What you’ll not be aware of is that I am an intern working at the Purrgressive Democats HQ and generally work on all election material for Mr. Squishy.

Months ago the main opposition to Fianna Fáil sprang into being during the time of the IMF bailout.

Of course shortly afterwards Squishys political opponents implemented a vicious slur campaign in the Meows of the world

But far be it from Squishy to let that trouble him he learned from the past and re-branded … and from the guts of Fianna Fishies was born … The Purrgressive Democats …

And even though he wasn’t in attendance at Vincent Browns first public debate … the results the next day spoke for themselves …

Squishy it must be said has not yet published his Catifesto ( he doesn’t believe in Manifestos where he’s concerned)

He does however have a few key points to make:

What do we really want?

Taking a note out of President Obama’s campaign he went with Change as one of his main points!

He will of course be publishing his Catifesto shortly … and in the mean time you can keep up with all the latest over on the Squishy The Cat Facebook Page

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

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

But what to do what to do .. I ended up setting up a facebook page for my cat … sad … no he doesn’t think so at all

What started rather silly has become a minor fun obsession for me for Example one of the first ones I created was:

A fun little image based on the Avatar movie with my cat

Ah well if you fancy becoming a fan of his page you can go on over to http://www.facebook.com/catatar I couldn’t get Squishy (before you ask its my nickname for him his real name is Yoda.