Fri 2 Mar 2007
Oh No!
Posted by KC under blogging cat noos
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Furrst of all, put your link in tha Mr. Linkie if u’s don’t want Zeus, Skeezix and Beau to stop blogging.
fank goodness Kukka-Maria is still bloggin, that wuz a bit of miss-informashun! fank goodness.
next, feel free to leafs a comment or a missage fur them.
This can’t be happening.
KC & Sanjee
pee ess: sorry this looks so plain, but’s we’s didn’t haf time to makes it purrty.
pee pee ess: when Mommy did this grafic she didn’t know Kukka was finkin bout leavin too and now she’s gone. Or BEau too. Please don’t leave us, friends.
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March 2nd, 2007 at 10:56 am
and now beau too. i dont want to lose 4 blogging furrineds ofur nonsense. i a week this will be a memory to all involved.
March 2nd, 2007 at 10:56 am
Beau is also thinking about quitting. We don’t want ANYONE to stop blogging.
March 2nd, 2007 at 10:57 am
thanks for this KC
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:01 am
Each blogger will have to decide for themselves but we hope that everyone continues. As much as we hate to admit that humans help us – they are driving force of blogs and they make mistakes. If the mistakes of this contest means that people need to give up blogging then we should all give it up because we are human and we will make mistakes.
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:02 am
Please don’t stop blogging! We love all yoor bloggies and mom would be furry sad if she coodent reed yoo no more.
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:05 am
good gravy!
perhaps we all need a weekend to step back and just think about this — NO ONE should stop blogging because this!
It was all in good fun.
I’ve had negative comments come onto my personal blog, and yes, I considered stopping my blog at several points also — but I didn’t. And I am so glad I’ve continued.
Please, Skeezix, Zeus, Beau, Kukka Marie — take a day or two or three if you need to, but keep on blogging!
We ♥ all of you!
~ Not The Mama (aka Morgen from It’s A Blog Eat Blog World)
and Jazper
(and Daphne & Chloe & Spooker too!!)
♥ ♥ ♥
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:08 am
FYI… Beau has just posted a goodbye on his blog – we hope it is only temporary.
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:09 am
Please don’t stop blogging! You are wonderful cats (and people) and I hope that we can all remain friends.
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:16 am
Please, no cat should stop blogging over this. It is very silly. I agree with the Zoo, in a week, this will be a distant memory. I love all of the cats on the cat blogosphere.
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:23 am
I’s so confused! I’s not sure what happened, but it’s like a bunch of my furiends are in a fight an I want them all to stay my furiends! I enjoy all yur blogs fur diffrint reasons an if I don’t like sumfing, I just skip it an read sumfin else. This is aposed to be fun. Efurryone, find a quiet place fur a catnap an stare out the window awhile, then let’s try to move on! Pleeze don’t quit!
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:26 am
Purrs to everybody.
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:34 am
I’ve taken time out of my very busy napping day to have a pow-wow with Latte, Kaze, and yes, the Woman.
We all truly feel that without adversity we would not be a community and we must use this in a positive manner and rise above our differences and respect each other for them.
Chase
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:34 am
we is sorry, we mis-unnerstood Kukka – she is not stopping blogging. we was all ‘afused. Sorry!
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:37 am
By the way, I was having trouble with word verification in Mozilla but switched to IE and things seem to be working!
Chase
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:41 am
I’m with Morgen! I’ve had negative comments at my blog and much drama, and thought of quitting, but I didn’t and am so glad I didn’t! I know I don’t often comment at these blogs but I do visit them and do not want to see them go!! Please don’t go guys! We love you! Like Mo said, just take a fews days and think it over.
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:43 am
Looks like we picked a bad week to have computer problems!
Zeus, Skeezix, Beau, everyone, please don’t go. You kitties are why we finally started blogging. We seldom comment, but we all try to read everyone’s blogs.
The Clowder begs you. Hang in there.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Now Scooby, Shaggy and Scout are goin’ into “hibernation”. We just want efurryone to take some time and let things calm down and not stop bloggin’!
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:22 pm
i just went thru and read most of the comments/votes in the contest as i didn’t get a chance to vote although i wanted to.
so here is my two cents worth.
i enjoy reading the cat blogs. the different styles of blogging are interesting and refreshing to read. if i am not in the mood for a particular style i don’t visit it that day.
i keep in mind that the blogs are fun. i found the contest just that – tongue in cheek. poking fun at the absurdity of human beauty pagents. i dislike them also. so i thought the contest was a fun way to make a point. nothing to take seriously. i thought the voting was hilarious. the ballot stuffing got very creative.
the kitty blogs give me a break from the insanity of my life and make me smile, laugh and cry (when there is a passing of life). the blogs keep me in touch with the world outside of my everyday life. i cherish and look forward to interacting with such a diversity of pets and their people.
finally, if someone doesn’t like my blog they don’t have to visit. it is called freedom of choice.
my vote is for everyone to keep blogging. all of you are a ray of sunshine in my life. please keep bloggin.
momsbusy
we agrees wif mommees
yuki & kimiko
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:35 pm
We’re on the west coast and just got on the computer. It seems we’ve missed hours of something, but we don’t know what. Reading these comments, we assume that it’s about Zeus’s contest. We didn’t vote, but not because of any problem with any other cat blogger – our Lady’s computer at work can’t access Zeus’s blog because of the word “sex” (blocked by the firewall) in the middle of Zeus’s address: http://www.zeuSEXcuse.blogspot.com. The Lady has been too busy every evening with an issue with The Blonde Girl who is switching schools and has been taking placement tests…in other words WE DON’T KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON. We adore Zeus and wish we could visit his blog more often. We adore the other cat bloggers who seem to be involved here too. We don’t want anyone to go. Can we all go over to Chatzy and work this out?
Midnight
(on behalf of Grr & Cocoa too, but I spell better)
March 2nd, 2007 at 1:15 pm
What Yuki & Kimiko’s busy mom said. Except we didn’t read all the voting comments. Do I haf to thwap some heads out there? Cuz I will.
March 2nd, 2007 at 2:19 pm
now scooby shaggy and scout are going too. this is crazy. bonnie i fink yoo need to get at the thwapping.
March 2nd, 2007 at 2:51 pm
What!?! The SSS’s are talking bout leeving to. If everyone gives up how will the cats ever take over? We thot it wuz just very funny dat da beans were out getting EVERYONE in the world to vote for their contestant. We know it was the beans and not the cats because CATS DON’T BEG. Proving once again what Zeus was trying to point out about bean pajents. Please, no one quit blogging over this, mom won’t know what to do with herself if you quit!
March 2nd, 2007 at 3:41 pm
What everyone else said!!! So many good points have been put in these comments and on other blogs… no one is encouraging anyone to quit!!! I think a weekend off is a great idea!
March 2nd, 2007 at 4:13 pm
Please don’t go anyone. We all have our bad days and say things that aren’t ment to be said. It will all pass is a day or two. Please reconsider.
KC thanks for setting this up.
If you really want to vent go to my site and let it all out.
March 2nd, 2007 at 5:54 pm
We also agree with Zippy, Sadie and Speedy: we thought the ballot-stuffing was simply hilarious, creative fun. Here’s something to consider … I wonder if human stage moms get into squabbles over bean beauty contests? If so, then Zeus’ contest truly was an accurate satire of the pageant world!
We think a diplomatic solution would be to create a special meme for today, “Forgive & Forget Friday” and for all blogging kitties & beans to post 10 ways the Cat Blogosphere has changed their lives for the better! Let’s all fill the CB with positive thoughts so that no blogging kitty or bean will ever think of leaving such a nice place!
March 2nd, 2007 at 8:14 pm
I hope no one really leaves for good over this! I don’t even understand! Some of the ballot stuffing seemed a bit silly and occasionally lacking in imagination, but it didn’t seem intentionally mean or anything to me!
Having had things like this happen on e-mail lists I was on, I guess I just eventually developed a viewpoint that suggests ‘Never ascribe to maliciousnes what can be ascribed to ignorance (or silliness, or a joke gone wrong, or misunderstanding due to the lack of body language accompanying the message, or, well, a squillion (I LOVE that word!) different reasons that don’t involve meanness).
Marina said in her apology that she could hear her mother saying “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions”. That may be true, but the person whose good intentions (or even innocuous ones) misled them is not a bad person because of it. Someone who deliberately does wrong is evil, someone who does something wrong without bad intentions is just someone who made a mistake. And who among us hasn’t?
If you think you made a mistake, and want to leave in shame or a sense of not deserving to be here, please don’t. If someone else is truly so angry or hurt they don’t want to associate with you, they can choose to just not associate with you (and that’s ok too), but please don’t feel as though you have to go. You don’t.
And we’d miss you.
Jack’s OTW (who has a knack for hurting people’s feelings even when she thinks her words through for a long time and tries really hard not to)
March 2nd, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Scooby, Shaggy & Scout are just taking a break, not permamently quitting. That is per an email their sent my mom a few minutes ago.
March 4th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
We missed most of this but my Mom has read a lot of the posts. We both thought the contest was funny, that even the silliness wasn’t meant to be mean and that there’s no reason for anyone to stop blogging over what happened. If anyone wants to take a break, though, we’ll miss you and look forward to your return.
My blog is so new that not very many kitties visit or leave comments yet. Sometimes I think about stopping but then Mom reminds me that I read a lot of other kitties’ blogs but don’t have time to comment on every one of them.
I’ll continue to read as many of your blogs as I can every day even though I’ll probably still not comment as often as I should. And none of us has to read anything we don’t want to!