Uniteddogs and Unitedcats team blog

Benvenuti tutti i cani e gatti bellissimi di Italia!

We are glad to let you know that we, Uniteddogs and Unitedcats, the world’s
fastest growing social networking websites for dog and cat owners, launched Italian version for our popular service!

Our Italian pet lovers are now welcome to create personal profiles for their own cute pets, upload their photos, join clubs or start a free blog for their dog or cat and communicate with other pet owners and share their feelings and emotions, ask and give advise.
Today, the websites are working in 15 different languages in 212 countries and have all together over 100 000 users.
We have a big family of dog- and cat lovers in here Italian version will help even more new members to join our big friendly and worldwide family.

Already, there are more than 1000 Italian dog and cat profiles on our Italian site, and we are eager to welcome many more!


Visit and have fun at http://it.uniteddogs.com and http://it.unitedcats.com.

Our small admin  team has been growing with last couple of months. We have now 9 members in our team. The newest member is Marju, who will be seen on our site a lot as she is new editor and will start to work together with Elise.

This way we hope to be able to get more in touch with our users again. We already have more than 100 000 users and growing fast. We hope our users welcome Marju warmly into our big family.

During the last year Uniteddogs and Unitedcats has offered dog- and catlovers the opportunity to share their love for their animals, we have also shared the loss of our pets. Our users have found a place where to talk about their dogs and cats who have crossed the rainbowbridge and found support and understanding.

Today, we have found that not only our beloved dogs and cats lives are fragile but peoples too.

UDC team is sad to say that one of our first users and moderators on English site, Doug, is no longer with us as he passed away suddenly in the evening of July 20, 2008.

Doug loved and lived for his dogs and cats. Many UDC users and animals got sweet comments and gifts from him. Moderators’ team will miss him, his ideas and discussions with him.

UDC admin team offers our condolences to Dougs family.

Uniteddogs and Unitedcats team wants to share this great moment with you - we have passed the magical 100 000 members’ milestone! Woof! Now, 16 months after the launch of Uniteddogs and Unitedcats, there are more than 100 000 dog,- and catlovers connected at Uniteddogs and Unitedcats.

100 000 is definitely a huge number for us and we would like to thank everyone contributing in making Uniteddogs and Unitedcats the fastest growing social network for petlovers in the world.

Besides, I have some stunning facts to share with you. During this period:

• more than 500 000 photos have been uploaded;
• 320 000 virtual gifts have been given;
• the dogs and cats have received more than 4 300 000 warm pats;
• 300 000 forum posts have been created;
• 55 000 pets have been added on the map;
• more than 30 000 diary posts have been created.

Thank you once again - you’re just great!

Warm pats and tailwags:)

Mood message is a new feature, that allows you to show others what your dog or cat is doing at the moment, how he feels or what he’s up to.

The mood message will be shown at the dogs and cats profile, just below the name. Editing the mood message is really simple - just go to www.uniteddogs.com/my_dogs or www.unitedcats.com/my_cats and click on the label below your dog’s or cat’s name. The mood message can be also easily changed directly from your dog’s or cat’s profile - click on the mood message and insert something new.

For example Brock was giving hugs that morning:)

What is your dog or cat up to? Let us know by using the new mood message!

Uniteddogs and Unitedcats, the world’s fastest growing social networking websites for dogs and cats, launched Japanese version of their popular service.

“There are too many social networks for humans out there already,” the team behind the world’s fastest growing pet social networking websites say. “We love to bring people together by what they love – their pets. In fact, we like to bring their pets together,” they add.

Uniteddogs and Unitedcats are to become a new type of social networking websites that concentrate uniting people based on their interests and likes rather than connecting users with the people they already know.

The websites Uniteddogs.com and Unitedcats.com let dog and cat owners create personal pages for their furry friends, upload photos, connect and share their feelings and emotions with other pet lovers in an interactive and fun way, or even start a free blog for their dog or cat.

“Pets are a part of people’s everyday life in Japan,” the CEO, mr Ragnar Sass commented on the launch of the new Japanese version. Uniteddogs and Unitedcats sites currently unite over 85,000 dogs and cats worldwide from hundreds of countries. “We are looking forward to greeting our 100,000th member within the next month. We’re really glad that a lot of Japanese pet lovers can now become part of our network, too,” mr Sass added.

Uniteddogs’ and Unitedcats’ team has received two rounds of financial investment over the last year from a company called Ambient Sound Investments (or ASI), which is ran by the founders of Skype.

Together with Japanese, the popular pet websites are now available in 14 languages worldwide.

Give a warm pat to Cloto from Tokyo, Japan

For more information:

Ragnar Sass
CEO, United Dogs and Cats Ltd
Skype: ragnarsass
ragnar@uniteddogs.com

Visit http://jp.uniteddogs.com and http://jp.unitedcats.com

We have some great news for you. Recently, Unitedcats passed Catster on Google Trends (an online tool that compares internet sites’ traffic):

Meow and thanks to all Unitedcats fans, who have contributed in making Unitedcats.com the most popular online community for catlovers. Now, there are 33.000 cats connected at Unitedcats, while Catster has 167.000 cat-profiles in total. Unitedcats doesn’t have so many profiles yet, but we’re growing fast with 1.500+ new cat-profiles every week.

Unitedcats loves internationality - there are cats joined from all over the world. Take a look at these cool kittens from Kuwait . The most popular countries in the Unitedcats community are:

• Estonia
• Chile
• Colombia
• United States
• Canada

Now, let’s welcome and pat all the new cats, who have just recently joined the Unitedcats community. Meow!

Thousands of followers on Unitedcats site have joined the search to reunite a lost cat with her owners.

London’s only cat vet posted videos of a homeless cat on Unitedcats last week and has been overwhelmed by thousands of responses from around the world sparking an international manhunt, or “cat-hunt”, to reunite Betsy (as she has been named) with her owners.

After being nominated last week’s “Cat Of The Week” on Unitedcats - a social networking site (like Facebook but just for cats) – Betsy attracted over 400 new “friends” every day and has received hundreds of well wishers and virtual gifts from admirers as far away as Chile, South Africa and Honduras.

Some light has been shed on Betsy’s past.  “We know from her microchip records that Betsy lived in Kew, Richmond 12 years ago but the trail goes cold there” reports Zeta Frasca of Kitten to Cat, London’s only cat only veterinary clinic, where Betsy is currently being given the attention and love she deserves after being brought in by a concerned client.

“One theory is her family moved away and Betsy just wandered back to the old neighbourhood.  A lot of people report their cats missing and they usually come back – sometimes they’ve been in a fight or had an accident – but Betsy had been reported living on the streets for nearly 6 months and was clearly malnourished.”

Betsy’s story is a wake up call for cat owners to ensure that they not only micro-chip their cats but also keep their details up to date in the registers.

Miss Frasca added “Betsy has definitely made herself at home in our clinic but she is still living in a cage and I know she’d prefer to be reunited with her family.”

People can follow Betsy’s plight on Unitedcats at http://www.unitedcats.com/cat/helpbetsy