Feline Advice on Winning
Update: We’re revamping our website and will not be posting on Wednesday, April 3rd. See you on Thursday!
Thank-you to everyone who voted for our one-eyed boy Odin. He’s in the running for AmazeCat’s Next Top Cat. There are 8 groups of 4 cats totaling 32 cats. Odin will be competing against his friend Allie and two cats we’ve never heard of: Coco-Nut and Smoosh. Odin received 388 votes, Allie 340 votes, Coco-Nut 777 votes and Smoosh a whopping 1176! We’re back at square one with voting but we’re not optimistic about winning. To follow all the action, visit AmazeCats.com or at their Facebook page
The front runner is Little Bear with over 3000 votes and we feel it’s fun just having gotten this far. There are thousands of cat blogs and I see them as a microcosm of the competitive nature of life. We can’t all be at the top. We can’t always win. There will always be someone better and worse. I used to think it would be great to have 1000 Facebook fans but when I reached 5000, I wondered what 10,000 would be like. It never ends. Then there are the pages with 20,000, 50,000 or 100,000 +. If we compare, we’ll never be happy. Not with Facebook numbers, Twitter followers and any other number, prize or accolade.
What I’ve learned about blogging for five years (almost two at Cat Wisdom 101) is to stay true to your values. Know what you’re good at. Doing what you love shows. Do your best; keep learning, improving, sharing and don’t sweat it. It’s just a blog. Have fun!
Can you imagine our cats pulling their fur over numbers or winning? I think they’d laugh and say, “You silly humans, you’ve already won by simply living with a cat or three.”
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21 Comments
The Musings Of A Crazy Cat Lady
Odin, friend, we’ve voted for you and we’re hoping you win. We can’t wait to see the new look on your blog.
Brian
Way to go Odin! Hey, good luck on the redesign, I can’t wait to see!
Bernadette
We voted for you! We’ve never won a single contest but we’re about the least competitive cats around. I’ve been painting portraits of animals for over 20 years when few others were, now everyone is. We just do our thing and enjoy everyone else’s thing. Makes more time for art and petting cats.
Can’t wait to see the new design!
CATachresis
Well we voted for all of you!! As regards competitiveness, we are quite happy paddling around in the shallow waters 🙂 xx
Skeeter and Izzy
Sometimes the small,close knit colony of cats and their people is the best. We’re proud of you Odin and all of our other friends that are in the running too! We just like the small personal feel sometimes. Luvs Skeeter and Izzy >^..^<
Sue Brandes
Congrats Odin. Still pulling for you on the contest. Cannot wait to see how your blog looks. So exciting.
meowmeowmans
You are so right. Have fun, and know that you’re in the company of cats who love you … that’s the biggest kind of victory of all. 🙂
But we’ll still be voting for you and our other friends! MOL!
Abby
Odin that is simply pawsome! Mom says that she has been blogging since 2005 and has posted nearly 3000 posts but we are still small potatoes and that’s OK. She started out simply as a means to an end which was journalling about our everyday life to keep memories of things. When she goes back and looks at some of the early posts she had forgotten many things. It’s sad we lost all of our comments from the early years but nothing we can do about that now. We love interacting as much as we can and we love being visited by our fellow cat lovers.
Penelope
Yous knows, wes thinks yous is the bestest (along with our furrends)!
Can’t wait to sees your new look!
Kisses
Nellie
da tabbies o trout towne
dood…ewe bee a winner in R book N we due knot knead numbers ta tell uz sew… N a good thing two coz we stinked like skunk at math in skewl….
Caren Gittleman
actually we don’t like the word “competing” when referencing other cats so that is why Sparkle, Katie and I all linked to each other so that we can all get votes. Soooo on the next round, we just think votes are fun but we refuse to make it personal.
Layla Morgan Wilde
Yes, let’s have fun 🙂
Katie and Coccolino
Thanks for that reminder – you’re right and it is reassuring! Odin, we are so proud of you and we know what a special cat you are.
Piggy kisses,
Katie and Coccolino the mini pig
maggie
This post is a good reality check. When I start to wonder and worry about lack of comments and traffic, I’ll go pet my cats and remember why I started to blog.
Odin in your life is the biggest gift the universe has to offer- and you for him.
xxoo
Maggie
PS But I’m still voting for you!
The Island Cats
Congrats to Odin!
Kathryn
Amd can’t wait for the new design!!
Kathryn
Such is life,yes!
It is great that Odin has gotten this far (so far) because he is such a cutie!
Sparkle
I have to confess – me and Binga are almost always competing with each other!
Hannah and Lucy
We are purring for you to do well Odin.
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
Cynthia Southern
Congrats Odin. I hope you win. 🙂
Katie and GLOGIRLY
Congrats Odin! We’re right there with you! We have no idea which cats are in our next bracket…we can’t squint hard enough to even read my own name, let alone everyone else’s!
We’re very excited to see your new look!!! So exciting!
: ) Katie & Glogirly