Calling all animal lovers! Show us your baby animal photos

Everyone loves baby animals. They are totally adorable! We love them so much here at Get Ready that we made them the focus of this year's photo contest.

Image: Mike Whitmore

The contest is using baby animals — of all kinds — to promote emergency preparedness.
Whether it’s a kitten, puppy, chick or other baby animal, Get Ready wants to see them all. We’ll choose the best and most adorable photos and include them in our 2017 Get Ready calendar with fun captions and facts about preparing for emergencies.

Need some pet-spiration? Take a look at our past Get Ready Photo Contests, which have focused on cats, dogs and animals of all ages.

Contest entries will be accepted beginning July 11 via email and Instagram.

Have more questions? Check out our FAQs and official rules and regulations.

The deadline for entries is Aug. 15, so get snapping and submit your photos!

New year, new chances to be prepared with APHA’s Get Ready calendar

First-place runners-up poll winner
by Mary-Kate Duffy

2016 is here! Looking for a place to write down all your New Year’s resolutions? What if you could track those healthy habits while also learning how to be better prepared for emergencies?

Download APHA's Ready, Pet, Go! Get Ready Calendar and get started today! The 2016 calendar, which is available online, showcases adorable animal pictures from our photo contest and ways to keep you and your loved ones safe. With these great preparedness tips, you’re sure to have the best — and safest — year yet.

And while you’re on our website, don’t miss the winners of our runners-up poll! We had so many great entries from our calendar photo contest, we decided we had to share more than just the winners. The beautiful bird photo by Mary-Kate Duffy earned almost a third of your votes. Our second-place runner-up was the cat by Michele Samarya Timm, and third was Cooper the dog by Jennifer Simmons. Congrats to our winners and their photogenic animals, and thanks for voting!

Get your copy of the 2016 calendar today and print one to share with family and friends.

Ready, Pet, Go! Enter APHA's 2015 Get Ready Photo Contest

Do you have a unique pet, or just a really cute one? Do you enjoy going to the zoo? Snap a photo of an animal in a preparedness pose and enter Ready, Pet, Go! APHA’s Get Ready Photo Contest. The contest is using animals — of any kind — to promote emergency preparedness.

Cats, dogs, fish, birds, hamsters, lizards, pigs, cows, snakes, horses, llamas, squirrels and all other animals welcome. Whether they have two legs, four legs or none, we want to see them all!
Take a look at the topics covered by the Get Ready campaign — such as preparing for evacuation, stockpiling, how to prepare for severe weather — and find a way to illustrate them with an animal.

We will add witty captions and share your message about emergency preparedness with the world. The winning photos will go into our Get Ready calendar.
See our animals photo gallery for ideas! Need more inspiration? Take a look at photos from past rounds of the Get Ready Photo Contest, featuring cats, dogs, and babies.

Read our FAQs and official rules and regulations for complete info. Entries will be accepted via email and Instagram. Contest entries are being accepted now through June 1, so get snapping!

Looking for a 2015 calendar? Free Get Ready calendar available now!

It’s a new year and you know what that means…time for a new calendar! If you don’t want to get stuck with a year’s worth of so-so scenery or creepy teddy bears, never fear — we’ve got you covered, and in the cutest possible way.

The Get Ready 2015 Tips from Tots Calendar is available online now for download, and it’s absolutely free. Featuring cute tots and preparedness tips, the calendar makes a great addition to your bulletin board, office wall or refrigerator.

You’ll look forward to each new month with our calendar’s adorable photos, which were submitted as part of our 2014 photo contest. And you’ll learn great preparedness info that can help keep you safe. Eight-month-old Dominic will advise what to do if you’re caught in a blizzard in February, while Jesse, age 7 months, will remind you not to forget your hat and sunscreen as you head outside in June. And there are 10 more months to go!

Print the Get Ready 2015 Tips from Tots Calendar for yourself and share copies with your friends and family so they can be prepared for disasters, too.

APHA announces the winners of its Get Ready Tips from Tots Photo Contest! And the winners are…

One of our Tips from Tots Photo Contest winners.

Thanks to everyone who entered APHA’s Get Ready Tips from Tots Photo Contest. We received so many adorable photos of prepared babies that judging was difficult. They are all such cuties!

In the end, we were able to narrow it down to 16 winners that had that special something — and they’re now sharing preparedness advice in our new 2015 calendar. In celebration of Get Ready Day today, the calendar is available for free on the Get Ready website.

From keeping cool in a heat wave to staying safe in a snow storm, these charming tots make learning about preparedness fun. And they’ll look completely adorbs on your fridge, bulletin board or office wall!

The 2015 Tips from Tots calendar can be downloaded and printed. Or pick up a printed copy at APHA's 142nd Annual Meeting and Exposition in New Orleans in November. We'll be passing out copies of the calendar at booth 847 at the expo!

The Tips from Tots contest comes on the heels of the Get Ready campaign’s successful 2013 and 2014 photo contests, which used cats and dogs to share preparedness advice. If you liked those calendars, look out — these tots are even cuter!

Check out the winning photos in our baby photo gallery and share them with your friends and family on Facebook and Twitter.

And while you’re there, browse some of our favorite runners-up photos.

Which photo do you think the judges should have included in the calendar? Vote for your favorite!

 

Enter your baby in APHA’s Get Ready Tips from Tots Preparedness Photo Contest

Do you have a baby between the ages of newborn and 12 months? Is she or he completely, totally adorable? (Of course!) Snap a photo of your baby in a preparedness situation and be part of the Get Ready Tips from Tots Preparedness Photo Contest!

 
From now until May 23, send us photos of your child to enter the contest, which is using super-cute  babies as a fun way to promote preparedness. Winning babies will be featured in a Get Ready calendar!

Take a look at the topics covered by the Get Ready campaign - such as creating an emergency plan, stockpiling supplies or preparing for severe weather — and figure out how to illustrate them in a creative way with your baby. Check out our baby photo gallery for inspiration.
 
To enter, email us your photos or share them on Instagram with the #TipsfromTots hashtag. Check out our FAQs for submission details.
 
Sound like fun? Get snapping!

Congratulations to our photo contest winners!

Thank you to everyone who submitted photos for APHA’s 2013 Get Ready Pup-Preparedness Photo Contest! We received so many fantastic, adorable photos that it was hard to choose the winners.

Congratulations go out to our 16 winning photographers and their furry companions:

• Ashell Alston, photo of Brown
• Patricia Baltasar, photo of Buddy
• Patrick Benko and Jackie Benko, photo of Sadie
• Charlene Bright, photo of Kennedy
• Christopher Chadwick, photo of Gizmo
• Asher Grady, photo of Lucas
• Ann Hueber, photo of Calvin
• Katy Krings, photo of Trinity and Neo
• Dan and Vivian Liberti, photo of Ansel Wolfgang
• Christopher Mangal, photo of Argo
• Raed Mansour, photo of Chance
• Sarah Marikos, photo of Giacoma
• Lili McDonald, photo of Schwanson
• Nolan Patal, photo of Rani
• Susan Polan, photo of Tally
• Michelle Sanborn, photo of Cooper
• Christine Yamazaki, photo of Julian

We're working now to create a 2014 calendar featuring the winning photos, which we'll post on the Get Ready site in November. We’ll also pass out free hard copies at the Get Ready booth at APHA's 141st Annual Meeting and Exposition in Boston in November.

We'll showcase the winning photos and some of the other submissions on the Get Ready site in November, so check back then!