Shelter Challenge

[moetmum]

Have just voted today, we have fallen out of the top 10!

[Shannanigan]

Can I get a link in here? I'll say it; I'm lazy - but I'll vote every day if it's here! :D

[moetmum]

Can I get a link in here? I'll say it; I'm lazy - but I'll vote every day if it's here! :D

I get a daily reminder in my e-mail inbox, a few clicks later and I'm done! It even remembers who you voted for previously, it doesn't take long.

[DebraDownSouth]

Please click once a day for as many days as you can (like the next 2 mos :) ) ... PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help and vote for BRAT in the Shelter Challenge. We are now out of the top ten--and out of the top spot in Texas.
To vote, go to:

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/shelterchallenge.faces?siteId=3

put in Garland, Texas and choose Basenji Rescue & Transport.

[giza1]

And you can vote once a day from every browser on your computer!
I've downloaded 5 browsers - safari, opera, chrome, seamonkey and firefox - so I get in 5 votes a day.
-Joanne

[Patty]

I went to place my daily vote and was horrified to see that we'd dropped - keep voting please friends.

I use the www.tinyurl.com/voteforBRAT link

[wizard]

I did my part!

[DebraDownSouth]

I posted on not dog boards I am on, facebook, emailed friends. If we all beg friends to help surely we can get back in the running because as of today, STILL not up. :(

[DebraDownSouth]

Very sad... we are slipping more percentage wise. Please everyone, beg all your contacts to vote for the next few weeks.. :(
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help and vote for BRAT in the Shelter
Challenge. We have fallen out of the top ten--and out of the top spot
in Texas. We risk getting shut out of prize money if this continues.
To vote, go to:

...http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/shelterchallenge.faces?siteId=3

put in Garland, Texas and choose Basenji Rescue & Transport.

[Arwen]

Agreed. I vote from home, my phone and work. :) Share it on Facebook and Twitter as well. I'll send it out to my co-workers again.

[Kipawa]

Yes, keep on voting. One thing I like about voting (besides helping wonderful basenjis) is the verification system you have to use right before they accept your vote. Most websites that use a verification system have jumbled up letters and numbers that I often can't make out. But the voting website uses gorgeous pictures of different animals. What a great idea!

Please vote everyone!

[Shannanigan]

Yay! Links! Voting now - thank you!

[Arwen]

Several co-workers have voted. I may or may not have threatened to "shank a puppy" if the Goldens beat us. :)

NOTE: I love all dogs and my mom's beloved Golden was an amazing dog. They know I'm joking around.

[wizard]

BRAT still has not made it into the top 10 -- we need votes EVERY DAY.

[DebraDownSouth]

I am very discouraged, we are well out of top ten, but worse, slipping where we get money which is in the TX numbers. Only top gets money and we were originally top, then behind less than 0.1... they are steadily pulling away.

[Shannanigan]

Last I checked, BRAT was 11...did it change that quickly? I put the youtube video of the Wimauma puppies on my facebook and added the tinyurl link to vote for BRAT, with a little plea to my friends to vote and saying that Paco says thank you. Hard to tell if anyone actually votes, though.

[Arwen]

I am going to tweet it again tonight.

[Shannanigan]

I work online, so I posted it for all of my co-workers to see, and many of them have turned out to be animal lovers and have committed to voting every day as well as tweeting and facbooking the link. :)

[DebraDownSouth]

I feel so sad to see us losing more and more ground in the texas group, which is where we get funds. :(

[Arwen]

We are still 2nd in TX. Vote y'all. :)

[moetmum]

Keep voting everyone, we are back in the top 10!

[Shannanigan]

Yup! I've announced it on Facebook and at my job - everyone's excited to be in on it!

[DebraDownSouth]

The problem is this... top 10 doesn't help. Brat gets money for being number one in TEXAS, and we aren't... so we got to push harder! GO GO GO!

[moetmum]

The problem is this... top 10 doesn't help. Brat gets money for being number one in TEXAS, and we aren't... so we got to push harder! GO GO GO!

We know this but we are going in the right direction! Just got to keep going!

[DebraDownSouth]

YES we are going in the right direction. I am just almost distraught over it lol.

[Shannanigan]

What are the "dark horse" prizes they mention for the ones who make it in the top 10 but not that top 3? Is that just recognition, nothing else?

[wizard]

Keep voting.
There's more at stake than just the top three prizes.
Each week a $1000 prize is awarded (I think random) and there's a new prize this time - Champion Challenge Award - for the shelter with the most cumulative votes in all three of the year's races.
The Dark Horse prizes are reserved for rescue organizations that have never won any other prize in any past Challenge or in the current Challenge. This includes Final, State/Regional, Weekly, Story, Photo, and other special prizes. I don't think BRAT would qualify since they did receive weekly and maybe state prizes in the past.

BRAT has a chance for one of the prizes -- keep voting! We have until December 19.

[wizard]

We've slipped again -- get out there AND VOTE.

[DebraDownSouth]

I know... I keep bugging friends and fb

[Arwen]

Vote from work. Vote from home. Vote from your smartphone. :) I'm doing the same thing on Twitter and FB. bug bug bug We are back in the Top 10 this morning.

[Patty M]

Bump! I hope everyone keeps voting.

[Arwen]

Please click once a day for as many days as you can (like the next 2 mos :) ) ... PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help and vote for BRAT in the Shelter Challenge. We are now out of the top ten--and out of the top spot in Texas.
To vote, go to:

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/shelterchallenge.faces?siteId=3

put in Garland, Texas and choose Basenji Rescue & Transport.

Quoting the voting. :)

[Patty M]

I was looking at the challenge today (11/14), and
we can still make the top 10
if everyone takes the time to vote!!!! :o:p:);)

[DebraDownSouth]

:( If we don't move up I don't think we get money.

[Chealsie508]

I voted and I'll have my friends vote....I don't have facebook but I have friends that do- I'll have them put it up to vote

[wizard]

We've still got a few days to go -- GET OUT THERE AND VOTE!

[Patty]

Wwe did much better last time - are there some out there who haven't voted this time? Come on folks, please.

[DebraDownSouth]

WOHOO, not sure how but BRAT came in on top for Texas shelter. But we really need to push it next one so we stay up on weekly.

[DebraDownSouth]

From Brat:

The first Shelter Challenge of 2011 has begun!

We would greatly appreciate if you could vote for Basenji Rescue & Transport, Inc.---on a daily basis.

This is a great contest and the money is real. BRAT received $6,000
last year and over the years has received well over $10,000.

And it's easy to vote. Just click here.

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/shelterchallenge.faces?siteId=3

You can find BRAT by typing in "basenji" in the search box and entering the state of Texas.

You will be asked to identify an animal photo to prove you are a person and not a robot.

That's it.

This voting round begins on January 10, 2011, and ends at midnight (PT) on March 20, 2011

Mike Swan
President, BRAT, Inc.

Please ask people if you can put on daily email reminder. We really struggled last one.

[Arwen]

There is a story challenge called "New Beginnings". The winner gets a 3,000 grant for their rescue. You can enter your story until February.

Nayru's is here (http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/photostory.faces?siteId=3&storyTag=heaven-through-her-ears738).

This is on the same site as the Shelter Challenge. :)

[DebraDownSouth]

Kewl! Btw, everyone should submit stories both there and on BRAT page. :)

[Arwen]

I redid Nayru's story so I had the BRAT name in there correctly. I'm hoping her story is one of the few that will be picked for voting! http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/ars/story/heaven-through-her-ears142

[DebraDownSouth]

YEAH! Please post if she is!

[DebraDownSouth]

Anyone else having issues with voting using IE. I keep getting a timed out notice. I have done everything. It's okay, can use Firefox but very strange.

[dcmclcm4]

There were a number of people having trouble over this past weekend.

I could not get on Petfinder on Friday afternoon and I gave up.

Jennifer

[Patty]

I could get on the site but it was difficult to get my vote accepted but seemed alright today. Perhaps it was just a glitch.

[DebraDownSouth]

Happy to say we got at least the state one! It all helps!


U.S. State Winners (& Washington D.C.):
Each receive a $1,000 grant to help animals!

State Abbr Shelter Name Location
AK Homeward Bound Pet Rescue and Referral Fairbanks
AL Humane Society of Elmore County Wetumpka
AR Ozark Mountain Basset Rescue Inc. Fayetteville
AZ Humane Society of Southern Arizona Tucson
CA Westside German Shepherd Rescue of LA Los Angeles
CO National Mill Dog Rescue Colorado Springs
CT The Friends of the New Haven Animal Shelter New Haven
DC Lucky Dog Animal Rescue Washington
DE Forgotten Cats Inc. Claymont
FL Seminole County Animal Services Sanford
GA Angels Among Us Pet Rescue, Inc. Alpharetta
HI 9th Life Hawaii Makawao
IA Des Moines County Humane Society Burlington
ID Conrad Strays Cat Rescue and Adoption Inc. Middleton
IL Animal House Shelter Huntley
IN Our Lil Bit of Heaven Animal Rescue and Sanctuary Poland
KS Helping Hands Humane Society Topeka
KY Golden Retriever Rescue and Adoption of Needy Dogs Louisville
LA Hobo Hotel for Cats Lake Charles
MA Bay State Equine Rescue, Inc. Oakham
MD Days End Farm Horse Rescue Woodbine
ME Animal Refuge League Westbrook
MI CRASH's LANDING Cat Rescue and Placement Center Grand Rapids
MN Retrieve a Golden of Minnesota, Inc. Hopkins
MO Stray Rescue of St. Louis Saint Louis
MS Community Animal Rescue and Adoption, Inc. (CARA) Jackson
MT Rimrock Humane Society Roundup
NC PAWS Animal Shelter Bryson City
ND FM Humane Society Fargo
NE Nebraska Humane Society Omaha
NH NHSPCA Stratham
NJ Pig Placement Network Sewell
NM Watermelon Mountain Ranch Rio Rancho
NV Wind and Willows Ferret Rescue Fallon
NY SBU Cat Network Stony Brook
OH Friends of Felines Rescue Center Defiance
OK Oklahoma Airedale Terrier Rescue Oklahoma City
OR Coos County Animal Shelter Coos Bay
PA Mid-Atlantic English Springer Spaniel Rescue Newville
RI Rhode Island SPCA Riverside
SC Noah's Arks Rescue Okatie
SD Luv-A-Chin Rescue Sioux Falls
TN Heartland Golden Retriever Rescue Knoxville
TX Basenji Rescue and Transport,Inc. Garland
UT Best Friends Animal Society Kanab
VA Oldies But Goodies (Northern VA) ****er Rescue Newington
VT TARPS (The Animal Rescue and Protection Society) Chester
WA Old Dog Haven Arlington
WI IMPS - Internet Miniature Pinscher Service, Inc. - WI region Appleton
WV Almost Heaven Golden Retriever Rescue and Sanctuary, Inc. Capon Bridge
WY Cheyenne Animal Shelter Cheyenne