Not long after New Years Day, the 100,000th cat profile was added to Catster.com.

Catster, historically, has grown slower than Dogster, but has achieved a new momentum which is closing the gap.

We’ve spent a lot of time discerning the difference of the members of both sites - in the world’s quest to understand more completely the difference of cat and dog people. While we still don’t have a valid answer we do know that though dog people are more inclined to share their dogs online, the people that are into cats and into sharing online are a very special singular personality type.

For example, every community forums is known to experience heated arguments and name calling. Such incivility is unheard of on Catster. There has yet to be a fight in over a year even though these are very active forums talking about some very delicate issues. Reccently we learned of another wonderful phenomena. We had an international rescue organization promoting a fund raising campaign on both our sites in December. They found that even though Dogster has 50% more users, they received more overall donations from the Catster members.

So while I think Dogster is one of the happiest most supportive, engaging communities I know. Catster has managed to trump it. I’m am not hesitant at all to say the Catster community is the single best online community I have ever been near in my life. (And I’m not hesitant to say the Dogster is the second)

So congratulations to all you wonderful Catsters. You have redefined how sweet and fun even a massive online community can be. Cat-nip and lethargic mouses for everyone!