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Why have a multilingual blog

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 ?
Pixie et Zorro wash
blogpaws_March15Well, 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 ?

bloggers map

Cats bath

Some take mud baths, other one sunbaths, Claire was to have a cats bath at Caroline, her breeder friend of the Elevage du Jardin du Bonheur (with our permission of course). Caroline and her husband raise Balinese, Korats and Bengals.

Will you find the intruder in the following photos ?

Our Chrissymouse cards

What we prefer during the Advent, they are greeting cards. E-cards or snail-mail cards, no matter, we adore receiving the wishes of friends, and sending ours. We were not able to send cards by snail-mail to everyone, because Claire said that she had not won at the lottery yet and that we had a limited quantity available. I was nevertheless ready to play the snail.
Zorro escargot
Obviously, we receive much more cards than our humans : Claire suspends all the greeting cards in our small corridor; there are 6 or 7 of it there that are for her, the others are all for us !
corridor de noel
We’ll present you our e-cards on Wednesday ; meanwhile, we’re delighted to wish everyone Happy Holidays, whatever you celebrate at this time of year. We thank you for reading our blog and commenting regularly. We’re glad you’re part of our life !
e-card 2014