Pets of VUMC

October 17, 2025

VUMC Pets of the Day: Willow and Charlie

Today’s Cat of the Day is Willow, submitted by Mary Kelley of the Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Lab. “Willow is 5 years old, very vocal and loves to lay in laps.”

Today’s Dog of the Day is Charlie, submitted by Matthew Brown of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.

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.

Willow and Charlie were featured in the Oct. 21, 2025 edition of MyVUMC News.