Paws at work The Official Uniteddogs and Unitedcats team blog

On April 26th, 2008, a bunch of Uniteddogs members organized a meet-up in Croatia. The event was called Esseker UD live. There’s a little video on YouTube and a story in local newspaper. There’ve been similar meet-ups in Lithuania, and we’re excited to see such things happen more often

And now’s a good chance to learn Croatian. Here’s the excerpt from the newspaper:

Part of our team is going to a retro theme party on Saturday. In order to be well prepared, animal costumes were picked up today that are based on the characters featured in the legendary children’s show called “Lasteekraan” on Estonian national television during the Soviet period. Anyway, we got all excited and wore these ridiculous outfits here. Even had these on when we went to have some afternoon coffee down the hallway…

There’s an eggstra special egg hunt going on at Uniteddogs

Come and join the excitement - the more you surf at Uniteddogs website, the more bonus points you can earn. Keep your eyes open to find colorful eggs on Uniteddogs pages, be quick to click on them and you can earn up to 50 points for a single click

And remember, all Champion members will earn 1.2x more points. So if you’re already a Champion member, you can earn up to 60 points with a single click, instead of 50. If you’re not Champion yet then, well, here’s a reason to sign up today. You can do that at www.uniteddogs.com/champion

Colorful Easter virtual gifts

You can spend your bonus points at the Uniteddogs virtual gift shop. We have added new colorful gifts - small colorful eggs and a ladybird. For all Champion members, there’s a set of new unique gifts available. Have a joyful Easter!

Making new friends is really popular on Uniteddogs and Unitedcats. But because (and we have to admit it) the section where you managed your friendships with other dogs and cats was pretty weak, we felt we needed to upgrade it. And so we did. Boy that took some time to figure it all out, but here it is.

You can now organize your friends into groups, accept new friend invitations much faster, perform a search among your friends and much more.

And one more thing – cats and dogs can become friends with eachother now. Yep, that’s right – when starting to add a new buddy you’ll see all your pets in one nice long list.

The new buddies section is currently only available on the English and Estonian versions of Uniteddogs and Unitedcats. We’ll start opening it in other languages soon as well

After months of hard working, it’s finally here – the new design of Uniteddogs and Unitedcats.

It’s really been a long ride since 29th September 2008 – that’s the day I placed an order for 2 new fonts and started playing around with some new design ideas. One thing I knew for sure – we’ve got to evolve. Our old yellowish-purplish face had served us well since our start in 2007.

So, ladies and gentlemen - let me introduce to you our new design.

Take a look at our sites - Uniteddogs and Unitedcats - and see for yourselves.

There’s yet again reason to celebrate, and this time it’s huge – over 100,000 dogs now have their website on Uniteddogs.

The lucky 100,000th dog is a lovely black cocker spaniel from Spain, named Trufa, by the way. Go pat her, send her virtual gifts and greet her owner.

I remember when I started writing a blog post about the first 10,000 dogs and cats. It was last year in November. This just seems like ages ago. I could not imagine back then what exactly ten thousand dogs and cats meant. Like how big the number was really. Looking back now, it was a tiny number for social networks.

And 100,000 still doesn’t seem THAT much, does it? But… we’re talking about pets not humans. Or, to put it another way – we’re talking about humans with dogs. We just like to think of it this way – we’re not Facebook or MySpace, we’re special And of course, we’re also the web home for a little more than 66,000 cats and kittens.

Let’s hope to see some more nice numbers soon. Wanna help? Spread the links to your friends who have dogs and cats and introduce them to Uniteddogs and Unitedcats.

Uniteddogs and Unitedcats Supermodels have made their way to the calendars and are here in its whole glory! Have a look at the calendars arriving Uniteddogs and Unitedcats office on December 5th!

Real precious boxes!

Having the first look at the calendars!

Calendars are being packed and sent on their way!

Isn’t that great gift idea for the whole family and friends for the upcoming Holidays?
Purchase brand new Uniteddogs or Unitedcats exclusive calendar before 10th December and you will receive the package before Christmas!

For the past three weeks the photo contest to find the Supermodels 2009 has been gearing up and now, believe it or not, the Uniteddogs and Unitedcats communities have been buzzing like a bee tree! Who won? More and more anxious waggly tails have been sneaking around and finally, we are revealing the true souls of the Supermodels among us now.

This was our first-to-organize contest that had such high-quality pictures taking part and it was a tremendous success. There were 4176 photos of dogs and 2999 photos of cats taking part. Everyone has a reason to be happy because every single photo was great piece of art on its own. The process of voting was more than fun – we hope you, our users, enjoyed it as much as our team did. Many photos brought a smile on our faces, many more photos simply made our  hearts melt. You can see the lucky winners from the Uniteddogs Supermodel 2009 results and the Unitedcats Supermodel 2009 results pages.

Having said that, we’re glad to introduce Uniteddogs and Unitedcats 2009 wall calendars that contain around 100 gorgeous photos of cats and dogs from tens of different countries in it. These are photos of your dogs, folks. The nicest, cutest and most adorable of them all.

Go get the cutest, nicest, most adorable Uniteddogs or Unitedcats 2009 wall calendar now – you can buy it directly from our shop at Uniteddogs or our shop at Unitedcats.

Let the mysterious drumroll and sounds of fanfar pat your ears and feel the cool breeze climbing all over your body – hurray, it’s competition time! Uniteddogs and Unitedcats are proud to announce the Uniteddogs and Unitedcats Supermodel 2009 contest!

The contest will start off on 11th of November and will close it’s doors on 29th of November. All users from Uniteddogs and Unitedcats are welcome to join in and give your dog or cat the opportunity to become the next Supermodel of UDC!

Our networks unite thousands of gorgeous dogs and cats and in cooperation with UDC team, we will publish the most fabulous calendars of dogs and cats for 2009! Every month will have it’s own beautiful face of the brand new Supermodel from Uniteddogs or Unitedcats and many other accompanying photos! You can introduce your dog or cat to the whole world as after the finish an e-shop will open it’s magical doors and the calendars of Uniteddogs and Unitedcats Supermodel 2009 will be available for every user on UDC all over the world! You can surprise your friends with a lovely Christmas present or decorate your home and put it on your living room wall!

The contest will be united for all sites and held in 6 versions of websites:

Uniteddogs Supermodel 2009 - English, Italian, Spanish, French, Estonian and Lithuanian

Unitedcats Supermodel 2009 - English, Italian, Spanish, French, Estonian and Lithuanian!

To increase your chances on the competition read more information about participating and voting here: Uniteddogs Supermodel 2009 or Unitedcats Supermodel 2009

Paws up - let the competition begin!

UDC team welcomes all our friends to sniff and take a look around at our new home for Polish dogs and cats!

Our sites have been increasing in the number of users so quickly - today there are more than 150 000 pets sharing the big diverse roof of UDC family. Poland is a great country with many pet-lovers – there live all together more than 20 million pets! Therefore we needed to crab at hammers and give a call to a couple of repairmen and build in a special room for our Polish users. Today, we have finished with the annexe and over 200 Polish dogs and 250 cats are now enjoying their life at UDC sites and of course, many more are ought to join UDC Polish version every day now!

Like at other UDC sites, our Polish pet lovers can now create personal profiles for their incredible pets, upload their photos, join clubs, start a free blog for their doggy or kitty, give and receive many fun gifts and as well share their thought and emotions with other users or ask and give advise! Hau-hau!

You can take a peek at the Polish places right here: http://pl.uniteddogs.com and http://pl.unitedcats.com