Greetings, Fabulous Felines and Feline loving Hoomans of Hivelandia and surrounding communities!

Guess what? Today — August 8th — is International Cat Day!

About International Cat Day

International Cat Day happens on August 8th every year, and is one of several notable days dedicated to cat awareness and well-being.

This particular day was initiated by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, back in 2002. For the past couple of years, the day has been sponsored by the UK based organization International Cat Care.

Google Fun!

I'm a bit late in the day for posting this, but even Google has gotten in on the fun!

How to play:

1. Open a fresh page to Google
2. Search for the word "cat"
3. If you're on a desktop of tablet, there will be a small animation with a paw print and cat paw, below the description and image block at right.
4. Click on/tap the pawprint!
5. Click/tap anywhere on the screen and watch what happens.
6. Have fun!

Screen shot from Google!

What's News From Here?

Meanwhile, the Dad-Hooman got a new office chair, which I was trying out earlier!

In all fairness, I am mostly excited about it because it means that I now get to sleep in his old office chair... if I can just persuade him to keep it in the office!

Hoomans can be unpredictable in their ways...

Hive Inching it's Way Up!

I'm very happy to see that our Hive token seems to have settled down at a level higher than it was before the recent spike to 90 cents.

I strongly believe that small gradual gains that are barely attention-worthy — but add up to something over time — is a far more solid and sustainable way to go.

All this sudden up and down motion is enough to make a cat nervous and uncomfortable!

And with that thought, I hope everyone is having a good week, so far!

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Love Cats? Get Involved in Hive's Cat Communties!

If you're a cat lover and often/sometimes post pictures or other content that includes your feline friends, why not become an active part of Hive's growing Cat Communities?

These are some of the more active Cat Communities — why not join them ALL? Remember, you can also "cross-post" your cat posts to them!

HiveCats by @curatorcat is a central "gathering place" for cat content on Hive; promoting the use of the #hivecats tag for feline content!

Cat Snaps by @manorvillemike is a place to post pictures of your cats when you don't have a whole lot to say beyond just sharing your cute photos!

Caturday Community by @saboin is a community where we get to celebrate posts relating to Saturday — aka "Caturday" — our own special day!

Cat Photos by @andrarchy is a "mixed use" cat content community; posts can be just photos or longer, as long as the subject is CATS! It has a lot of subscribers but is not very active.

Cats by @captainklaus (and Sissi!) is another "general" cat content community; it's there, but not very active.

Last, but certainly not least, a special shoutout to the Hive Pets Community which has become quite active and typically has quite a bit of cat content!

There are a number of other feline communities listed on Hive, but I am not sharing them for now as they have not had any activity (by their Admins OR users) since the Steem/Hive fork. Updates as they become available!

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