This month’s photo contest at Martha Stewart Pets is “Pets at Play.” Your winning photo could get you a year’s supply of Purina One cat or dog food. (If that’s not a flavor your cat eats, you can always donate it to your favorite shelter or a pet lover in need.)

Entry Deadline: 15 NOV 2009.

Click here for more info or to enter.

Got a great photo of your cat at play? Don’t forget to enter it in the “Playful” CATegory of the World’s Coolest Cat Contest.

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Hey, evrybuddy, Skeezix heer.

It’s the moment yoo’ve all been wating for: the annownsmint of the winners in The Cat’s Meow’s Halloween Costume Contest and Purrade.

We had a lot of amazing entries, and the judges had a hard time narrowing down the feeld to 8 finulists.

From those 8 finulists we drew an entry at randum, using random.org to determine the Grand Prize winner (in cases where multiple family members were finulists, they only got one entry in the drawing, per the roolz). But we’re also giving out a consolayshun prize to a non-finulist winner, and a vary speshul prize to one of the finulists for overall pawsomeness.

All the other finulists git sum zealies.

Drumroll, pleeze:

The consolation prize of 25 zealies given to a non-finalist, goes to Muppet:

The Grand Prize Winner of 50 zealies, a $25 Gift Card and a trophy goes to Chewy and her family, who also get a nod of recognishun for the most creative and funny entries:

And the special winner of the Best Group Entry and Award for Overall Pawsomeness goes to Mercy and the Gang who portrayed the entire cast of The Wizard of Oz. They win 50 zealies, a $25 Gift Card and a trophy.

Thanks to all hoo pawtisipated. Don’t furgit to enter your fotos in the World’s Coolest Cat Contest! You could win a Flip Ultra digital camcorder or other great prizes!

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What a great Halloween Purrade we had yesterday!

The judges have weighed in with their picks for finalists. The judging criteria included:

• Photographic quality
• Originality
• Degree of Difficulty
• LOL factor

We also factored in the comments left on the Purrade post yesterday.

In selecting the finalists, only one entry from each family is eligible for the random drawing of a grand prize winner. So there will be 8 finalists vying for the Grand Prize, to be announced tomorrow.

We will also be awarding a few additional purrizes, including 25 zealies to be awarded as a consolation prize in a random drawing from all entries that didn’t make the finals.

Here are the finalists:

Mercy and the Gang as the Wizard of Oz cast
This amazing effort had the judges arguing over which one of these Wizard of Oz characters deserved to make it to the finals. They all deserve it, but per the rules, they’ll only get one entry in the random drawing for the grand prize winner.

Louis LeBeau as King Louis XIV

Hazel Lucy as Candy Corn

The following three entries — Lucky, Eve and Charlie — are from the same family. They all deserve recognition as finalists, but they only get one entry in the random drawing for the finalists.

Chewy as Eve in the Garden of Eden
Note from one judge: her fig leaves should have been placed a little lower.

Charlie as Operation Kitty

Lucky the Skunk

Mo the Fly Fishing Champ

Princess

Samoa as the Queen of Diamonds

Taz as God of the Sea, Neptune

Charlie the Prisoner

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Hey evrybuddy, Skeezix here.

Welcome to The Cat’s Meow’s Halloween Purrade. The finalists will be annownst tomorrow (Sunday). You still have time to enter, so drop by and uplode yer best Halloween foto!

Don’t furget to leeve a comment and let us know hoo yer faverite is!

The winner will get a $25 gift card to PetSmart, Petco, Amazon or Shutterfly, a trophy and 50 zealies.

Our grand marshalls are Calvin and Jack Kayden… take it away, Calvin and Jack!

Calvin as the King of Hearts

Jack Kayden as a Groom

Pretty Girl as a Blushing Bride

Charlie as a Prisoner

Chewy as Eve in the Garden of Eden

Mo the Fly Fishing Champ

Baci Celebrates a Redheaded Halloween Birthday

Yolo the Purse Thief

Pigeon, the Sweetest Warlock

Princess hopes your Halloween is PURRfect!

Pookie says, “BOO!” … “Did I skeer yoo?”

Oscar as [shudder] A Flying Monkey

Princess Fiona

Robie as Prince Robinton

Khaki as Cap’n Khaki

Pele the Gato as a Hot Dog

Bonnie as the Drunken Jester

Baker as Mr COOL!

Phanto as a bunny Rabbit!

Chief Crazy Cat Luigi

Kitty Pryde as “Hello Kitty”

Milo the Little Devil

Sir Sonny Bono “More Handsome Than Johnny Depp”

Tobey in his Halloween Stroller

Muppet – Scary Pumpkin

Louis LeBeau as King Louis XIV “Sun King”

Wilson J Scooter as Biker Dude in the Village Cats

The Village Cats sing YMCA
Olde Furts Riley, Simon, Wilson J Scooter, Misha, Flower and Rascal

The Village Cats at Pie’s Breakfast Club at Olde Furts
Clockwise Riley, Flower, Wilson J Scooter, Simon, Misha and Rascal

Samoa as the Queen of Diamonds

Newman as a Joker

Blake as Vlad

Ko as a Booty Witch

Taz as God of the Sea, Neptune

Marvel Ann as a Little Princess

Orvis as Warlock

Jacob as Hairdresser

Graycen as a Witch

Onyx with her Witch outfit

Garage Cat as Basement Cat

Itza Guido the Italian Kitty as Dracucat

Jasper as Super ManX

Meio as a mummy

Mercy as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz

Enzo the Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz

Nike as the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz

Reebok as the Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz

Riley as the Wizard of Oz

Sophie as a Ballerina Munchkin from the Wizard of Oz

Pebbles as Glinda the Good Witch from the Wizard of Oz

Joy as the Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz

Melody as Auntie Em from the Wizard of Oz

Pixie as a Flying Monkey from the Wizard of Oz

Mr Emerson the Vampire Bat

Kali as a Ladybug

Simba as a Cowboy

Mazi as a Bumblebee

Charlie as “Operation” Kitty

Lucky as a Skunk

Beanie as a Zombie — The Night of the Living Dead

Hazel Lucy as Candy Corn

Tabby as a Hippie

Piewackit as the Egyptian Queen

Zeke is the Werecat Warrior Prince

Ziggy as a Little Lamb

Hallie Baloo as Hallie Krishna

The finalists will be annownst tomorrow (Sunday). You still have time to enter, so drop by and uplode yer best Halloween foto!

Don’t furget to leeve a comment and let us know hoo yer faverite is!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVRYBUDDY!!!!!

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Here are just a few of the best entries so far:

Calvin the King of Hearts (need to grab a hankie??)

Jacob as a Hairdresser

Baker the Beach Cat

Bonnie the Jester

Jack Kayden the Groom

King Louis the Sun King

You have until 11:59 pm on Halloween to enter. Grand prize includes a $25 gift card (to Petco, PetSmart, Amazon or Shutterfly), 50 zealies and a trophy (trophy for US and Canadian cats only).

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Got a beautiful black cat? Enter a photo in the Cat Channel’s Beautiful Black Cats Photo Contest, and you could win a copy of Ask the Cat Keeper, a new book by Marc Morrone, Martha Stewart’s resident pet keeper.

In Ask the Cat Keeper, Marc offers cat owners the most unusual and surprising questions and more than 100 answers ranging from litter box training to coughing up hairballs, and clicker training to nail trimming. With additional anecdotes from his decades of cat-keeping and fun illustrations by famous illustrator Jason O’ Malley, this book is a must-have for any cat owner in search of a creative new way to find all the answers to their cat crises.

Entry Deadline: 27 OCT 2009

Click here to enter.

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It’s time for all you kitties to s–t–r–e–t–c–h your booties from nose to tail and pose for an award-winning shot because Catster’s 5th Annual World’s Coolest Cat Contest is open for entries. Grand Prize is a Flip Ultra Digital Camcorder and other cool prizes. Do you think you have what it takes — like last year’s award winning stretcher, Mercy (shown above)?

As always, there are 15 cool CATegories in which you can compete. Over the next month The Cat’s Meow will talk to some of last year’s award winners and give you some tips on capturing the PURRfect shot. Stay tuned for the inside scoop!

• Click here to enter.
• Click here to see last year’s winners

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It’s time for Good Housekeeping’s annual Halloween Pet Photo Contest, and they’ve got some great prizes:

Grand prize: Five-night stay at the Hotel Vintage Park in Seattle, Washington, airfare for four, pet-pampering package, $2,000 cash, and great pet products from Bissell.
First runner-up: $500 gift card for Amazon Pet Store.
Second runner-up: $250 gift card for Amazon Pet Store.

Entry Deadline: 31 October 2009 at 11:59pm ET

Click here to enter.

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I’m thrilled to announce a giveaway exclusively for readers of the Cat’s Meow blog!

This month, Petsmart will give away a free Halloween costume or hat to one lucky reader of the Cat’s Meow blog!

Petsmart has a large array of Halloween costumes for dogs and cats, including headwear costumes that are easier for costume-intolerant cats to wear. And, between Petsmart’s Halloween photo contest, and Martha Stewart’s Pet Halloween Costume Contest, and you’ll have no shortage of occasions to wear your costume!

TO ENTER:
All you need to do is describe which Petsmart costume you’d like to win and why, by leaving a comment in the comments field of this post. Make sure you’ve input your correct email address and blog or Catster Profile URL when you leave your comment so we can contact the winner.

EXAMPLE:

“I want to win the ‘Companion Road How Now Brown Cow Costume’ because if I were a cow I could drink all the milk I wanted all day long!”

WHO CAN ENTER:
All cats who have either a Catster ID or blog can enter. Up to 4 cats per household can enter, so long as each one has her own blog or Catster page (joining Catster is free!). Catster and Petsmart employees are not eligible. Judges reserve the right to disqualify any entries at their own discretion.

JUDGING:
The winner will be picked at random via random.org from all eligible entries.

DEADLINE:
Entries must be posted in the comments field of this post before October 19, 2008 at 11:59pm PDT.

WINNER
Will be announced October 20th.

PetSmart offers other ways to celebrate Halloween with your pet:

Things That Go Bark in the Night

PetSmart® Ready to Treat – Not Trick – the Nearly 20 Million Pets Expected to Don Costumes this Halloween

Pets can have their devilish day in disguise with help from PetSmart® this Halloween. According to a recent PetSmart survey, nearly 20 million pets (with help from their parents) will sport a costume this year.

“Pets are like our children, and pet parents love to include their pets in the fun of dressing up for Halloween, said Rashell Cooper, PetSmart’s fashion expert. “Our unique selection of costumes this year are a combination of returning favorites, like the cow and bumble bee, and some great new choices, like the firedog, dragon and lion.”

PetSmart will also carry popular Disney character costumers, like Mickey Mouse, Tigger and Tinker Bell. All pet costumes are all available for less than $20 U.S. ($22 CAN).

Cats will not be ignored this Halloween. PetSmart also has Halloween hats just for cats including a devil, witch, jester, cowboy and mouse. All cat hats are available for $6.99 U.S. ($7.99 CAN).

Adding to the Halloween fun, PetSmart gives pet parents two chances to show off their pet’s personality. Pet parents can enter in PetSmart’s Online Howl-O-Ween Costume Photo Contest. The contest runs through Oct. 27 and the winners will be announced Nov. 3 on www.petsmart.com.

Howl-O-Ween In-store Event

On Oct. 20 from 6 to 8 p.m., pets and their parents can show off their stylish costumes and devilish ways at PetSmart’s annual Howl-O-Ween Costume Contest and Photo Event. The event will be held in all PetSmart stores and will feature a pet parade, prizes for contest winners and a free goodie bag for the first 100 customers. A photo package is available for $4.95 with a PetPerks card and includes a digital photo and collector Halloween-themed frame.

LINKS:

• Visit Halloween Central at Petsmart.com
• Petsmart’s Cat Costumes
• Petsmart’s Dog Costumes

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Caboodle, Puutty Power and moderncat.net have teamed up for a contest to exploit your creativity! Decorate a Caboodle to win a $100 shopping spree at Puutty Power.

If you’ve already got a Caboodle, grab a set of magic markers and set free your imagination. You have until November 1st to doodle on your Caboodle and submit a contest photo.

Don’t have one? Enter a drawing to win one of 20 that are being given away at moderncat, or buy one at the Caboodle store.

Caboodles are corrugated habitats for cats, manufactured with a small carbon footprint. They are connectable and customizable.

Drawing for the free Caboodle is tomorrow, so click right over to enter!

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