The Inspiration behind the Cat, PIXEL

When coming up with the idea to make an online shop I thought about what things in life always make me laugh. I wanted to create a shop that I thought would appeal to many people, not just a small niche. I also wanted to wake up inspired and emotionally committed to the subjects I was going to create. Okay. Stop there. I need you to imagine me thinking thru all those thoughts. I'm at my keyboard. I'm writing up text ideas into Word. I had been ignoring my cat the whole time, automatically sitting back in my chair each time my cat walked over my hands and keyboard. She would loop around the front and then the back of the monitors on my desk. What could it be? Maybe her 50th lap?! I couldn't possibly be any less than 50. What is she doing?  Does she want to annoy me? Is she insisting on me playing with her (not happening)? I had been sitting there so intent to see the idea pop onto the screen when I finally realized the winning idea was tirelessly working on her 51^st  lap. Each time she loops to the front I absentmindedly grab each paw that are just about depressing keys on my keyboard. Had I really missed this obvious nutcase that every cat owner in America could relate to!? Yes, here she was. Sunny, my cat. Yes, a topic that I had endless ideas on.  Cats are endless in humor, endless in relatability. I didn't have to ponder long to get into my own loop of constant memory movies of my cat Sunny. In fact... I abruptly stopped staring at a white screen and instead pulled out some index paper (super thick, cheap, and erases easy) and began to furiously making sketches of Sunny. Of course she changed her loop at that time. She began a new path walking around my paper, rubbing her head on my hand that was tightly holding on to a blue color-erase pencil trying to brace for her head-butting. I spent my time erasing as she looped around the left arm of my body, jumping up to the back of the chair, and then back on my right arm to the table again. Then around my paper backwards hitting my hand with the pencil and eventually the loop starts again. Doesn’t she ever get BORED?  By the time I got around to erasing, she’d be coming around the loop and knocking my hand again.  Was I really sure I wanted to consider this animal humorous?  How is this funny? In my heart I know that it is.  Even if my drawing full of red rubber shredded eraser bits is trying to tell me otherwise.  Maybe it is funny thinking back on it.  At the time it isn’t, but when you relay the story to someone else, and they can relate, we both end up laughing about the very odd nature of cats.

Okay, 

The stories didn’t end on the table.  The cat cartoons eventually lead to dog cartoons as I was a dog owner long before I owned cats (or cats owned me).  The dog and cats will eventually lead to other pet stories too.  But consider this the first entry in a blog that will have many more stories to come.  Besides my own experiences with cats, dogs, horses, ducks, fish, and hermit crabs with leprosy, I also am inspired by the pets I see and read about online.  Your pet story can also become a character too, for more info on how that can happen, please see our web link, PIXELatedPETS™ ‘Pet of the Month’ Contest at the bottom of each webpage at www.PIXELatedPETS.com   

Eventually I’d love to do some animations to make the animals of Pixelated Pets come to life.  I like to take pause though and remind myself that the brand all started by a rescue cat named Sunny.

Next time I will write about the dog that inspired ‘8Bit.’  That is a funny story too, and he wasn’t even inspired by one of my pets.  More on 8Bit soon!

Okay, now go buy a shirt or something!  It's sure to give you a laugh!