Pets of VUMC

July 3, 2025

VUMC Pets of the Day: Stitch and Tambourine

Today’s Bird of the Day is Stitch, a blue and gold macaw submitted by Meg Martinez of Sterile Processing. “Stitch is developmentally slow due to poor breeding, but she doesn’t let that hold her back. If she falls, she runs over for hugs and kisses and she climbs back up to play. Stitch is a huge cuddle-bug that loves head scritches. She is a daily lesson in perseverance.”

Today’s Dog of the Day is Tambourine, submitted by Rachel Adams of Learning Solutions. “Tambourine is a 3-year-old mountain cur. She was born on a farm in West Tennessee, and loves the Chicago Cubs, watermelon and playing with two toys at once. We sometimes call her ‘Two Toy Tambo.'”

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.

Stitch and Tambourine were featured in the July 8, 2025, edition of MyVUMC News.