weliveinaflat dog blog in June, 2014

Donna by janicia.blogspot.com

June has been an interesting month. Just as I thought I had caught up with things in May, June was just one hectic mess all over again. Largely due to changes in how I was blogging and also in my real life, I have to say.

The result is, after four consistent months of blogging 5 days a week, I have decided change the schedule to 4 days a week. If you have been following this blog closely, you would have realised that the posts are getting more informative and more thoroughly researched than ever before. This means more hours spent per post. This cannot be sustainable on a 5 days posting schedule. No way. :P

But you know what, I like that I am creating value with some of these posts. Things I didn’t know about general anaesthesia in pet surgery, I only found out when I put in the time to do the research. And I’m glad that people who are like me, who care deeply about the well-being of their pets, appreciated the post.

So thank you very much for taking the time to visit and read, and I hope the blog doesn’t disappoint you.

I welcome any feedback and comments either below the post or via email at weliveinaflat@gmail.com :)

Now let’s take a look at what you liked in June.

Here’s a rundown of the top 10 posts in June that got the most views from you:

1. Twelve Nights – Adopt, Don’t Abandon – Singapore
2. Dental Scaling under General Anaesthesia! Oh no!  – Pet Diary
3. 9 Quirky Dogs Catching Things – Pet Photography
4. A Fun Photoshoot for Donna – Pet Diary
5. 10 Creative Doggy #Interactivegrams – Pet Photography
6. Does your dog leave human things alone? – Pet diary
7. This Goldie Mans a Restaurant in Ximending – Dogspotting travel series
8. Roundup of top posts in May – Blogging
9. These dogs own the street in Pingxi – Dogspotting travel series
10. This cat has OCD – Pet Diary

This is a blog about our adopted mongrel dog after all, so I can’t tell you how glad I am that interest in a documentary about dogs in a shelter – Twelve Nights – exceeds that of other posts in June.

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#1 post in June: Twelve nights – Adopt, Don’t Abandon

One of the reasons I started the blog in the first place was to document how well or badly Donna is adapting to life in a flat. There is Project Adore of course, a program that helps flat owners adopt mongrel dogs like Donna in Singapore. But you hardly hear about the program or of any of those dogs adopted. Sometimes we still meet people in the lift who are surprised to hear that you can now get approval from HDB to adopt a mongrel.

So if it helps to drive any potential HDB adopters to adoptadog.sg or any of the Project Adore shelters at all. Then good.

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Pet photography posts also did well

I’m also glad that the new series started in June is doing well in the Top 10. In particular, 9 Quirky Dogs Catching Things got quite a bit of shares over Facebook, which is awesome because that means all the great photos of different breeds of dogs by different Instagram photographers were being shared to a greater audience beyond Instagram! A number of shelter and adopted dogs were featured as well, showing that shelter dogs can make great pets too. And if it helps the one shelter dog featured in the post get adopted, how cool will that be?

Here’s the rundown of the series started in June:

Themes in Pet Photography (Weekly)

• 10 creative doggy #interactivegrams
• 7 ways to take a landscape photo with dog
• 9 quirky dogs catching things

Dogspotting in Taiwan (Weekly)

• This Goldie mans a restaurant in Ximending, Taipei
• This dog patrols Yeliou Geo-Park
• These dogs own the streets at Pingxi
• Documentary about Taiwan stray dogs: Twelve nights – in a high-kill shelter
• This dog models at Shilin Night Market
• This dog in Jiufen is the King of Purses
• This dog rides a scooter in Ximending

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Posts about the dog

Our shenanigans will continue to feature on the blog. The 1 day 1 world project ensures that Donna gets regular weekly air time as well. Because, well I like to look back at the times we had and Mr P gets to know what happens those times he wasn’t with us because he was travelling overseas for work or otherwise. And hopefully, you enjoy them too :P

1 day 1 World (Weekly)

• Donna at 12:00pm – Rain
• Donna at 01:00pm – Lounging
• Donna at 02:00pm – Nail cutting and chicken
• Human at 03:00pm – This dog patrols Yeliou Geo-Park
• Human at 04:00pm – Macarons for human, what about dog?
• Donna at 05:00pm – Donna visits My Waterway @ Ponggol
• Donna at 06:00pm – This cat has got OCD!
• Donna at 07:00pm – Donna on the rock
• Donna at 08:00pm – Moody dog
• Donna at 09:00pm – Dog lobbies for better food
• Donna at 10:00pm – Late night life of Dead rat and Street Cats
• Donna at 11:00pm – Late night life of Pet dog and Street Cats
• Donna at 12:00am – Sleepy dog
• Donna at 01:00am – Sleepy dog

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Pet-friendly establishments

Once a month, we review a local Pet Cafe. It’s not because we’re paid to do so, but it ensures despite our busy schedule, we still take Donna out to new places. :P You can see the list of Cafes and link to read the reviews from our Pet Cafes in Singapore page.

And because, we do do some online shopping, I’ve refreshed my list of online shops based in Singapore. I’ve ranked them by Alexa ranking simply because it was the easiest way for me to make any sense out of them. I was also interested to find out which of these start ups are registered business and which are just businesses on the web which may not be regulated by any authority. I think it’s important for us as consumers to be aware of these details when making a decision whether to buy from a particular store or not. You can see the list of ranked stores on the Singapore Pet Online Store Ranking page. If you run an online shop listed and would like the business registration information updated, please do contact me as well.

July plans

So that was all that was going on in June. July is going to be exciting because weliveinaflat is hatching a photo challenge sort of of activity with somewhitecookie and mangothesheltie on Instagram.

So stay tuned, especially if you are a local #dogsofinstagram in Singapore – watch out for it!