Some of you may have seen *[We're coming up on our anniversary, how should we mark the auspicious event?](https://pets.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1877/were-coming-up-on-our-anniversary-how-should-we-mark-the-auspicious-event)* Now it's time to start this rolling! 

So, here's what we're going to do... If you have any funny or heartwarming pet stories, photographs, anecdotes, or events to share then this is the place. As Tim mentioned in the linked post, our friends at Stack Exchange will have some swag for participants and the rules are really simple:

 - Must be about your own pets (past or present)
 - Please ***no down votes*** as we want this to be positive
 - Post as often as you like, each answer should be self-contained
 - Winner will be selected ***Oct 8th*** based on ***total up votes*** (down votes will be discarded)
 - In the event of a tie, oldest post will win (for being a keener)

Main prize, of course, is everlasting Pet's glory for having the best story for our anniversary. May even be special swag, but we'll need to check with our Community Manager friends first.