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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / March 2008Flippy Day May 29th - it's official!
The RPCA gang and the members of Flippy's CatGroup have decided to celebrate Flippy Day on her birthday, so offically it's May 29th each year! Thousands of cat lovers around the world benefit from the tireless efforts of this lady in Melbourne, Australia, thanks to Flippy's CatPage, Flippy's CatGroup, and the daily cat e-mail she sends out to its members. How do we celebrate Flippy Day? I'm certain you have some good ideas. Here are a few of mine: 1. Send Flippy Day/birthday greetings to Flippy. I'm in North America so I'll do it a day earlier on the 28th because we're a day behind Australia where she lives. Every year on that day I'll do it with a PayPal donation to help Flippy pay the costs of the CatPage website, this CatGroup and her mailing list. I do that anyway. Four times a year I send money to her via PayPal, so I'll make one of the dates May 28th. When you use PayPal, an e-mail goes to the recipient in which you can send a message, so I'll make my message read "A Flippy Day gift." Flippy wrote me about this today. She says kindly, "I hope that people don't feel obligated to donate - there are quite a few people who are on pension, and there is no way these people can afford to donate. They should be able to enjoy the catpage too.") The CatPage website has suggestions for sending donations, including PayPal: http://members.westnet.com.au/flippy/donate.html 2. Have a Flippy Day Cat Party. The guests of honour are your kitties. Give them treats, hugs, ear scritches - but please, DON'T dress them in costumes! 3. Investigate some of the many cat protection groups around the world. A couple of examples are the Whiskers Animal Benefit League, and Cats Protection in the UK. Make sure the one you choose is legitimate, and help it in some way. http://www.ewhiskers.com/ http://www.cats.org.uk/ 4. The best way of all to celebrate Flippy Day is to adopt a stray kitty, or one from an animal shelter. If you do you'll be greatly rewarded, and thanked by Flippy the Birthday Girl. That's a few of my suggestions for celebrating May 29th. What are yours? Best; Bobcat > The RPCA gang and the members of Flippy's CatGroup have decided to > celebrate Flippy Day on her birthday, so offically it's May 29th each > year! > Best; Bobcat I just looked at the home page of the CatPage, Flippy's website. I discovered we picked a good year to begin Flippy Day, because it's the website's 10th anniversary! The home page reads in part, "Hi, I'm Flippy, the owner & webmaster of this webpage which went online in 1998." Good timing, gang! http://www.flippyscatpage.com/ > The RPCA gang and the members of Flippy's CatGroup have decided to > celebrate Flippy Day on her birthday, so offically it's May 29th each > year! [snip] This is so sweet! What a great idea. > Thousands of cat lovers around the world benefit from the > tireless efforts of this lady in Melbourne, Australia, thanks to > Flippy's CatPage, Flippy's CatGroup, and the daily cat e-mail she > sends out to its members. Ooo, what's Flippy's CatGroup? > 2. Have a Flippy Day Cat Party. The guests of honour are your kitties. > Give them treats, hugs, ear scritches - Aww, I can just see Roxy, Smudge and Licky sitting around with teacups, cake and ice cream (not chocolate). > but please, DON'T dress them in costumes! LOL! I would never do such a thing. I like being alive, thank you! > 3. Investigate some of the many cat protection groups around the > world. A couple of examples are the Whiskers Animal Benefit League, > and Cats Protection in the UK. Make sure the one you choose is > legitimate, and help it in some way. > http://www.ewhiskers.com/ > http://www.cats.org.uk/ A couple of good ones around here are: Fix Our Ferals Feral Cat Foundation (the group I fostered Everett from) Home at Last Milo Foundation Those are all small, local, grass-roots animal rescue groups. The first two, as you could probably tell from the names, are focused on cats, the other two rescue cats and dogs. (Sorry, I don't have web info on these groups at the moment, too lazy to go look. Anyway, I might be the only person here in my immediate area.) Joyce  SignatureTo send email to this address, remove the triple-X from my user name. :> Bobcat <bob_c...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > The RPCA gang and the members of Flippy's CatGroup have decided to > > celebrate Flippy Day on her birthday, so offically it's May 29th each > > year! On Mar 3, 5:40 pm, bastXXXe...@sonic.net wrote > Ooo, what's Flippy's CatGroup? > Joyce If you click on this link you'll learn more about the CatGroup. Bobcat http://www.flippyscatpage.com/catgroup.html >> Ooo, what's Flippy's CatGroup? >> Joyce > If you click on this link you'll learn more about the CatGroup. > Bobcat > http://www.flippyscatpage.com/catgroup.html Thanks! Joyce SignatureTo send email to this address, remove the triple-X from my user name. On Mar 3, 4:13 pm, bastXXXe...@sonic.net wrote: > >> Ooo, what's Flippy's CatGroup? > >> Joyce [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > -- > To send email to this address, remove the triple-X from my user name. Shocking, my Department store doesn't yet have their FlippyDay decorations up! =o) I must write to protest! Melissa > Shocking, my Department store doesn't yet have their FlippyDay > decorations up! =o) I must write to protest! LOL!! Good one. If they can put up Christmas decorations in September, we can certainly have Flippy Day items by *March*. My goodness, there are only 87 shopping days left!! (86 by Australia dates. :)) Joyce PS - I'm not making fun of Flippy Day. I think it's a great idea and a very nice thing to do. Just having a bit of fun. SignatureTo send email to this address, remove the triple-X from my user name. On Mar 4, 3:56 am, bastXXXe...@sonic.net wrote: > > Shocking, my Department store doesn't yet have their FlippyDay > > decorations up! =o) I must write to protest! > LOL!! Good one. If they can put up Christmas decorations in September, > we can certainly have Flippy Day items by *March*. My goodness, there > are only 87 shopping days left!! (86 by Australia dates. :)) > Joyce > PS - I'm not making fun of Flippy Day. I think it's a great idea > and a very nice thing to do. Just having a bit of fun. I enjoyed your amusing comments so much I posted them at Flippy's CatGroup. It got this response: --- In FlippysCatGroup@..., "Lynda Marie Hauptman" <miladyblue@...> wrote: > Bobcat, > We ALSO need to find someone to help us compose Flippy Carols! > Lynda-Marie Naturally I couldn't resist the challenge, and wrote: "Right. Let's see... Joy to the world Our Cat has come. Let every human be his slave His food and catnip bring... I'm stuck. How about... We wish you a Merry Cat Day; We wish you a Merry Cat Day; We wish you a Merry Cat Day and Flippy Day too. Good tidings we bring to you and your cats; Good tidings for Cat Day and Flippy Day too! Bobcat" If you want to see all this, here's where to get info on joining Flippy's Cat Group: http://www.flippyscatpage.com/catgroup.html > On Mar 4, 3:56 am, bastXXXe...@sonic.net wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > > http://www.flippyscatpage.com/catgroup.html God Rest Ye, Little Pussycats, Let nothing you dismay, FlippyDay is here again And the sun is warm in May! To save us all from winter blues and toys trapped by the fridge, Oh tidings of catnip and joy catnip and joy Oh tidings of cat nip and joy! Melissa > God Rest Ye, Little Pussycats, > Let nothing you dismay, [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > catnip and joy > Oh tidings of cat nip and joy! Excellent! It's a keeper for Flippy Day. And I'm posting it in Flippy's CatGroup. Bobcat > > Shocking, my Department store doesn't yet have their FlippyDay > > decorations up! =o) I must write to protest! [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > PS - I'm not making fun of Flippy Day. I think it's a great idea > and a very nice thing to do. Just having a bit of fun. I came up with a gift idea for her, some small Cat wind chimes. They sound really lovely and wind chimes just make you feel better... I have some on my balconey, and I love them. Kyla > I came up with a gift idea for her, some small Cat wind chimes. > They sound really lovely and wind chimes just make you feel better... > I have some on my balconey, and I love them. > Kyla How thoughtful, Kyla. I know Flippy will appreciate them. (We have wind chimes on our veranda shaped like squirrels!) "Bobcat" < On Mar 4, 8:25 pm, "Kyla =^..^=" : > I came up with a gift idea for her, some small Cat wind chimes. > They sound really lovely and wind chimes just make you feel better... > I have some on my balconey, and I love them. > Kyla How thoughtful, Kyla. I know Flippy will appreciate them. (We have wind chimes on our veranda shaped like squirrels!) IDK if I can afford to get her those and mail them to her because of money probs...it was a suggestion tho. I have some small Horse windchimes in my bathroom, which came with the trailer. Hafta move them outside. Kyla > The RPCA gang and the members of Flippy's CatGroup have decided to > celebrate Flippy Day on her birthday, so offically it's May 29th each > year! Thousands of cat lovers around the world benefit from the > tireless efforts of this lady in Melbourne, Australia, thanks to > Flippy's CatPage, Flippy's CatGroup, and the daily cat e-mail she > sends out to its members. <snip> > Best; Bobcat I think it's a wonderful idea! Best wishes, Polonca and Soncek
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