About
This blog started out at wordpress.com in 2007 as “All the Critters”. The blog grew and grew but I was limited to putting videos on there. You see all of the videos I wanted to place on there were from news agencies that had the top breaking animal news. Wordpress would not allow them because they had advertisements in them. So I broke down and bought my own hosting and domain name and thus “All the Creatures” was born in early 2008. Of course nobody was visiting the new site since it was originally set up as a website and not a blog. In August of 2008 I made the plunge and moved the entire blog from wordpress.com and now the whole blog is here at All the Creatures. The old All the Critters has been abandoned now and only a few posts and links left on there. I hope to see this new blog grow and flourish as the old one did. Given time and people finding that I have moved the old blog, this blog will have the 2000+ visitors a day like the old blog did.
As you have probably found out by now, I am passionate about what I write about. I will also stand up for my thoughts, writings and feelings on this subject matter. I have no problem allowing people comment on the blog with thoughts that are often opposite than my own since I know my readers will often make comments about that person too, if not I will. It makes for a more entertaining and interactive blog. Often many of my readers come back not to read the blog post but the comments under them.
The trials and tribulations in having my own hosting and having to maintain the blog has at times put a toll on my sanity. Several nights of staying up late with blocking hackers or dealing with some outrageous spammer has given me some headaches. I have also learned a lot about programing, scripts and HTML. Stay with me and this could turn out to be an interesting ride.
After the BIG move I also found out that I could make money from this little old blog. Three cats from local animal shelters benefited from the money in the form of having their vet bills paid for. That was thanks to my readers that took advantage of buying an item through a link that was advertised on this blog, clicking on a link or watching a news video. I recently added a pet store and horse posters pages to the blog and maybe it will increase the revenue so more animals can benefit.
Also I would like to mention that all comments are moderated. If there is an HTML link in the comment it automatically goes into the spam area so I have to manually look at those before approving or bulk deleting. Spamming will not be tolerated.
