Thank you all for nominating me into the Petties finals for Best Blog Post! I am very proud of my blog post about National Feral Cat Day, and it is about a cause that is very important to me: the plight of feral cats. I know some of the other posts that made the finals are more personal and more emotional, but I made an effort to be brief, informative, and to make you both laugh a little and think at the same time. I really tried to aim for a higher purpose with my post, but in the most readable, down-to-earth manner possible. I hope that it reached a lot of humans, and will continue to do so, and that they will make a difference in feral cats’ lives.
I am very excited that this year, the Petties winners get $1000 to donate to a worthy shelter, and if I win, I will make sure my share goes to a shelter that works a lot to help ferals. There are a number of them out there, and if you have suggestions, please let me know in the comments below. I will decide on one by the end of July, and for all of August, I will feature a ChipIn widget for the group I choose so that even if I don’t win, they will still benefit.
But I really hope I do win! That is where you all come in. You can vote every day, a couple of times (no more than that) a day. So please vote, and spread the word to others, so they can vote too! I’ve seen some of the other finalists in other categories, and I am actually going to borrow an idea from one of the dog bloggers, Champion of My Heart, and create suggested Tweets and Facebook posts for you. (What can I say, it is a really good idea! Besides, it happens to be my human’s favorite dog blog.)
For Twitter: “I voted for @sparklecat’s awesome feral cat story as Best Blog Post in the Petties: http://bit.ly/qY1TWl Please do the same!”
For Facebook: “Sparkle the Designer Cat wrote a great post about the plight of feral cats! Please vote for it for Best Blog Post in the Petties! http://bit.ly/qY1TWl You can vote daily, and if she wins, the prize money will help ferals!”
Of course, you don’t have to use those exact words, but any help you can give me will be very much appreciated! Let’s win this!
Awesome Job! I am always happy to help someone helping feral cats since sometimes it feels like I’m the only one, though I know it isn’t the case. Voted, Facebook and Twitter messages sent, and once I see that Chip In go up I’ll add that to my blog for you as well! Thank you for helping the feral kitties!
I voted for you, Sparkle
I always appreciated what you’ve done for all feral kitties and the idea to voted from FB and Twitter , That is fabulous !!!
I hope you win !!!
xoxo
Love the post! We have put in our first vote, and shared where to vote on facebook (Mom’s a friend, Lisa Wright Wallace).
Voted for your post! Good luck!
Congrats so far and good luck to win! An awesome post.
I have now voted twice for you Sparkle and Puddy too. Wonder how many times they let us vote. I will also put that stuff on Twitter and Facebook too. Feral kitties as you know is my big thing too since I have 18 of them here. Hope you win.
Congratulations on your nomination, Sparkle, and good luck! You have my vote.
We have been voting for you, Sparkle. Paws crossed!
Purrs,
The Chans
I am on my way to vote for you… Great job, Sparkle.
pawhugs, Max
I have voted already for you, Sparkle. Sounds like maybe multiple votes are ok?
Congrats on your nomination, Sparkle. The plight of feral cats is very dear to us too.
Congratulations Sparkle. I’ll be happy to vote for you. Good luck.
Good luck Sparkle, it was a great post and deserving to win! We voted yesterday and of course selected you 🙂
We’ve voted for you but have a question: how are you going to entice us to keep voting after day?
I did not know you could vote more than once! I will vote for you efurryday. My mama will post this on her facebook page!
We voted yesterday but didn’t know we could vote once per day (geez mom is falling down on the job). We are headed off to vote again!!
We’ve been and voted for you Sparkle.
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
We’ve voted – paws are crossed for you, my friend
We voted for you, but like some of the others, didn’t know we could vote again!
Off we go!
~ The Bunch and Phillip
We are voting! Purrs and good luck!
Okay so I said exactly what you wanted me to say on Twitter but I did beat you to it on Facebook… :)!
We voted for you, Sparkle, and now that we know we can vote every day, you got our daily vote too!
I voted too, you are always a winner!!!
Concatulations Sparkle! We’ve been voting for you!
We voted for you! And for Mr Puddy. 🙂
We voted for you, Sparkle! Good luck! We sure hope you win.
We voted and posted for you Sparkle. We will try to remember to do so every day. But I am an old goat….
WE’re so proud of you Sparkle and we voted for you and we believe you will win!
purrs
>^,,^<
♥Abby♥
Voted and posted in memory of Gremlin–who was a cat who actually adopted me–he was living on the street got into my building somehow–and followed me into my apartment–I am and will continue to miss him tremendously—
Michele aka MikiHope
http://www.mikishope.com
Hooray for you, Sparkle! I am going to run off and vote for you again!!!
I’m glad I stopped by today because my human didn’t know that you can vote everyday! Congratulations Sparkle! We’ll keep voting for you!
Concats, Sparkle! We didn’t know we could vote daily, so we’ll be sure to keep voting 🙂
Pip, Smidgen, Minnie, and Hollie
I put a reminder in my purrsonal computer that I can go each day to the Petties website to vote. Sparkle you are very sweet to make sure that the charity would win no matter the winner.
off to vote now! COncats!
Wow, Sparkle! I didn’t know I could vote EVERY DAY! Okay, I’ve voted twice now and I’ll keep doing it. The Human does not Tweet or Facebook (she’s lame) but we will do our best for you!
Congrats on that Sparkle! We saw you as one of the finalists and were so excited! We have voted for you and will try to remember to go back there every day!
I voted for you; piece of cake as that was an excellent post you wrote! Will try to remember to go back and do it again. Best of luck you two!
Voted for you Sparkle. Also voted for my friends Mr. Puddy and Catsparella. I’m mad at TW for never pursuing this. Our favorite charity helps feral cats by taking them off the mean streets of Jersey City, getting them fixed and sending them to rehabilitation aka a cat sanctuary to get unferal. My peeps say I’m still partially feral. Just trying to keep it real.
We blogged about the Petties today.
mama voted for you already. she loved that article. said it’s very informative.
Voted Miss Sparkle.