Hey everyone!
I received a message from Smuffi’s mom, u/One_Advantage793 :
“Hey Ginger, can you do me a fave? I had to go to the hospital. Can you let everyone know I’m okay but can’t play right now!” And added “It will probably be a couple more days til they let me go home”
Let’s do what we do best here, uplift & rally around and support our wonderful friend!
Go gather the kitties and get those magical healing purrs a-revving up! Call up our dog frens, our horse frens, the hamsters, the bunnies, the squirrels….look! Even GARY is jumping in! GARY! Smuffi won’t believe his eyes! Alert the pirates, the purrfessors and students of the SSoR!
We will keep you updated as we can, and this is coming from me:
I feel it is of utmost importance to remember to respect all our friends’ right to decide what they want to or are able to share, without being pressured and badgered. For any of these situations, for any of our members.
I will NEVER push someone for further information or discussion, I am steadfast in that, nor should anyone else, and I know you guys understand and agree, and remain respectful of people’s wishes and privacy, allowing them to get the rest they need, focus on recovery and getting on the mend. 😊
What IS important is well wishes and support, bringing good cheer, a smile and hopefully some laughs.
And possibly the industrial size 55 gallon poly drum of Acme Holy water, should Smuffi require it.
Thank you all again for making this place the amazing safe space that it is, you’re all heroes in my book, hugs to each and every one of you! 🐈⬛💕🐾
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!
Hey Frens and friends! Just a quickie update on Smuffi’s mom, she’s definitely on the mend, had a slight swerve so things are taking a bit longer than originally anticipated, but she’s feeling better!
She’s been able to peek in on us so all the love is seen and felt.
I know it means the world to her, and I let her know that she and the Smuffster mean the world to us, and we look forward to welcoming them home and reuniting with our crazy little ICBGC family😊
Thank you guys, for continuing to make the subs the warm, welcoming, caring, most genuine places on the interwebz.
Shine on ✨
💕Ginger and Nik🐾
Hewoo errybody! I, Miss Boo, use de golden pikkel to bring my baked goods heweh to Dollywood!!!! I set up by the cinnoman bred bakery so I easy to find!
Here is what I habs:
Vegan speshul: Carrot swirls with a gem lettis rose and topped with blueberries and a radish butterfly.
Cinnamin Caromel: Sweet and delishus like Miss Dolly’s amazing bread! Topped with blue sugar butterflies.
Dolly’s Delight - Vanilly cake piled high wif whipped cream. Like Miss Dolly’s hair! And top with edibul hat!
Party Peach: Peaches is Tenosee fruit and so we make nice juicy cupcake with flavor and topping.
Lightning Rod Coaster Cake - vanilly cake pile with a MOUNTAIN of whipped cream and a candy roller coaster going ober de top.
Come grab a sweet treat! Glad I could come bisit!!!!!
Hi frens, it’s Judge Maya. I have a new law or maybe it’s a new type of ruling. It’s just for cats, not humans. Here’s what it says:
If a fren is accused of a crime by their human - maybe they’re guilty, maybe not - and there’s a ton of evidence against them (probably fake), they can ask for a Dali Pardon. Under this ruling they would be absolved of all responsibility for whatever happened, permanently.
It’s called the Dali Pardon because I love surrealist artist Salvador Dali (he had a pet ocelot, see picture 2) and it’s surreal that humans would accuse us of crimez. Also it’s a tribute to Dolly Parton, who I’m sure, wouldn’t have wanted any cats being accused.
Dis week I pick a piktur ob Dolly & herm beloved hubby, jus quietly sitting next to each othfur. Sadly Dolly's wig didn't come fru, but it is def them.
Fren Olaf as always did a big halp by putting me & Eamonn da Invisible u/cappucinocupcake in da piktur.
It may not bez a flashy show, but it do display the gentle lubs dat can exist in a long relationship
Me and Baby T awe awweady hewe at Dowwywood having fun! Wets wide awl da wides and eat da cinnamon bwead and see awl da bootifuw scenewy!
I hope woo find me and Baby T and we awl find each ovvew!
And don’t fowget to get fwiend Smuffi in da pictuwe! Fwiends Hoku and Naku have bwought him in da Purrate Pawloon so he can be wif us fwiends today!
Woo can post woo pictuwes in da comments ow if make woo own post is even bettew so woo pics not get wost down da comment thwead and awso ovvew fwiends can put demsewves in!
And den watew on, AFTEW awl da moobies, we can gavvew togevvew at da theatew fow da moobies and karaoke- but dat wiww be watew! Wove woo awl and Happy ICBGC Miss Dowwy Day!!
🖤🤍🧡Applejack
(Here are a BUNCH of backgrounds! Feel free to add your pet(s) in with others when they make their posts too! So we can show all the friends having fun together.
if ANY of this is hard for you, just say so. Post any pic of your pet in the comments and I or another lovely friend here will get your pet in.
Note that after a few of the ride pictures, you will see another picture with a little sticker of a piece of the ride. A false front, if you will. You can lift those as stickers, if you’d like, so that you can layer them on top of your pets once you put them in the picture. You definitely don’t have to do that, but it’s the way if you want your friend to be sitting down into the seat of the ride versus on top of it. Alternatively you can just use a pic that has the just the top half of your pet. Either way it will be adorable so don’t worry if you can’t figure this out. For those who want to- just place your pet in the picture lower, where they are basically covering the front part of the ride and then use the sticker I have cut out to line up with the ride and cover the pets. I’ll show you what it looks like in the comments. Again, you don’t have to do that. It will be super fun if the pets are sitting on top of the ride too! It’s all just meant to be fun. And again, find friends and put your pets in their pics too!
The theater pics for moobies and karaoke I will put up a little later, once I have more friends’ Moobie Fuesdag pics to show!
Finally, I also added some more stickers of Dollywood t-shirts and other cute “country”’clothing that I sized to fit a cat body better, if anyone wants to put clothes on a cat. I couldn’t size them for all our animals, but you can definitely try using them on dogs and gimme pigs and bunnies and horses too!
And finally finally, there are two Smuffi stickers to lift so we can get him in the pics)
Ai iz reddy fur Dolly karaoke! Here be mai song 9to5!
Wake up Meowmy an hermz go tew da kichin,
Brekfuss tyme is mai only ambishun,
Ai yawn a stretch den go live mai best lyfe.
Ai goes back tew sleep an ai dream of da fishes,
Biskitz, chimkin an mai fayvrit dishes,
Cool cats lyke me we sleep from 9 tew 5!
Purring 9 tew 5, what a way tew earn my chimkin!
Ai fite DA GREEBLES ‘cause those imps are always trikkin,
An MEOWMY? Well hermz neber gib me credit!
It’s enuf tew drive yew crazy if yew let it!
(Ai chose Miss Dolly at a plaice Meowmy used tew wurk dat was in a big field cawed Glastonbury. Meowmy was bery tired an had da hang ober but Dolly mayde hermz dans an feel better ✨🎶✨ Dis me on da stage wiv hermz wiv a signed gita hermz gib me. Tank yew tew Dolly for be da eye kon.)
Me Ember an mai sisfur Swirly ar heer at Dollywoodz! Dis playce so fun! Meowmy sing song to Swirly awl da time dat herm stolenz frum Dolly, it cawled Jolene, eggcept Herm sing Swirl-Y, Swirl-Y, Swirl-Y, Swirl-YYYYeeee! I’m beggin ob yoo pleese not take mai mannnnn. Herm singin obeeveeusly tewibble an nawt like queen Dollys. Ok bak to da pawk, meez need som chimkin!
Hi frens, iz Tali wiff mai moobie: Boss Cat. The song may sownd familyer coz it record bai Dolly Parton unner da titel 9 to 5. Mebe yoo fink dis a song bowt meen bosses. No. Iz a song bowt not meen cats!
I wan to tenk all da frens hoo gave pichurs!❤️❤️❤️
I getted so meny pichures, I not cud fit dem all. In fak, I not even haff room for a pichur of mine own self! Or mine hubbant own self! Pleez not be sad if yoo not dere, I get yoo nex time or da time affer dat.
Da world recently said goodbye to da legendary Dolly Purrton, who went ober da bridge. She gabe us so many wonderful songs an stories, an brought joy to so many hoomans.
So fur today’s Moobie Toosday, Nia an Ai iz takin’ to da stage at da London Purrladium fur our own purrduction ob 9 to 5: Da Mewsical.
But fur once, yoo iz allowed to sing along in da theatre! So here iz da lyrics fur yoo:
Curtain up, frens! 🎶
9 to 5
Tumble outta bed
And Ai stumble to da kitchen
Hab myself a wet food nutrition
And yawn and stretch
And try to come to life
Jump on da floor an’
Start wif some groomin’
Birbs outside da window
Make mine paws start moobin’
Meowmy likez me near her from 9 to 5
Nappin’ 9 to 5
What a way to spend a libbin’
Barely gettin’ rest
It’s all cuddlez that are gibben
Dey just use yoor fluff
An dey neber gib yoo treatos
Iz enough to get yoo hissin’
If yoo let it
9 to 5, fur service an devoshun
Yoo would tink dat Ai
Would deserbe anodder portion
Want to hunt a wasp
But Meowmy won’t seem to let me
Ai swear sometimes dat hooman’s out to get me!
Dey let yoo dream ob da biggest Churu platter
Yoo’re just a pet but does dat eben matter?
But yoo got dreams dey’ll neber take away
Yoo’re in da same bed wif a lotta yoor frens
Waitin’ till da bestest toy comes out
An yoo pounce when it moves an den chase it right away
Nappin’ 9 to 5
What a way to spend a libbin’
Barely gettin’ rest
It’s all cuddlez that are gibben
Dey just use yoor fluff
An dey neber gib yoo treatos
Iz enough to get yoo hissin’
If yoo let it
9 to 5, yeah dey got yoo where dey want yoo
It’s da bestest life, an we all dream about it, don’t yoo?
It’s a hooman’s game an we’re da speshul part
An we spend our lives puttin’ cuddlez in deir heart
Tank yoo fur all da music, stories, laughs an lub, Dolly! Yoo made da world a brighter place 💜
Y’all. We found Maggie Mae tonight on our way home from dinner. She was in the front yard 6 houses up from ours. I can’t stop crying but I had to tell you all. 💕💕💕
I had all 3 of my (step)sons with me. If you don’t know, I’m a widow co-raising them with my (deceased) husband’s ex-wife. By choice they live with me primarily. They’re 17, 14, and 12…tough ages no matter what.
We had had an emotionally charged conversation at dinner at the local sushi restaurant. I was in tears so my oldest was driving us home. He spottted Maggie Mae and “caught” her. We’re all home now.
Thank you for your thoughts, prayers, wishes, and thoughts. My furbabies are reunited and we’re all so happy.
Much love,
Sus (Meowmy of Maggie Mae & Mollie the calico twinsies and Lucy the Sheepadoodle 🐾🐾🐾 and Sir Roger Von Chonky Cheeks the Syrian Hamster 🐾
I sowwy I didn’t tag evewbody! We just having too much fun today! Tank woo ouw angew Miss Dowwy fow making dis pawk and to awl da fwiends who making dis day so fun! And a vewwy happy biwfday to fwiend Sadie!! Wet’s awl wemembew to sing happy biwfday to hew at da kawaoke when it stawts!
I sowwy I didn’t tag evewbody! We just having too much fun today! Tank woo ouw angew Miss Dowwy fow making dis pawk and to awl da fwiends who making dis day so fun! And a vewwy happy biwfday to fwiend Sadie!! Wet’s awl wemembew to sing happy biwfday to hew at da kawaoke when it stawts!
we is do an pawtest acoz we has not had ours supper yet eben tho it isnt actually supper time yet. we sit here an do an judge ob ours hoomans. we encor- incou.... incoraj yu to do dis too!
Fow Moobie Tuesday dis week, I tinking of someting diffewent!
I know dewe gonna be wots of gweat twibutes to da bootifuw speciaw Miss Dowwy Pawton, and I can’t wait to see dem!
I gonna take Baby T to Dowwywood and w’all awe invited!
It’s a Dowwywood Pawty!
Wide awl da wides, enjoy da Gweat Smoky Mountains scenewy, eat da famous cinnamon bwead (I tawk to da bakews dewe befowe to make cat-and-ovvew-fwiends-fwiendwy vewsion), see da show about Miss Dowwy’s wife (I know my accent confusing, but I mean da ting woo bown wif- wife- not da wady woo mawwy), and have wors of fun!
And DEN, weww, woo know I often wike to go wif DooeyH to da Dwive-In on Moobie Tuesdays and watch da fwiends’ moobies on da scween. Weww, I book da Heawtsong Teatew dewe and we can watch da fwiends’ moobies togevvew and AWSO - KARAOKE! Come weady wif woo da favowite Miss Dowwy song to sing on stage at da teatew!
I can’t wait to see evewyone’s twibutes tomowwow and to see awl of woo at DOWWYWOOD!
OH! Awso- don’t fowget to get fwiend Smuffi, fwiends Hoku and Nalu u/jellosquid808 . And fwiends, make suwe woo get fwiend Smuffi on da wides and in da pawk pictuwes wif woo! I bet dat make his momma happy!
🖤🤍🧡
AJ
(This is a great time for a good old fashioned “get everyone in the pic!” gathering, especially for our friends who prefer to watch the moobies rather than making them. I have made a bunch of Dollywood backgrounds and I will post them tomorrow so the friends can sticker themselves in at the theme park. Then, after a bunch of the moobies have been posted, I’ll do a post with some of them on the screen in the theater and we can sticker friends watching them, as well as a microphone on stage for friends to sticker themselves doing Dolly karaoke! If you are newer or still don’t know how to sticker, I will post the iPhone and Samsung tutorials in the comments here and also will be happy to answer any questions I can, or I or many other friends here will be happy to put your babies in the pictures if you just drop them in the comments when the backgrounds are posted tomorrow. If you want someone else to do it for you in the photos tomorrow, please wait until that post to put a pic. Don’t put it here because I won’t be going back to this post then.)
