Ellie, 7, a standard poodle owned by Beth Alden of Kingston, “Greeting clients at work,” took first place in the 2024 Freeman Pet Contest Best Expression category with 56 votes. Oakley, a hound/black mouth cur mix “that currently lives at the Ulster County SPCA” in the town of Ulster and was nominated by Tia Blaber […]
KINGSTON, N.Y. – The 20th edition of the Freeman Pet Contest took more than 340 submissions in January and early February from around the Hudson Valley and the Catskills. The contest, done entirely online, allowed Freeman readers to vote for their favorite pets in all categories. More than 3,000 votes were cast online in all […]