Celebrating Dr Seuss Day at BBHQ with All The B Team **PLUS** Puzzles

Happy Purrsday furbulous furiends

Now we know we don't usually post on Purrsdays, but if mew didn't know, today is a rather special day!

It's Dr Seuss Day, and we always celebrate at BBHQ as mew can see below, we are a bunch of cats in hats! MOL

And we've got a couple of pawesome puzzles to share with mew today.

Here's a fabulous Dr Seuss themed wordsearch.

Just right-click the image to save and/or print.

And here's the jigsaw puzzle.

 

Can mew beat our time of 11mins and 16 seconds?

Amber will be back tomorrow with book 3 in the Charmed and Dangerous series, and if mew missed yesterday's news round-up, click here to catch up on all the hot gossip from BBHQ.

In the meantime, don't forget to...

Epic purrs

Wing Commander Basil & The B Team 

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Welcome to The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ~ Let's Celebrate Dr Seuss Day, plus Dr Seuss Wordsearch, The BionicBasil Blog is Being Content Scraped Again & Maybe Yours is Too AND Amber is The Cat In A Hat

Epic Wednesday Greetings Furiends

Welcome to the BBHQ midweek news round-up!

Welcome to March, and how's your week going? We're delighted that we're moving into Spring, not before time as this winter seems to have dragged on somewhat. And we're also looking forward to lighter nights when the clocks go forward on the 27th of the month

First up in the news this week

 It's Dr Seuss Day WOOO HOOOO!

I am here looking epically epic in my special hat!

The Cat in The Hat is epically epic! MOL

And here's a fabulous Dr Seuss themed wordsearch.

Just right-click the image to save and/or print.

Next up in the news this week 

Bad news, the blog is being content scraped again by some worthless sack of used cat litter. The website is very bizarre, it appears to be in the Middle East, although there are no contact details on the website, and when mew click on anything it moves to another web address. They have really lots of really old content from BBHQ, as well as Amber's latest blog post last Friday.

Please note: the listed web addresses in red are NOT links and the blue text are active no-follow links to Whois, the look up directory.

The actual entry page to find anything being scraped is this one:

https://dubaiburjkhalifas.com/bionic-basil-home-of-basil-and-the-b-team-meowy-catmas/

and here is the whois details for the above link:

https://www.whois.com/whois/dubaiburjkhalifas.com

Although everything is redacted on this page.

They've got loads and loads of clickable BBHQ pictures/links which then opens up more stolen content. The accompanying text is random and garbled, some text is from the posts and some is not. And also some of the links attached to the pictures are forwarded to unsafe pages or p.o.r.n.

Dash Kitten. Summer at Sparkle Cat. Eastside Cats. Wonderpurr. Erin the Cat Princess. The Swiss Cats and a video from Peaches and Paprika are just a few of the other cat bloggers we found. 

We didn't have time to search anymore, but it would appear they are serial offenders and have no shame.

If mew search for your blog on the https://dubaiburjkhalifas.com site, other URLs appear such as: 

http://web1.dubainine.com/  -  here are the Whois details.

http://web4.free758.info/  - here are the Whois details.

http://ww1.ciampeathehomedesignings.com/ - here are the Whois details.

And these aforementioned sites all have BionicBasil content on, which is spawned from the first website, this one:  https://dubaiburjkhalifas.com

Also, there are no available URLs for each individual pirated post, they all look like the above addresses in red. So it is impossible to copy a direct link to the pirated content. Our point is this, these scrapers are very clever and know that to successfully serve a DMCA mew need the direct URLs of each post on the offending website

We also found that when we clicked the back button on our browser from the websites in red it took us to a German website that has no content, though it did have a cat on it - see below. As we clicked around this site, we eventually found a contact page. 

Whether this German site is part of whatever is going on, we can't be sure, as they aren't actually showing any of our content, but the fact that it is linked to the main content is very iffy.

It seems that to get anything removed will be a job in itself as there are so many different websites involved, and the links from the main entry website are then just funnelled out to a myriad of other sites, and as we said hitting the back button sends mew to Germany - tres bizarre indeed!

We are unsure if they are content scraping through RSS feeds or just scraping the actual blog manually or with an automated bot. Our RSS feeds are short with no photo's so we are surmising that they are scraping directly from the blog.

We have just been checking on a few forums and the general consensus is this:

A DMCA Takedown Notice emailed to the website host, should be enough to have the websites removed. Apparently, the host has to remove the blog or site. Whether this is true or not in 2022, we don't know.

We just checked and Cloudflare is the hosting site of: https://dubaiburjkhalifas.com  and after a little bit of recon, it would appear that they don't give a fluff about copyright theft and DMCAs from what we've just read on their forum. 

It cost us quite a bit of money to get the last content scrapers to remove our stuff from the ITN fake news site, as we had to get a lawyer involved as endless DMCA's emails to both the website owners and Hostgator did nothing; how is this fair, and where can we recoup that loss from?

So there mew have it, this week's mood spoiler with little or no resolution for the affected parties, and the thieves just keep on stealing.

Anyhoo, if mew're one of the unfortunate victims and do any research and come up with anything extra to this, do let us know. 

And finally this week

Let's finish this week with something truly, astoundingly wonderful...

Amber is The Cat In A Hat!

This is a picture of Amber from 2008 wearing a chullo, and doesn't she look gorgeous?

The P.A. will have more ghost stories for mew next week, we just ran out of time yesterday with all this extra research on the content scrapers. 

That's us done for today, Amber will be back on Friday with another fab book just for mew, and if mew missed Monday's post click here to catch up on a BBHQ True Story, and if mew missed the epically epic final episode of Fast, Furry & Dangerous, click here.

Epic purrs

Wing Commander Basil & The B Team 

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Interweb Issues, ********* . com Content Thieves and Meet Blossom the Bunny on The Pet Parade 295 with Dash Kitten, Barking from the Bayou and US!

Pawesome Wednesday Greetings Furriends

Welcome to the Pet Parade and our weekly news round up!

Many apologies fur not making it on Monday, the interwebs issues from last week reared up again and completely ruined our schedule.  We had another sponsored post part written fur yesterday too, but we've had to move that to next Tuesday instead.  So offur the last week we've virtually had no posts at all - EEEEEEEEEEK!  It's been wurse than a Mercury Retrograde in full swing, and that finished the week before so we can't even blame that! MOL

In other news.... a few weeks ago another website www. news itn . com started stealing our content as well as some of our pawesome blogging pals - hence the reason we put this no right click code on the blog to stop them. Well it seems that the no right click thingyummy doesn't stop anything at all, as they still managed to take several posts since it was implemented here.

So we emailed their hosting company with DMCA Take Down Notice last Thursday, and we heard back from them within 24 hours to say that it had been passed to the relevant department. Meanwhile back in the world of the NewsITN Thieves, they suddenly took down all our posts and completely removed the tab for 'Cat Bloggers' from their site so there were no posts at all from us or any of our blogging pals, and we did actually rejoice fur a brief moment.

But then, wait fur it... on Sunday we had a little, let's say inkling, that we should check their thieving site again and guess what?  Yep the 'Cat Blogger' section was back up, so were all our posts, plus my latest Brain Training post and everypurrdy elses too that had been stolen, which really hissed us off no end.

And feeling really hissed off, we emailed their hosting company again with a 2nd DMCA and guess what, on Monday morning the 'Cat Blogger' section was taken down and still as we write this on Tuesday early PM, it's still not back.  But we suspect that it will pop up again and we'll have to send a 3rd DMCA .  Like we want to spend our valuable time on that!

Another thing that struck us as really odd, here in the UK there's a news channel called ITN/ITV and has been about since the P.A. was a child [fur decades] so we we tagged them on twitter to say some scum was using their name and plagiarising us and a lot of other peeps, they neffur responded. We thought they'd care that their brand was being tarnished, but obviously they don't care as they neffur responded!

Now we're going to have a little rant and a bit of a vent, so feel free to skip to the next section if mew want.

We didn't start a blog and wurk really, really hard to have peeps come rip it off just because they think they've got a right to take our stuff, then remove the links from our posts, change a few wurds so it doesn't read properly and by doing that they think they're exonerated from copyright issues because its not verbatim - well mew stoopid flufftards changing a few wurds doesn't mean fluff.  Removing our links doesn't mean fluff, because mew are stealing and using our photos too and each and effuryone one of those photos clearly states who we are, that it belongs to us and we are a registered trade mark mew stoopid ignorant muther fluffing fluffers.  

We feel moderately better now.

And because of peeps like this we're now in a vicious cycle of blatant theft, plagiarism, copyright and trade mark issues, so where does that leave us, dedicated bloggers who are being violated and stolen from almost daily and no-one gives a fluff? It leaves us sad, so furry sad indeed.



On a much happier note... let us introduce mew to Blossom the Bunny, she arrived at BBHQ last week aftur a furry long voyage all the way from Canada.  Mew see before Catmas our fab pal Seville told us about an auction raising funds fur their local shelter and Blossom was in the auction, and when the P.A. saw the bunny, she said and I quote, "That bunny needs to be at BBHQ stat!" and swiftly placed a bid, and luckily fur us, it was the winning one, so the shelter got some cash and we got Blossom, great news all round!  Isn't she fabulous?

 

And she arrived just in time fur Easter, so she'll be part of our Easter Crafting with Cats next week! Our furry own Easter Bunny, it's so exciting! MOL

Thank mew so much to Seville and his amazing Mom fur sending Blossom to us, mew guys are EPIC!

Here's a selection of posts fur your purrusal, there's only couple fur the last week, so we've added a selection of surprise ones to keep mew entertained:

Catservatory Selfies with Amber & Pandora on The Sunday Selfies

Random Link #1

Random Link #2

Random Link #3

Random Link #4

I'll be here tomorrow with my regular Brain Training with Cats so do stop by to join me if mew get chance, and lets keep your little grey cells in tip-top condition! 

Until then...

Bestest purrs

Wing Commander Basil & The B Team xox

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