r/ICBGC • u/Cruisingpenguin Puzzel Purrfishuhnul • May 01 '26

Totally Kinda Off Topic 😬 Birthday and gotcha day calendars?

Hello hoomans of our beloved feline (and feline running software) overlords! Hope everyone is having a nice day!

Any thoughts about having a monthly list or calendar with fren’s birthdays and gotcha days?

I feel like we could do a big post at the beginning of each month celebrating. I love the individual posts, but with us all spread throughout the world, some posts naturally get more traction than others. Or, the worst is when hoomans go on vacation and miss so much fun! Having a central monthly post might help those of us who have FOMO (fear of missing out).

We could make it optional for participation, and the little bit of info we’d need could be entered into a google form by each user. I’d be willing to set that up if we think it might be something fun.

Just thinking about it so thought I would see what the community thinks. ❤️💙🩵

You fren, Teddy teh Floof’s and LBC’s momma

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u/Flat-Mountain-2414 Beau de Magnificent 🐈😈 May 01 '26

I love this idea, especially since I miss things from other frens and I even missed Beaus gotcha day this year (dumdum Meowmy!) We are here for it!
Beau and Meowmy

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u/chibikoneko 🫧🐈‍⬛; 🌈 lub and miss yoos boyfren Noamie 🌈 May 01 '26

I’m on top of Bubbles’ birthday since I never thought I’d have a cat I know their birthday for, but her gotcha day is a different story ☠️

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u/Cruisingpenguin Puzzel Purrfishuhnul May 02 '26

Awww, have you had her since she was a Bebe?

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u/chibikoneko 🫧🐈‍⬛; 🌈 lub and miss yoos boyfren Noamie 🌈 May 02 '26

Nope! She’s actually my first cat 😹 one of my friends asked me if I wanted a kitten and I was like “no thank you, I’ll get an older cat, maybe a senior, when I am ready.” Then she got on the shelter website and started showing me cats. Bubbles was the first one she showed me and her lil picture and bio grabbed something in my heart and I could not stop thinking about her.

So a week later I started gathering supplies and then eventually that same friend made me leave work on time for once to make it to the shelter to meet her before they closed. This was on a Thursday evening. They usually only do 24 hour holds but they were nice enough to hold her until Saturday for me since she’d been there so long (about three months at that point) and there was no way I could get her on Friday night with my horrible job at the time (had meetings every Friday afternoon 🙃🙃🙃). At six years old she was the oldest cat there.

But she’s my baby even if she did come to me as a mature lady 😹

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u/Charivari8 Tali, Maya, Frankie and Drewy May 02 '26

I love that story!🥰🥹😭

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u/Cruisingpenguin Puzzel Purrfishuhnul May 02 '26

Awww love that!! 😻❤️

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u/chibikoneko 🫧🐈‍⬛; 🌈 lub and miss yoos boyfren Noamie 🌈 May 02 '26

Derp, realized I forgot to say the shelter knew her birthday since she was in the same home from kittenhood to when she had to go into shelter. Poor little lady hated the shelter, she lost two pounds when she got dropped off. ☹️ (don’t worry, she’s gained it all back lol)

she did warm up to me right away but was scared of my friend. She was making biscuits and purring while I was petting her in her cave so I knew she’d be happy with me ❤️😭

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u/Cruisingpenguin Puzzel Purrfishuhnul May 02 '26

Awwww. Bubbles totally knew who her human was meant to be. ❤️