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Our Best Smiles

Our photo competition “The Best Smile” has finished. There are so many beautiful photos, I think it’s the biggest collection of smiles in the Web :) And it was difficult to choose the best smiles from such wonderful smiles but our contest like any other contests has winners. And we’re happy to announce them:

ziggy Cat Ziggy has taken first place in photo contest “The Best Smile” and won Pet Ear Wash & Oil Combo
carmichael Golden Retriever Carmichael has taken second place and won Pet Ear Wash
keeshond Keeshond puppy has taken third place and won Pet Coat Shine w/ Flea Protection

Our congratulations to them!

Many thanks to everyone who submitted photos to photo contests! We have been delighted to see your wonderful photos!

Cat Of The Month July

Our photo competition “Cat Of The Month July” has finished today. Cat Lynx has become indisputable leader. We’re happy to congratulate our winner!

Cat Lynx - Cat of the month July Cat Lynx has become Cat Of the Month July and won a LitterHouse offered by contest sponsor Litterhouse.com

The opening of two new photo contests

Two new photo contests started almost 5 hours ago: monthly contest “Cat Of The Month July” and “The Best Smile” among dog and cat lovers around the world. And many beautiful photos have been submitted already. Who will become cat of the month July and get a LitterHouse? We will find out it on 28 July. The photo contest “The Best Smile” is rather difficult competition but very interesting. Three winners with most voted photos of their smiling dogs and cats will get great herbal and natural pet care products. We all know that our cats and dogs can smile. It’s wonderful.

Both of these contests are open to all cat and dog lovers and owners around the world. To participate in competitions you need to be registered member with Pets Area, create profile for your pet and submit pet’s photo on contest page.

We wish all participants good luck!

Join contests, vote for photos that you like and have fun!

Our photo contests winners

Our two photo competitions “Cat Of The Month June” and “Most Photogenic Pets” have finished. And we’re happy to announce our winners:

Maine coon Taz - Cat of the month June Maine coon cat Taz has become Cat Of the Month June and won a LitterHouse offered by contest sponsor Litterhouse.com
Dumbo rat Goobers - most photogenic pet Dumbo Rat Goobers has taken first place in photo contest “Most photogenic pets” and won T-shirt for his Mom
British shorthair kitten - most photogenic pet British Shorthair Kitten has taken second place and won throw pillow for his Mom
Yorkshire Terrier Caydie's Glimpse - most photogenic pet Yorkshire Terrier Caydie’s Glimpse has taken third place and won wall calendar for her Mom

Our congratulations to them!

Many thanks to everyone who submitted photos to photo contests! We have been delighted to see your wonderful photos!

We’re also glad to announce that new photo contests start next week: “Cat Of The Month July” and “The Best Smile”. Everyone who didn’t win don’t be upset you can participate and win prizes in these new competitions.

Good luck!

New advertising options on Pets Area

It’s well known that some pages on website have more exposure than other ones. Most visited pages on our website are home page, breed center and classifieds section. We’ve decided to give possibility to our pet professionals to get maximum attention from people who come to website with purpose to find pets. We’ve added three paid advertising options for our members that allow them to place listings and pets in most visited sections on our website and thus they will be able to get more visitors to their profiles and websites:

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Photo Contests and Giveaway on Pets Area

We are now running two photo contests where the winners receive great prizes. These competitions start at 12:00 am on June 17, 2009 and ends on July 6, 2009. To participate in contests you need to register with Pets Area and upload your pet’s photo on the contest page. Submitted photos will be voted on by the community and the winners of the contests will be selected based on members’ votes.
1.    Photo Contest “Most photogenic pets” is open to all pet owners and pet lovers around the world. Three winners with most voted photos will win T-shirt, pillow or wall calendar offered by contest sponsor Cafepress.com. More detailed information about contest rules and prizes can be found here: “Most photogenic pets” photo contest

2.    Photo Contest “Cat of the month” is monthly photo contest among cat owners and cat lovers around the world. Every month you and your cat get chance to win a LitterHouse litter box for cats, kittens and small animals. In this month the competition starts at 12:00 am on June 17, 2009 and ends on July 6, 2009. The top vote getter wins a LitterHouse offered by contest sponsor Litterhouse.com. More detailed information about contest rules and prizes can be found here: “Cat of the month” photo contest

Join the contests, show everybody how your pet is photogenic, invite your friends to vote for your photos, vote for the photos you like and win great prizes. We wish all participants good luck!

Pets for adoption on Pets Area

On Pets Area registered members can add listing “Pets wanted” where they indicate their requires concerning adoption. There are three variants:

1. Adoption required

2. Adoption possible

3. Adoption impossible

Now our members can add not only listing “Pets wanted” with requires of adoption, they can add listing and create pets’ profiles that are ready for adoption. When members want to put their adoptable pets on website they click in their profiles “Add listing” and choose “Awaiting for adoption” from the list.

I think this is very good improvement for Pets Area and we hope we will help homeless pets to find good and lovely homes.

Some changes in users’ profiles

We’ve just added some features in users’ profiles:

1. The field “State/Province”. Now our members can indicate not only cities and countries where they live but state (if they live in USA) or province (for other countries). It gives better results of search for people who want to find breeders or pet lovers in their location.

2. Every Pets Area member in registration choose whether he/she is pet lover or breeder or shelter, etc. Users can change their category at any time or add other categories in their profiles’ settings. It helps people to find, for example, breeders very quickly and easy.

3. The posibility to add pet breeds that users consider neccessary in their profiles and as many as it needs. And so every member on Pets Area can be found by pet type and pet breed of course if there are breeds in profile.

Notifications of new members, discussions, announcements in Groups

Now Pets Area registered members can receive notifications about new members who join their groups. Also they are informed about new discussions, announcements. If users take a part in some discussions or announcements they will get messages from Pets Area about new replies or comments. Our members can receive these notifications as frequently as they want. There are settings in profiles where every user can change frequency of receiving notifications individually.

So, all our members can always be kept informed of group events and will miss nothing important.