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[PHOTO: Tabby Girl]

The Limited is sponsoring a contest in which they’re looking for the best pet name story. After all, every pet has a name. Some are common like “Bob” or “Maggie” and some are more unusual like “Jeter Harris” or “Princess Ziporah.” Common or uncommon, there’s usually an interesting story behind a pet’s name and The Limited wants to hear yours!

Submit a photo of your pet, and tell them how you came up with your pet’s name! One lucky winner will win an on-location professional photo shoot with their pet, a 16GB Apple® iPod Nano with video and a $500 Gift Card to The Limited! And, just because The Limited loves animals, they’ll be making a special donation of $5,000 to our friends at the ASPCA! It’s a win-win.

DEADLINE: 28 DEC 2009

Go to the contest site.

The winners of Catster and Dogster’s Video Contest have been announced, and it is a bittersweet announcement. Lola is the Cat Video winner, and she takes home 100 zealies for her efforts.

Many of you know that Lola made her journey to the Rainbow Bridge yesterday. It’s fitting that this video can help us remember her as a playful, Kung-Fu fighter … and a good girl.

Concatulations, Lola!

You can enter in any of four categories:

• DOMESTIC ANIMALS
  
• WILDLIFE ANIMALS
  
• MY PET & ME
  
• ANIMAL HUMOR

ENTRY FEE
$12 per entry
($10 entry and $2 donation required. The $2 donation will go to the charity of your choice: Best Friends Animal Society, Kids Saving the Rainforest, or the ASPCA).

DEADLINE: 22 DEC 2009

1 GRAND PRIZE WINNER WILL RECEIVE:

• A Kodak Zi8 Pocket Video Camera
  
• A Kodak ESP 5250 All-in-One Printer
  
• 50 rolls of Kodak Professional Tri-X, T-Max or Portra film

4 FIRST PLACE CATEGORY WINNERS WILL RECEIVE:

• A Kodak EasyShare Z980 Digital Camera
  
• 25 rolls of Kodak Professional Tri-X, T-Max or Portra film

ALL GRAND PRIZE AND CATEGORY WINNERS WILL RECEIVE:

• A PDN Magazine Subscription
  
• A 2010 PhotoPlus Expo Gold Pass
  
• Exposure in our online winner’s gallery and presence in the winner’s print exhibition at PDN PhotoPlus Expo 2010 in NYC
  
• Winning images will receive exposure on the Kodak.com home page and the Kodak “Tips and Projects” blog

There are also prizes for top vote-getters each week.

Click here for the Best Friends Photo Contest website.

[PHOTO: Catster Lola]

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.

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 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!

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

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!

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).

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.