Today’s Dog of the Day is Jackson, submitted by Mary Smith Ryan of ECMO at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. “Jackson is a 15 year old Pekingnese who was part of a bonded pair I adopted over 10 years ago after their senior owner was no longer able to take care of them and had to go to assisted living. He’s the sass in our home and the neighborhood watchdog.”
Today’s Horse of the Day is Whiskey, submitted by Stacey Rutherford of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center. “Whiskey is a Tennessee walking horse/spotted saddle horse.”
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.
Jackson and Whiskey were featured in the Oct. 14, 2025, edition of MyVUMC News.