Dog Blog

Progress Update

Greetings, gentle readers. It’s been a couple weeks since my last post, so I thought I’d write a quick post to let you all know how things are going with the website.

For the last few weeks, I’ve been devoting a majority of my time to building out the breeder directory. Each morning, I have at least a dozen breeders awaiting approval for the directory, so I spend a couple hours each day investigating these breeders and working with our breeder approvers to make sure only ethical breeders make it into our directory (a special thanks to all of our volunteers, by the way!). Once that’s done, I start contacting the breeder referral agents of a handful of national breed clubs looking for quality breeders to contact about the directory, and then I wait to start the whole cycle over again the next morning.

I’ve also been spending a lot of time talking to users of the site, listening to their suggestions and corrections and helping them use the tools we have provided here. This has been an educational and humbling experience, as I’ve learned that the collective canine knowledge of our guests is incredibly immense and eager to find an audience. Thanks for all the input, guys!

In my spare time, I’ve been thinking about articles to add to the site and talking with one of our writers about adding some information on various topics that might be of interest to the dog enthusiast community. So far, we’ve come up with breed specific legislation, designer breeders, puppy mills, dog parks, training, human/dog interest stories as possible topics for upcoming articles. Any other ideas out there? Share them in the forums!