All the Creatures

With the internet growing by leaps and bounds, it is getting harder and harder to find really good animal websites. Even with the new Google search I am still getting garbage results. I have found most of the really neat animal websites from being a member of Stumble and just coming upon them in my own searches from other websites. Just the other day I was doing a search to compare term life insurance rates and found a totally unrelated website about that giant area of floating trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

What I would like you to do is leave a comment with suggestions of your favorite animal website or blog. I am sure that many of the readers of this blog would love to check them out too.

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Every year my pets get some treats for Christmas. It could be anything from an apple and a carrot for each horse to a new doggy bed for each of our dogs. This year it looks like I might be getting more elaborate gifts for my pets. Since most of our local stores don’t have a large selection of pet and livestock supplies, I will be doing the Cyber Monday shopping thing, but not on Cyber Monday.

Internet shopping for my horses has become a habit since the local tack shops started shutting down almost 7 years ago. Remember Stateline Tack that use to be inside each Petsmart? Petsmart got rid of them and when they did that I stopped shopping there. So online I went. I have become a regular shopper of some online tack supply stores and I know which ones to avoid. I also find out from my cyber friends which ones have given them poor service and avoid them too. If online companies think that their customers do not talk about them online, then they would be wrong, very wrong.

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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.