Category Archives: The Swiss Cats

Maneki-neko

I almost look like a maneki-neko in this picture, don’t you think ?

Anyway, I brought happiness to someone during our 8th blogoversary : Lola and Lexy won the fantastic surprise package that we offered for this occasion !

Lola and Lexy also have a blog, Lola The Rescued Cat ; Lola even wrote a book with the help of her human Dawn White. They are passionate about rescue and animal welfare, and will be very happy with your visit.

We cannot show you what they will get because it’s a surprise, but we hope that they will satisfy your curiosity when they receive their package.

8 years blogging

Eight years ago, on 23 April 2012, our Angel Loupi decided to share his wisdom with the world : Swiss Cat Blog, the first name of our blog, was born. Zorro joined him a little later, and together they made lots of friends in the blogosphere thanks to the Google Translate button that was present from the beginning on the blog. In 2013, they also decided to translate their articles into English.

Zorro and Angel Loupi have benefited from the advice of more experienced bloggers from the Cat Blogosphere and Blogpaws communities (now All Pet Voices) to develop this blog that has definitely become The Swiss Cats.

Switzerland is a multilingual country, and the need to mew in the three official languages, in addition to English, was established in 2014.

Soon after, Ange Loupi gained his wings, but quickly sent the little Pixie to join the editorial team of The Swiss Cats.

We mainly share our daily lives, but we also write from time to time feature articles on behaviour, feeding, health, safety and care.

We also financially support a shelter through commentathons.

However, none of this would be possible without you, dear readers : your visits and comments feed our blog and make it live.

To thank you, one of you will have the chance to receive a surprise package from us. Try your luck until April 29th !

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Thank you for reading us regularly, and thank you for being our friends !

Adverse effects

The lockdown situation due to COVID-2019 has perverse effects on our humans : here are a few.

We have to anticipate to go and buy our food, and allow a little more time. Anticipating being a need at Claire’s, it doesn’t bother her too much.

The hours of wakefulness, sleep, and meals are completely out of sync with some of our domestic staff. This point is more problematic : our human needs a very regular rhythm, and a number of hours of almost feline sleep. When she realized that she was starting to go to bed regularly two hours later than usual, that she was getting up later but not really rested, that she was starting to nibble and buy junk food, Claire forced herself to go to bed at the usual time, started planning healthy and balanced meals again, and put on a wake-up call to get up in the morning.

Finally, forced promiscuity gets on the nerves of some. Fortunately, this is not the case for Momo and Claire !

We also noticed that we were a little behind the blogosphere these days, as if we had lost some of our « blogging mojo » : let’s hope it doesn’t last too long !

What about in your homes ? Do your humans manage to keep a semblance of normality in their lives ?