Small Dead Animals was voted Best Canadian Blog in the Weblog Awards for 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.
[1] In 2008, SDA was narrowly voted Best Conservative Blog in North America over Ace of Spades HQ.
[2] In 2008, human rights lawyer Richard Warman sued McMillan, Ezra Levant, Kathy Shaidle and the National Post over links to comments criticizing him at a Canadian internet forum, freedominion.ca.
[3] McMillan posted the following apology on her blog: Apology to Richard Warman Material previously appeared here in which a guest blogger made an allegation that Mr. Richard Warman had posted a bigoted attack on the internet against Senator Anne Cools.
[5] A year later, a photograph of two Conservative MPs with a poster-sized version of a Western Standard cover based on her concept[6] sparked a national controversy when Joe Volpe likened the MPs to Ku Klux Klan members.