29/01/2025
There has been some of the worst online bullying I have ever seen in the cat fancy in the past week or so. It would be unacceptable in a corporate environment. It would be unacceptable for school children to behave like that. Yet here we are with people behaving like trash.
👉WE ARE A COMMUNITY
👉WE DONT HAVE TO LIKE EACH OTHER
👉WE DO HAVE TO GET ALONG FOR THE SAKE OF OUR COMMUNITY
I hope the Oz Cat Club have amazing shows that everyone enjoys. Good for them for taking on such a huge set of events.
I am staying very positive for them and I hope you will be too!!!! 🩷🩵🩷🩵
There has been many rumours circulating and we have been choosing not to buy into these. However, as some may be getting distressed hearing the rumours and getting confused by who we are, we wanted to address a few things…
The Oz Cat Club is a charter club of Loving Cats Worldwide (LCWW). It is not part of LCWW. It is a separate independent body in Australia. The Oz Cat Club is hosting Steven Meserve and the Catstravaganza at the Oz Feline Fair.
The Oz Feline Fair is the creation of 3 Australian chicks that own and operate the parent company CatJAC Events. 3 women that dared to dream of creating a new and exciting cat convention, not ever anticipating the negative backlash they would receive.
We ARE a completely separate entity to LCWW and are a registered company in Australia. All monies from cat exhibitors, vendors and ticket sales are being received and held in Australia, and in alignment with Australian Consumer Law, refunds would be given in the instance that the events did not proceed for whatever reason.
Our events are about creating a fun and positive experience for cat lovers, and it saddens us that we even have to address this negativity.
We will not tolerate any online bullying of any person or rumour spreading about any business, including ours. None of us knows exactly what another person is dealing with behind the scenes. Trolling and slandering a person online can greatly impact their mental health and too often these days ends tragically.
Small business owners know that starting and maintaining a business is difficult. Surviving as a small business in Australia right now is even more difficult! Having a public event celebrating an animal (cats!) that many people have strong negative opinions about is also very difficult! Everyone has difficulties! We are all just trying to do the best we can to make something amazing!
Please consider this before you share rumours about us and our events, or about another person or business. Such things may directly and negatively impact another small business.
