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Comparing Online Pet Sites: Dogster and Catster vs. PetPop.com

Move over Dogster and Catster, there’s a new pet website in town: PetPop.com. What’s the difference between Dogster and Catster and PetPop.com? Not much in some respects. They both allow you to create a website of sorts for your pets where you can post pictures and video. You can join online communities and make friends, and both have contests you can enter. And they both offer pet-related content about products and services. (PetPop’s aren’t all up yet, though. Some parts of the site are still works in progress.) And that’s where they differ a little. The “’Ster” family of websites … Continue reading →

Free Gift For Dogster and Catster Members

If you have a Dogster or Catster membership — check this freebie out! Dogster and Catster have joined forces with Shutterfly — one of those online photo hosting services. Shutterfly offers a whole bunch of ways to share and display your pictures (pet or otherwise). If you are a Dogster or Catster member, Shutterfly is going to give you a free photo book! It’s 20 pages of pictures (you can add more pages for $1 each if you want) with hard covers and loads of backgrounds and layouts to choose from. (I’m fond of the “Azure” and “Verde” layouts, myself … Continue reading →

Dogster and Catster

I’ve mentioned Dogster and Catster before — these websites let you make pages about your own pets! It’s tons of fun picking and posting pictures, writing up your pets’ biographies, and even writing a diary for your fur babies. Joining and posting on these sites is totally free. But as Dogster and Catster grow, the sites offer more and more! Each month, one lucky pet who joins Dogster or Catster Plus (a paid membership) wins a pet insurance policy for a year. The Plus membership lets you do more with your pets’ web pages if you so desire; you get … Continue reading →

Great Holiday Freebies and Sweet Deals

As you are in the midst of your holiday shopping, it helps to find a bargain where you can. There are a lot of free and near free deals out there, on your everyday items. That means there’s more room for your dollar to stretch when you are shopping for gifts. Facebook is a great way to open yourself up to some great deals. Many companies like to launch giveaways on facebook – the number of fans they get, and the speed with which they sign up, tells the company how well a promotion is catching on. This week, you … Continue reading →

Dogs and Cats Who Blog

Do your pets keep a blog? Do they tweet? Do they have a Myspace page? Do they chat with other ani-pals on Facebook (or Dogbook or Catbook)? Writing for your pets can actually be a great creative exercise and imagination outlet. Think about it: you’re writing in a voice that is not your own, imagining what a pet’s daily life is like, and even interacting with other imagined animal personalities. If you’ve got a reluctant writer in the house, writing as a pet might be a good way to go. Twitter is fun for the one-liners — you have to … Continue reading →

Five Years of Moose!

I’m not always good at remembering birthdays and anniversaries, so I have a few online calendars to give me hints about the date. Today in my email was a happy birthday wish for my dog Moose from Dogster.com. I don’t know what his actual birthday is — I don’t know Lally’s birthday either — so we celebrate anniversaries. Some people call them Gotcha Days, as in “this is the day I gotcha.” Five years ago today, I drove to Ticonderoga, NY to pick up a foster dog named Coyote. I had picked him out from a series of shelter dog … Continue reading →

How Do You Help Your Dog Make Friends?

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Yesterday, I was thinking about my dogs and their social life… or lack thereof. They don’t have any super close puppy pals at the moment, though we have had them in the past. I realized that we do have two likely candidates for friendship right here in the building. Our next door neighbors have an adorable little Chihuahua mix named Brownie — Moose and Lally have met the little guy before and seem to like him. I’ve seen Lally making the play bow at him, which is a good sign. She wants to play with him. I think the little … Continue reading →

Time-Sharing Pets: A New Trend?

Yesterday on our evening walk, Murph and I ran into his gal pals Sophie and Lady. Sophie is a white shepherd/husky mix and Lady is a beagle. (We’ve written about them before in articles such as Murphy’s Fan Club, Tabby’s a One Cat Kind of Dog Lover, and The Fox in the Woods: A Lesson in Rabies.) Last night it was a bit warm. Like mid-70s. Most of the time Sophie’s a high energy dog who loves to run and wrestle with her pals. She gets very mellow, however, when the temps start creeping up past 70. So while she … Continue reading →

Planning for Pets When Emergencies Call You Away: A Checklist

Yesterday I wrote about what we’d do with our pets if an emergency called us away. Do you know what you’d do? Do you have a plan in place? If not, I created a list of things to think about and prepare for ahead of time. 1) If you take your pets with you, will you have a place to stay that welcomes them too? If you won’t be staying with relatives (or can’t), make a list of pet-friendly hotels in the area. (Before you need them, but confirm the pet-friendly status still exists when you book your room.) Use … Continue reading →

Q&A with PetPop.com

Last week I wrote Comparing Online Pet Sites: Dogster and Catster vs. PetPop.com. I had deduced that both sites were fairly similar but each also had their own distinct flair. Well, this week I have the honor of presenting to you an interview I conducted with Anthony Ngo, a Service Representative for PetPop.com. I asked him directly what makes PetPop.com different and he certainly provided wonderful insight on that. So without further ado, I present to you the interview. Courtney Mroch: When did PetPop.com launch? Anthony Ngo: PetPop.com launched in June of 2006. CM: How many members do you have … Continue reading →