SeniorPetProducts.com Announces Tagline Contest Winner to Celebrate Launch of New Senior Pet Lover Web 2.0 Site

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“For the life of your pet.” That’s the new tagline for the world’s largest source of products and information for aging dogs and cats, thanks to animal lover and former practicing veterinarian Delana Taylor McNac, DVM of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

SeniorPetProducts.com, which exists to help senior pets live healthier lives as they age by providing news, information and products to pet owners, launched a contest last month to uncover the best tagline to represent its website. And uncover it, they did.

“We couldn’t have scripted a more worthy or credible winner of this contest,” said SeniorPetProducts.com spokesperson Tom Bagamane.

Rev. McNac, who just happened to find out about the contest through Twitter, received a $500 gift certificate for Senior Pet Products for her winning entry, which she plans to donate for a pet-care program she created in 2007.

“I’m super excited,” Rev. McNac said of winning the contest. But she’s even more thrilled to have found a website dedicated to older pets.

“I think this is the way veterinary medicine needs to go because I think animals are living longer and people’s relationships with their pets are so important,” she said. “Pets are part of the family system.”

Today, Rev. McNac works closely with animals as the director of spiritual care at the nonprofit Hospice of Green County, Inc. in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

After watching as elderly folks were separated from their animal friends and witnessing the negative impacts it had on these pet-owning patients, Rev. McNac, with the full support of the board, staff and volunteers of Hospice of Green Country, started a program called “Pet Peace of Mind” in 2007.

The nationally recognized program assists hospice patients who are unable to maintain appropriate routine health care and nutrition for their animal companions due to medical expenses or caregiver disability. This allows patients to have “peace of mind” knowing that their pets are cared for when they are unable to do so physically or financially.

To date, the program has changed many lives -- 89 patients with 239 animals.

And Rev. McNac, who has three dogs, two cats and an African Gray Parrot, is glad to be able to help.

“I’ve always been a pet lover,” she says, recalling she got her first dog at just five. “I’ve always had pets. That’s always been a real passion.”

Before Rev. McNac became a chaplain, she worked as a veterinary pathologist for several years and even had her own pet loss grief practice. But visiting Ground Zero in New York City after September 11, 2001 was such a life changing experience for her that she decided to enter the ministry.

Rev. McNac has a great understanding of the relationship between pet and owner. And as both a veterinarian and chaplain, she has positively impacted the lives of those when they were most vulnerable.

“Rev. McNac’s dedication to the pets of people who are facing life’s ultimate challenge is not only significant, it is noble,” said Bagamane. “SeniorPetProducts.com is honored to be associated with Rev. McNac. We have committed to collaborate to further each other’s mission to affect the quality of animal and human life.”

SeniorPetProducts.com is the expert online resource for the growing number of pet owners with older pets. Pet owners now can go to a single source to learn how to take better care of their aging pets and have access to the most experienced health and wellness authorities in the world through updated educational content and links.