Why Do We Blog?
To share your pet’s life and your love for pets.
When someone re-post not 1, not 2, not 3 but all of your posts on their blog, it is definitely not pawlite or graciously correct … particularity if you have a Copyright n Linking Restrictions posted on your blog.
We are very upset and angry to found out this weekend that 2 pet bloggers are re-posting our blog posts.
These are petyourdog.info and obediencja.info
(I am defnitely not providing a link to their blogs. However, you are free to check it out).
My friend Baxter from Kalyxcornucopia is also a victim of this blog re-posting. Click Here for Baxter’s blog and read his post about this.
What does it really mean having a Copyright n Link Restrictions on your blog?
I’ve gotten numurous emails requesting for a link.
I am very picky and particular providing permissions.
WHY? My blog is personal about my life as Sugar The Golden Retriever.
So don’t get offended if I do not honor your link request.
It is absolutely wrong reposting my blog posts without my permission.
Both blog sites that re-post my blog posts use WordPress and have an odd set-up. One of them is defnitely a blog for profit and has a very strange malicious private policy link.
I am requesting all of you (my bloggie friends) to join forces on this matter. Kindly do a blog post about
What Does BLOG Copyright and Link Restriction Mean?
I believe that informing and letting it be known to everyone
will help enforce and increase the validity for having a
Copyright and Link Restrictions on a blog.
Copyright and Link Restrictions on a blog.
Lots of Golden Woofs,
i think taking your posts completely and reposting on their site is NOT RIGHT. You can ask them to remove the said posts at once.
Probably there are other sites out there who is doing that too which we have not stumbled upon.
Sugar and Momma~
We are super proud that you stood up for yourselves and called out these self serving/bully bloggers~
We are sorry that this has happened to you and your friends blog~
You are such an inspiration to us all for showing these cowards that you can't conduct yourself in manors like this and get away with it.
All eyes are on these bloggers now~ and this is an unjust and unfair thing they did.
We hold your blog in very high regards and have so much admiration and respect for your blog, we wish that these "fellow" bloggers can follow suit and maintain a set of blogger moral and standards and treat people the way they would want to be treated.
For those two bloggers… You owe a big apology to Sugar's blog and Kalyxcornucopia's blog and for all the other's you have done this to.
My best as always to Sweet Sugar and her Sweet Momma!!!!
~Katy
How did you figure out that your blog was being posted somewhere else? Any tips on finding that info out?
Elizabeth & Luna
thanks again, sugar. after i got notification i found this site
https://www.copyscape.com/ and it would have pegged the petyourdog one (note it's .info NOT .com). but not the other. I wouldn't necessarily visit those sites – i get a lot of weird cookie action going on and questions when I log in that I normally do not get after I've visited them. so far, I've found if you're in blogger, and still want to provide full blogger feeds, then use the footer to append a special kooky word (u make it up, but I say kooky so u don't get notified every time google spots the word "a" for instance, know what I mean?) and use google alert to help you keep and eye out for sites that use it. Kinda not the best still. Hoping someone might have more info out there. WordPress users seem to have a few more anti-scraping options out there. By the way, I'm not exactly sure I'd call these people bloggers. THey try to frame themselves sorta like I wanna say Dogster, but use unauthorized repros of work, sometimes linking to our sites in "acknowledgement"
That is not right Sugar, it is your blog and nobody should be copying anything from you without seeking your permission.
We have only recently put a copyright restriction onto our blog.
We did not wish to offend any of our friends but do not want pics taken without our knowledge and consent.
Also, as you point out, it depends on their purpose!
Thanks for the post
love
Martha and Bailey xxx
So sorry to hear that someone is stealing your work. I am also curious how you found out.
I know that you can report it and their website can be shut down for it. I hope you contact someone so that they won't do this to others.
Again, so sorry to hear what happened.
I am so furious that this has happened to you, sweet Sugar.
I am so sorry. I left them a strong comment (we hope you don't mind)!
Thank you for posting, because we had no idea this kind of thing happens.
Lots of purrs, Keiko, Kenji, Pricilla & Yuji
Oh Sugar! That is HORRIBLE!
Re-post ur blogposts as one's own is absolutely not done. Copyright or no copyright, it is about blogging ethics too.
Glad u found out.
Will post about this in our blog too, so there will be more awareness.
Hope u get some legal action/warning going against those terrible pawple.
Bud n gin
Hold up…..are you aware that this blog post is on their blog right now…along with Baxters?
Puddles
It looks like they're just automatically pulling your posts and others. Do your RSS set up for full feeds or truncated? If it's not full feeds then there's some other way they're doing it. You could maybe sue them – if you can find them. Please let us know how this turns out.
Grrrrr! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Nasty beans!!!!!
WTF? That is the WORST! Shame on those humans.
Slobbers,
Mango
Wow! Mom did not know this sort of thing went on. She is confused aobut why they would do it, but glad you posted about it. What can you do to stop them?
Sam
sorry this happened to you Sugar. thanks for sharing.
Stealing is always wrong!
Well done for highlighting this,Sugar… that is so unethical!
Sugar,
Dis is wrong of dems to do dis. Tank youz fur making us all aware of it.
Woofs and Licks,
Maggie Mae
That's horrible! What's especially bad is that the first one has reposted this post and also created a post supposedly explaining itself. As a fellow blogger, I am greatly dismayed by this. I would inform WordPress, because one at least is a WordPress site what it's doing.
Sugar,
I want to forward you the email that I got from the people of the https://petyourdog.info/
I left them a strong comment to this page https://petyourdog.info/uncategorized/what-do-you-think-part-ii/ (Misa is our Mummy's name) using a spare email account.
They said that they didn't know it was wrong so they'll delete the posts – is there an email address I can forward their address to?
Ours is tortiekeiko at gmail dot com
That second site you mentioned, I also left the same comment on the same post – but our comment has since been deleted. This one is malicious!
Lots of purrs, Keiko, Kenji, Pricilla & Yuji
That is just horrible. Thanks for sharing this information.
Woos ~ Phantom, Thunder, and Ciara
Good grief! What is the world coming to? Somedogs are adding their links to others' blogs and now there are bloggers who are stealing our posts! This just makes me mad!
Bunny
This is sooooo sad. I can hardly believe that there are people like this out there. I can see that you got some excellent advice here so far.
I would ask that you please explain to your followers… how it was that you discovered this.
I WILL address this issue with Puddles. We ALL need to band together and get the word out to OUR followers. If we hear the same message over and over for the next few weeks… so be it. We are HERE FOR EACH OTHER.
Thank you for bringing it to our attention.
What kind of an exuse is "not knowing it was wrong" – it still does not make it right. How old is this bunch anyway – anybody with any computer sense and morals SHOULD KNOW – stealing is stealing, no matter where it is done. This is so totally wrong (and if I wasn't at work rite now, I would spend more time on this but gotta go for now – maybe it is a good thing time is limited or else I could go on and on about this)
Mom B-bratz
We don't have a blog, but we agree with you 100%. This is no different than plagiarizing any other form of the written word.
Hamish & Sophie
We don't have a blog, but we agree with you 100%. This is no different than plagiarizing any other form of the written word.
Hamish & Sophie
Thanks Sugar. I had no idea that other blogs did this. I will certainly do a post about this and add one of the badges to my blog.
Thanks for sharing this info, Sugar!
Your pal, Pip
That is just HORRIBLE, Sugar. I just saw a really good post at Oskar's about track-backing or something like that and must go back to read it. Unfortunately, Momma doesn't know much about how to do these things to protect us, but maybe we can learn from you and Oskar and others who have had their blogs literally stolen. I'm stunned but not surprised by the fact that there are such bad and unscrupulous jerks out there, ripping off material from sweet girls like you.
Big Hugs xoxoxo
Sammie and Avalon
Hi Again, Sugar… Just visited those two sites and it looks like the first one has already deleted all your posts, but not the other – I was just stunned to find your posts there – you must be soooooo MAD! So sawries, dear Girl. Now we'll do some investigating and try to do a post about something we're not really smart about – thanks for raising our consciousnesses!
xoxoxo S and A
I am so sorry this happened to you!
Sorry again – it was in Frankie Furter's last Friday post – more info on how to protects ourselves…
Hugs xoxoxo
S and A
Hi Sugar
This just sickens us. There is always someone out there who is looking to get ahead on someones hard work. We hope you can get the other website to stop feeding off of your site.
Love Ruby & Penny
Hi Sugar! That is just awful that someone is copying your blog posts! That just makes us so angry! And you are lucky to have found out – but honestly how would anyone even know normally. It could be happing to all of us. This just sucks!
Eeekkk! Very scary! How did you even find out they were reposting from your blog? Thanks for the warning, we'll be sure to have mom look into this!
Oh, and mom apologizes for not writing a thank-you note yet, we did get your super-yummy treats! As soon as we finish our Earlventure posts, we'll do a post on you. WOuld it be ok to link to you blog then??? Just as a thank you 🙂
Snorts-
Brutus & Carmen
Shiloh'n Shasta here this time – mom told us 'bout what happened an'we r so sorry this happened, especially to such a sweetie. We all don't no that much about copyrightz an'all an'how to guard against stuff like this but we will lern (hopefully lern that better than how we spell) An'we iz gonna du a posty 'bout it tu – just so wrong. Good that they removed the postz frum their "blog" BUTT they shooda not dun it in the furst place.
I'm sorry this is happening to you Sugar. It's not right at all.
Have a terrific day. 🙂
Sugar, we are so sorry this has happened. We had no idea that people were doing that but we should have known. Thanks for letting us know. Lots of love, Holly and mom
Hi Sugar!
This is really terrible! And it is sad for it to happen to you. You've been one of our pals who lends a paw to help when it comes to blogging.
It is very disrespectful for these people to have a "blog" at the expense of other people! We support you and stand by you, Sugar!
Love,
Piappies Fudgie, Princess, Frappie, Mocha, Sugar, Wai-Pai & Wai-Max
That is awful! Who does that kind of thing?! Im curious how you that out… like who else are they copying?
We don't have any copyright info on our page, but maybe we should start. I just started watermarking our pictures, just in case.
Didn't know this sort of thing happened, but it doesn't surprise me. Especially the for profit motive. This probably can't be completely stopped, but discouraged by design, content and hopefully Blogger features. Now my curiosity is peaked. I guess a post could contain a copyright statement embedded that an offending site could not eliminate without extra work (by nature they are lazy).
Yikes!
This made our Rama say a dirty word!
It's good to know that most bloggers would never think of doing something like this.
Hugs and belly rubs,
Zack, Sassy and Buddy
There is always that one bad one out there to ruin it for everybody!
Hi Sugar!
I'm so sorry this happened to you. But I want to tell you about a super terrific article my mom and I read a while back about what to do in this kinda situation. https://freebloghelp.com/found-a-web-scrape-thief-now-what/ (This man's whole site is very helpful to bloggers, I think.)
Wiggles & Wags,
mayzie
What??? I just saw your post…
So very sorry for the frustration… :o(
Why on earth would anybody do that for???
Thanks for letting me know; I'll keep a watchful eye!
Smooches,
Neeko ♥
P.S. I think you can report their blog somehow; I'll look into it…
We are so furry sorry that you are experiencing problems. We have never sniffed out any blogs that are copying and using anything from out FURends but now we will be on the lookout.
Some people, sadly, don't see the written word or our photos as PURRecious to our ♥s.
Dear Sugar, our momma just did a bloggy post about this issue and shared some code that will help to stop this horrible problem. Ask your momma to put on your leash and take you for a walk over to our place.
May a roving band of khats and skhwirrels make their blogs khrash –
Hugz&Khysses,
Khyra and The Golden Khousins
We're sorry that happened Sugar! How did you find out and how do we all protect ourselves from it happening? Once it does happen, do we have any recourse?
This is so not right. I'm glad you discovered it and hopefully you can put an end to them. Very sorry that this happened to you.
I checked out both sites, the first I didn't see any of your posts but the second has a ton of them.
That is so awful. Some folks just don't have any better things to do.
oh sugar and momma sweetie i have been in your shoes before is so disgusting see your work and photos in someone else site without your permission is pretty hard to follow all the thief on internet because is too huge and some countries doesn't apply our copyright terms (ex: china is an example of that) i found myself something that may help you and is put a "Metadata" to all my images you can do that with Adobe Bridge CS or Lightroom also put metadata on your html/css code when you are changing your layout design …
hope this help you and your blogger friends
hugs sweet sugar pie!
kristina & kovack
Poor Sugar!
This is terrible…….what is wrong with da humans sometimes?!?!?!?
I hope you have found some way to put an end to this…..I know it must be terribly frustrating
MinnaK
miss sugar,
this is so not cool at all. 🙁
i can't believe those stoopid "blogs" would rip off yours and baxters' stuff. i'm glad you called them out. they should totally know better!!
*woof*
the booker man
Wow, never would I think our blog posts were a target for this. It's one thing when someone stupidly or innocently does it but setting up a script to automatically steal your personal thought? Thanks for the heads up and informative comments everyone.
<3 Miss Kodee @Bark'n About
Sugar,
Jessie was completely taken back when she read this. Who would do such a thing!?! We are so sorry this happened to you and we hope hope hope that it stops! Some people are just mean…
Good luck! Happy Trails,
Angel Ziggy
Eeeekgads! Our stomachs just turned. This is just awful!
Will take some time to take precautions.
So sorry this is happening!
Hugs and snaggle-tooth kisses,
Sierra Rose