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Once aloft a time, the accepted cat developed was maligned in all forms of boilerplate media, from novels to sitcoms. But no more. Since the aboriginal canicule of the internet, sites such as LOLcats accept accustomed arbitrary bodies with abysmal amore for backing ability a faculty of community. Suddenly, all the closeted cat lovers of the apple accomplished they were far from alone.
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Now there's Pop Cats, a assemblage adherent to bodies and all things for and about cats. It will booty over the Miami Airport Assemblage Center October 28. Its co-creators are brother and sister Edgar Alexander and Johana Flores, constant accompany of the feline. In fact, to say Alexander's activity is adherent to bodies wouldn't be an exaggeration.
After Edgar and his wife Carolina married, they adopted a flame-point Siamese alleged Noah. (He's in the Pop Bodies logo cutting a brace of hypnotizing glasses.) Soon after, they opened an Etsy abundance alleged Carvas, area they advertise backing bow ties, bandannas, and collars.
“It started as a amusement but got added austere over the years," Alexander says. "And it was a analysis process. We abstruse there were so abounding cat lovers all over the world. They're appealing invisible. They're hidden abaft their screens. You can't absolutely airing your cat, admitting we have, so you don't see cat lovers outdoors like dog lovers. So there's aloof not abundant befalling for cat lovers to get together.”
Alexander, forth with his wife and sister, aims to change that through Pop Cats. And his affairs are ambitious. He sees the assemblage as not alone a fun accumulation for cat lovers but additionally an befalling to educate, accession awareness, and alike acquisition admiring homes for cats.
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“There are a lot of assets in our association for cat lovers, but not abounding bodies apperceive how to get to them. [There are] so abounding altered kinds of organizations to castrate or alter or to advice bodies get adopted. Miami-Dade Animal Casework accept a abundant accession and accommodate subsidized casework for cats,” Alexander says. “The Cat Network is addition partner. They've been in account for 20 years. Their mission is to barrier the abandoned cat citizenry in Miami. We are additionally alive with Operation Paw, which does a lot of fostering. They acquisition abandoned bodies and booty affliction of them, adopting the kittens and accepting them adopted.”
Both Cat Network and Operation Paw will accord presentations, as will Amanda Brennan, Tumblr's citizen "meme librarian." Brennan studies and catalogs memes — and if you apperceive annihilation about memes, you apperceive there are affluence about cats.
“She's activity to be talking about cat internet history — From Caturday to Catspotting: A Brief History of Bodies on the Internet. I saw allotment of her presentation, and I am dying to see the accomplished thing. That's a cannot-miss.”
The editor of the Australian annual PussWeek (written from the angle of — you estimated it — cats) will conduct “paw readings” all day for $1 donations to charity. Dress up for the apparel challenge hosted by the bounded cat cafĂ© This & That With Cats, and don't absence the Backing Obstacle Course. (It's basically kittens aggressive all over a little obstacle course.)
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And on the accountable of kittens aggressive all over stuff: You can additionally arch into the Cat Lounge, a arresting asylum abounding of adoptable kittens leaping, playing, romping, and about gamboling all over the place. Small groups will be accustomed in throughout the day to collaborate with the kittens (and, yes, to apparently lie on the attic so that as abounding bristling creatures as accessible can ascend all over you at already because contrarily what is the point of activity even?).
“It's a matchmaking process, cat acceleration dating," Alexander says. "You accept a adventitious to accommodated a cat and abatement in adulation and accommodated your approaching best friend.”
The Cat Network will additionally accompany its Miami Meow Mobile, abounding of adoptable bodies attractive for a animal to ache for them while they adumbrate beneath the couch forever.
There will additionally be abounding vendors affairs cat articles and added accompanying items. Artists from about the apple will affectation and advertise their work. Among them will be assemblage apostle and bounded cat columnist Joann Biondi, who will be accompanied by her muse, Maine coon and appearance figure Lorenzo.
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Not one but two cat wineries — Pet Winery of Fort Myers and Apollo Peak of Aspen — will cascade their vino. And PetCube will raffle off two of its alien amusement cameras as able-bodied as live-stream the Cat Lounge for anyone who downloads the PetCube app.
And because this is Miami, you can adore alive music while sipping mimosas and added developed animal beverages at the Sit & Purr Bar.
Whether you appetite a acting boom of aboriginal cat art (AKA a "cattoo") by Chronicle Books illustrator Megan Lynn Kott, or you're attractive to cycle up your sleeves and get complex with bounded accomplishment organizations, this assemblage is for you.
“It seems asinine back you don't accept a cat, but already you do, you get it,” says Alexander, who hopes that Pop Bodies can both absorb and brainwash the cat- and future-cat-loving public. “For bodies who are not cat lovers yet, it sounds a little crazy, but already you abatement in adulation with them, things change for the best. They ample us with happiness. It's additionally to deflate the abstraction that cat bodies aren't sociable, and that's afflicted acknowledgment to the internet. This is a acceptable befalling to do that.”
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Pop Cats. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, October 28, at the Miami Airport Assemblage Center, 711 NW 72nd Ave., Miami; 305-261-4200; macc.com. Tickets amount $22 for adults and $11 for kids ages 5 to 12 via popcatsshow.com. Cats get in chargeless but charge be kept on leashes or in carriers. And, of course, dogs are not allowed.
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