Uniteddogs and Unitedcats team blog

Do you want to know what’s your dog trying to tell you? Well, in that case we have great news for you! Uniteddogs now has a special corner for dog lovers to please their thirst for knowledge about your loved ones!

Every now and then UDC will be launching new articles on different topics concerning dog’s health, feeding, toys and everything else that helps us as owners understand our four-legged friends better!

Want to learn more? Visit http://www.uniteddogs.com/articles or find articles at Fun section > Interesting reading!

Whoof-whoof and hip-hip hurray! We are proud to announce that Uniteddogs and Unitedcats had a super successful July! Our team has been working hard for over a year now and finally we all are here today to witness our great success! We have broken some records and would like to share our winged victory with all of you too!

In July 2008, Uniteddogs and Unitedcats’ sites welcomed 5.500 new profiles every week - that is 21.500 new profiles during the whole month!

Here’s a little sample of our growing popularity!

We are a friendly family of many dogs and cats as well of their owners and we all know the best for us as a constantly growing network is yet to come! We have experienced that if you listen really close you can hear our sites buzzing like a bee tree because every single user of Uniteddogs and Unitedcats has been 3 times as active as users at Dogster! In addition to our accomplishment among the pageviews in July (12.7 million) we have been doing great at welcoming special quests too – a big bunch of 400.000 unique visitors at Uniteddogs and Unitedcats in July 2008!

This is a great result and we would like to thank all our users - we would not have done it without your help! Our special thanks go to users from Colombia, Estonia, Chile, Venezuela, United States, Lithuania, Argentina, Mexico, Philippines, Canada and Italy as users of most active and fastest growing sites!

Whoof-whoof and meoooow!

Have you been thinking that UDC is great but something is still missing? Absolutely! We felt the same way and now have improved our team with Riki (Maffi´s Voiton Oiva).

He is our most popular member - 9 weeks old Estonian Hound boy, born in Finland where he enjoyed his life at the countryside among his 7 siblings! Today, our little buddy has been lucky to sail over the sea to Estonia and in the last days been busy with settling in at our office next to his daddy Ragnar. UDC team has also generated a couple of assignments for Riki - he is best at chewing toys, scrabbling bumper bags, licking others’ toes, having a cute look and making therefore everybody else smile and of course eating and sleeping.

You can meet our Riki here!

ZDF, main news service in Germany published an article about UDC conquering the world!

On 4th of August an article about our popular websites was published by ZDF at it’s online release Heute.de.

The article introduces Uniteddogs.com and Unitedcats.com as sites connecting many cat and dog owners who love their best friends and are eager to present their loved ones all over the world!

Roxana Mendiola alias „rOcO“ tells her story of UDC becoming her lifestyle – her dogs Jerry, Whisky and Kobe receive up to eight friendship inquiries every day on the Uniteddogs.com. In the beginning, it all started out as an amusing gag but now has become an important part of her everyday life.

„I check my dogs sites more often than my own profile on other sites,“ she says. Jerry, one of her three dogs, already has more than hundred friends. For example Cocker Spaniel, Poodle, Pekingese and many other dog breeds. As well as on other online sites for people, these animal friends are also located around the world: in the USA, Europe and South America. „The dogs are delighted by the idea of their pictures on the web and they are always ready to pose for some new profile photos,“ says „rOcO“. - This is where our UDC team sends our best regards to „rOcO“ and her dogs!

The article also explaines that Uniteddogs.com and Unitedcats.com create a perfect atmosphere for users to make new friends and look for people they have something in common. „The users meet here other people who are just as crazy as themselves for their four-legged darlings,“ says our Project Manager Lauri Laineste in the article.

In addition to that extraordinary love that users have for their animals, UDC also wants to make this world a better place for everyone and this is by cooperating with shelters. As it is very important for UDC to have positive effect outside the virtual borders too. For example, on UDC’s Estonian site users can already find a database of dogs and cats who are accommodated at the shelters of Estonia. This sure is a project which UDC wants to expand to other countries in the future as well.

However, also users themselves are engaged organising so-called summer days for Uniteddogs.com users and there are many dog owners who happen to live in the nearby and decide to get together and take walks with their dogs just to let them play and get to know each other better.

The web pages Uniteddogs.com and Unitedcats.com are a part of the Estonian Internet-Start-Ups UDC that is also dealing with animal rights. In the beginning of this year there was about 20,000 pets registered on this site. This number increased five times in only six months. About one thousand four-legged friends are represented from Germany.

As UDC is working as one big happy family, we would like to say many thanks to all our users and moderators for making our sites run admirably!

For original article visit Heute.de

Last week we finally put up the results for our Photocontest. We had the contest on 4 language versions of Unitedcats and Uniteddogs - on English, Spanish, Dutch and Croatian pages. All together more than 15000 pictures were uploaded. Our users were the ones who gave their grades for best ones and this way we could choose 25 best pictures for each catrgory.

We had 2 different themes, so users could have opportunity to enter either with their small Puppy under “Puppylove” or show interesting pics under “Uniteddogs Most funniest pics“.

On cat site there were same categories and named: “Kittylove” and “Unitedcats most funniest pics“.

Thousands of wonderful pictures entered in the contest, we never thought there would be so many. We thank all the users who took part of the contest and gave their votes. Please clap to each other, to celebrate the successful contest.

Now we have 400 wonderful pictures that we will use on our brand new Widgets. We are already making them and we know that you will definitely like them

The coolest dogs on English, Spanish, Dutch and Croatian versions. The craziest cats could be found here English, Spanish, Dutch and Croatian.

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!