It seems our little secret is out! After winning the Webby the last thing we expected was to be named a Time Magazine Site of The Year! Really all we wanted to do was make a super fun and safe place for doggies and kitties to play. I was sure people would love it, but I guess I just underestimted how many!
So the kennel is getting a little crowded and the site is serving slow, but have no fear. In the short term we’re tweaking our settings in preperation for the nearly doubled usage and for the long term we are preparing for a major architecture upgrade that is already underway.
So please stick around, enjoy, contact us about anything you want (we’re here for you and not vice-versa!) and know we’re working double hard to make everyting faster, better and more fun!
Woofs and meows to everyone!
Dr. Barchas’ newest column is about inappropriate urination. How to find out if it’s a mistake or !gasp! on purpose.
His previous entry was on the right age to spay and neuter. We’re so happy to have Dr. Barchas with us!
We got some really big big news. For over a year now kitties have asked how can they post more than 10 photos and please, please can I add captions to my photos and customize my page a bit. Until now it’s been impossible due the costs, but finally we have the solution and it’s called CatsterPlus! It’s a cost feature, but is super inexpensive and all our existing features and fun will remain 100% free.
For just $19.95 a year or $3.50 a month with CatsterPlus you can upload up to 50 photos, and add captions and custom frames. YOU CAN EVEN TRY IT FOR FREE FOR SEVEN DAYS AT NO COST! These features come with a nifty new Photo Manager tool for easy re-ordering and organization. As well each of your pets will get a special online Photo Book to easily share all your images displayed with captions and their custom frames. Other barkalicious features include getting to give 10 Rosettes a month. Rosettes are like treats, but you can leave a message and each Rosette links back to the giver. Rosettes last 30 days, but each month you’ll get 10 new ones to give away! And all your pets will be included in our new CatsterPlus Stroll.
Join CatsterPlus Now.
See the first CatsterPlus members.
Even better, your membership is good for both Catster and Dogster and covers all the pets in your account! If you sign up now you will be marked as one of the earliest subscribers - a fact that will also appear on your pet’s pages.
It’s important that we meow clearly that everything that is currently free will remain free. And just like the Doggie Dynamics feature we released earlier this week WE HAVE MANY NEW FREE FEATURE PLANNED THAT WILL CONSTANTLY BE ADDED TO THE SITE. In fact starting tomorrow we will be breaking ground on groups and other community features for deeper sharing and connections. WE LOVE ALL OUR MEMBERS EQUALLY and plan to keep growing this site every way we can. In fact, simply by having a small percentage of members joining CatsterPlus will provide us with the revenue to work faster and launch more features for all Catsters.
Meow meeeeeoow! We just got to launch a fun new feature we’re really thrilled about. Now there are questions in your cat’s account page referring to diffenet traits and characterisics. You pick on a chart what they are and then we show the results on a nifty chart on your dogs page! Here’s Steven’s Izzy.
To set up one for each of your dogs go to My Account, the select ‘Edit any info for your cat.’ About halfway down the page you’ll see them in item #9.
We can’t wait until a bunch of kitties have entered their complexions and we can search and compare and who knows what we’ll learn!
Big thanks to Tim Barkow of Thinkcorps in Portland who designed the cool interface that shows your cat’s chart.
