Thanks to our friends at Freekibble, there’s a great, inexpensive iPhone ap for animal lovers: Kibble Katch. If you haven’t seen it, please check it out!

It may be a game, but when you play, real donations of Halo Spot’s Stew go to animal rescue groups and shelters.

Last week’s winner of Halo’s Dog Days of Summer Pet Photo Contest is Jag, a dog who sits in a hilarious position while riding in the car. Her owner, Julia, says that Jag usually is a “classy lady,” everywhere except in the car.

Send Ellen your funny pet photos by clicking here for a chance to win a $100 gift certificate for Halo products. Each week there is one lucky winner.

Visit DogChannel.com and check out the Halo-sponsored Incredible Canines contest. You can win $100 worth of Halo (or $50 or a $31 product package).

Here’s the scoop from the site:

“Any dog lover can agree that dogs are incredible. They can save lives, heal the sick, and even sniff out explosives in the most difficult scenarios.

“But what about your average pet? They do things that are pretty incredible, too! Enter the Incredible Canines Contest – where you can honor your dog for all the things that make them special. Browse the categories below and enter your dog in as many categories as he or she applies. Then, spread the word and ask your friends to vote for your incredible canine!

“The dog with the most votes across all categories will receive a $100 gift card from Halo. The dog with the second highest number of votes will receive a $50 card. The dog with the third most votes will receive a Halo prize pack.”

Please join in — enter or vote for your favorites!

Congratulations to our winner of last week’s “My Halo Story” Twitter contest — @Suzanne! Fellow Halo followers were asked to tell us about their Halo experience for a chance to win a $50 gift certificate to our web store. The winner was picked at random and announce Friday, 2/26/10.

@Suzanne’s winning tweet was, “We call Halo frz-dried chicken ‘cookies’. When my cat Montague escaped the way we got him back was to yell ‘cookies’ #MyHaloStory.”

Montague is a 3rd generation Savannah cat, bred from American Shorthair and African Servile. He has giant ears and a triangle shaped face long legs and skinny tail. Suzanne taught him how to shake hands so he sits and shake hands for his reward — Halo freeze dried chicken treats! She says,” when we whisper the word ‘cookie’ he howls and paces till we get the container from the fridge. One cannot go near the fridge without him following and howling.” Then Suzanne’s other three cats come to see if the Savannah cat gets his treat.

On top of that, she mentions a friend who’s cat, Walter, plays the piano for his Halo chicken treats. We’d sure like to see a video of that!

On Friday, February 5th, don’t forget to play for the kitties on Freekibble.com!

The website and Halo, Purely For Pets have teamed up to generate five times the kibble (50 pieces) each time you play Freekibblekat.com (the cat section of Freekibble.com) for homeless cats.

Freekibble.com founder Mimi Ausland, 13, hopes that the event — called Freekibblekat Hi-5 — attracts some 65,000 players to the site that day. (On normal days, 40,000 to 50,000 people play daily; for each question answered, right or wrong, 10 pieces of kibble are raised.)

Freekibble.com’s first Hi-5 event on November 5th was a huge success: twenty-thousand meals for dogs were raised. “We hope to raise that for the cats,” says Mimi. “I know there arealot of cat lovers out there.” As of this week, FreeKibble has raised and donated 400,000 pounds of cat and dog food to scores of shelters across the U.S.

The food generated from Friday’s gaming is going to about six shelters in the Southeast; Mimi hopes the donation feeds each shelter’s cats for many months. Says Mimi: “It’s a big thing for them because it’s unusual to get high end cat food.”

Click here to send your friends and family an e-card to tell them to play on February 5th.

And click here to play FreekibbleKat.