Over on the Facebook fan page we’re having another dreamie giveaway.
Go add your (zappable) wish to the list today (be sure to read the rules before posting, else your wish will likely be removed from the list. 
In under 24 hours we’ve already homed 4 pets, and have contacted another 3 people on the list about their dream pets.
This is the one and only time we make an exception to our “no requests” rule, so take part today! (Provided things don’t get out of hand the thread will remain until early March!)
Please help me in issuing a very warm welcome back to the team to Jenn (michellejkittie) who was one of the original staff members, and is also an active member of TNO, the guild that started it all!
Welcome back to the land of the crazy people, Jenn! it’s good to have you!
That’s right, you’ve asked for it, and we’ve listened:
You can now sort species views by name, rather than simply by most recently added. To access it you must view “more” pets in any species and up at the top by the species name you can switch between the two sort methods!
Big thanks to Anna for taking time out of her busy schedule to fix that up for us!
We currently have NO plans to sort by colour, I’m afraid if you’re too lazy to actually scan the most recent page(s) for the colour you’re looking for, then you’re just not going to get what you’re looking for!
For those who don’t realize, pets are already easily sorted by gender (pink for girls, blue for boys, yellow means we forgot to assign gender. OOPS!)
As for sorting by stats, age, etc, I’m afraid at the moment that’s unfeasible, as they are just handwritten notes, rather than sortable attributes, so you’ll just have to scan for any notes for the meantime. Also note that we don’t add notes to brand new pets, only when we’re updating pets, so there are TONS of pets (probably at least half the pets on the lost list) that simply haven’t had a note added, but plenty of them will have stats, will be aged, etc. We do work on adding notes, but the priority for us is adding new pets, and updating the lists to make sure those adopted get moved from the lost list, and those repounded make it back.
Happ
Yes, that’s right, we have hit the 20,000 pet mark for the Lost list!
As you can tell a lot of the most recent additions have been badly named pets (in the name# format), but just prior to this spate, I had a HUGE fit of VWN pets, including English and Italian real words, a TON of real last names, and even a small handful of real first names!
Many of those RWs and RLNs are still on the site, but buried beneath the more recent terribly named pets, so I definitely recommend digging through the pet pages to get a better look of what’s available!
We have also gone way overboard in adding grundos again, I’m afraid! I guess that’s just more work for the Adopt a Grundo Project!
We also have a special holiday project going on over at the Facebook Fan Page where we are trying to match people with their zappable dream pets! So far we’ve managed to help make 6 peoples’ dreams come true, and if you’re lucky maybe we can help you find your dream too, just hop on over to the fan page and add your wish to the appropriate thread!
Happy Halloween folks!
We’re celebrating the night with special spooky pets being released on the facebook page as well as here at random! Like the page to join in on the fun pets posted there daily!
As for news on the site, there isn’t much, hence the lack of posts here. Most minor updates get posted to the facebook page though I have done a few little tweaks here and there, and we’ve been madly adding new pets, and updating the lost and adopted lists whenever we have a chance to attempt to keep the site as up to date as possible!
As always, keep on sending us pets you know of, or updating us on the pets you notice have been adopted or changed, we appreciate the help greatly!
Hope you’ve all had fun this Halloween, and that you stay safe and sound as well!
So after much hunting, muttering, and swearing I finally figured out tonight why the sidebar didn’t work on species views, and hence why things like the feedback form did not work!
After figure it out, it simply took another 2 hours of fiddling and fixing, and now I am proud to say the sidebar works like charm, including adding in these very blog updates that weren’t being shown from the pet view previously!
Provided I have any energy left after this and my previous 7 days in a row of work (urgh) I am hoping to work on a few more details around the site to bring things up to par, but for the meantime everything essential FINALLY WORKS!!!
As you may have noticed, the site’s list of pets has been growing in leaps and bounds lately, with over 15,000 pets on the Lost list, and over 46,000 on the adopted list! This number will only keep increasing as long as we can keep finding pets faster than you guys can adopt them. Some pets have been looking for an owner for over 2 years now!!!
Here’s where you come in! We need help spreading the word about the site! Many people know about the site by now, but even more do not! Put up buttons (we have neo-friendly ones that link to the petpage, and ones for use offsite that link directly to the main site!) Put them in your blogs, share a link to us on facebook (and become a fan of our facebook page), tell your neopets friends about us!
If you zap pets for fostering/trading make sure to pick some up from here, there are always plenty of DN ones, as well as the BNs, and often there are even many WNs!
Okay, so we have ANOTHER new staff member joining the team! Welcome Lillian! She joins us as a very long-time helper both sending us updates from the lost list, and more recently sending is TONS of new pets to add to the site!
This brings up to 7 currently active staff members (8 if you include me) which is the most we’ve ever had! Hopefully we’ll now have an easier time staying on top of the Lost list!
That doesn’t mean you can’t still help us out though by letting us know when you adopt a pet, or notice one has been adopted. We appreciate every submission we get, whether a simple update on a pet’s status, or a whole new pet to add to the database! Thank you all so much, without you, there wouldn’t be a site!
P.S. For all the smaller updates, including when I’m doing a board on the PC, and bonus special pets, join us on Facebook.
I have an announcement folks! I have asked Charlene to be staff, and she has accepted! Charlene joins us after a VERY long time of being an all around big help both on keeping the Lost list up to date, and sometimes contributing names as well!
She’ll be helping the rest of us keep up with the ever growing task of keeping the site up to date, and helping Sme and I keep our respective sanity (well what’s left of it anyways!)
Welcome to the crazy life Charlene!
P.S. For all the smaller updates, including when I’m doing a board on the PC, and bonus special pets, join us on Facebook.
P.P.S. Instead of asking how you can be staff too, read this blog post from earlier this year
I think it’s about time for ANOTHER post about reposting pets from the site onto boards. (Please folks, if you haven’t regularly read all the updates, go back and read the old ones, they answer a LOT of questions)
I would like to request that people not create boards to post the pets on this site, particularly not when they’re being added to the site, as it pretty much guarantees that I have a board going at that moment myself. Instead find my board and come hang out with us!
If you absolutely MUST post a name to a board, please be courteous and let people know you found it through the Lost and Pound BEFORE YOU POST THE FIRST STUCK PET (if they ask what that is, or how to find pets, link them to OldWays’ petpage for the petpage version of the site, or to Lorrenn’s petpage for the FAQ on finding pets.)
ABSOLUTELY DO NOT spread misinformation about finding stuck pets, or pretend it’s a secret that only you know how to find.
Yes, this site is for helping stuck pets find a home, and it is public for all to see, but I would like it if people saw the site themselves, and that we got proper credit for all the hours upon hours of hard work we all put into it finding the pets, and keep the site up to date.
As usual, become a fan of our Facebook page to get Facebook exclusive pets, and much more frequent small updates!