Catster Site News and Updates

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Group Bulk Mail Delete

Our members love sending emails to their entire Group, and love getting emails back. One problem with our system was, even after we moved Group emails into their own Inbox, was that we were unable to allow you to delete those Group emails in bulk.

Welp, I’m very happy to report that we just pushed live a nifty way to delete 50 Group emails at once. It may take a bit of time to get thru the delete backlog if you’re a super active Group member, but then you’ll be caught up.

So sorry we couldn’t make this available sooner, but it really has been on our list and we’re so happy to finally be able to offer it to everyone.

Let us know if there are any problems or we can make it work better.

Tail wags and waves!

Rats! Site Glitch Over the Weekend

Hi everyone,

Starting at 10AM PST Saturday morning we had a networking problem that caused many form submissions (such as forums, rosettes, treats, and even some pet pages) to submit more than once. As of 10AM PST Monday morning it has been fixed. We’re working on cleaning out duplicates in the forums and elsewhere when we can automatically.

More importantly we have already rebated Zealies back to EVERYONE for every Rosette and Star they gave during the time period. You’ll be rebated 100% even for the ones you meant to give or even if you didn’t have a problem. This is our way of saying sorry for the glitch. Also, since it breaks our heart to remove a Star or Rosette from a profile page, we’re going to leave the extra ones there. They just look too good to remove =) I’m sure your friends will appreciate the extra bling on their pages even if the same message is behind it.

If you did give a Rosette or Zealie during the problem time period, you’ll be getting an email with your rebate total which will immediately be reflected in your account.

Tail wags and tail waves all around! So so sorry about the confusion

Better Tools for YOUR Pet Pages

Hi Everyone!

We hope you LOVE the new tools and options we gave you at the top of your pet pages you’ll see when you are logged in.

The biggest addition is that we made a super neat tool so you can grab all your friends email addresses from your webmail address book and send them all an email about your pet pages! Though we’ll never use these email addresses in any way, we we’ll make a private address book for you, you can use again and again. Soon we’ll be making it so you can use the address book to tell friends about a Group, a Video, a place on Local, you name it! We’ll add it to contests and give aways and all other types of fun places. Once an email is added to your book you can access it whenever you want.

The other big changes to your pages, is when logged in, there are direct links to adding and editing, your profile, photos, videos, diaries, everything. No more having to go to My Account to update a pages!

We also made an easy link to the badge maker so you can show off your fluffy on your other web hangouts.

As always, let us know how it works for you! We’ll be sure to fix, tweak or improve anything we can!

Huge Pet Food Recall: March 16th, 2007

“A major manufacturer of dog and cat food sold under Wal-Mart, Safeway, Kroger and other store brands recalled 60 million containers of wet pet food Friday after reports of kidney failure and deaths.

An unknown number of cats and dogs suffered kidney failure and about 10 died after eating the affected pet food, Menu Foods said in announcing the North American recall. Product testing has not revealed a link explaining the reported cases of illness and death, the company said.”

Recalled cat foods
Americas Choice; Preferred Pets; Authority; Best Choice; Companion; Compliments; Demoulas Market Basket; Fine Feline Cat, Shep Dog; Food Lion; Foodtown; Giant Companion; Good n Meaty; Hannaford; Hill Country Fare; Hy-Vee; Key Food; Laura Lynn; Li’l Red; Loving Meals; Main Choice; Nutriplan; Nutro Max Gourmet Classics; Nutro Natural Choice; Paws; Presidents Choice; Price Chopper; Priority; Save-A-Lot; Schnucks; Sophistacat; Special Kitty; Springfield Pride; Sprout; Total Pet; My True Friend; Wegmans; Western Family; White Rose; and Winn Dixie.

Recalled dog foods
America’s Choice; Preferred Pets; Authority; Award; Best Choice; Big Bet; Big Red; Bloom; Bruiser; Cadillac; Companion; Demoulas Market Basket; Fine Feline Cat; Shep Dog; Food Lion; Giant Companion; Great Choice; Hannaford; Hill Country Fare; Hy-Vee; Key Food; Laura Lynn; Loving Meals; Main Choice; Mixables; Nutriplan; Nutro Max; Nutro Natural Choice; Nutro; Ol’Roy; Paws; Pet Essentials; Pet Pride; President’s Choice; Price Chopper; Priority; Publix; Roche Bros; Save-A-Lot; Schnucks; Springsfield Pride; Sprout; Stater Bros; Total Pet; My True Friend; Western Family; White Rose; Winn Dixie and Your Pet.

Update 3/19/07: Hills and Science Diet doing voluntary Recall

You can download the press release from our servers

Here’s a Link To the Latest News

Consumers with questions can call (866) 463-6738

Please check your foods and tell all your friends!