Greetings Fabulous Felines and Hoomans of Hivelandia and surrounding communities!

I hope this week has treated you well so far and that your Friday is turning out the way you want.

I see a bird!

Today may not be Caturday, but it is definitely an important day for cats! You see, today — August 8th — is International Cat Day!

This is a celebration of cats that takes place on August 8th every year, and was originally started in 2002 by The International Fund for Animal Welfare.

Nala, posing prettily

In 2020 the torch was passed to International Cat Care, which is a British organization that has been concerned with the welfare of cats since the late 1950s.

This day is basically a celebration and festival of all things cats and is especially concerned with raising awareness of the welfare and health of cats, And it's an opportunity for people to learn more about cats and how to protect their welfare.

Shangri, just chilling

As the name suggests, International Cat Day is celebrated all around the world!

Of course, here at our place virtually every day is cat day, because we are blessed with kind and caring Hoomans who love us, feed us and take good care of us.

Smudge, assuming her "liquid" form!

Sadly, not all cats are so fortunate and many are forced to live on the streets where they have to fight for even tiny scraps of food.

Anyway, we hope you take a moment to spend a little extra time with your feline friends today, and perhaps offer them up an extra treat or two, a little extra playtime and let them know how much they mean to you!

Big yawn. I need to get back to my nap!

In the meantime, we appreciate you stopping by our cat blog for a visit, and we hope to see you again tomorrow for the Caturday update.

If you do have cats in your life, why not take some pictures of them and share them tomorrow for Caturday? If you weren't already aware, Hive has its own Caturday Community!

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

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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