'It's like managing a boyband!'
- Cats Rocky, Prince, Pixie, Ugs, Norman, Tom and Junior have popular page
- Owner Sasha Jordan, 54, updates with pictures and stories about them
- It attracts up to 10,000 fans a day and people try and talk to individual cats
- Tom and Junior have advertising deal and the group has a calendar offer
A mother of four is making superstars of her band of cats, spending up to five hours a day updating their Facebook page for more than one million adoring fans.
Sasha
Jordan, 54, says the Facebook Group for her seven cats - Rocky, Prince,
Pixie, Ugs, Norman, Tom and Junior - can attract up to 10,000 new fans a
day.
Sasha
said that her schedule to update fans is so demanding that she
sometimes feels like she is managing a boy band, and two of the cats
have even become modelling stars.
Mother of
four Sasha Jordan (pictured with Prince, left, and Junior, right) is
making superstars of her band of cats, spending up to five hours a day
updating their Facebook page for more than a million adoring fans
Junior, a Turkish Van breed with
(pictured) one blue eye and one yellow one, is the face of an Arm &
Hammer cat litter campaign for the iheartcats.com website
Persian Tom (pictured) is starring in a
TV commercial in February, but the deal is so exclusive that Sasha has
had to sign a contract preventing her from revealing any more details
Fans try and leave messages for
individual cats like Prince (pictured), offering them advice or telling
them off for naughty things they are pictured doing
Persian cat Ugs (pictured) is one of
the troupe she now calls The Magnificent 7 and she spends up to five
hours a day updating their Facebook page
Persian
Tom is starring in a TV commercial in February, but the deal is so
exclusive that Sasha has had to sign a contract preventing her from
revealing any more details.
Junior,
a Turkish Van breed with one blue eye and one yellow one, is the face
of an Arm & Hammer cat litter campaign for the iheartcats.com
website.
And
the Paw Project, an American organisation that campaigns to ban the
declawing of cats, wants the Magnificent 7 to feature in its calendar.
Sasha,
from Putney, south west London, said: 'It began when I started a
Facebook page just for Tom a couple of years ago but I didn't really
know what I was doing.
'I
got more into it and people started coming to the page and loving him. I
started to feel bad for the others so I changed it to the Magnificent 7
Cats page.
'Since then it has gone absolutely crazy. I can get up to 10,000 new fans a day and now I've got over a million.'
Persian, Norman (pictured), is one of
the seven cats that the Paw Project, an American organisation that
campaigns to ban the declawing of cats, wants to featire in its calendar
The Facebook page has 1.2million fans
and up to 10,000 new ones every day, logging on to see pictures of the
cute cats like Ragdoll, Pixie (pictured)
British Blue Turkish Van cross, Rocky
(pictured) that fans log on to see every day, with Sasha regularly
updating their activities
Sasha
spends her time answering questions from fans of the cats, who she has
nicknamed the Magnificent 7, uploading photos of them and posting status
updates.
Sometimes it feels like it's a full-time job manning the page
Sasha Jordan, owner
Her progress reports include videos and photos of them playing and sleeping as well as trips to the vets.
The
felines' fans are spread as far as America, China and the Middle East
and they often try and talk directly to their favourite cat; giving them
advice or telling them off for bad behaviour.
Sasha
said her cats share their three-bedroom semi-detached house with
Sasha's fiance Steven Croston, 46, and her youngest sons Joshua and
Jordan, 20 and 21.
She fits in maintaining the page around the running of her mobile hair extensions business.
She said she doesn't make any money from the page and that it is more about creating a community for cat lovers.
Sasha, from Putney, south west London,
said it started when she set up a page for Tom but got massively
popular when she expanded it to include all her cats. Pictured is Pixie
The felines' fans are spread as far as America, China and the Middle East. Pictured is one of them, Norman
She said she doesn't make any money from the page and that it is more about creating a community for cat lovers. Pictured is Ugs
Sometimes, Sasha says it feels like
managing a boy band. Pictured is Junior, who now has a modelling
contract and a rising career ahead
Sasha said that her schedule to update
fans is so demanding that she sometimes feels like she is managing a
boy band. Pictured is Prince
Sasha
said: 'Sometimes it feels like it's a full-time job manning the page.
If I post a picture, the comments start to come in and I try to answer
all of them.
'In less than three years since I started we have become the third biggest cat page in the world.
'It's
not about making money, it's just a community for people who love cats
and I try to help out cat charities and rescue centres by sharing their
pages too.
'My cats all have their own personalities and people have their favourites. It's a bit like a boy band.
'Tom can be quite naughty but people love his antics. Rocky's a bit of a bully, he thinks he's the don.'
She
has two ragdoll breeds - Prince and Pixie - three Persians - Ugs,
Norman and Tom - Turkish Van Junior and British Blue, Turkish Van cross
Rocky.
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