CONTEST WINNERS! "NAME THE NINE"

 

Before we put paws down and name our winners – thanks to all who took part in the 
"NAME THE NINE" contest.

Unfortunately, in fairness, we could not put all entries in June’s basket, 

as some just didn’t come up with “nine” names, 
others wanted to try but gave up!

If any are wondering – here are the 17 names [in no special order] of our great woofers 

and lovely kitties that were on our list, all would have been acceptable, 
and yes – the black cats, the greys, and the grey-and-whites were not easy.

OONA    Across the Oonaverse
SMUDGE   Peeballs and Pooplogs
DUKE   Dandy Duke
daNELLY and/or daPHENNY   Easy Blog
STYX   The River Cats
GIDGET   Growing Up Gidget
ZIGGY   An Artist Reflects
KIZMET   The Cat On My Head
TYLER   Brian’s Home Blog
PRECIOUS   Precious
BENNY THE BLACK   The Poupounette
BEAU   MadSnapper N’ Beau
CB and/or MANNY   Eastside Cats
SASHA   Diamond Cat by Sasha
BRODY   15 and Meowing
REESIE   Friends FurEver
ROSY and SUNNY   Living the LLB Life

All entries with 9 names went into June's basket.

She wandered by, ignoring it.  A second time she passed by, nothing.

A few temptation treats were put into the bottom of the basket, and

June went into her "spaceship", not to be bothered.

It was up to me!

I went through all your entries, again, thank you!

FIVE ... had all correct [from the list above] names.

Others may have entered nine names, most very unfamiliar ... apawlogies.

Although originally we planned to award THREE prizes, why not?

This contest is in support of The Cat Blogosphere and its operating expenses,

prizes will be from GIFT TOPIA, where sales support the CB.

So, a change of mind, or heart or because we strongly support our CB ...

here are our FIVE WINNERS.

Mackerull and The Food Gurl -- Trout Talkin Tabbies

Duke and Sue -- Dandy Duke

Reesie and Noelle and Sharon -- Friends FurEver

Mudpie and Melissa -- Mocha, Mysteries, Meows

Benji and Dalton and Ingrid -- Meezer's Mews and Terrieristical Woofs

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Each winner will receive an email from me later today

explaining how they can order and receive their choice of gift items

from Gift Topia.

Again, thanks to all for taking part in our contest.

SEPTEMBER 11, IN MEMORY OF

 

THANKFUL THURSDAY and a NOTE FROM JUNE

 

We are just home from a wonderful long holiday weekend ~ in Annapolis, and at the USNA,
shared with my son, and daughter in law, here from Florida,

 and grandson, now a Midshipman 2 [3rd year].

Spectacular weather, lots of walking and even more good food, one evening

with many of his classmates/friends at a home on the Chesapeake Bay

and well, it could not have been better.

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June did her best, could have been better, with her lovely cat-sitter,

a long time and very special friend, thank you my friend.

Though they "know each other well", she seemed content to spend most of 

her time in hiding [she denies it below!] ... silly little girl, meowz.

June did come out of hiding this morning to give a little update

for our her NAME THE NINE contest.

Together, we'll work on that over the weekend, so come back on

Tuesday, September 15 for announcement of the winners.

THANKFUL THURSDAY

BRIAN'S HOME BLOG

Day 4 ~ "NAME THE NINE" Contest ~ Extended Deadline!

 

This is my blog.

Blogger [not you lucky Wordpress furries] had purr-oblems yesterday.

Mine Mommy was all askew yesterday.

This is my blog.  This is my NAME THE NINE contest.

And I, JUNE, officially do extend MY contest deadline!!!

Meowz.

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Mine Mommy goes out of town for the holiday weekend, I do not get to go, meowz.

My blog will be offline, but this post will still be here.

You can enter by email, the best way, our email is on my sidebar,

just look to your right ~ right now, there it is!

My new deadline is

Monday, September 7, midnight, Eastern Time

Day 3 ~ "NAME THE NINE" Contest [and a little clue!]

"Not yet, June, not yet", that's what I heard from mine Mommy last night.

All I was doing was lookin' in my tent, I knew there were some clues in here that I could share

with all of you ~ mostly those of you who seem to be kinda sorta stuck on names for our "grey kitties".

"Not yet," is usually what I hear when I ask for treats when it's not treat time,

or sit by my food bowl way before meal time, meowz.

Anywayz, she allowed me to say just this much:

Our grey kitties, and there are a lot of them ... a few live on the East Coast,

another lives far from us on the West Coast, and there is another who lives way

up close to Lake Ontario ... and every one of them

has posted on their wonderful blogs this week ... and I know that cause

I've seen them, so it's as easy as a meow-or-woof to find them!

So, if you pawed us a partial-answer before, maybe you can finish it up today

or tomorrow.  Or if you didn't yet give it a try, you still have until

midnight, ET, on Saturday, September 5.

Three great prizes awarded.

 

Day 2 ~ "NAME THE NINE" Contest

June here today ~ hello furry friends ~ meowz and woofs, and thanks for the

comments and "brave" entries on Day 1 of our "Name The Nine" Contest!

Though a few of you have more searching to do, and have to come back

and finish-up your entries to get to the "nine"!

[Me and mine Mommy are hoping we don't have to share a wholabunch of clues!]

Seems every furry is having trouble with our beautiful grey-kitty-friends,

and yet, we have so many of them ... 

there are many choices for their names, so try a little harder!

All the rules for joining,

are in our Day 1 post ...

so scroll down [just below],

and do your best.

Over at Brian's Home Blog it's

THANKFUL THURSDAY

We're thankful for all of them,

and all of you!

"NAME THE NINE" Contest ~ Day 1

"NAME THE NINE" CONTEST

in support of the new Cat Blogosphere

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Contest is open to all pet bloggers,

today, Wednesday, September 2 through Saturday, September 5, 2026, midnight, ET.

[only CB Team Members are excluded from taking part]

You may have seen several of these pets, joining our team, on our header to

celebrate the new Cat Blogosphere on August 30, and perhaps you know them!

A few others were a bit late to the party, though we still opened the doors.

So -- how does this work?

NAME THE NINE 

no more, no less!

You can leave their names in comments here, but you might prefer to send to

us by email [zoolatry at gmail dot com], with "Name The Nine" in the subject line.

The following weekend, all entries will go into June's basket, and she'll paw out

three random winners.  Yes, random.

Winners will be notified by email, and a post published the weekend

of September 12/13, 2026.

All three winners will receive gifts*, valued up to $30.00 US, of their choice from the

GIFT TOPIA shop supporting the Cat Blogosphere operating expenses.

Specific details on ordering of gifts will be provided to each winner.

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NAME THE NINE

Meows & Woofs

Look closely.  For some of our friends, only one name is possible.

For others, several names will work - as they strongly resemble different pet friends.

And that's okay, there are no completely right-or-wrong answers in the contest.

But, you can still choose only nine!

More, or less, and sorry to say, but June won't accept your entry.