All the Creatures

As I have often mentioned here on the blog, I like to visit other animal blogs and see what is going on outside my small community. Lately I have noticed that many of the blogs I have visited have not been updated in months. These are blogs that had a track record of being posted to at least a few times a week……then nothing, nothing at all. It is like the blog owner either abandoned the blog or dropped off of the face of the Earth. At the same time I have seen an alarming increase in those link farms that are aimed at pet owners.

Has blogging seen it’s better days? Or were most people into blogging for the money alone and now they have moved on when they realized that most bloggers never even receive one cent for their efforts. I prefer to believe it is the latter. People that thought they could write just about anything that caught their fancy and make a living at it, are moving on. That leaves more room for those who entertain, inform and have a blog that endures the test of time for it’s readers.

Now I have stopped reading several animal blogs because their owners are not updating the blog. Several of them I really enjoyed but the writers have moved on. I know a few of them from message boards and they occasionally show up on there so I know they have not died, they just are not interested in blogging anymore.

Have you abandoned your blog? Did you experience blogger “burnout”? I would love to know what happened to the blogging world in general.

I usually love to visit other animal blogs and websites. I am the type of person that really likes to surf by following links on blog posts or websites. I have a very active anti-virus software that will warn and then block a website should it find a trojan or virus there. Yes, you can get a virus just by visiting a website without intentionally downloading something. Most of the sites I can find something of interest but there are 2 things that just rub me wrong. One is music. Often the music starts after the website has loaded and I am reading the page. It is often loud and not my style so I then have to rush the mute the sound on my computer. The next item is those live chat software boxes that show up. No, I don’t want to talk to a customer rep, nor do I have a question. Those two things will chase me off of a website faster than someone with a “I have to kill animals because it is a human right to”, statement. Yes there are websites out there like that. Those are the ones with the Christian music and bible versus to back up their misguided thoughts. You get all kinds.

The once famous movie actress, turned animal advocate was going to be the main subject of this little post. That was until I tried to do some research into the many animal organizations that have her name attached to them. Some were, at one point, founded by Doris herself, while others are just simply riding on her name in order to fund their own questionable efforts.

Take for example the Doris Day Animal League which in 2007 became a part of the Humane Society of the USA and is no longer associated with Doris Day. The Doris Day Animal League still had Doris involved with them in 2004 but I could find no later updates on their website. She is not listed on their board of directors. Their last annual report listed on their website is for 2005. Either someone is not updating their website or the league might not exist anymore.

Throw also in to the works several questionable blogs and websites claiming to be part of the Doris Day charities and you have a very confused reader - me.

So how did I manage to sort everything out? I knew that Doris owned a hotel in Carmel so I found the website for it. It is called Cypress Inn. On their website it has the correct animal organization that Doris is affiliated with and that is the DORIS DAY ANIMAL FOUNDATION

At 87, Doris Day is still actively involved with helping animals. You can read her latest blog post on the DDAF website.

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Always give your pet a hug, kind word or praise. After all they are around because you wanted them to be there.

- Jan S. at All the Creatures