Hi, we're Paris Permenter and John Bigley, a husband-wife team of writers and the publishers of DogTipper.com and CatTipper.com. Both our pet sites focus on daily tips for dog and cat lovers but we also feature product reviews, giveaways, news, and more.
We're both full-time bloggers. We began blogging professionally in 2000 when we launched our first travel website, but we've been writing together since our marriage in 1986. Originally we were travel writers, writing guidebooks and magazine articles. For over a decade, we wrote the Jamaica guidebooks for Fodor's (Random House) as well as other Caribbean guides and Texas travel guides.
In 2008, we adopted two young shelter dogs, Irie and Tiki. Between adolescent dogs and the changing economy, we decided to shift our writing focus. We’ve both been lifetime pet owners, and we decided to give pet blogging a try. We launched DogTipper.com in August of that year and there’s been no looking back!
Today, DogTipper spans over 6,000 pages. The site has changed somewhat since it first began. Whereas we took a more journalistic approach in the early days, today we write more personally about topics and enjoy sharing experiences and photos of Irie and Tiki. We live in a very remote area and enjoy taking photos of our hikes with the dogs and sharing more of our life with them. We’ve been using our photo skills that we relied on for many years when taking photos on assignment for our articles and guidebooks. We’ve enjoyed transitioning our photography from hotels and beaches to pets and pet products. On January 1 of this year we started a 365 Photo Project to share a daily photo and a tip on dog photography.
Other regular features in DogTipper include our Dog of the Day, featuring a reader’s dog, and Adoptable Dog of the Day, showcasing a dog looking for a forever home. We’ve had great feedback on both these features and have enjoyed hearing from several rescues that dogs profiled on DogTipper have found loving homes.
Last year, our four cats demanded equal time, and we launched CatTipper.com. Our rescue cats Felix (a former feral cat), Linus, Inca, and Coco are the stars of the show, and we enjoy photographing them to illustrate tips, product reviews and giveaways and more.
Within the last year, we’ve also started doing more social media work thanks to our association with Event Barkers, a partnership with All Things Dog Blog. We’ve hosted several Twitter parties and a large charitable event, Super Dog Sunday™, that benefited the Petfinder Foundation. In the coming months, we have a blog-based social media event and another Twitter party scheduled.
After over two dozen guidebooks, we were ready to take a break from the book publishing world but a year ago we authored Barkonomics: Tips for Frugal Fidos, a book on money-saving tips for dog lovers. Currently we’re working on a dog cookbook as well as a feline version of Barkonomics.
We love to hear from fellow pet lovers, and we’ve enjoyed getting to meet so many people on our Facebook pages for DogTipper (http://www.facebook.com/dogtipper) and CatTipper (http://www.facebook.com/cattipper) as well as on our Twitter accounts for @dogtipper (http://twitter.com/dogtipper) and @cattipper (http://twitter.com/cattipper). We feel so lucky to have joined such an enthusiastic community of pet lovers!
*Pam here to tell you that I have had the privilege of getting to know Paris and John over the past year and they are two of the nicest people you would ever want to meet. DogTipper & CatTipper are fantastic resources for pet lovers and Paris and John are fantastic examples of pet writers doing what they love & loving what they do.
Again I'm sorry about the goofy way the text looks in this post. Blogger is not being our friend these days.
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