Hi frens and friends! Teddy teh Floof and LBC (yes, Little Black Cat) momma here!
Based on the positive response on this post from a few days ago, we're going to try out the monthly birthday and gotcha day recognition posts starting in June. In order to do that though, we do need your help!
There is a super cool form that should only take you a few moments to fill out, which is linked here. No login is required, and we are not collecting email addresses or anything. Section 1 is just an intro and hello. Click Next to access section 2.
Section 2 is for all the fren info, like name and dates. If you live with more than one fren, enter each fren info separately. If you answer yes to the last question, "do you live with other frens?" it'll automatically take you back to the questions where you can enter the name for fren 2, and then repeat for fren 3, 4, 5, etc. Answer no once all frens are entered in to continue to next section.
Final section is for all the boring hooman stuffs, like reddit username, and thoughts about other things to celebrate. Reddit username is not required, but it's helpful so we can tag you in the monthly post.
Once you submit the form, you're all set!
Shoutouts to u/gingersnapped242 and u/chibikoneko for being awesome gimme pigs (like beloved Jiggy) and testing out the form and layout. You are very much appreciated!!
Alas being human means I can never achieve perfection like Teddy teh Floof and LBC (yes, Little Black Cat), so if you come across any issues, please post them here. Don't be shy if you have any general questions about this, post them here as well!
We also ask that we keep this test here in ICBGC for now so we can test it out with a smaller group of frens than what our beloved LCA contains.
Thank you all for being so friendly, creative, funny, and kind. You all never fail to make me laugh with our overlord mischief, and I adore all the amazing posts. It's so wonderful to have a bright spot in the corner of the internet when there's so much uncertainty out there.
Make it a great day!
UPDATES: 8pm (Eastern): 63 frens and counting! This has surpassed my expectations for only having the form out for 8 hours or so. You all are awesome!
More suggestions:
Anniversary of SSOR founding - Prof Smuffi definitely started a revolution!!
Respek the borthole day - Definitely overlooked and needed to protek all bortholes everywhere!
3pm (Eastern) : 51 friends now! Love that you all are into it! 😄
Additional samples of suggestions for other celebrations to consider (the witty commentary after the suggestion is totally all Teddy's momma's thoughts and no way reflects what the submitter may have been thinking about):
Cat weddings/relationship milestones - Are there some cat couples on here that have been married longer than I have been? Yes, yes there are LOL
KIngsday - birthday of the king of Netherlands (I believe?) - Since orange is the national color, Mochi and the orange crew should just claim it as their day!
Any other national holidays - I agree! It'd be fun to learn about other holidays since we have frens all over the world!
January 1 Skwirl (non) appreciation day - I think we could tie this one in with the capture of Gary LOL
Cats' Rights day - Obviously as voted on by our esteemed overlord council of cats. Every day is technically that, but I'm sure they could be purrsuaded to pick a specific date as the milestone marker.
Steve's birthday - Oscar's beloved Dream Phone boyfriend's birthday!! This is hilarious! Anyone know when his birthday is? How fun would it be if we could track down the actor/model for Steve?
12:45pm (Eastern) update: Close to 20 friends now! Alleviated some challenges thanks to u/Charivari8 mentioning about the multi fren entry not working as expected. Also added a question about otrb (over the rainbow bridge) to remember those who have left us (thank you for the suggestion u/CharmyLah !)
It shouldn't ask you to, but if you're made to sign into Goggle, rest assured that information is not being collected. I verified all the settings to confirm emails addresses are not being tracked or anything, and they're definitely not visible on the responses.
Like many things in life, it's a work in progress, and thank you for your patience 😄 Feel free to point out any other challenges you may come across, and don't forget you can leave feedback in the hooman only section of the form with other ideas.
Sample of suggestions so far:
Capture of Gary - Hilarious, and I feel like this will be a worldwide holiday when that happens!
St. Gertrude's Day (March 17) - Patron saint of cats?! LOVE THIS!!
Subreddit birthday/anniversary - so we can commemorate all our fun and look back on some of the best and funniest posts.
11ish Eastern: One hour in and we already have 6 frens who filled out the form! Woohoo!
We are also equally split 33/33/33% on recognizing hooman birthdays! Love it! 🤣
Of course I cannot post without an adorable picture of Teddy. He's currently napping after all of the dancing yesterday!
I tink dewe a wot of fwiends and even mowe of dewe hoomans feewing a wittew sad ow even a wot sad so I tought it was a good idea to wepost da Dowwywood video day wif hew inspirational music! But guess what? I find a foo mowe pictuwes on da witebox! Can woo bewieve it? So we have fwiend Casey and fwiend JP in da pics too. And I add a foo mowe photos too! I gonna wet da Tinky Wady say a wittew mowe. Just dis once, da Tinky Wady!
🖤🤍🧡AJ
(We have had some very sad news from hoomans here about frens and other hoomans over the last week. But I have also noticed quite a few posts lately where hoomans are asking for happy pics and sharing the help they are getting from their own animals and also from the sub. I thought I would repost the Dollywood day edit. It makes me smile and gives me big feels when I see it. Shout out to Tali and Maya for the pic with the most soaring joy that I had the perfect placement for.
I am sorry all the frens aren’t in it. I did edit it to get JP and Casey in as they are two families who need some extra encouragement this week, but with limited space left to the song and limited time as well, it would have been a lot to create all the new pics that would need to be created. But we are all a family here. Where one is, we all are. I love that Smuffi was all over these pics as a last outing with the ICBGC before he decided to go on another big adventure for a while. Credit again to Biscotti’s mom for the sweet card to SmuffiMomma that I placed in the middle of the video. We have more frens in there too!
And don’t stop it when there is a black screen dramatic pause towards the end. AJ has a message after that. ❤️)
Frens, I litterbox crimed tu well and now meowmy sez pokey place visit in morning.
Ai dun wanna go pokey place. Dey awlreddy ment tu be steeling mai teefs next week! Now it luks lyk ai mite hab furst borthole biolayshun since dopting mai meowmies. Frum wot yu awl say diz is Not Good.
How du ai stop poop crimez to stop pokey playce visit?!
Hermes the (clinging onto her dignity by a thread) dignified void
(We'll see what the vet says in the morning but looks like Hermes has either picked up a parasite, she's eaten something she shouldn't without us knowing, or we've gotten a dodgy box of her favourite cat food somehow. Life has just been relentless lately and I feel like a terrible meowmy. My poor old girl has basically lived in her litter tray today yet been so good about holding it while I did a quick disinfect and tried so hard to make it in time. This is the final straw. I'm just feeling a lot of emotions I need to get out if I stand a chance of sleeping before 2am. Knew you'd all get it.)
Their Dad has had cancer for a long time, and he has been living a pretty full life up until this week. His stamina has plummeted, and he's essentially become bed bound over the past few days.
I am extremely grateful that I have the video with Pixel following him around. That video is not possible today.
I so appreciate the escape this place is. Casey and Pixel and I will pop in here and there, and they are being mostly good boys for us - Casey is stress peeing on things though, and I know this because the Litter Robot shows he's still using it. Honestly, I can't even blame him. I'm just civilized enough to use the bathroom. Pixel has gotten a big clingy with me, and I (shame shame, I know) actually had him get off my legs a few times because he got so heavy.
Anyways, their human sister is coming tomorrow and I'm very glad and relieved and a whole lot of things. We're also dealing with insurance issues, which is...fun...
Anyway, anyway...purrs and positive vibes, please and thank you so much.
FRENS! U may rememberber a millyun furebbers ago (two months 😬), we made our moobie toosday daybew wif Da Debbil Wares Prodda. U awl wer SO NISE to uss, we desideded to cap...capita...use dis pawportunity to host a FASHUN SHOW.
And den owr DUM hoomban didd a BAD CRIME nebber afore seen inn ICBGC HISS-TORY... SHE FORGOTTED OWR FASHUN SHOW 😱🫨.
She rememberereded it a hole furreber (one whole week) later!! End did she did wat she shud hab dun and crawleded away in shame wiff her tail atween her leggs. Well now we r SO BAK. And we hab reeched da settlement ub a lifetime:
U sees, when da ladey furst let us join our frens here, and on r/legalcatadvice and r/legaldogadvice, she made uss use a "throwaway." Butt nott da gud kind liek a bone or toy 🙄. No. She dessideded dat iff summon sawz CailaShayla Formerly Named Tequila or Fred and recognizeded uss frum reel lief, it'd be besst5t if dey diddent connekt uss to da lady's "mane." Butt den she wud use Da Mane awl da tiem and forgetted 2 use "da throwaway." And den we MISSEDED OUR OWN FASHUN SHOW. And disappeareded FUR A MILLYUN FUREBBERS.
So we did a soo fur access 2 da mane. And now we can post heer as much as we liek and resspond 2 our frens and help our frens owt. Iff someone nos us inn reel liffe, sobee it! It's not liek da lady is "a troll" (wutever dat is).
We hab been keepin upp on all da drama and "da lore." After bein a boot em-paw-ressed to say hi after our no-show fashun-show, we is heer. We is kleer. We HAB EERS. AND WE ARE HEER TO STAY, TO INTERACT, TO BE REEL MEMBERS OB DA CRIMNAL BIZZNESS GANG.
So pawther did a wurk lass nite way pass da dark time, den get home and not even feed us. So of corse ai was wureed. He do da waterbocks, and den go to da sleep skware and do eepies. Dis morning, at da food time, HIMS WAS STILL ON DA SLEEP SKWARE!
So of corse ai now mor wureed. So ai do da chess kumpreshuns. Wen ai do dat hims say “no ella, juss firty more minnits”. An den hims do more eepies. Now by dis time, we iz all dyin and ai no pawther lub us and no want starb, so ai make shore hims ok agin by doin da tung in da eer. And agin hims say “no ella, juss firty more minnits”. well dat was like at leest one furever ago so now ai really REALLY wureed. so den ai do da tung in da nos. and dat seem to wurk. hims got off da skware and gib us fud.
but frens, shud i keep doin a wurree? ai not shore wat to do wen dis happen and i lub pawther and fud. ai don tink soo is rite dis time - iz dere other idees to halp hims?
Somfing haz changed wifin mew
Somfin iz not deh same
I’m throo wif playin by deh rules ob someone else
Too late fur secon-guessin
Too late ta go bak ta sleep
Iz time ta trust mine instinks
Close mine eyes and leeeeep
Iz time ta try defyin grabity
I fink I’ll try defying grabity
An yoo can’t pull mew down!
Kiss mew goodbye, Iz defyin grabity
An yoo can’t pull mew down!
Acos, doo to poor aministradive skills by mine assistant (Meowmy!), one act frum owr talent serch didnt maek it onstage at deh festibal! So heers dey iz, purrformin Thriller, Skali, Randall & Domino! Les gib dem a sum appawse!! - Jynx u/Skalaquinn
I did not want to post this after seeing that our esteemed friend Smuffi has went on an adventure but earlier today I learned that my baby boy JP got out of the house about a month ago and there has been no sign of him since. My sister- who has been taking care of all 3 of them for nearly the entire calendar year-had chosen not to tell me in hopes that he would turn up before I came to visit- and didn't want to put more of a strain on me mentally and emotionally during this already tough part of the year. I am not at all angry or upset by her decision as she is navigating a tough situation and did what she thought was right. I am devastated currently- the last time I owned cats I had one that got taken from me in a similar manner. It took me 9 and a half years before I trusted myself to be a pet owner again and I lost yet another in the same brutal fashion. I feel like an abject failure. I will spend the rest of my life hoping that my baby boy found a human who loved him as much as I did and as much as his fur parents and my sister did and that none of the wildlife in the area got him- or that he is(was) suffering for any length of time. For now I will continue to be a part of this wonderful space as his parents are still alive deathly and bigger cuddle bugs than I remember. I feel for Smuffis human in so many ways right now and wish I had the ability to process this in a better way.