National Pet Month 2010 - How was it for you?

Thank you for being a part of National Pet Month this year. We’re really enjoying hearing about all the fantastic events that have gone on all over the country.

Because we’re keen to know just what has been going on, please drop us an email to tell us. Upload your photographs onto Flickr and tag them with NationalPetMonth and they’ll appear on in the stream on our website.

There’s still time to enter our best event competition - and if yours was a fundraising event - tell us what you’ve raised!

And if you enjoyed this year’s event, put next year's dates in your diary - National Pet Month 2011 will run from 2nd April - 2nd May. There’s no harm in planning early!

National Pet Month is a registered charity, unique in bringing together animal welfare charities, professional bodies, pet businesses, schools, youth groups and pet lovers, with the common goal of improving the welfare of pets. Please help us to keep making a difference by 'MAKING A DONATION'. The trustees are National Office of Animal Health (NOAH), Pet Food Manufacturers’ Association (PFMA) and Pet Care Trust (PCT)

Aims

National Pet Month’s aims are to:

• promote responsible pet ownership
• make people aware of the benefits of pets for people and people for pets
• increase public awareness of services available from professionals who work with animals
• raise awareness of the role, value and contribution to society of working companion animals

Understand National Pet Month in a Nutshell or discover the Top Ten Tips for Responsible Pet Ownership.

Looking for inspiration

Have a look at this video clip from David Finlay's veterinary surgery.