Today’s Cat of the Day is Silky, submitted by Susan Opalenik of Medicine. “I rescued Silky from a feral cat colony when she was a kitten 12 years ago. She is aptly named and is one of the softest cats I have ever felt.”
Today’s Dog of the Day is Wrangler, submitted by Melissa Myers of Vanderbilt Operational Services – OHO Administration. “He’s 3/4 Australian shepherd, 1/4 bulldog and he is 9 years old. I crawled down in a hole and got him shortly after he was born. I was his first human contact. His full time job is keeping the horses in line and in his free time he enjoys getting spoiled rotten. He’s quite the protector.”
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.
Silky and Wrangler were featured in the Sept. 30, 2025, edition of MyVUMC News.