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Well, while testing a feature I knew was there, I accidentally added an event that won't go away. If you see an event on the sidebar called "Test" - and are wondering, this was entirely my fault, and I'll probably poke someone about removing it once I'm over the embarrassment. I've taken the oppo...

After some discussion - while we do have some reservations, I feel like we might actually be a good fit to try this out on. For those not in the loop, Catija has an extensive write up on Meta In short there would be temporary adjustments to voting limits There are three main privilege changes ha...

As per the main meta post - there's a risk of images hosted on the 'main' imgur instance (as opposed to the stack exchange one) being deleted due to changes in their TOS. Images uploaded anonymously will be deleted, and there's no real way to check which images fall under that. There's only 21 po...

For other Stack Exchange network sites, I can get badges for the main site and associated meta site separately. But in this pets.stackexchange.com, it seems that there is no badge for the meta site. Is this only for me because I am a relatively new member of pets.stackexchange.com?

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web: We designed the Stack Exch...

Moderator election #4 on Pets — your "graduation" election! — has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are: They will be forming the new moderation crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the...

The 2022 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are. Please visit the official election page at ht...

The Bioacoustics Stack Exchange has reached the Public Beta stage and is LIVE! If you have any questions on how your pets communicate with sounds/vibrations, this is the perfect place to get an answer from experts! I'm also sure we will get expertise from some of you too to answers questions! We ...

Pets Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, 2022-08-08. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation. Participation is completely volu...

Summary: Pets Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on August 8, 2022, as your “graduation” election as a result of having lost your beta label a while back. The timeline: On August 1, 2022, I'll post a question collection post on Meta, so that the community can post que...

The question How can one care for a squirrel who got bitten by a cat? was closed with reason "squirrels aren't lets". I don't understand: I used to have a squirrel as a pet, many others do the same, many shops sell pet squirrels, and Wikipedia lists rodents as common pets. Why are squirrels decla...

I very recently asked a question about my legal options regarding a specific situation about my cat. The question is relatively promptly closed. The reason I carry this here is that I believe this question does not carry the necessary conditions for closure. The question is strictly about a pet,...

It's time to make this official: our moderator lila will be losing her diamond. She hasn't visited the site or performed any moderator action in half a year. The last we heard of her was during a difficult time for her and a still raging covid pandemic that didn't improve anyone's mood. We respec...

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web: We designed the Stack Exch...

In this question, it was said that while this site was in beta, there would not be the specific close option of stating which site a question belonged on. Seeing as how it's been more than 7 years, and this site is now out of beta, can this option be added? I think this option is quite important ...

We have recently received the good news that Pets will be graduating from Beta next month! Based on the longevity of the site, and number of questions and answers, Stack Exchange has determined that Pets is ready to leave Beta. The graduation date is set for 16 Dec 2021. There may not be many cha...

Stack Exchange staff have announced an upcoming change to the way answer acceptance works. Unpinning the accepted answer from the top of the list of answers Currently, the original poster of a question can accept one non-deleted answer. This does several things, the question poster receives 2 ...

I ask especially about crate training questions, which are around 6 years old. They most times look the same: I need my dog to stay in crate for night and workday, but the dog is not willing to do so without barking/whining/destroing the crate. What should I do? The answers provide solutions, but...

I recently posted my first question on the site. I tried to follow site on-topic guidelines, explained my whole situation and what I tried, etc. The question received a number of comments, as well as two answers, one of which has 9 up-votes (as of now) and one of which has 4 up-votes. As of now, ...

There’s a question about a cat that is neglected by the legal owner and cared for by the asker. The question is whether the asker can or should take the cat with them in an upcoming move. The legalities seem clear, as explained in one answer, but there’s a second answer that basically recommends ...

Deleting something is usually useful in any SE pages, as they tend to produce some clutter along the way. However, some users might be deleting their own well crafted answers just because (a) they are not happy with the quality, (b) the OP wants something slightly different. If it was (b), the OP...

These are the current outcomes of my earlier tag cleanup proposal. Two of our beloved moderators, Elmy and Lila, both helped out with this as well. Thank you to Journeyman Geek for offering feedback (with Elmy) on the initial proposal. Thank you to everyone else who participated or helped. These ...

The Stack Exchange Data Explorer (SEDE) offers many interesting insights into our site that would be impossible to gain otherwise. For one month (June 2021) we want to extract one interesting or unusual fact about the site each day.

I am inspired by this scifi SE post and wonder what kind of pets the regular users have. I for one can't really shut up about my cat(s), and I am sure many users here would love to share photos of their pets with the community. I am also curious what kind of pets people have and I'd especially wa...

There are starting to be more and more posts with numbers in them - often temperature and weight, but the argument can be extended to volume and length. Since Stack Exchange is an international community, can there be measures to standardize the units and measurements on the site, and if so what?...

This is the first step in cleaning up Pet's tags. Most steps I have sufficient rep to do myself, but I would like a community discussion before hand. Here we go: Tag creation proposal - to create a tag search-and-rescue (although I am flexible to an alternate tag name). Example question - What ...

Currently there are two official chat rooms for Pets SE The Litter Box for all pets-related content and Pets Chat - Off the Leash for everything else. In theory, off-topic messages can be migrated from the Litter Box to Off the Leash. Looking at the latest history, the latter seems mostly unuse...

I have joined this almost a month ago and had a lot of fun answering peoples cuddly creature questions, however it seems that activity on the site has plummeted to only two questions a day. Why is this and how can it be fixed? I want to answer people's questions.

The Pets 2020 Community Moderator Election page found on Pets Meta states this: 1,167 voters were eligible, 0 visited the site during the election, 71 visited the election page, and 0 voted Is this a glitch or typo? Or is it related to the fact that since there were only two nominees, voting w...

I noticed that during the last year the quality of our site (according to the official quality metrics of StackExchange) deteriorated. You can have a look at our current Beta status. We can't do much about the number of questions per day, but according to site statistics we have a steady influx ...

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web: We designed the Stack Exchange netw...

Henri was a tuxedo cat appeared on a series of short movies. He apparently died of multiple organ failure, at the age of 17. He was one of the early cat figures, predating many meme cats.

I've posted a species identification question earlier and learned just now that these aren't really suited for this site. So I'd like to have it moved to Biology SE but I don't know how to achieve this. When I click flag below my question and go through the menu being offered, I can only select t...

I wanna ask a question, but I'm not sure, if I should. I don't wanna have it downvoted to oblivion or even deleted. So I figured I'd ask here first. This is what I'd like to ask: How to convince my cat to eat its enzymatically hydrolysed diet? The situation Our oldest cat developed a pretty nas...

Some people have hijacked my question about cats using a cat flap and started talking about cats exterminating wild species. Is that really reasonable on a pets site? I feel it's rather insulting and unkind of them, yet my flagging of one of their comments was ignored. The question is here: Ca...

The 2020 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are. Please visit the official election page at ht...

Pets Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on August 17 to bring in two more moderators. For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta Stack Exchange. The timeline: Starting on August 17, users can nominate themselves. Users can also ask questions ...

In a month, Pets.se is going to have one or fewer moderators Unless there is some change I will be losing mod privileges Harry V has not declare his intentions and Yvette is already gone If the site does not have moderators SE will close it, all of the posts and the site https://pets.stackexchang...

At the writing of this post I am a moderator and the second highest ranking contributor on this site. I'm leaving the network. I've requested to have my accounts deleted and want to move on with my life. I no longer enjoy this network. Not so much this site, but Stack Overflow and Meta Stack Exch...

There is a new moderator agreement which if I do not accept will mean the loss of my moderator rights. I do not plan to accept it. I am not happy with the way SE has been handling their responsibilities. I can't see how a new agreement on my part is going to improve SE's performance, therefore ...

Dearest Pets Community, It is with a genuinely heavy heart that I am to resign my position as Moderator of Pets Stack Exchange. It staggers me to see that my joining date for this site is already 4 years ago and that I've been a moderator for 2 years 7 months (nearly 1000 days). Ever since I j...

It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land... A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny sli...

I want to give money for the well-being of animals. I found many opportunities to send money in my country (Sweden) if I search the terms "swish ge pengar till katter". But I have no means to evaluate the different opportunities to send money. Is one better than the other?

I recently asked the question Is the dog depicted on this image male or female? It was put on hold as Primarily Opinion Based. I don't agree with this because AFAIK the physical gender of a dog as shown on a picture is binary: either the dog shows male characteristics or it shows female characte...

I see in this post that "What breed is this?" questions are not allowed, and I agree with the reasoning that they (or their answers) aren't useful to others. However, would it be acceptable to have one generic question on how to identify each specific breed? I'm in Facebook groups for specific c...

While I think it's unlikely to hit HNQ given the healthy downvoting it seems to be getting (and the title isn't that clickbait-y) I figured it was worth making a meta post just in case. As you can probably gather I'm firmly against this ever being on HNQ.

Pets's first moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the new moderator is: They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes! For details on how the voting pl...

After casting a third vote in the moderator election, this message appears. The <br/> should either be fixed into a newline, or it should be removed altogether.

The 2019 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are. Please visit the official election page a...

Summary: Pets Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on August 5 to bring in one more moderator. For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta Stack Exchange. The timeline: Starting on August 5, users can nominate themselves. Users can also ask qu...