Twitter pause and @Hugo4de update

Some friends already know it: time for my holidays this year.
I will visit southern Africa for the next 4 weeks (i want #Photies of Hugos big brothers ..).
So i will not tweet very much for the first 3 weeks, as i don’t know, where on our trip i will have a good INet connection. The last week will be South Afrika, for SA i already got a SIM-Card with data option and i selected hotels with free Wifi. Hopefully i will meet @hartcap, Father/Inventor of TOM, during this week, so be prepared/warned 😉
You can find more info about our trip in a second blog, i created for this tour:

–> #NiConCat

(will be used later for more photos #nocatcontent ).

my Nikoncat Hugo

Hugo and Minky (#mycat) are in good hands, a friend of us and our nice nice neighbors will care for them, they already cared for Minky during the last holiday trips.

Hugo is fine here, Minky and he accept each other. Hugo is still an indoor cat, the team at the animal shelter didn’t know, if he is an outdoor cat, because he was found on the street and brought to the shelter.
I made some Outdorr trips with him, but after 10-15 minutes he wants to go inside again ( see photos below ).
He is such a nice boy, we love him !
His latest idea: lying beside me in the evening watching football and purring like a Diesel…

Twitter @Hugo4de:
Hugo will continue to collect #highquality #catcontent, he will RT these tweets and
his #catcontent and BestOf collections/links will be posted.
You can also contact @masterkillercat ( or @msgbi ), if @hugo4de tweet errors occur / broken links ..

byebye .. see you in 4 weeks again!

HugoDad @teraeuro

some Hugo Photos

Hugo testing Snow ..

nice better weather ..

spring is here ..

kissing Minky

Minky is not impressed ..

CU in 4 Weeks!

Our #Catcontent #Tweetpolicy ( @Hugo4de and @Masterkillercat ) #tweetycats

tweeting #catcontent – Some observations, thoughts and the meaning of #ccc4
(draft version 0.1, maybe we will update this text in the future)

„..high quality #catcontent is our mission .. ”

i tweeted some days ago.

It’s been a half year now, since Hugo started tweeting.
During this time he sent more than 17 k Tweets and more than
3 k twitter users/cats – i will call them #tweetycats –
are following him now.
Here some words about the experience and some ideas:

Hugo is watching you ..

I had several longer discussions with @masterkillercat about
what we like in Twitter ( and what we don’t like!) .
We have several ideas (about our #twitterpolicy):

1.) FAV is nice, but RTs are much better,
share your and other #tweetycats beautiful photos.

2.) Some #tweetycats don’t like, if their tweet is modified, so a
simple RT is fine ! (but read #ccc4 explanation below)

3.) We don’t like #tweetycats „stealing pics from other #tweetycats“ !
If i see a pic been tweeted, that i have just seen some minutes ago,
we get very angry. ( unfollow? Block? )
We hate it!

Masterkillercat is watching you too ..

Please always mention/credit the #tweetycat, where you found the photo,
even if you modify the tweet.

(maybe insert some copyright sentences here in the future … Hugo likes lawyers ..)

4.) Some #Tweetycats mention @Hugo4de and/or @Masterkillercat very often.
This is ok, when you have a real(!) good pic,
but we hate to be mentioned in every(!) tweet from a #tweetycat.
Try to imagine, how it is with with more than 1k followers,
all mentioning you with every tweet!

5.) if You want to help us with our mission, simply add a #ccc4 Hashtag
to your best(!) cat photos (without mentioning @Hugo4de or @Masterkillercat),
We will find your pics.
If you misuse this #hashtag, you have your twitter block well deserved ! #byebye #block

6.) #ccc4 explanation

As many of you will have noticed, @Hugo4de, @Masterkillercat and some friends already use the
#hashtag #ccc4.

Hugo often RTs tweets and inserts/adds #ccc4 to a tweet.
We use this hashtag to collect good #catcontent pics in a our picture
database.
(thx @msgbi our twitter API database master(cat) ;)) .

We need it to create our cat content galleries/links
and the „ BestOf“ tweet collections.
Hugo also RTs collected tweets this way later (random),
so we all have #catcontent, even when Hugo takes a nap.

Greetings from @Teraeuro, @Hugo4de and @Masterkillercat

Update1: Typos, some minor editing

Katzen suchen ein Zuhause #1 cats looking 4 a #newhome

(german)
Ich fotografiere seit etwas mehr als einem Jahr für das Tierheim Bielefeld Katzenhaus. Fast jede Woche verbringe ich 2-3 Stunden dort. Dabei lernt man einige Katzen ganz gut kennen und sie wachsen einem ans Herz. Einige sind jetzt schon lange Zeit im Tierheim.

Einige will ich hier kurz vorstellen, genauere Infos gibt es beim Tierheim (oder man kann mich auf Twitter erreichen).

(english)
I have been photographing for a little over a year for the animal shelter Bielefeld cathouse. Here you learn some cats know quite well. Every week i visit our animal shelter spending 2-3 hours there. Some are now a long time in the shelter.

Some I will briefly present here, more detailed information is available at the shelter (or contact me on Twitter).

Willa

Liebe, ältere riesengroße Katzendame.
Willa is a lovely large old cat lady. she starts purring when you enter the room.

Rana

Aldo

Norbert

Tinka

Luna

sehr scheu / very shy
Smendrick

Tierheim Bielefeld Katzenhaus / animal shelter cathouse

#foreverhome cats 1

During the last few months some of Hugo friends in our animal shelter also found a new home:

Houston

Houston was the first cat i considered to adopt. He is basically a real large scale edition of Hugo, double his size and weight (Houston had about 18 pounds)

my friend Houston by teraeuro on 500px

i first met him just before our holiday trip and when we came back, he already found a #newhome. Houston now lives on a farm in Bavaria.

Houston: we have no problem .. by teraeuro on 500px

Däumling (aka “little thumb”)

BigMac (aka TOM)
Another large male cat, my friend BigMac. #Newhome for him September.

Pelle
A nice little guy, who had lost its tail, found a new Home in November 2013.

Piet
Good old Piet (11 years) found a new home in November

Pipek
After 15 months in animal shelter finally one of Hugos best friends – Pipek – found a new home (December, one week after Hugo)

More Photos of cats, who found a #Newhome can be found in my FlickR-Collection #foreverhome .