As it is, none of the rules concerning journals and RP are going to be changed. If your pet is RP required, it has to be RP'ed, just as it was before. I do not intend to take pets because of the hiatus; i don't expect people to RP pets from a store that was dead whilst it was dead.
However.
Now that the owners have been notified i expect RP to resume when i sort out the guild. I will notify everyone by pm when this happens, and as per the forum rules i expect RP to happen. I don't care if the owners write a whole heap of journals at once and post two on the same day every three weeks. But these pets were bought with the expectation of RP.
Except of course if you have a non RP pet, in which case you obviously don't need to do squat.
But as far as the RP rules go, they're not changing.