The head peep is back from BarkWorld Expo. It was a chaotic few days, and we’re here to bring you some cat-related highlights of the event.
One of the four keynote sessions featured Tom Otto and Shaun Sears, who rescue cats from trees with their Canopy Cat Rescue organization. You may have seen them on their Animal Planet program, Treetop Cat Rescue. The two of them talked about rescuing cats, and they showed videos of various rescues that showed both how much they clearly love cats and also how much they understand them.
After hearing the stereotype of cat ladies for far too long, listening to these two men talk about understanding the difference in the kind of meows different cats make was incredibly refreshing. They explained how they are often rescuing the freaking out humans on the ground as much as they are the cats stuck in the trees. They also took extra time to explain a little bit about the mechanics that go into rescuing a cat so high up above solid ground.
After the first day of sessions, someone very special came to visit the cat bloggers attending the conference: Sophie from Kitty Cat Chronicles.
She demonstrated how her string toy is her favorite thing ever.
With everyone having been away from home and not having seen their own cats in a day, Sophie was the center of everyone’s attention.
The second day of the conference included a separate breakfast for cat influences. It was hosted by our friends Francois and Olivia from meowbox! Not only was there swag for all of the cat attendees, there was a drawing for three mega-meowboxes, and the head peep won one of them!
Olivia personalized our new meowbox on the spot by writing our names inside the lid. That’s something they do for every single meowbox, and Olivia said that they will continue to personalize every meowbox like that no matter how big they get.
At breakfast, she met another kitty, named Hoss Cartwright. He was the only cat attending seen at the conference among all of the dogs there. His human is a pet sitter, and it was clear from the well-loved condition of his rolling carrier that Hoss gets out to visit his friends a lot in it.
The head peep left Atlanta when the conference was over and was on the road about 6:00 at night. She didn’t want to wait to get home to us, so she drove straight through to get home around midnight here in Florida, exhausted, but happy to see us. For her, getting home to us may have been her biggest kitty highlight of the weekend. (It better have been!)
