Me on TV!!

Good Grumpy Afternoon.

About a week ago,
I received notification for Yogi And Furriends.
it was about one of our Japanese furriends left comment on my page.
I checked what she wrote.
She said : " I was watching morning show just now, and Yogi , you were on the TV show"
I was like .."what is she talking about?????"
I immediately replied her to ask for details.
She said it was about Trump Your Cat (* Instagram page)
The TV show picked my picture to broadcast.

My manager asked people if anyone recorded the show that day.
Nobody had.
then asked them if anyone knew how to get the copy of the video of the show,
one of the friends knew a blog that I could get the copy of the video from,
we got the copy of the video of the show (within 24 hrs!!)

This is the link (click this link below)
Me on TV

O yes, Dat's me!! (Screen shot from TV)

O No!! it was me!!
it was on March 2, Yogi and Furriends's fan page 5th Anniversary day!!
it was great surrprise for me, and my fans.

ShanQ for your support! so glad finally this happened.


XLXL

Yogi

Yogi And Furriends (Facebook page) is back!

Good Grumpy 2016!!

I know I have not updated this blog for months.
The last post was about my fan page (Facebook) was suspended suddenly
for no reason.
It happened in August, 2015.
My people contacted FB (it was not easy, really),
and finally FB got me my page back (February 23, 2016).

Yogi And Furriends (Facebook)

We were going to merge the temporary page to the original
Yogi And Furriends when the original one was back, but
if something happened again, we will need the temporary page then,
so we decided to keep both.
Yogi And Furriends 2

Our problem was solved, but  it is not over.
the real problem is that Facebook do not think of users,
they don't think of our side of situation when problem occur.

The major problem is that FB has no User Support Dept that we can
contact by phone/e-mail/mail/in purrson or chat etc..to reach at a
real purrson at FB .
Currently, they only offer us Self-Help, and FAQ/Forum.
it wastes time a lot until you find out how to solve your problem.
(not just a phone call or e-mail away).
 many people don't know what their problems were,  and how to fix,
then some give up the acct, and create a new one.

FB don't listen to us.
Have you ever reported someone's acct or post on FB?
there is no blank on report form for us to write FB the details of
our reason why decided to report the person/posts.

This is really frustrated.

About a year ago,
I saw the "Beating cats on Valentine's Day" event by some insane people on FB,
We had discussion about it on my page (Yogi And Furriends) ,
asked celebrities to spread the post on Twitter then, 'cause even after hundreds of
people reported FB the event,  FB did not remove it by telling us
"it was not violation".

Many things of FB is strenji.
I heard that FB allowed Drug Queen people to use their business name
for their FB accts when regular people are not allowed to use fake names.
I don't say that everyone should be allowed to use fake names, but
if FB allow drug Queen people to use non-real names for their FB accts,
why don't they allow some other people too such as victims of stalking (on FB/other SNS),
young women, and teen users?

Today we can customize so many things,
but FB still believe their manual is 120% always right,
they don't think/accept "unusual case"
If our questions are not found in their FAQ page,
they don't want to hear it, they don't want to help,
so they do not offer
User Support Dept that we can call, or write inquiry ?

This is real story,
recently we found FB accts whose name was "Persian Cat",
and "xxxxx Kosher Deli", both using personal acct with
such names.
Using pet's name is violation, and using personal acct for
business is also violation,
so we reported, but FB said they did not find any violation.
Why do FB allow some people to use their personal accts with
fake name or business name ??
Isn't that unfair? want to tell them something??
But no phone#, no E-mail. ...(mailing address- Yes, but
not sure if anyone read and reply, some friends said
they wrote letters, but no replies),

So We started Petition for that.
if you agree with me,
please sign and spread this petition,

Petition: Demand FB to provide us USER SUPPORT DEPT!

The photo of me and Japanese lady(shown above)was removed by FB
shortly after we posted on Yogi And Furriends in May 2014.
Not sure why, all FB said was this photo was violation,
all they gave me was the link to the page about violation,
But it said Violations are nudity, discrimination, crime,
I still don't know which violation my picture was.
But I had no place to call, write... once FB said violation, and decided
to remove it, I can not do anything.
(it is awful, if at least I heard the reason, I would understand, but
no reason was explained, and no way to ask why, and get the photo posted
back!!).

I don't want to use FB but FB is like  a Yellow Page now,
even if I do not want to use, friends/family/people in business
might expect me to be on FB for contact.
And my Yogi And Furriends page has approx 4000 fans now,
it is irresponsible to quit or move out of FB only because I don't like.

* US residents can sign the Petition from PC or Mobile,
people outside USA can sign only on PC.
(choose your country first on the form on PC).

Anyway, my page is back, and I am glad.
But Grumpy at FB.

XLXL,

Yogi

Yogi And Furriends blog

Good Grumpy Morning!!

I almost forgot,
we have created a new blog,
but it is for storing photos and posts from Yogi and Furriends
(facebook page, currently not visible).
we have copied over 30 photo albums from Yogi and Furriends and transferred
to the new blog so far.  Mostly old photos from 2011 have been added,
if you are a new fan of me, check them out.

Yogi And Furriends blog


And I know it's almost end of October,
we had not sold anything from my shop this year,
but I know we need to prepare something to sell, at least calendars by December.

We'll try.

the most recent artwork was this, the doll clothes (Not For Sale)

dress made with special fabric, image of me printed on., Silk.

I'll update this blog when I get news,
I hope I can do that soon.

But you know that I am on FB daily,
you can visit my page daily too.

Currently my page is on FB  as
Yogi And Furriends 2

See you soon.

XLXL,

Yogi

Yogi And Furriends

Good Grumpy Afternoon!!

I had to let you guys know here as soon as it happened,
but I did not know what to say, and what to do, (we were thinking..)
and now I tell you this here today,

Have any of you been wondering where my fan page " Yogi And Furriends" is on Facebook ?
It's unpublished by FB.
not by our problem, and not our decision, but by FB.

According to FB, my fan page is violated FB policy,
and of course they don't explain what the reason.
 
The page is still on FB, but only visible to my momsy and manager (admins),
really, it's still on FB,  see?

It happened 3 weeks ago,
We have no idea why FB had to unpublish my page.
they said they found my page violated FB policy, but what did my page do?
we checked what was wrong with recent posts,
Yah, we posted this. stupid thing, was this a problem?
because it was screen shot but not from the link of website?

We were not sure about it.
Without noticing, we have posted a photo of a partically naked man before
(it was cut out from Red Book magazine, a woman 's life style magazine, not
porn magazine), then someone reported it to FB, and FB said they removed it.
So if this was not OK, they were supposed to have removed it, but when they notified us
that Yogi and furriends got unpublished, this picture was still on the page,
then I had no idea what was the violation FB talked about.

We've heard of that Sphynx cats owners have said that
FB had removed their cat's photos,
or sent warning to their account because of violation,
and they said they had no idea what
kind of violation they did.
Only thing they thought was their cats were Sphynx , and maybe
FB considered "naked cat"="naked person"="pornography"????
If so, what can I do?

We can get my page back, but in order to do that, we must find out what was
the problem on Yogi and Furriends, then remove the problem contents from the page,
then appeal to FB,  if FB still believe Yogi and Furriends is not met their policy,
they said they will remove the page permanently. (we must avoid that).

We need to inspect everything in the Original Yogi and Furriends,
the "4 year long"-page which we posted at least twice daily almost everyday,
(so can't you imagine how many posts are there?).
it's gonna be taking months to inspect everything, (I think).
And We know we can not make you guys worry, so now
my new page is on FB .
         Yogi And Furriends 2  
You can visit from this link ^

Or, if you are on PC, please take a look at right side of this page (top)
you can find Yogi and Furriends 2 ads there. you can visit from there too.
(please visit and LIKE the page)

We are aware of the insane individual who has been cursing us since 2012,
she has repeatedly been reporting FB our personal FB accts, pages, and I believe
Finally FB believed her false report to my page this time.
(although we did not even post anything about her recently) .
Not sure if she involved this or not, 
Before this happened, someone from Porn pages on FB posted on Yogi and Furriends
twice.
FB do not allow Porn contents, so no such pages are supposed to exist on FB,
but there were, and they posted something on cat page?

Sorry about this, but someone really posted this (censored)

How childish and insane is that?

(But this just proves how popular I am!!
someone is jealous of me!)

Anyway, sorry about my page, and late for
letting you guys know about it here,
Anyway we've got an idea that FB is not reliable,
so we decided to use this blog, twitter, and instagram more from now.
(as we still update daily on FB).

ShanQ for your support.

XLXL,

Yogi

My left eye update

Good Grumpy Morning!

Sorry, I have forgotten to write about my left eye.

Remember? it looked like this in May?

This was end of May , 2015

As you see, my 3rd eye lid covered nearly 1/2 my eye ,
and the black area in the center of my eye got smaller.

Momsy said  it was probably  Horner's Syndrome, which could take months to
get better, or need treatment,

But within 2-3 weeks, my eye got improved, and now got back normal!

See?

This photo was taken in Mid July, 2015, see? 3rd eye lid not shown.

I think I'm OK now,

Sorry for not letting you know this sooner.

XLXL.

Yogi

Eye problem.

Good Grumpy Morning!!

 As you might have seen/heard from my fan page or

My Momsy's personal FB wall, 

my eye has got strenji,

The 3rd eye lid appeared on my left eye. 

Momsy says there is no leakage, no puffiness,

no infection, One pupil won't dilate.

Has anyone had a similar experience on your cat ? 

can anyone tell what this could be?

Momsy says everything else except this left eye look fine as usual.

Could be fever?

I hope nothing wrong,

Good bye "Yogi And Furriends"???

Good Grumpy Afternoon!

I was really sorry for the post on my fan page Yogi And Furriends last week.
Lemme explain about my bijiness furst.

Unlike most cat/dog fan pages. My fan page, this blog, Twitter, Instagram even Yogi shop
at Etsy, are all taken cared by my manager, not my owner. OK?
and it all started not for profit for anyone, but simply because my manager thought I was very unique,
and would be very popular. also she was an artist with college degree, said she gets inspired by me
a lot for her art work.

collage photo of me by my manager

painting of me and  Mini Yogi by my manager

My manager is currently stay at home mom with a child purrson,

she was from other country, far away from her furrmily, 

no grandma or any relatives around to ask for help with her child purrson's care,

can not work outside home at this time.

My Momsy (Owner) gave her purrmission to create and sell my merchandise. 

When she started selling my merchandise, she told momsy to give her part of the sales

money, momsy said not necessary, but manager did not think OK to receive 100% of

sales (since I am not her cat), she thought she should spend the part of  money for something

to make my momsy happy, and decided to give to needy animals.

(that's why we offer pledges and make donation with my name). 

My Momsy cares about animals a lot,
that's why my page often bring the animal related posts,

ask you guys for help spreading, signing to petition, and

Start the discussion about animal related issue. 

I was a homeless cat in shelter once,

but now I have a home with a purrson who takes care of me,
then it's my turn to help others. 

This is what happened about my page last week...
2-3 weeks ago,
suddenly my Momsy told my manager to close Yogi and Furriends,
Manager kept ignoring as long as she could,
opened my page daily as usual.
did not respond to Momsy for few days,
but she learned that Momsy was still saying her to close my page
last week. my manager did not want to argue with her, so
simply did what momsy said.
let me say "good bye" to fans.
then you guys started saying "NO".

So Momsy changed mind, did not allow my page to be closed.
that was wonderful that many of you let her know you cared about  my page.
ShanQ, I really appreciated.


My page will be on FB forever,
my manager has already been training her child purrson(10 yr old)
teaching her how to post photos on my page, my dialogue
(such as "Good Grumpy Morning!), child purrson wants to design
Yogi merchandise too.

I'm prejident, need social media like FB fan page to hear people's voice.

I know many of you admire my Momsy a lot, 

but when you feel she is doing wrong, please tell her so.

she won't hate you with your honest opinion.

ShanQ for your support.

XLXL

Yogi