Claire had a busy week, and we didn’t manage to visit all our friends because she monopolized the computer. We evoked her lack of time this week, and we again heard the following remarks, more or less directly :
– This blog takes you a great deal of time, and that yield you nothing, why do you do it ?
– Why to tire you to translate your articles ? It would be simpler to mew just in French, no ?
– You do things the hard way for not much…
– Don’t you mind to make mistakes in articles which everybody can see ?

Well, yes, a blog takes time, and a multilingual blog even more. And no, we don’t mind to make language mistakes.

We have a blog because we like communicating and sharing. We share a few of us and a little of our knowledge on the everyday life with cats. We also share our crushes for certain products intended for humans or for cats.

We have a multilingual blog because we adore languages, and because we like exchanging with cats of other horizons. We translate ourself our articles. We are not tall travelers, but the knowledge of a language is a first approach of other one and his culture. By visiting blogs of various countries, we perceived differences of culture, sensibility, a vision of cat and an approach of blogging very varied. We even know specific words relative to cats in each language, but those are untranslatable in the others ! And it’s fascinating. We don’t hide that German, English, and Italian are not our mother tongues, and we don’t mind that you correct friendly our most unrefined errors, as when we use a word instead of an other one for example.

This additional effort is widely rewarded by the friendly relations we were able to develop in different parts of the world. Even thousands of kilometers away, several of these relations turned into real friendship : it’s what brought for example Claire, big non-traveler, to jump without hesitating in a plane to England to meet Mr Bumpy‘s mom who was arriving from Australia. It’s only a question of time so that she lands at a BlogPaws conference !

And you, why do you have a blog ?