About Petastic
What we cover
Petastic is all about pets. We publish funny and cute clips of dogs, cats and other animals, rescue and shelter stories, breed guides, pet care explainers and wildlife picture stories, and we tell you the story behind each one.
A clip that has been watched millions of times usually arrives without context. Our job is to add it. Who filmed it, where and when, what the animal is actually doing, and why it is worth your time.
How we work
- Video is licensed and credited. Most of our clips come through WooGlobe, which licenses videos directly from the pet owners and creators who filmed them. Every clip is used with permission and the creator is credited on the story. Where a platform offers an embed, we prefer it.
- Pictures have a known source. Picture stories use images we hold a licence for, photo agency images, public domain and museum archives, images supplied with permission, or images we made ourselves.
- A person approves every story. We use AI tools to help with research and first drafts. Nothing is published until an editor has read it, checked it and approved it.
- AI images are labelled. Some illustrations are generated or edited with AI. Those images carry a visible label saying so.
- Commercial links are disclosed. If a story contains affiliate links or was produced with a commercial partner, it says so at the top of the article.
The full rules are in our editorial policy.
Animal welfare
We never publish footage of animal cruelty, an animal in distress, or harm that was staged for the camera. If a clip looks like an animal was put at risk to get the shot, we leave it out, however popular it is. The details are in the animal welfare section of our editorial policy.
Who is responsible
Petastic is run by a small editorial team working with WooGlobe. Editors choose which stories to cover, review every draft and decide what is published. Where a story carries a writer's name, the byline links to their author page with their role, background and the other stories they have written.
When we get something wrong we correct it in the open, with a dated note on the story. Our corrections policy explains how.
Where our stories appear
You can read everything we publish on this site. Some stories are also shared with partner platforms, including MSN, and on our YouTube and Dailymotion channels. The version on this site is always the current one.
Get in touch
If your pet did something funny or sweet on camera, submit your pet video to be featured. Story ideas, questions about a story, press enquiries and rights requests all have a route on our contact page, or you can email the editors at [email protected]. How we handle your data is set out in our privacy policy.