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Have you heard of the new craze catbearding? I hadn’t either. I thought I had. I was pretty sure it meant taking photos of my adorable cats, which have as many photos as my kids, probably more, and adding little beards in Photoshop. Turns out I was wrong. “Catbearding is when you use cats as beards or wigs, Mom,” my daughter informed me. I first learned about catbearding when I went to Sam’s Club to purchase some Fresh Step Cat litter. With three cats in our home, including one grouchy eleven year old cat, plus three “grandcats” that come to visit, I go through a lot of cat litter. Being able to purchase cat litter in the 42 pound value size is a huge plus. (You can see my complete shopping experiences in my google plus album.)
Sassie, my eleven year old cat, loves her Fresh Step litter and is very resistant to trying other brands, showing her displeasure by leaving me little presents around the house. She has been using Fresh Step since she was a kitten. One thing I like about Fresh Step is their odor shield, with carbon to eliminate odor from urine and feces. Just because I have cats does not mean I want to have to smell them or share their odors with visitors. They have recently added even more odor control with Chlorophyll derived from plant extracts. This natural formula acts almost like a sponge, soaking up odors and leaving behind fresh, clean air.
Another reason I like Fresh Step is their Paw Points program. This is a free program that allows you to collect points from purchasing Fresh Step and redeem them for “pawsome stuff,” like coupons, a free bag of Fresh Step, donations to the SPCA and more. 
Fuzzy gets catbearded.The kids decided they were up to the catbearding challenge, although my son did mention, “If I lose an eye over this, I will not be happy!” Believe me, this is an event the entire family can get into, although I did offer to let the kids be photographed while I made the pictures. I thought that was nice of me to be so generous and allow them to have all the fun of catbearding. Have you tried catbearding before? I’d love to see your pictures!
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How funny! What a cute cat.
I was ready to give up when we got a good one! It was fun!
Cat bearding is not easy! I am definitely impressed by all the amazing photos I’ve seen! Great job!
The second attempt with Sassie turned out pretty good! Brave man holding a resistant cat up to his face.
Cat bearding is a fun pastime for me, now I know what its called!! I like Fresh Step too.
Oh I love it. My big fat boy wouldn’t even be able to be picked up like that.
Aww, I love the photos with the kids and the cat. I’ve owned cats in the past so I know the importance of having a good kitty litter brand.
LOL – cute photos! Fresh Step is an awesome product too.
We use Fresh Step too!
hahaha cat bearding? thats too funny
And it great that you can get Freah step in a large bag. thats a lotta cats.
So cute!!! We’re a cat family too and I love Fresh Step products!
Catbearding? I have never heard about this before! But sounds super fun. Hahah the kitten who don’t want to catbeard sounds like man who can not be named! (From Harry Potter) 😛
hahaha awesome. wish i had a cat 🙁 but alas i am allergic…
Woah woah what a fun idea ! Wish I had a cat around 😉
So that’s cat bearding… lol! Such a cutee cat!
Your photos of the catbeard made me crack up! too cute!
So cute! I have a kitten that loves to sit on my shoulder, I wonder if I can convince him to try bearding!
That is one cute little kitten! Cat bearding huh? sounds dangerous if you ask me! I have 3 cats as well, and 2 out of the 3 would not allow anything of the kind. My 3rd cat is a ragdoll and my son wears him like a scarf regularily!
Haha cat bearding. I have never heard of this before…and now I want to search the web for more pics. Your pics are so cute!
Haha, so weird that this is a big fad!
LOL those pictures are so funny! I like the beard one
The cat bearding is so funny!
That made me smile! I had a black and white cat when I was a little girl who had a half mustache patch similar to yours. 🙂
Hilarious!!! We are going to try this with our kittens soon
OMGosh that is hilarious! I don’t think your kitty thinks so though haha.
This is cracking me up!! I, too, thought that “Catbearding” meant making a little beard for your cat. I kind of think that should become a meme, too.
I haven’t tried catbearding before but think it’s cute. My cats prefer another brand of litter and I wish they had points like Fresh Step does.
LOL at the photos. Fresh Step is the only litter I use for my cat. I love redeeming my pawpoints as well. 🙂
I swear the most ridiculous things take off in our society, but I love it! Too, too fun. You reaaaaaally need to do this too!
That is hilarious! I hadn’t heard of cat bearding either. The one picture of the kitty that didn’t want to do cracked me up.
LOL.. I love cat bearding. Too funny!
LOL, I didn’t know what cat bearding was either. These photos are too funny and I really don’t blame your cats for not wanting to be beards. Very unnatural for a kitty. “)
This whole cat bearding phenomena is new to me and oh so funny!
Aww what a kitty – I have a feeling if I tried to cat beard with my parents cat I would be in a lot of pain from scratches lol. x
I’m so allergic to cats now, but I used to have one that looked just like yours! So cute!
That catbearding is so funny! Too bad, we don’t have our cats, they died a couple years ago.
Kittens are so cute but I can’t be anywhere near them.; I’m allergic.
lol to funny and what a cute kitty you have!
Your cat is absolutely beautiful.
Your poor cat!! Cats everywhere are cursing whoever came up with the idea of cat bearding. LOL
Poor kitties, using them as a beard. 🙁
I used to use Fresh Step but after the kitties were born they would not use it. Had to switch.
Your cat is adorable! This is too funny!
Oh my gosh, too funny! I need to do this with my cat!
Ha, the kitty doesn’t seem too interested in bearding 🙂
How creative was that with the cat beard! Nice!
We tried cat bearding too! Lol, so funny! My kids thought it was hilarious! My cat on the other hand…not so much. lol. So funny.
We love Cat Fresh. It has been amazing at keeping the odor down in our house.
Awe!!! So cute! I love the cat beards and they look so fluffy and soft!!
Ohhh what a fun posts; totally cheered me up; I had to laugh at your kids and the poor kitty that was the “Beard”..lol.. but it was funny and I know secretly the kitty loved it, too because she got spoiled with a new cat litter… Thanks for sharing, i heard a lot of good things about Fresh Step and glad you guys liked it.
Tee hee! SO funny.. I would have thought that is what cat bearding meant too! I LOVE these attempts at cat bearding.. how hilarious is that? Such cute kitty’s too! We’re going to have to try that here too… we have 3 cats!
We’ve been considering getting a kitty. 🙂 I’m thinking my son would love it. 🙂
My Daughter has a cat and it has such of a mind of its own… I guess all cats do. Your cat is adoreable. My Daughter uses Fresh Step already but not sure if it has odor shield in it.
This cat is so cute 🙂 I could look at photo of cuties like these all day long!