Today’s Dog of the Day is Sadie “the beautiful black Lab,” submitted by Rosa Smith of the VMG Clinical Float Pool.
Today’s Cat of the Day is Shirley, submitted by Kathelene Young of the Clinical Trials Office. “Shirley is a free spirit…always has been since we found her as a stray! We were to only keep her for a week, and two years later…here she is. Just hangs out wherever she feels like it. She only sits on my lap and gives me chin kisses. She’s a wild one, too! We never know where she’ll end up!”
Pets of the Day — what you need to know
The Vanderbilt University Medical Center Pets of the Day are included in regular editions of the MyVUMC News newsletter, which is posted twice a week by VUMC News and Communications.
The pets are selected from the hundreds of entries sent to the VUMC Voice Pet Photo Contest.
For those who submitted a photo to that contest, watch MyVUMC News for Pets of the Day, and in addition, regular collections of pet photos are posted to the VUMC Voice site. You can see them all here: https://news.vumc.org/section/voice/pets-vumc/.
If you have a pet you would like to nominate for Pet of the Day, the next Pet Photo Contest submission period is coming up later this year, and will be announced in MyVUMC News.
Sadie and Shirley were featured in the June 12, 2025, edition of MyVUMC News.