The Purina brand, which is more often associated with cat’s food, released a campaign to promote its nutrition mixtures for smaller animals such as rabbits, birds, hamsters, etc. The marketing initiative dubbed “Big Thoughts From Small Animals” was developed by Colle+McVoy—it includes a series of six short videos and promotion on the Purina’s Small Animal Food Facebook page.

Leading global design and innovation company Seymourpowell, is pleased to announce details of the new look created for the Nestlé Purina PRO PLAN catfood brand in Europe. Seymourpowell created the packaging and the styling for all communication materials including the website. Rollout across Europe starts from March 2012. The Nestlé Purina brand PRO PLAN is a high quality product sold through specialist channels—veterinary practices and specialist petshops such as Pets at Home with target consumers driven by health and prepared to pay a premium for high quality, vet endorsed products.

Not only people watch television, pets do that to, but the content they see doesn’t usually tug at their heartstrings. Nestlé Purina, which last year released a first-ever movie shot by cats under its Friskies brand, now is about to launch a 23-second TV commercial designed especially for dogs in Austria this week after broadcasting it in Germany this summer. To create an advert for Beneful, the brand teamed up with pet behavior experts from the USA, who guided the production team, consulting on what sounds really can make the canines turn their faces to the screen.

The ‘before and after’ method is the best ones for proving that a product really delivers positive changes. Most frequently, this approach is employed in promotions for cosmetic lines and food brand—and the new campaign based on this approach is all about animals. Purina is inviting animal owners to tap into the 60-Day See the Difference Challenge, through which the pet food brand offers to see the positive difference of feeding animals with the brand’s products and then share the testimonials with public.

Purina has issued a call for candidates interested in taking quite an exotic and interesting position of cat show correspondent. The job tasks include, according to the press announcement issued by Purina, «traveling the country and connecting with fellow cat owners about how they nurture well-being in their cats». The pet food brand offers travel perks in addition to $50,000 annual salary, plus the candidates may keep their daily jobs. No formal training or expertise in journalism is required.

Hollywood has some new stars in town and they’re pretty cool cats—literally. On December 9 in LA, Friskies® brand cat food premiered ‘Cat Diaries: The First Ever Movie Filmed by Cats’ and gave viewers a look into their magical world. From apartments to homes, from New York to California, viewers are taken on a tour across the country to see life from a cat’s perspective.