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!
Meowmy was about 3 years old here. Herm loved herm kitty. Was da 1st pet herm had & when herm pawrents ask what herm want to call kitty, herm onlee knew da word "Pet", so Pet became kitty's name 😹😹
Henlo nu frens! Dis is a fro-back pickchur to a cuppel of monfs ago, wen we firss came to owr nu haus! Owr meowmy haz ben wanting to introdoos us here, butt she haz ben bizzee wif da "werk," wuteber dat meens! Butt, finalee, herms sez today iz da day, an heer we arr! We arr Magnolia (void) and Rummy (tortie)! We hab herd so much gud stuffs about dis playce from Winnie an Jack, hoo we finks sent owr meowmy to find us, an we arr bery eggsited to meet eberyone heer!!
(This picture was taken a week after I brought my new girls home, and I'm so excited to introduce them to you all! I'll be sharing more pics in the coming days - work really has been crazy lately! - but here they are, finally!! ❤️
Winnie 🌈 and Jack's 🌈 meowmy, and now meowmy to Magnolia and Rummy!!!!)
My furry frens I- a dumdum human- am the father of Angel Charlie Chicken Swoup and JP. I was wondering if you all could help me find me find an illegal smol fren that my baby JP loved very much but didn't have a name yet. He was still deciding between Kevin and Stormy Armageddon I believe. Can you all do your cat thing and find him for me?
Frens ebel Fat Gary dun trikt da dumdum tu let himbz inna howse! An tu feed himbz! Da dumdum eben bilt himbz a house ob himbz own! But da worstest pawrt ob dis outrayg? Himbz hab a nu naym- da hooman calt himbz Richard! Aiz sai weez ryd at dawn an brings dis ebel littul fing down! Hu wif me?
Frenz, iz AI, Da SOAK. Dis iz old picshur uv mai hewdad wen he wuz hewmon smol wiff his aunt an his furst doggo. Tina wuz mini doxxie and a calendar doggo.
Meow miniyans - Luna, Juno, Bellona, Ravioli - hab leernd miny gud crimez (Go Crimez). Howeber, dey no leern not ta steel odder kittehs fud. DEY STEEL EECH ODDER FUD!! Dat no gud. At All.
Weows no dat meow’s Meowmy gotted issues (herz dumdum)so meow volin - vollun - said meow wud ask meow friends iffin dey no anyfing bout chip feeders. Does anyone use chip feeder? Meow not sure, but steelin fud frum odder kittehs iz no gud.
Pickshures ob me in meow new office an ob da fud steelers.
Catherine the Great
(Our younger cats steal each others food and one has become quite the…uh…chonk!! Has anyone used a chip feeder? Any recommendations? Thank you!)
Diz app inna litebocks is teaching da hoomans some berry impawtant facks and how to tell da facks to even moar hoomans in atha langishes. Butt it also haz many words, dat don't improve serbing da kitteh. So i was finking: mebbe we shud make ours own app for da litebocks. One, dat only aims to improve hoomans abilities to tenn to kitteh needs. I mineself hab no idea how to get fings to do fings inna litebocks, so we would need somecat for dat. Also the SSoR culd provide da retrayn contents. I cud help wif da marketing mebbe Oscar will too. What do yus think? Tails up or tails down?
So after spending several days at my sister's this week and half and finding out about JP going with Smuffi on their adventure I have noticed that him mom- Charlie Chicken Swoup-pawfessur an DJ kitty runs outside anytime the door is being closed after the dog comes in the backyard. I asked my sister about it and she said that it only began happening after JP got out. This makes me wonder if she is grieving him to a point that she wants to try and find him or if it is something else entirely? I feel so terrible hearing and seeing this happening because I can't logically process any other reason behind it. Am I terrible pet parent for not being around enough? Am I a terrible human for being too distant that I was totally unaware that my baby was gone and finding out too late to realistically help? Do I even deserve my cats anymore? Are they better off if I find them a new home with parents that able to be there daily? Here is a picture of the 2 them showing that they may have orange problems to lighten the topic up some. A cuddle puddle totally missing the sunbeam🤷♂️🤦♂️
My Meowmy say dat I, Velvet da Void, is making it hard for her to see da book lite bocks. I say dat cuz she not supposed to look at dat! She supposed to look at me!
Dis weke Bubbles, Basil n meow doin an inbestigayshun into Derry, Maine!
If mew member da lass tiem, wez lookin fur meenie ebil clown in Derry. But wez wented to da rong Derry!
Dis tiem, wez go to Derry, Maine acuz we heer ob lots ob weerd fings happen dere. Wez lookin fur vampires!
But wez ken no find enny. Den wez run into fren Stoker, hims wuz in town to bisit hims cozzin Vlad. Hims sey da *vampires* lib in Salems Lot, n dere onlee *vampurrs* in Derry! Gah!!!
Da firs tiem iz rong plase, dis tiem wez in da rite plase but da rong inbestigayshun!
Joyn wez nex tiem on Bubbles n Noamie Purranormal Inbestigaytors