Our
4th Annual World’s Coolest Dog & Cat Show* is live and hip-hop-happening! G-G-Get on over there and e-e-enter, g-g-get on over there and v-v-vote... just
GET ON OVER THERE! As the contest strolls along new entries will arrive daily, so make sure that you check back in every day to cast your votes!
Here are a few of the entries so far... Think you can top 'em? Go for it!
Check out all the categories first, put on your creative thinking caps and say cheese... It's SHOWTIME, pawrty people!
*The 4th Annual World’s Coolest Dog & Cat Show is an online photo contest. You must be a member of the Dog ster or the Cat ster and be 13 years of age or older to enter or vote. Remember, no pedigree is required—any pet can enter regardless of age, breed or disposition.
The Cat's Meow: Catster's Cats and Kittens Blog is here!
After all of the waiting and pawing, meowing and speculating, Catster's eagerly anticipated blog dedicated to all things feline is here!
Written by Karen Nichols and her "kyoot" little pal Skeezix, the blog aims to cover all the things that cat-lovers are scratching to get at: news, information, events, product reviews, pet food recalls, and, of course, feline fun!
Every single one of us at Catster HQ is super-duper excited to welcome Karen and Skeezix on board, and to be able to add yet another exciting product to our family of cat blogs and dog blogs!
You can subscribe to The Cat's Meow via RSS feed here, or by getting email updates here. Enjoy!
This is it! The new annual Plus Membership subscription drive ends today! We've not only been meowing a $2 donation to the Morris Animal Foundation for each new annual Plus subscription, but for each renewed annual Plus subscription as well! So if you still want to get in on the donating action, get a new Plus membership or renew yours TODAY! Even if your Plus membership isn't about to expire, renewing now means that you're making a contribution to the Morris Animal Foundation!
The Morris Animal Foundation has been working since 1948 to fund research studies aimed at protecting, treating and curing animals of all kinds. Help us help them to keep up the good work!
Mary Jane Irwin's Forbes.com article on pet technology includes a bit of insight on the pet industry from Catster's very own Ted Rheingold. From the article:
You can always turn to social networks to set up play dates for your pet with other pets. Dogster and Catster, sites that started out as a way to share photos of beloved animal companions, are now repositories of information on everything from grooming to finding veterinarians in foreign countries.
Now nearing a combined 1 million members, the sites have even become places to plan real-world meet-ups. On Dogster, about 100 West [Highland] Terriers united recently in South Carolina--with some pets and owners traveling from as far as six states away.
Indeed, pets are no longer creatures you just keep in the backyard and rarely see."It used to be [that] the dog was kind of around and someone would often forget to feed it," says Dogster Chief Executive Ted Rheingold. "Now they have a family-member relationship. When you make plans, you are thinking about what you're going to do about Sparky."
And that's where technology can step in and lend a helping hand.
You can read the whole article here.
These mysterious shots were placed under the doormat here at Catster HQ this morning. Can you make heads or cat-tails out of them? Because we sure can't.
And this postcard was included as well:
Any clues about what this might mean? Leave your comments (reactions?) below.
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Hi all
Welp, it was quite a carnival ... but we had to update our code so when people uploaded gif and animated gifs they get sized exactly the same way as all the other images people upload. The reason we hadn't done that from the beginning is that the .gif image format was actually proprietary and owned by Unisys. So when we first launched there wasn't good server software to resize gifs so we uploaded the original size and tried to squeeze them as we could into the site.
So it was fun while it lasted, but the over-sized images were becoming too common and messing up too many pages. If you ever wondered why your pet's pages, or group pages or forums pages were getting stretched too far to the right it was because of this issue.
The first fix went live today such that all newly uploaded gifs will get resized exactly as all the other images do. Later this week we'll go back through all the images already uploaded and resize them.
Sorry if we're raining on anyone's parade, it just became too much of hindrance to the overall experience not to fix now that we finally could.
Did your cat's friend count suddenly drop overnight?
Not to fear you're still entirely love by your pals.
A small flea got into our code a couple months ago and duplicate entries were getting adding to our friends database. What this meant was that for each new friend connection you made, two were being added to your total pal count.
On the 15th, around midnight pacific time we removed all the duplicates and fixed the bug.
So we're sorry if it's a shock, but all your friends are still your friends, there just aren't any phonies in your total count any more.
So no fear. We and all your pals still love you! So sorry for the mistake in the first place and any confusion it may have caused you.
Top daaawwwg
Ted Rheingold sat down with
Martin Sargent on his
Revision3 show
Internet Superstar and talked a little bit about what's going down with
Catster,
Dogster,
Snuzzy and the
whole shabang! Check it out:
Link: [Revision3]
The
Bay Area Pet Fair was a huge success this past weekend and it was a great oppurrtunity for like-minded pet owners to get together and share product information, watch superstar pet performances and to
take a home a new family member.
We at Catster would like to thank those of you who endured the heat to come out and join us for this pawesome event. We can't wait to see all of you next time we're out and about! To see more adorable images from the fair, hop on over to Snuzzy.com!
Howdy Pawrtners! Just wanted to check in and remind you that thanks to the success that we've had with our new annual Plus Membership subscription drive, we're keeping it going until the end of September! And, to crank things up a notch, will we not only be meowing a $2 donation to the Morris Animal Foundation for each new annual Plus subscription, but for each renewed annual Plus subscription as well!
The Morris Animal Foundation has been working since 1948 to fund research studies aimed at protecting, treating and curing animals of all kinds. Help us help them to keep up the good work!
