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Reading Time: 2 minutes Daily Paws announced today in a press release that Besa the Bulldog is the winner of its first-ever Pet Etiquette Fails Photo Contest sponsored by Mars Petcare’s GREENIES™ brand. The contest recognizes good dogs who sometimes mess up, such as taking mud baths or playing with toilet paper. “All dogs are good boys and girls!…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Now is the PURRFECT time to check out the fabulous multitude of cats competing for prizes on The Cat Fanciers’ Association Virtual Cat Competition web site, according to a press release from The Cat Fanciers’ Association. What is a VCC? VCC was conceived to help promote the enormous variety of pedigreed cats to the public…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Remember Me Thursday is coming up on September 24, and since COVID is preventing many communities from celebrating with large candle-lighting events like in years past, there are many easy ways to participate online. Remember Me Thursday® (RMT) is a worldwide pet adoption awareness campaign now in its eighth year. RMT was established in 2013…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Update: Aug. , 2020 — Voting for the contest has come to a close. $14,146 was raised for the Helen WoodWard Animal Center. If you’re interested in buying a calendar, please use this link to pre-order. We already pre-ordered our calendar because we entered Meadow in it and, like all pets entered, she will appear…
Reading Time: 3 minutes According to the Nationwide website, Nationwide associates noticed some of the hundreds of thousands of pet insurance claims being reviewed involved rather unusual circumstances. There was, for example, a pooch who was carried away by an owl and a cat who survived a three-story fall. Inspired by these unique stories, in 2009 Nationwide created the…
Reading Time: 3 minutes We previously brought you Five Great Free Pet Apps that You Have to Try! Since then, we have been on the lookout for more apps that are free (at least to start with) and that offer an interesting or helpful user experience. Here’s what we found: