Cessation of Posts

I will no longer be posting in this blog but will keep it open for viewing of past blog entries. I don't have the time to continue posting here and haven't done so in a long time anyway.

Looking For Janet's Family Pets?

Although you can still access my website through the Geocities URL, www.geocities.com/sweetbaboo_2, our domain is now active and hosted elsewhere. Janet's Family Pets is now at http://www.janetspets.com. I will soon be canceling the YahooGeocities-hosted account, so the Geocities URL will not work. (I think I'll wait until after Thanksgiving sometime.)

So, all of the photo slideshows are there. I haven't changed the site much...yet. The guestbook is disabled because I need to find a new service. Also, the form on the contact page, since it is a Yahoo service, may not work and I'll be creating a new page for that once I find a new service.

All-in-all the transition has been pretty smooth. Thank you for looking for Janet's Family Pets and finding us!

Transition Delay

A couple of times I've forgotten to transition Janet's Family Pets from Geocities hosting to Yahoo Hosting. As a Geocities Plus account holder, this site didn't have scramble to find a new free host because I was already paying for this one. As such Yahoo is allowing GPlus and GPro account holders to stay with them. Now that the deadline has passed I'm supposed to transition over. But there's a delay due to the transition pages at Yahoo don't account for web masters owning their own domain name already.

That's the first step in the transition: searching for and buying a domain name. I already have one that I was using by forwarding it to the Geocities URL. I' m no novice when it comes to domain name ownership. (Just because Geocities was the first step in building sites on the web for most web masters doesn't mean they/ we were stuck in the novice state of mind.) I don't need a new domain name. But the page doesn't ask if you already own a domain name that you want to use. Even if you type in your domain name and it comes up as being unavailable. (Is it yours?) Of course it's unavailable because I own it and I  want to use it, dammit. 

So I'm stuck at that point in the transition. All because someone didn't think of all the possibilities, didn't think through the details, at Yahoo. I wrote to them and am awaiting their response. They may lose me as a customer if something doesn't change in the transition process. Hey, it won't bother me because I already have a paid webhost where I moved my free Geocities sites. One more will not be a problem and may be preferable. That way I will save some money. Hmm, not a bad idea. But I'll give Yahoo a chance to respond. To the end of this month.

Cruelty and Stupidity Go Hand-in-Hand...

In the case of a 19-year-old "man" who admitted wrapping duct tape around a cat he found in his backyard. Since when is it a good idea to harm other creatures??? Great parents, too, for teaching their son stewardship and responsibility for lesser creatures than themselves. Not! He faces up to two years in prison and $1000 fine, minimum. Read more details at this Yahoo! News page (may be a time-limited article).

Pets Left Behind

Tonight's Nightline show focuses on the pets that are left behind in their human caretakers' foreclosed homes. What a shame for all and a terrible act on the part of the humans who are supposed to take care of them. There's no mercy in leaving them behind and it certainly is not a responsible thing to do. At the least, take them to the nearest shelter, preferably one that is no-kill or low-kill, so that they can get into a loving home instead of being euthanized in a three-day temporary "shelter" or starve to death in the backyard. What about family and friends who can take them in temporarily also?

If you cannot watch the program tonight, check out the webcast online. Scroll down to the middle of the page to the "Nightline Webcast" section and click the "Homeless Pets" link.