ManCat Monday

It's hard work...being a LadyCat's Man!

      

                

#BlogPaws Wordless Wednesday - Pet Safety Blog Hop!

Traveling safely can be stylish... Brighton & Disco look like they are ready to go to Key West, don't ya think?!

And as you can see, we are a SleepyPod family! Coco has her signature Pink Pod, safely seat belted in when we are in the car (although, in truth, she should be in the back seat, as the air bag could injure her if it went off!

Even Kely gets strapped in when she's in the car with me...although this carrier isn't crash tested like the SleepyPod is, I know she is safer confined than loose in the car!

Those who know Teri well, know she has a 'Carrier Fetish'...and we kitties get to travel in style, with Disco looking a bit like Indiana Jones in this rugged carrier!

We also are microchipped and wear collars with our name tags on them, too, making ID easy if we ever escape! You see, not everyone is familiar with microchips, and having that secondary backup of a collar and tag makes it easy for someone who finds us to contact Teri, without having to take us to the vet to be scanned for a chip! 

Also, another nice safety perk of having a HomeAgain microchip is that Teri gets free calls to the ASPCA Poison Control Center because of our annual subscription...That saves her $65 anytime she calls!

How to you help keep your pets safe? Why not join in the #BlogPaws Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop and find out how other pet parents keep their furry kids safe!

Froot Bat Friday!

Featuring Xerxes, one of Furrydance's extended family. Very elegant, isn't he?! 

Some Cornish Rex have thick, wavy coats...Some are almost as naked as a Sphynx... 

But they all have the same wonderful 'interactive' personalities...isn't his face full of 'character'?!

Wordless Wednesday...When Will Us ManCats Get to Go to #BlogPaws Again?

Yep, it's been five long weeks since you heard a HaHaMeow from us! That's cuz Teri and some Pink Catillac Diva were getting ready for and then running off to the 2015 BlogPaws Conference in Nashville!

We had to MeowHaHa to ourselves when she got stuck in the airport for 12 hours and well, she could have driven there in that time AND taken us ManCats, too!

We got to stay at a pleasant B & B while they were away though and didn't have to rough it alone! Our super cat sitter is the LVT where Teri works and she gave us lots of attention and even some one-on-one clicker training time...more than Teri's been doing for us lately!

In fact, it took her a month to unpack from the conference and her friend Emmy the Pet Sitter just met up with her yesterday to get her BlogPaws swag to her...we hope we can dig into that this weekend!

You might laff n laff, but Teri took all the stuff to make our signature mini-swag bags and never got around to making them...so packed up the stuff and brought it home...maybe next year!

Teri said she kinda went through the post-BP Blues and just couldn't put pen to paper and compose anything for our blog...so more weeks of silence here! But she has a 3 day weekend coming up and wants to organize her thoughts and get a few BlogPaws memories posts out, and of course, the photos of all the fun she and Coco had, too!

You can read all about Teri and Coco's adventures at BlogPaws if you click on these links (and Coco says she'd love it if you followed her as well)

http://www.cococouturecat.com/2015/05/monday-mewsings-blogpaws-style.html

http://www.cococouturecat.com/2015/05/thankful-thursday-blogpaws-style.html

http://www.cococouturecat.com/2015/05/blogpaws-2015two-days-in.html

And yes, it's the BlogPaws Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop and this week...it's all about us pussycats!

ManCat Monday, #BlogPaws Style

Only 9 more sleeps until Teri and Coco wing their way off to #BlogPaws 2015! (Where's the ManCat in that??)

Teri registered way back last May, so for 12 whole months, she's been Wishin' & Hopin' that she would be able to follow through and attend #BlogPaws 2015! 

                         

She had asked for the time off from work and planned for our pet sitter to watch the rest of us kitties while they were away. And then in December, she was asked to be one of the four BlogPaws 2015 Conference Ambassadors and that sealed the deal!

Teri has been to every one of the annual BlogPaws conferences except for one because she had used her vacation time already...but she never let that happen again! Her family back in Oregon say her blogging buddies see more of her than they do, hahameow!

It's true, that the friendships built online through blogging are strengthened by meeting in person, and sharing a common goal, whether it be advocating for animals in need (and there are plenty of those) or striving to become a better writer or just learning how to navigate Twitter, Facebook and other social media for work (as Teri did for the last practice she worked at)...education is a big part of a BlogPaws conference, too!

And what else is included in the price of admission, you might ask if you have never been to a BlogPaws conference before! Most meals (and they are renowned for their yumminess!), entertainment (both human and 4 legged and tripawed!), swag-prizes-freebies (think sponsors and vendors and shopping, oh my!), as well as a solid education by experts for 3 full days!

This year, the conference includes one-on-one mini sessions with the expert of your choice and most exciting to Teri and her cat-centric bent...the Cat Writers Associations Writing Track, all speakers she admires and gets inspiration from! 

Want to learn more...there's still time to register, but the conference is very close to being sold out and we know you'll be disappointed if you miss out! You can even get a 10% discount by using Teri's special Ambassador code, BP15-Amb-Teri-10.

Here's a link to the event page, which includes everything you need to know--sessions, speakers, sponsors, hotel info and of course, the Nose-to-Nose Pet Blogging and Social Media Award Finalists!

http://blogpaws.com/events/2015-conference/

And if you want to read what other bloggers who have attended past BlogPaws conferences have to say about their experiences, just follow this link to the Pre-Conference Linky Party! 

And if all that isn't enough to convince you to register now...look at our little photo album and see how much mischief we get up to when we attend a BlogPaws Conference!

ManCat Monday

This handsome ManCat is Napoleon, looking a little like his siesta was interrupted by the Flashy Box! 

And this is Beauregard, Napoleon's handsome brother, who really isn't giving us the raspberry!

They live in sunny Florida with a lovely family who send us photos from time-to-time...and this is one of Teri's favorites...always makes her smile!

Here's a flashback to when they both were babies!

Squeee!