Dogster is a bimonthly magazine and

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for dog lovers. Its sister publication is Catster, a bimonthly magazine and website for cat lovers. Dogster magazine (formerly

Dog Fancy Animal fancy is a hobby involving the appreciation, promotion, or breeding of pet or domestic animals. Fancy may include ownership, showing, animal sports and other competitions, and breeding. Hobbyists may simply collect specimens of the anima ...

) has been continuously published since 1970, celebrating 50 years in 2020. Dogster began as a community site and in 2005 won a

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in the category for best community site. It was acquired by

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in 2011. In July 2014, Dogster and Catster were sold to

Lumina Media Lumina Media was an American publisher of magazines, books, and associated websites. Throughout all its incarnations, the business has focused on the pet-keeping and -breeding market, though also with some other topical lifestyle and hobby public ...

. In 2015, Lumina Media combined its two large cat and dog brands —

magazine and Dogster.com and

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magazine and Catster.com — under the brand names of Catster and Dogster.I-5 Publishing Launches Dogster and Catster in Print
/ref> The Dogster and Catster brands were sold to

Belvoir Media Group Belvoir Media Group headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, is one of the nation's leading multi-channel publishers of consumer-interest websites, newsletters, magazines and books. It publishes more than 30 monthly titles across a wide range of int ...

in April 2017. Belvoir Media Group is based in Norwalk, Connecticut, and publishes a variety of special interest magazines, newsletters and websites. In addition to ''Dogster'' and ''Catster'', Belvoir Media Group's pet publications include ''Whole Dog Journal'', Cornell University ''DogWatch'', Tufts University ''Your Dog'', Cornell University ''CatWatch'' and Tufts University ''Catnip''.

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