You guys are amazing! You have given me a great list of shelters, each one worthy of many donations. I am glad I am having you vote on this — I would hate to have to choose one by myself.
So here is the recap: I have been nominated for a Pettie Award for Best Cat Blog. The winner in each of the four categories (the others are Best Dog Blog, Best Pet Blog and Best Cause Related Blog) gets to have $500 donated to the shelter of their choice. Most of the nominees have a shelter picked out, but I decided to let my readers choose for me. Below are the suggestions you made — you will be able to vote for ONE shelter in the poll to your right (the “Are you a cat who likes dogs?” poll will be back when this poll is done). You only have until midnight Friday ET to vote, so do it now!
Animal Rescuers Without Borders, San Diego, CA: Nominated by the Fraidy Cats, they say this unusual rescue “helps dogs and cats in Baja and Mexico as well as Southern CA.”
Berkeley-East Bay Humane Society, Berkeley, CA: Nominated by Karen Nichols, Skeezix’s human, she says, “They had a terrible fire there a few months ago that killed about a dozen cats. They’re having to rebuild, but it’s hard getting the funding during these tough times.”
Cats Exclusive, Margate, FL: Nominated by Sniffie and the Florida Furkids, who says “they do great work.” Some of you may be familiar with this shelter because it is where Harley, Daisy the Curly Cat’s funny little brother came from!
Heaven on Earth Society for Animals, Van Nuys, CA: Nominated by Django & Satchmo (gotta love those names!), they say, “they specialize in special needs kittehs including FIV+. The vet bills are crazy high for these special angels and they’re also hoping to get enough money to purchase their property and expand their iso space so they can help other rescues who don’t have iso space, take the remaining kitties at the end of the big Best Friends adoption events. No one ever wants to see kitties go back on those trucks to the city shelters at the end of the day! It’s their 10th anniversary and what a wonderful way to celebrate and expand to help more kittehs in the future!
Henry County Humane Society, McDonough, GA: I am nominating this one myself. Many of you are aware of the horrible high-kill rate of many animal control facilities in Georgia — Henry County Humane is a no-kill shelter and they could use all the help they can get to save pets who would otherwise wind up on death row in these ACCs.
Holly’s Place Animal Rescue, Lawrenceburg, KY: Nominated by Marg of Marg’s Animals Blog, she says, “It just looks like a great rescue and it sure has a nice web page, which sounds silly, but I feel like that is important to get people interested in adopting animals. They also have great pictures and lots of descriptions of the animals up for adoption.”
Marley Fund, Greenville, NC: Nominated by Maggie May (she of the luxating patella) and her family the Creek Cats, she says, “they rescue and adopt out FIV and FeLV+ cats. We love Marley Fund and me and Saylor are in their upcoming calendar!”
Norfolk Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Norfolk, VA: Nominated by Nico, Simon and JayJay, who say, “Our Mom has had wonderful experiences with this shelter as she helped her friends and their animals. Not only do they have a great adoption service, but they also provide discounted veterinary services (not just spay/neuter either — a whole range of vet services) to pet owners in an effort to help keep animals healthy!
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They all sound like great charities! What a kind thing you’re doing.
We’d recommend Heaven on Earth or the Marley Fund, because we have a special place in our hearts for special-needs kitties. Also, the first kitty Mama ever chose at the shelter (on her 13th birthday) eventually had to be put to sleep at age 10 due to complications from FIV, so we have an extra-special desire to help out FIV+ cats. (That was Mama’s first experience taking an animal friend for his final vet visit, too.)
We sure hope you win Sparkle, but any winner donating to charity is a wonderful thing. We voted for Henry County because in areas like that, the no-kill shelters need all the support they can get!
We are always for Cats Exclusive! My Mommeh volunteered there for about 3 years, and you are very right, Harley came from there!!!!
Ps: and I forgot to say that Cats Exclusive is a no-kill cats-only shelter!
We wish we could vote for all of them! Great choices.
Well I like the one I suggested but Sparkle, you are so right that the Henry County Humane Society really does need some help. I would have nominated that one but I didn’t see it on that list. So I vote for the Henry County Humane Society Shelter.
Animal Rescuers without Borders!
You have to vote on the poll to your right – otherwise I can’t count it!
We vote for Cat’s Exclusive but they all sound worthy.
Sniffie and the Florida Furkids
So cool Sparkle, I voted!
We voted for the shelter in Berkeley. We live about 90 miles south of that shelter and we remember when they had the fire. Good nomination by Skeezix’s Food Lady!
We hope you win the contest Sparkle! Good luck!
Good luck, Sparkle!…Any no kill shelter deserves a donation=great choices…xoxo…Calle, Halle, Sukki
Voted! For Heaven on Earth Society for Animals. We like to keep it close to home. 🙂
It is a shame that they can’t all get $500
We wish they ALL could get money! We vote for ALL of them!
All of these shelters are deserving! It’s hard to choose just one!
We agree with Franklin, Dobby & Tasha (@ Mishkat) – we wish we could vote for all of these shelters!! They ALL deserve help!!
Good luck with the Pettie Awards, Sparkle!! We voted for you!!
Have a wonderful day!!
~Nico, Simon & JayJay 🙂
They all are very deserving! We voted and we hope you win!
Hi Sparkle, thank you for including us in your decision making!! We have voted 🙂
You will always be a winner in our hearts, but fingers and paws are crossed that you get the Pettie Award!!!
A little more on Holly’s Place Animal Rescue….
Holly’s Place (HP) is a wonderful rescue that could really use this donation. HP takes in animals that other places would never give a chance. HP has a room for cats with FeLV (Feline Leukemia), a room for cats with FIV, as well as cats and dogs that don’t have those conditions. I have witnessed animals that were paralyzed learn to walk again because of the love and care they are given at HP. I have seen animals extremely ill, that the vets say are probably not even going to make it through the weekend, recover and thrive. I personally know the people behind HP, and have never met anyone who gives more of their time and love then at HP. The animals at HP are all part of the HP family. Every animal is given a chance, a home, love…things most have never know. HP also is involved in things like spay/neuter assistance and education.
I can not stress enough how wonderful Holly’s Place is. Please check out their website and vote for Holly’s Place!
Thanks for the extra info!
You’re welcome! 🙂