I found an interesting fact in this BlogPaws post: there are more dogs in the U.S. than there are children! Now this is a pretty awesome statement… because there are even more cats in the U.S. than there are dogs! More intriguing statistics from the same story: 14% of U.S. dogs have a Facebook page (at least according to some poll on a dog website) — so considering the prevalence of cats on the internet, I can only conclude that an even higher percentage of cats are on Facebook! We kitties all like to claim ownership of the WWW, but I get even more excited when it is backed by truth!
Want even more proof? I love this one: Facebook ads featuring a cat got a higher response than an ad showing female cleavage!
Why am I crowing (as they say) about this? Well, remember a couple of weeks ago I asked you guys to help me put the MEOW into BarkWorld by supporting my entry to win a trip for my human to this dog-centric conference? It worked! I am one of the winners!
You may wonder why a kitty like me is so excited about sending her representative to a conference that is so unabashedly dog-leaning that it’s even in the name. The conference actually has a lot of really smart social media and blogging sessions that are good for any species. They have Matt Silverman of Mashable as a keynote speaker. And there are even a couple of sessions that are feline inclusive, including a MeowWorld Breakfast for Cat Influencers. (Let’s see my human make it to that one — 7 A.M. Eastern Time will be the middle of the night to her jet-lagged Pacific Time brain! But she’ll try really, really hard to be there.)
So thank you, BarkWorld humans, for letting this kitty into your dog conference. Of course, you do realize I am going to take all the valuable information I get to strengthen the feline position on top of the internet media chain. The dogs will have to console themselves with chew toys and dog treat swag.
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Hurrah for ➡ Sparkle Ambassador of the Mighty Feline race!!
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ConCats on getting your human into Barkworld, Sparkle! 🙂
Hi Sparkle……sending your human to Barkworld is a brilliant spying technique. She can find out what those barkers are up to and make sure we know what those creatures are plotting and planning – you know just to strengthen our already secure status as #1 in the world! Also, you never know – there MAY be some minor kitty swag available there so you COULD get some prezzies out of it after all. Sounds like a win/win to me!
Kitty Hugs, Sam 😉
oh how fun for your human to go. and how magnanimous of you to let her go.
yeah, cat’s rule!
Of course we cats rule!
Congrats to your human. Hope she has a great time!
Wow! that sounds so exciting. I bet your person will make it because she’ll probably still be up from the night before, right?
Concats to your human. I hope she’ll represent you right. I think every kitteh should have a FB page!
Congrats, Sparkle!!!
I’m sure you will do a pawsome job of representing the cat-contingent at BarkWorld!
; ) Katie
Well, of course cats rule the internet!
COngrats of getting to go to BarkWorld, it sounds fun!
Will you be attending in flat form? We think this is so cool; especially, since you are not one of those cross-over blogs that has both cats and dogs. Can’t wait to see what your mom has to report back to all of us. Purrs and hugs, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Josette 😛 to the dogs!
Congrats Sparkle!!! My human has been before and is gojng this year too. He said it is a great conference for all those reasons!
Those were very interesting statistics Sparkle.
Concats on your human going to bark world, we bet it will be a lot of fun!
Of course we kittehs rule the Net. We rule EVERYTHING. Concatulations on your hoomin getting to go to MeowWorld as our rep. We can’t wait for the report on that one.
Yay, congrats to your human Sparkle! I hope she has a great time at the conference!!
Concatulations! Yes, of course, we cats are the most divine creatures, so surely we rule the internet! Me-Ommmmmm
yep – cats RULE!
Don’t forget about Catster and Dogster besides Facebook. We are everywhere 🙂
Hooray, and conCATulations on winning your human a trip to Barkworld! That’s awesome! And yes, of COURSE cats rule the Internet. 🙂
Yippee! Way to go!! We really do rule!! (We knew that all along.) Purrs…
Concatulations! If any kitty deserved to win, it was you! Hope your human brings back lots of good information. Kitties rule!
Wow kitties really rule! Congratulations on win for the trip! Your human will have lots of fun and we look forward to the trip report 🙂
Congrats! I should have entered. What are the stats on cats with FB pages?
Good question! The humans who did the dog poll were from a dog site, so of course they did not bother asking about cats… probably because they did not want to embarrass themselves by showing how much more popular cats are on the internet. If my human knew how to do a poll to figure that sort of thing out, she would. I can’t do a poll like that here because of how skewed it would turn out, since like 90% of my readers seem to have cats online somewhere.
SPARKLE YAY FOR YOUR HUMAN WALKING ON ITTY BITTY KITTY FEETS INTO THE K9 WORLD…SHE IS JUST THE ONE TO SHOW THE WORLD HOW WONDERFUL WE FELINES ARE!!!
HUGS MADI YOUR BFFF
Cats really do rule the internet… I was texting with my boyfriend the other day and asked him what he was doing. Response “watching cat videos on youtube”…lol. It happens time and time again, the black hole of youtube cat videos where you can lose hours of your life :p
Enjoy the conference!
BTW – Sparkle is so beautiful, as always.
Thanks for all you did Sparkle to make sure your human got to go to the conference. It’s so important that we felines make sure everyone knows we are not only taking over the internet but the whole world! Meow and Namaste! ~ Pippy the Feline Yogini
Concatulations Sparkle! See you there! (but, I will be representing the DOG side!) Gasp! Perish the thought!
Concatulations! (You actually look happy in that second photo…!)
Concats Sparkle. I love that your human is going. And you look magnificent in that photo!
Congrats on your human getting to go to BarkWorld, Sparkle. We know she will represent us cats well. You’ll make sure she does, right??
We are not dawg lovers, but we are starting to feel some pitee for the poor dawg lovers at the conference. Their bubbles will surely deflate a little when Sparklemom arrives with her fact backed cat information.
Bopping ourselves back to normalcy,
Jasmine, Joey, Eddie and Rosie
Those dogs won’t know what’s happening when they realise that cats rule from the front but they walk to heel behind their owners.
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
Glad you found the proof that cats do actually rule the world and with Sparkle going to Barkworld, the cats will take over that too. Way to go. Have a great day.
Of course we cat´s rules THE WORLD !!
YAY , for that your mom is going to MEOW World
XOXO
sounds like fun for you human Sparkle congrats!xx Speedy
Sparkle, we think it is just terrific that your human can go to Barkworld and we know she will do an awesome job of representing catblogging and catalogers in Atlanta!!
Yay! We hope she has a great time!
HOORAY!!! Now my dear, she must educate those doggie peeps!
Us kitties really are pawsome. Congratulations on winning the Barkworld competition, Sparkle. I bet you’ll show those dogs a thing or two.
Oh boy, this sounds like fun !!!
We purr your human has fun .
We look forward to the post about Barkworld 😉
Purrs Tillie and Georgia,
Treasure,Tiger,JJ and Julie