🐶 POTM VOTE NOW - May 2026 Pet of the Month Contest

[connorlindeman22 22]

Pet of the Month
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PLEASE VOTE NOW
We have 3 awesome pets entered into the May 2026 Pet of the Month Contest. View all the pets and descriptions below and then go to top of page and click on your choice for POTM and then click the "cast" button.

Please DO NOT post any comments about any specific pet in this thread...such posts will promptly be deleted.

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Please Note:
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You are allowed to change your vote if you wish.

Poll will close on May 31 at 7:40 PM ET (US).
Thread will periodically be cleaned up for readability.

 

[bgarthe25 42]

Meet Danica, our collie family member. She came to our home in July of 2025 after our 12 year old collie, Forte, passed. Danica is our 5th collie in our 44 years of marriage.
When we met her, we knew instantly that she was what our family needed and the 7 month old Danica wiggled/wagged her way into our hearts. The breeder had named her Danica ….sort of …… after the race car driver Danica P. We don’t follow racing, but looked up the name and found out it is Slavic for “morning star” which we liked and so, since she responded to her ‘Danica’ name already, we kept it. She does run like a racer though.

Danica loves to run in our fenced in backyard, play with squeaky toys, really chew on rope toys, lounge in our living room chairs. Btw…..I must be getting older as this is the first collie we’ve let up on the couch/chairs. She is the smallest one we’ve had which helps some. Danica loves to quickly hop into the chair I get up from momentarily and when I return, I don’t have the heart to make her get down and so I sit elsewhere. Then, of course, she jumps up on the couch to be with me. Danica has graduated from two obedience classes and is likely to attend her third level class.

Dogs are my very favorite pet, and I have owned a large number of pets through the years. The unconditional love, instant forgiveness, eagerness to please, and affection dogs possess make the dog (imho) the ‘bestest’ of pets.

 

[ilex]

This is my Very Good Boy Orrin. He is an Irish Red and White Setter, the least well-known of the four Setter breeds. They are the foundation breed of the all-red Irish setter, which is probably the one that you think of when you hear “setter”. Seems like everyone either had one or knew someone who did, back in the day. You may have heard of the English and Gordon setters but almost no one has heard of my breed.

The Red and Whites were very nearly lost, but the work of preservation breeders saved them and my dog’s bloodlines came from Ireland. IRWS make excellent family dogs, as well as a good bird dog. We don’t hunt birds but somehow we have four setters, three IRWS and one English. And? All of them are birdy.

Orrin is nicely put together and I really should have shown him but we’ve been very happy having our dogs as companions. We live on modest acreage and there is a lot of wildlife, so we have to keep a close eye on them so they don’t go adventuring.

Now one thing to know about setters. They can be very hard to train a good recall - in spite of being a breed developed to work with a hunter, they have a mind of their own. They are very smart and get bored with repetitive training so the whole dog-owning experience is vastly different than say, a border collie that actually comes back to you when you call, if it even leaves your side to begin with. Every setter I have ever owned will run until it meets a fence.

The reason I am calling him Orrin Good Boy is because a few weeks ago, I forgot to close the gate to the dog yard after doing the mowing. I realized this a hour later when I glanced out of my basement office window in time to see Orrin vanish out of our pasture into the neighbor’s property which is a swampy wetland (remember, acreage) and my hair stood on end realizing that I was about to have the chase of my life if I was going to be able to get three out of four setters back before my husband got home. Lucky for me setter #1 was still inside. Female, the oldest, and I am so glad she wasn’t involved or they would have been two counties away in ten minutes.

By the time I got my shoes on and a slip lead and got outside… MY GOOD BOY ORRIN was running BACK though the pasture gate, back through the dog yard gate, and straight to me like SEABISCUIT I almost passed out from the shock. Especially when he was shortly followed by the other two boys. Friends, this is Not Typical Setter Behavior but whew, was I ever happy.

Everyone got many treats, especially Orrin.

 

[BullTerrierChild5 25]

Here's Luna! She's a goldendoodle who will be turning 9 years old in August! We got her as a puppy and were privileged with being able to watch her grow up and become a part of the family. She spends most of her day resting but always gives everybody a warm welcome when we come home! Sadly, she cannot be trusted outside on her own as she has a history of "overenthusiasm" towards many aspects of wildlife. If left unattended, she often tries to eat animal droppings, and she even put a large American Toad in her mouth when she was younger (not to eat it)! On the topic of food, she mainly eats kibble but often gets treats such as apples, popcorn, and dog biscuits! However, I would like to see her on a more varied diet in the future.

Luna is very handsy and vocal at times, and she makes it clear when she wants attention. She is very intelligent, too, as she has seemingly self-taught herself to pout! She is very gentle as well, and I couldn't ask for a better companion!

 

[connorlindeman22 22]

End of Entries:
Slowly scroll upward as you review the 3 awesome entries and then in the poll at the top of this thread, click on your choice for Pet of the Month. Be sure to click the CAST button to register your vote.

 

[connorlindeman22 22]

This is close. We need more voters!

 

[connorlindeman22 22]

Tomorrow we will begin accepting entries in our Tank of the Month Contest. While you wait, please vote in this important contest!

 

[connorlindeman22 22]

Right now we have a tie for first place. Vote now to break the tie!
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[anewbie]

It occurred to me that maybe there should be a contest for who votes most often for the winner, who votes most often for last place and who votes most often for themselves over a 10 year period