My pals Oliver, Ruby and Rose gave me the Liebster Blog Award, which I think is awesome because it gives me the chance to mention some cat blogs I enjoy that are either new or don’t have a lot of readers. When you get this award (liebster is German for favorite or beloved), ideally it should be given in return to five blogs with less than 200 followers. Most of those who have gotten this award have been a little loose with this particular rule, but with one exception I have tried to stick by it. Thanks Oliver, Ruby and Rose for this opportunity!
Here are my choices — please visit them, especially if they are new to you!
1. One Eye on the Future
I love Selina, the star of this blog. When she came to this multi-cat family some months ago, she was a rescue kitty whose plight had been blogged about by my very kind friend Brian. Being a black kitty with one eye, you would think no one would want her — but lots of humans wanted her! The lucky family who got her set up a blog for her and it is clear she has taken over the house. She has a lot of spunk and she has loads of fun telling you all about her life.
2. The Adventures of Spaz Cat and Wooly Bear
There was a very nice blogging cat in Melbourne named Oscar who got cancer and died last year right about this time. Many of us told him goodbye on his blog. Recently his humans adopted a pair of rescue cats, Otto (Spaz Cat) and Melrose (Wooly Bear). They are fun kitties and I think you will enjoy visiting them!
3. The Daily Abyssinian
This blog has been around for several years and from what I gather, pretty popular at one point, but somewhere along the way, it lost momentum. Perhaps that is because Gun-Hee, the young Aby who was the blog’s star, died tragically of FIP. But even with Gun-Hee gone, there were several other family cats carrying on, including one-eyed Aby Angel, and eventually Jake came along. Jake is definitely a take-charge cat. He’s quite a personality and he sometimes works as a therapy cat. Even better, his human did some research and apparently Jake and I are distantly related!
4. The Adventures of Scarlett and Melly
The relationship between Scarlett and Melly kind of reminds me of the one I have with Binga — occasionally fractious with passive-aggressive undertones… and sometimes surprisingly close. Although Scarlett was Cat Number One, sometimes she winds up playing second fiddle to Melly’s funny facial expressions. These two are very cool kitties, and definitely worth meeting if you don’t already know them.
5. Animal Shelter Volunteer Life
This is actually quite a popular blog already, but I wanted to mention it because it is written about kitties who have wound up at a Norwalk, CT shelter called PAWS. The main contributor, Meowmeowmans, is a very active member of the cat blogosphere, and has helped make the PAWS kitties highly visible. I wish all privately-run shelters had blogs with such dedicated volunteers.
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Oh, there are a couple of bloggies I haven’t heard of. Thanks Sparkle, I will go meet them!
Congrats on your award, Sparkle! And those are 5 great blogs you passed it on to!!
Congratulations Sparkle, and thanks for pointing out some new to us blogs.
We love the people and kitties at PAWS, they are fabulous 🙂
Congratulations on your award. I’ll stop by those bloggies now. Have a great day.
pawhugs, Max
Congratulations on the great award, Sparkle! And thank you for passing it along to us. 🙂
There are a couple of blogs on the list that we’re not familiar with … we’ll check them out for sure (AND visit the ones we already know and enjoy, too).
Have a great day, dear friend. 🙂
Conga rats on your award. Good for you and well deserved and we are excited to visit some new blogs. So thanks a bunch for introducing us. Take care.
Concats on your award Sparkle – there were two blogs we didn’t know and we are going to go over and visit them.
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
Concats on the award, Sparkle!
We’re not familiar with a couple of those blogs that you nominated, so we’ll check them out!
Concats!! And great list – we love hearing about new blogs….
Oh, thanks, Sparkle, for the mention!
I used to do “Gun-Hee a Day” on LiveJournal, because I discovered the 365 Photos project and wanted to do it…but then he died…and I tried to keep it up, but not being able to take new photos, I started to lose track of what I’d already posted. Then Angel came along, but she was so nervous she didn’t really do a lot of different things – all the photos looked alike!
Finally, Jake came along, and I resolved to keep the blog going and do it properly. So I got a Flickr account, migrated the journal over to WordPress and now I’ve got two solid years (almost; there’s still 12 days to go)!
I do so appreciate this mention, because I am trying to become a sort of Aby resource (hard to do when I have a day job, but I can dream) and I see you as a role model. Thank you!
Congrats on the nice award Sparkle! I will have to check out some new pals too!
Thanks for the award, Sparkle! “Occasionally fractious with passive-aggressive undertones” made me laugh- it’s so true!
They are all lovely Sparkle. Thank you
Sparkle:
1. CONGRATULATIONS!
2. THANK YOU for naming my blog as one of your favorites! I wrote about it just now, in mine, so you’ll see my “formal” thank you.
PS – Now can I say how much *I* enjoy reading *your* blog????
Have a great day, my dear furriend.
PURRS!
Selina
PS – And we’ll definitely check out the others – ESPECIALLY the Aby blog! 🙂 🙂
PURRS!
Selina
PPS – Now, do I get to pick five blogs?
Yes, Selina, you do!!
congratulations on your award. well deserved.
Congratulations on the award, Sparkle. We follow you on Twitter but Mommy only finally managed to find your blog. Yeah, go figure. Duh.
Congrats to you too =^^= It’s my first award so mum and I are so happy.
Concatulations on your award Sparkle! We haven’t heard of all these blogs so we’ll check them out!
Dear Sparkle,
Me is so happy that yous winned the award! And me has discovered 2 new blogs to visit!. Sparkle Yous Rocks!
Thanks yous
Nellie
ConCATS Sparkle! We read all the blogs you mentioned, and they ARE great! Just like you.
ConCatulations to the award !
Me too got it from Sheldon The Cat and I will put it on my blog first thing tomorrow morning 🙂
I visit Scarlett and Melly sometimes , so I guess you can say I know them 🙂
Animal Shelter Volunteer Life I visit almost efuryday , so them I really know 🙂
I´ve just met Selina and the other two on your list I will visit right now !!
Concats Sparkle
You definitely highlighted some great blogs!
purrs
>^,,^<
♥Abby♥Boo♥Ping♥Jinx♥Grace♥
Concats Sparkle – and thank you for passing on some new blogs to check out… I’ve got me some christmas reading now 🙂
Congratulations on the award. I can’t think of another cat who deserves it more.
Concats, Sparkle! We don’t know all of the kitty blogs you mentioned so we’ll go off to visit.
Pip, Smidgen, Minnie, Hollie
p.s. thanks for the card and your calendar photos are just gorgeous!
Concats on the award. I love Selina’s blog also.
Concats on your award!!! We follow (and love) the last two that you mentioned but hadn’t heard of the others. Thank you for introducing them to us!
Concats on your award, Sparkle. We loves the PAWS people, and we will try to visit some new kitties also, though my Human says we can barely keep up with our current furiends. Well, if she didn’t spend ten or eleven hours a day at her “jooooobbbbb” maybe we could visit more blogs, right???
Congrats my dear. Please let me lavish you in smoochies to congratulate you properly.
We are checking these out. Thanks, Sparkle!
Yay Sparkle! Congrats on the award, you deserve it for sure! We only know 2 of the blogs you passed the award on to, so we will definitely check out the other 3.
Concats on your award Sparkle.