Pets in Cyberspace

I was reading an article the other day in The Cat Magazine by Amy Rutter where she ponders the rituals of cat-crazy web surfers. 

This led me to look into looking into pets in cyberspace more and was astounded to find that there are in fact there are 204,100 monthly active users on Catbook and 969,334 monthly active users on Dogbook.

It seems that the internet is a very popular way of earning your cat or dog the fame they think they deserve.

Your pet’s picture will appear alongside your as the owner with a brief description of you and of course your lovely pet.  There is a whole new world waiting for you out there it seems …..

Who knows …… maybe your cat or dog could be the key to unlocking the door to the person of your dreams!

Just think about the powers of social networking sites – in April 2009 Facebook was used to reunite a missing cat with his owners when he was found at a humane society in Minnesota, USA.  The Humane Society staff member scanned the cat’s microchip only to find the contact details were out of date.  The next step was for the humane society to put the cat up for “adoption”.  Just before they did this they did a search on Facebook and amazingly found the owner’s profile.  The result was that Bob the cat was reunited with his owner. 

Assuming you have a Facebook account here are the links to Catbook and Dogbook.  You will need to log in to your own Facebook account after clicking on these links – you will then go straight to either Catbook or Dogbook.