Today’s Cat of the Day is Hippo, submitted by Kaitlin McKernan of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology. “I found Hippo as a stray during an evening walk. He is a brown tabby cat, and the vet estimates that he is around 5 years old. Hippo loves to cuddle and meow.”
Today’s Dog of the Day is Noodle, submitted by Sarah Reed of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. “Noodle is a rescue from Nashville Humane Association. He loves food, people and other animals (in that order).”
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.
Hippo and Noodle were featured in the May 15, 2025, edition of MyVUMC News.