Today’s first Dog of the Day is Mickey, submitted by Casey Wilson of the Children’s Hospital Outpatient Clinic. “It’s a good thing he’s cute! This is Mickey the best Aussie out there!“
Today’s second Dog of the Day is Rooney, submitted by Casey Koza of GI Clinical Research. “Rooney is a 9-year-old shepherd/Lab mix.”
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.
Mickey and Rooney were featured in the May 19, 2026, edition of MyVUMC News.