In September Dogster’s and Catster’s membership base passed the half million mark. We’re thrilled and hardly slowing down. Check out Dogster Answers and Catster Answers features (shhh, they are still in beta) to see what we mean. And the 3rd Annual World’s Coolest Dog and Cat Show is going to start later today.

Whenever this happens I like to do a fresh review of some other stats. They are mind boggling.

• » Over 57.6 million site gifts have been given by members to other members
• » Over 17.5 million distinct friend-to-friend connections have been made
• » Over 3 million photos have been uploaded
• » Over 20 thousand videos have been uploaded (video only started this year)
• » Over 10.8 thousand member-established and -driven groups have been created
• » There were 560 thousand member logins in September alone

Check out how these numbers compare to June 21, 2006.