Happy Cat World Domination Day! I have a lot of fun planned for you today, but first let me deal with this hat. My human thought it would be fun to make this a quirky, ’80s themed party, but I did not agree! Of all days, Cat World Domination Day is one where a kitty should not have to wear anything. If my human wants to celebrate the ’80s, she can put on her own old clothes that she’s never thrown out.
That’s better! I want to mention that since this is the first Cat World Domination Day without Sparkle, we are doing several special things in her honor. The first one is that we are having a commenthon to benefit her favorite sanctuary that helps cats, Tabby’s Place! For every comment on this post until the end of the June, my human is donating 50 cents to Tabby’s place, up to $50! Let’s see if we can fly through that goal!
Now for refreshments! Just wait til you see who is catering our party.
That’s right — Ashton’s Chicken Emporium! Don’t worry that is not lemonade in the glass — it is chickenade, with a catnip sprig garnish!
Try the appetizers — fried chicken skin bits! I got the idea when I saw them on the Christy Paws blog, so I asked Ashton to do something similar, and wow, are they tasty!
You had better hurry and have some before they are all gone!
I bet you could smell the main dish when you arrived — barbecued chicken! Since I like green stuff, it’s being served on a bed of creamy cole slaw. Try some, or you can skip the slaw — it just means more for me!
I hope you saved room for dessert! It is old fashioned, hand-cranked chicken ice cream sprinkled with premium catnip! Yes, I had a taste already… and yes, I am licking the bowl. It’s that good!
Now, I have a couple of special treats for you, especially those of you who knew and loved Sparkle!
As most of you know, Sparkle’s first book, Dear Sparkle, Advice From One Cat to Another, is available on Amazon Kindle… and until tomorrow, it is available for free! Click here to download your free copy of Dear Sparkle — and if you get it, please remember to leave an honest review! It’s the nice thing to do.
After the free offer is over, it will be available for just $1.99 for the next week, and after that, it will be permanently discounted at $2.99, which is two dollars less than it was priced previously.
And I have a second, huge announcement!
Sparkle and my human were working on this book last year when Sparkle passed away. It’s a compilation of her wisdom (and a couple of sections from Binga), based on her blog posts over the years. And it is going to be published! It’s still in the editing stages, but I got to take a look at some of it, and it is amazing! Not to mention that my human’s talent at cover design has greatly improved over the years (yes, she was the one who did this cover mock up). It is tentatively scheduled to come out either in fall of this year, or early in 2016! My human is hoping to set up pre-orders. I will keep you posted!
And now for the giveaways — I know you were waiting for those. Yes, I have more than one!
Here is the BlogPaws swag bag giveaway! It includes treats from Delightables and Pet Naturals, cat food from Against the Grain and Evangers, bunches of toys and more! Plus you get the cool BlogPaws bag to go with it. It’s a U.S. only giveaway because there is so much stuff. To enter, leave a comment and say you did on the Rafflecopter widget! (If Rafflecopter gives you problems, let me know and I will add you manually.)
And yes, there’s a bonus giveaway! You get a chance to win your own Neko Birbug and Telescoping Rod! If you saw my review the other day, you know this toy is more fun than you can imagine! I adore mine, and if you live in the U.S. or Canada, you can win one too. Below is the Rafflecopter widget to enter the Neko Birbug giveaway:
If you are an international reader, you can still enter either giveaway and name a U.S. rescue to receive the prize!
I hope you enjoyed my Cat World Domination Day party! And remember: we cats are in charge — use the power wisely!
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Summer, your the best. I love your newsletter and website. I hope to win fur giveaways because my 3 kitties will be thrilled to play with goodies, not to mention, enjoy the treats =^••^=
You look beautiful. Enjoy your special treats!
What an awesome giveaway! My seven rescued kitties are excited about Cat World Domination Day, but I gently reminded them that they do not possess opposable thumbs, therefore they must keep me around, as they still need me to open their Cans of Stinky Goodness (aka Tuna).
We so enjoy your blog posts! Your must reading everyday!
Happy very belated Cat World Domination Day! Sorry we didn’t get here before this, but our typist hasn’t been the most reliable lately. Sparkle would be proud of you!
My cat would be thrilled with all that swag or the fun Neko Birbug and Telescoping Rod! Thanks for sharing your swag and for the great giveaways. But the best part is my comment is going to help cats in need 🙂
Chickenade with a catnip sprig garnish and fried chicken skin bits!! What a pawty 🙂 Happy late Cat World Domination Day. You sure know how to celebrate 🙂
So bummed out we missed the book but think World Domination Day is fab and you look SO adorable in that photo Summer!
We miss Sparkle but we LOVE your sweet purr-sonality and appreciate the fabulous giveaways! 🙂
Summer…I’m sorry I missed the Cat World Domination Day party…even though you didn’t like the hat, you still looked awfully FINE in it!
My kitties would love this! They are super playful.
My four cats would have enough goodies so they wouldn’t have to share! Would love the swag! Thank you for the chance!
wait, i thought cat domination was every day! better clue my cat in. I know she would love all of those wonderful goodies!
My cat would love the goodies, I would love the book. Keep us posted as to when it is out. I entered the give away from my Facebook profile, Sue Strong.
As my cat is hosting this week’s Carnival of the Cats, I will make sure she puts in a plug for both.
Wow! What a great box of gifts to try!
Happy World Cat Domination Day!
Happy cat world domination day!! This blog is really awesome. Congrats on sparkle’ Guide for cats.
a cat NEVER has enough toys and scratchies.
We are late to the party. Same old story: Mom thinking gardening is more important than visiting. Pfffft! We did remember yesterday after you visited our blog that it was Cat World Domination Day and updated our post with the addition of your graphic. We are so excited about the new book. Mom thinks the cover designed deserves an A+. XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo
What a beautiful tribute to your beloved Sparkle. It looks like quite the soire! I’m hungry after looking at photos of all that delicious food! Enjoy it!
Love & Biscuits,
Dogs Luv Us and We Luv Them
Nice BlogPaws 2015 Swag !! I’d love to be included in the draw.
Happy Cat World Domination Day, Summer! Sorry I’m so late. It looks like this was a great party! It’s very nice of you to have a commenthon for Tabby’s Place and to have these giveaways! I’m so curious about chicken ice cream!
You look so cute in that hat!
Hello,
I’m too late to wish you a good Cat’s World Domination Day Summer. Sorry ..
I hope that you had fun.
I wish I had some of your barbecue chicken. I love chicken.
I will try to enter your give away. I live in the South of France, but my Auntie Valérie lives in San Francisco.
She is in contact with US rescue in her area. She does fostering for dogs.
Ronrons
Hisia the french aby
Great giveaways! Sparkle would be so proud of you, Summer!
Wow! What a load of kitty fun here, with lots on yummy treats, too:))
That second book looks the pawrfect thing fur Cat World Domination Day! MOL!
We would love a chance to win some swag or that fun looking Neko Birbug! Thanks so much fur an op-purr-tuna-ty!
Happy Cat World Domination Day to you Summer, Binga, Boodie! What a great giveaway for the new Neko fly and such a fabulous party…cool that Ashton catered it, we love the food, chicken ice cream that is awesome! Congrats to your Human on Sparkle’s new book, that is wonderful!
First, I am bowing my furry little head in memory of the Kitty who truly dominated the feline world: The one and only Sparkle. I loved her lots and lots, though she wasn’t having any of THAT from the likes of me, so I had to settle on worshipping her glory from a respectful distance. She was a beauty AND a great wit. The Human and I miss her a lot.
Okay, onto the pawty now! I have only recently developed an interest in things like chick-hen in minute quantities but those little crispy treats look pretty good. And the chickenade looks delish!
The Human says I am not allowed to have any more stuff, but we for sure want to get counted in the commentathon!
Awesome! We slid in just in time to get the kindle book. Yay! Thank you. Happy World Cat Domination Day.
Happy Cat World Dominayshun Day from all us kittiez too~
Cats rule and dogs drool or so we has heard. we nevers metted a dog before.
Dandy, Princess, Teddy, Kody and Tiger Lily
Oh, and by the way, every day is Cat World Domination Day at our house, according to our Arata!
Our Arata would love to chase the Birbug!
What a veritable treasure chest of goodies. My cats would love to win these.
You really know how to throw a Cat Domination Day Party! And Chicken Ice Cream?? Two of our fav things together! What a concept!! We will be sure to enter your contest, too…one can’t have too many Neko’s!
We be so happurry about your new book in the making, too! We didn’t manage to get much visiting in at BlogPaws, but we see you had a fab time in the city…and more Chick-Hen!
I think your party is fantastic, good job Summer.
My cats always look forward to Cat World Domination day. Thanks for the book, I can’t wait to read it.
Happy Cat World Domination Day, Summer! You really know how to throw a party! And it is so nice of you to have a commenthon for Tabby’s Place and to hold such catastic giveaways. Sparkle would be so proud of you!
Our Mom is looking forward to Sparkle’s new book–she has the first two and loves them. She even sent a copy of the second one to our breeders.
Purrs,
Serafina and Arya
Hi Summer! What a fabulous celebration. I stopped by earlier for the noms. So glad you got Ashton to make the chicken bites. Everything was delish! I’m back now for the commentathon and to enter your fabulous giveaways! And thanks so much for the free copy of Dear Sparkle. Congrats on Sparkle’s Guide for Cats — looking forward to it. Happy Cat World Domination Day!
Thank you to your human for her support of Tabby’s Place and a huge congrats on the book!
What a great party, we wish we were there! Happy World Cat Domination Day!
Happy Cat World Domination Day. to Summer. Great way to remember Sparkles Birthday by having giveaways. The Candy Cats love Catnip esp, in toys.
Summer, Cat Domination Day or not, cats shouldn’t have to wear anything they don’t want to. I mean, why should royalty be forced into anything against their will, right? Perish the thought! They should also be able to eat all the chicken and food that tastes like chicken that they want, and humans shouldn’t be able to argue with them. Ever. ;D Enjoy the fabulous eats!
The swag bag and Neko Birbug rod look SO AMAZING and my two feline owners would absolutely love them! I haven’t mentioned the giveaways to them because then I’d have two demanding felines wanting to know where the awesome noms and toys are, and they wouldn’t be very understanding about the whole “might not win them” thing.
Happy Cat World Dominayshun Day!
Dat BBQ chicken looks delishus!
Isn’t every day Cat World Domination Day? We’ll always remember special Sparkle and are sure she’s pleased that Summer is continuing in her work.
OMC! Summer! Did you say, hand cranked chicken ice-cream?!! We are on our way and we will get there before it melts! 🙂 Happy World Domination Day! You did Sparkle proud 🙂
the critters in the cottage xo
Pawsome party, Summer! and Happy Cat World Domination Day!!! we are very excited to hear about the new book and can’t wait for it to come out. the catering and prizes look wonderful! we are drooling over the snacks 🙂 Thank you for the great pawty, commentathon, and everything!
pip, smidgen, Minnie, hollie
I would love to win! I adopted a new cat from my local animal control shelter and she would really enjoy checking out these prizes.
Wonderful party Summer. Great noms and super give aways.