Today’s first Dogs of the Day are Bowie, Ruxin and Alice, submitted by Jenessa Miller of Health IT. “Bowie is a red merle Australian shepherd, Ruxin is a blue merle Australian shelherd and Alice is blue merle Australian mountain dog.”
Today’s other Dog of the Day is Francesca, a shih tzu submitted by Jeffery Fizer of Quality, Safety and Risk Prevention.
Pets of the Day — what you need to know
The Vanderbilt Health Pets of the Day are included in regular editions of the MyVUMC News newsletter, which is posted twice a week by Vanderbilt Health News and Communications.
The pets are selected from the hundreds of entries sent to the 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 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.
Bowie, Ruxin, Alice and Francesca were featured in the Feb. 26, 2026, edition of MyVUMC News.