If you’re in Ireland and able to … get out there and vote.

Be the change you want to see in your pocket!

Unfortunately I’m not in the country along with a few other colleagues who are travelling today so we’ve no way of actually voting. (One in Brussels, one in the US and I’m in Nantes) I went over to BallotBox and made my vote. For what it’s worth hopefully it may lead to changing of the system. I believe in other EU countries people can mail their vote or visit an embassy to have their vote heard.

Those who know me probably think I’m some kinda cat obsessed maniac of some sort and I guess you might be slightly right. 3 years ago give or take a few months my wife wanted a cat and we got Yoda (stage name Squishy). I was never a big fan of cats growing up I have to be honest so it came as a rather major surprise to like the little guy so much. 3 years on we’ve clocked a lot of miles and done a lot of work together (working from home and himself being an indoor cat means we’ve spent much of those 3 years together).

Squishy has his own facebook page now with 300+ followers which I find highly amusing but that’ll be another blog post another day and that isn’t exactly where I’m going with this post.

One of the things I do for Blacknight is try to come up with some interesting graphics / imagery for their blog posts / newsletters / campaigns. For these I’ve used pictures of Squishy as well as other stock imagery of cats / dogs and so on.

An example of one of the graphics would be:

But this got me thinking. I have a strong dislike/fear of spiders (arachnophobia) so obviously I wouldn’t like to see them used on a blog post. I know a few people have a dislike of cats and dogs (I know I was shocked too).

So I ended up running a little poll a few weeks back to see just what peoples reactions are. I mentioned it on Twitter / facebook and maybe one or two other locations and I ended up getting just shy of 90 votes which I was quite happy about. (Thanks everyone who took the time to vote)

Pretty crazy stats … 14% are cat people vrs 53% being doggy people. Both was included as an option as well and taking that into account (30% liking both) that’ll make 44% of people being cat people vrs 83% being doggy people.

Of course this is a pretty small set of people in the poll (probably mostly my peer group as well I would guess) but still 83% vrs 44% means the next adverts I’ll be running may be more dog orientated (if I do end up using an animal).

So there you have it … if you’re a creative and thinking of using cats or dogs in any advertising you’re going to be doing maybe think twice. Do you dislike one or the other ? Would seeing a cat / dog in an advert make you smile or turn you off the ad?

You can of course see more of his sillyness over on his facebook page Squishy

Its an old classic movie that I’ve not seen in quite some time so maybe with my cats help its on the cards again

Rather hastily done but ah well its the thought that counts

Its quite a fitting one given my being in Morocco last week

The worst thing about coming back from holidays where you shut off is the amount of catching up you have to do especially when you’re a freelancer but thats going somewhere else that I don’t want to go with this post and a post on Fes in Morocco and my trip will be coming up shortly… So without further ado here we have my latest contribution to the Squishy The Cat / Catatar dynasty meet Borcat:D

My poor cat is all I’ll say he has no choice in the movie posters he appears in. This one is quite possibly leads to questions of cruelty to animals but please note no cats were harmed in the making of this poster (though I was clawed once or twice afterwards)

Follow him over at his webpage on Facebook Catatar

Anyone have any suggestions on the next poster to do ? you can see the others I’ve already done over on http://www.facebook.com/catatar

And … on to the photo

I even had someone ask me for the high res version of it which kinda made my day ( sad I know but … such is life )

So rather than post about that I’ll just give ye the latest creation in the Catatar Franchise

McSquishy

Cat's Anatomy a spoof on Greys Anatomy with my cat