Greetings Fabulous Felines and Hoomans of Hivelandia and surrounding communities!

Day of the Cat

One of the things I wanted to do early on in this New Year was to compile a complete calendar of official cat holidays. I'm aware of a pawful and I expected there might be one or two more... so I didn't figure that would be so difficult, but I have had quite a surprise!

As it turns out, we cats have a lot of special days dedicated to us! And if you add in the factor that there are special "cat days" in many different countries that aren't necessarily celebrated on the same day of the year in other countries, you end up with quite a collection!

Not So Simple!

At first, I thought I would just keep it simple. But as I started compiling my list, I realized that Hive is home to cats from all over the globe, so it would only be fair for me to dig around and find the different cat holidays from everywhere.

So I have basically created a very large project for myself!

But worry not! The Dad-Hooman and I have gone into serious research mode, and we are still hoping that we can have the comprehensive "Cat Calendar" put together before this coming weekend. We just had no idea it would be such a large undertaking!

Ironically, our current state of winter with a lot of frost and snow has worked in our favor because there isn't much else you can do aside from sitting inside and doing indoor things. I even managed to persuade the Dad-Hooman to not lapse into his usual pattern of doing a bunch of his so-called work, and instead help me with my project.

Thankfully, he was ready for a change of scenery so we have been working very hard on this little venture today, and will again tomorrow, as it is a public holiday.

Smudge was more interested in napping, and she thought we were just wasting our time. In her little world, every day is Caturday and thus a "special" day so why would you need to make a calendar of all those days?

I suppose she has a point there!

Still, some days celebrates different kinds of cats... so whereas they are special, they are not all created equal!

Smudge, taking it easy on her soft blanket

Thanks for coming to visit our blog, and we hope you have had a wonderful weekend! We look forward to seeing you again!

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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? Many of the allow you to share your cat posts, even if you started at a different community!

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

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

Cat Photos by Hive account@andrarchy is a "mixed use" cat content community; posts can be just photos or longer, as long as the subject is CATS!

Cats by Hive account@captainklaus (and Sissi!) is another "general" cat content community.

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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