The Menu Foods pet food contamination and recall has put us over the edge. How little concern is going into the production of a sold item that is meant the extend the life of a furry family member, not cut it short.
So we created a Pet Food Recall Resource Center on our sites. There you’ll find headlines of the most recent Alerts and News, links to stay in the nose and links on how to get active.
If you have any items you think we should add, just let us know. So far I think the Dogster Dog Blog has been the single biggest source of all recall news thank to Joy Ward intrepid coverage and every making sure she knows every single last detail that could save a pets life. We’re backing this 100% and doing all we can to get the word out farther and faster.
Much woof and meow!
Just a quick bark to let you all know that we added a few new Forum Topics today!
There’s Home Cooking & Recipes for you to share your best creations, Puppy Place for general puppy fun and advice and Dogs in the News for, well, Dogs in the News! ;)
Go sniff ‘em out and have fun!
Exciting barks and meows! Dogster’s in the running for The Next Web Award in the Social category! We’re with some pretty impressive company in this category, so the saying “it’s an honor just to be nominated” certainly barks true.
The Next Web Awards acknowledges the future accomplishments of companies that will change the way we see, use and interact on the web! Voting is broken down in to eight categories. And the best part? The winners are picked by you! The people!
How do you make your voice heard?
You don’t need to register
You don’t need to sign up
You just need to VOTE!
Vote for Dogster by following this link. Plus, once you get to the site, you’ll see a bunch of really cool ways to options for increasing your voting power!
The winners will be announced at The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam on June 1!
Paws and Claws crossed!!
And as always, tail wags for all the support.
Hi everyone,
As you’ve probably noticed by now, we’ve serving a whole new set of ads in our right “skyscraper” ad placement. You’ll also see their ads replacing ads in other parts of the site. (There will be no new real estate given for advertising.) After years of displaying text and image ads that were rather low-rent, we now have a partner that is as upscale as you are. All ads come from Glam Networks which has deeply impressed us by making great content and selectively bringing in quality advertisers.
In an ideal world keep our sites up and running (and adding new features as often as we can) would not cost us a penny and therefore we wouldn’t have expenses to defer. Alas that is not the case and advertising in what keeps our light on, servers up and community happy. So we’re really thrilled to find a partner like Glam that gets that this is a special place and helping the advertisers they bring in realize that.
If you like what you see, please take a moment to click and explore. If you like Glam you can join their network. I did!
Joy, our Dog Blogger, has been doing an amazing job covering everything regarding the Menu Foods recall. There is still new news coming out everday so we’ve made a dedicated URL and News Feed you can go to or subscribe to to stay in the nose.
Click here to see just recall-related news items. (Consider bookmarking the page once you get there.)
OR, if you use a RSS News Reader, click or copy this URL so the entries will appear directly in your feed reader.
We gotta watch each others backs these days!
While we are working on a big improvement to the way people and shelters can post and find adoptable pets , we made an improved search tool that’s the best it can be with our current infrastructure.
It’s really just a stop-gap measure until we can make the necessary improvements, but it’s so much better then using the advanced search form or using the stroll.
Try out the new adoption search today. There’s one for dogs and one for cats.
Also we would love to hear any ideas, suggestions, dreams, wishes you would have for our new adoption and rescue postings, listing and search. Please check out this forum we started and chime in today!
Arryooo!
Do we have some tail-chasing exciting news to share with the Dogster Community: Lola Duff, the pawsome pup of rocker, actress and dog-lover extraordinaire Hilary Duff, has joined Dogster!
Says Hilary, “[Lola] has such a great personality. I am excited that she is part of the Dogster community so people will get to know her, and she’ll be able to get to know all the other top dogs out there.”
Lola has already started her own Dogster group called ”Lola’s Pooch Posse” which will help all her four-legged BFFs stay on top of her jet-set lifestyle. The group’s open to all Dogster members so be sure to check it out!
Lola’s profile is up and active on the site. Check it out now and be sure to give her a big woof of welcome.
WOOF!
Arrrooooooo!
Many of you have contacted us to say that you weren’t all that keen on the way our forums post notification worked. And since when you bark, we listen, we are happy to announce a few major improvements to this very pawpular part of our site.
From now on, a post will have to be flagged for review 3 times by 3 different members before it is removed from the live forums. If it is flagged once or twice, the moderators will be notified but the post will remain live until it reaches 3 notifications.
Once a post is flagged 3 times, it will be pulled from the live forums for moderator review. But, you will now see a new placeholder message in the forum thread. Also, if one of your posts is flagged 3 times, you will receive an e-mail letting you know.
Our goal is to constantly make your experience on Dogster as good as it can be. We hope these changes make you all wag your tails!
Woofs to all!
HQ
