the news I invite you to check out #573; it begins with a humorous, yet important, message about what I hope to accomplish here, that I encourage you to read.

For us Cat Bloggers the Carnival is a chance to discover blogs we might never have heard of, on subjects of all kinds!

It is an opportunity for us to reach an audience we might not otherwise reach.

It is a chance to promote a post or 2, each week, that we think will be of interest to others, and to pitch them using more than 140 characters or just a short sentence barely long enough to get a point across.

A few weeks ago I announced a major change to how the Carnival of the Cats is done and how you can participate; this post is the latest chapter in that journey...

So, let's get started!

1 and 2. As for us...Daddy Kiril Channels His Inner Tennessee Ernie Ford by writing a new poem/song with a little bit of a connection to cats.

Also...Sneakers Gets Her Tongue Shot! Now What? Well, you will just have to read the story and see the photo to learn more, hee, hee!

3. Over at StrangeRanger...Maddie apparently still hasn't gotten over her humans going to the Opera, so no new post last week!

4 and 5. Over at Sparkle Cat...Summer shares her weekend adventure and makes an important announcement, plus check out the cool cartoon drawing made of her.

6 and 7. Over at Life From a Cat's Perspective...Samantha gives her tongue a work-out! Plus a fun visual tribute to missed friends...

8 and 9. Over at Marian Allen's blog... Munchkin gets over a bit of crankiness by celebrating being made a FNN Roving Reporter and thank you for spreading the word about the CoTC!

10 and 11. Over at CatSynth...Eno the cat poses with a pair of synthesizers and check out where THIS cat is napping!

12 and 13. Over at Brian's Home...Sister Gracie overdoses on nip nanners and Sister Precious can't wait for football season.

14. Over at Animal Shelter Volunteer Life...Bappy Hirthday to Mom Tracey!

15. Over at Traveling Cats...Cats in La Gomera!

16. Over at 15 and Meowing...Cat Scout Felix shares the thrilling story of a famous post-World War II feline mascot in the British Navy.

17. Over at Marks Mews...2 of 3 cats are "lapping" it up big time.

18. Over at Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and Meows...Melissa & Truffles dissect the 1st edition of recently deceased Cat Fancy magazine's re-invention as Catster Magazine.

19 thru 21. Over at I Have 3 Cats...the human spends several posts sharing the news of the passing of one of the family cats.

These posts are deeply heartfelt and filled with beautiful photos. Please stop by and share your purrs and purrayers:

Grief  -- A Fog Along the Horizon, A Strange Glow in the Sky  -- In Memoriam: Tungsten

 News round-up from the Feline News Network (FNN):

NEEDED! Roving Correspondents for the Feline News Network:

Daddy is the original FNN Correspondent, with the T-shirt to prove it, from way back when Nikita thought to call him that as a way to help publicize this blog...

As previously mentioned we are always looking for tips, leads, links (even search term suggestions) to interesting news stories and blog posts for the CoTC news round-up, and even for me and Sneakers to consider for the FNN Special Report, Elvira Factor, Texas Tuesday and more....and give credit where credit is due!

If you would like to join the ranks I can be reached at opinionated (dot) feline @ gmail (dot) com

 

 1 thru 3. Sent in by Magellan, of Create With Joy:

 

Zee & Zoey were warned but didn't believe their Mom, cat book author Deborah Barnes. Now the cats must contend with The D.O.G. In Da C.A.T. House!

 

McGuffy's Reader - Please show some love and support to very inspiring poet and author McGuffy Anne! Her beautiful Maine Coon Maggie has just been diagnosed with feline cardiomyapathy.

 

 

By the way...Daddy Kiril had the pleasure of meeting Deb, at Blog Paws, in 2013! (unedited photo that daddy took)

 

 Back to the news!

 

 4. The Savannah Morning News has a report about an interesting survey about cat ownership.

 

Daddy Kiril, being a lifelong bachelor, has friends who, when they see one result, are probably gonna go "see! see! there's hope for you yet! Go get a new cat stroller as soon as you can afford it!" -- Owning a cat will help find you a date: A British poll found that 82 percent of women agreed that they are more attracted to men who like animals. Ninety percent of single women said that men who own cats are nicer. Cat owners are more sensitive and thoughtful.

 

Read more results, here.

 

5. Blog Paws Conference 2015 is in late May; learn all about it here.

 

Share-fests

 

1. Friday Ark #513 - Cats, Dogs, Birds, Invertebrates, Other Vertebrates and the Extinct! Oh, my!

2. Camera-Critters #364 - The oldest active meme about photos of animals/critters!

3. Rascal & Rocco has Pet Parade 85

4. Blog Paws hosts a Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop

5. Pepi Smart Dog hosts the Thankful Thursday Weekly Blog Hop

6. Athena and Marie host the Caturday Art Blog Hop  - Enjoy creating and sharing arty photos of your pets (it doesn't have to be too artistic) then this the Blog Hop for you!

7. The Cat on My Head hosts the Sunday Selfies Blog Hop - "no photo of a cat can ever be a bad photo! But please remember, all critters (not only kitties) are welcome…horsies, woofies, chippies, squirties, piggies, buns or any other anipal. And, of course, you may include your human if they don’t mind."

8. Burnt Food Dude hosts the Feline Friday Blog Hop - It began in August 2012 with Mr. Steve admitting for all the world to read..."OK! OK! OK! I really do like cats. They really don’t want to take over the world." About that "TOTW" stuff...OK, if he says so, hee, hee!

9. The True Book Addict hosts a Cat Thursday Blog Hop with an always interesting topic. (There appears to be a tech issue with their Mr. Linky, right now, though)

10. Dogs N Pawz hosts the Tuesday's Tails Opt to Adopt Blog Hop - The blog hop that features shelter pets and tries to find them Forever Homes: All about it and how to help.

 

11. Create With Joy and her cats host a Wordless Wednesday with always interesting essay topics and photos of the resident cats -  " Share you cat photos and stories with us each week (Submissions accepted all week!)"

Comments

[Create With Joy]

Kudos to you, Kiril, and you, Elvira, for the wonderful job you've been doing each week in spreading the word about so many wonderful cats, cat bloggers and cat-themed posts! I see SO many wonderful links I want to click on as I am able...

I LOVE that photo of you and Deb and SO wish I were going to Blog Paws! One of these years, I hope...

Have a wonderful week and a very blessed Easter to you and your cats!

[Summer]

You are a pawesome host, Elvira!

[Katie Kat and Lil Bear]

Thanks for the carnival - we found someone we didn't know.. the stranger ranger pack... and boy do they want a turkey restaurant more than opera... sure hope the cats there find one...

We could use one too... -Benjamin Lil Bear.

[da tabbies o trout towne]

elvira...a grate carnival post two day...N tell daddy K...better ewe used de "C" werd...then de "F" werd ~~~~

Flounder.....

☺

♥♥♥

[meowmeowmans]

Awesome job on the Carnival, Miss Elvira! There's so much good stuff, and so many terrific posts to check out. Thank you! :)

[Catsynth]

Great Carnival, so many participants!

Thanks as always for including our posts - we're a bit overbooked with things as usual ;)

[Brian]

That was an amazing round up! Thanks for the meow-out too!

[Ellen Pilch]

Thank you for putting the carnival together, I am sure it is time consuming.