To try to answer the original post.......The old cw shut down last October. The admins needed to over haul it to bring the computer stuff up to date, I believe is what they said. LOL. I am computer stupid so I didn't understand all the stuff they were talking about. Mostly I understood it to be because they wanted to make it more competitive with other pet sites. And of course, hopefully to make it more profitible.
We suffered greatly waiting for it to reopen. Finally, it did the first part of Dec. We have many new items...almost as many as when I joined the old cw a little over 2 years ago.
There are still some of the old members here. A few have moved on and quit. And there are some trouble makers that never seem to go away. *coughflufflycough* LOL.
The layout may have changed but it is still a great site. I hope you stick around and give it a shot.

I love the new CW, lots of new people to meet. CW needed a change, anyways.