Our National Pet Week “Pets – The Spice of Life” Contest!

The Auxiliary to the American Veterinary Medical Association is celebrating "Pets—The Spice of Life" during National Pet Week 2009, May 3-9th.

To join in the fun, we’re holding a contest in conjunction with Iams to celebrate the wonderful, funny things we pets do!

TWO winners will receive a fab-u gift basket from Iams. See below for specifics.

Here’s how to enter:

1. Leave a comment here sharing your pet’s funniest, most endearing habit.

OR

If you prefer, send a tweet to @romeothecat sharing your pet’s funniest, most endearing habit.

2. It's not necessary to enter but for EXTRA chances to win, visit http://www.firstgiving.com/romeothecatbcc and donate $1 (or more!) to our FURPOWER Donation Challenge May recipient, Beaufort Community Cat Project. For each $1 you donate you get an extra opportunity to win.

3. Check back here on Monday, May 11 at 3 p.m. EST to see if you won!

That’s all! It’s easy.

Entries will be accepted until 11:59 a.m. EST on Monday May 11, 2009. We’ll draw one winner from our blog entries and one winner from our Twitter entries.

Here are the fantastic prizes Iams has generously donated (Only U.S. and Canada winners eligible for prizes, sorry.)

DOGS – 8 pound bag of Iams Dog Food, a Canine Cushion Orthopedic Fabric and Fleece Dog Bed, a Twin Pack of Flavored Tennis Balls, a ToyShoppe Plush Floppy Legged Friends for Dogs, an Animal Planet Tree Frog Flyer Dog Toy and a ToyShoppe® PetSmart Loofa Dog Toy.

CATS – 3.5 pound bag of Iams Cat Food, a Whisker City Fleece Kitty Den, a Whisker City Safety Stretch Cat Collar (Available in multiple colors), a Groomax Brush & Slicker Combo for Cats, ToyShoppe Teaser Wands, Petlinks System 3 Blind Mice Cat Toys and an Animal Planet Plush Jellyfish Cat Dangler.

Whew, dat’s some LOOT! Thanks, Iams!

Good luck everyone! Can't wait to read all the entries.

Mmmmm....TOOONA!

Announcing our May FURPOWER recipient!

We're so excited to announce that the Beaufort Community Cat Project is our May FURPOWER recipient!

The Beaufort Community Cat Project (http://beaufortcats.org) is an all-volunteer organization advocating non lethal methods to reduce the free-roaming cat population using Trap-Neuter-Return. They are a charitable non-profit organization with federal tax exempt status, 501(c)(3).

Thanks so much to everyone who submitted organizations for consideration!

We have lots of fun activities this month to raise awareness of the BCCP so stay tuned!

Go FURPOWER!

Cleaning Day.

I love when the staff tries to get organized. As far as I'm concerned, the more crap to lay on, the better.


P.S. don't forget to submit your favorite organization to be our May beneficiary. Leave a comment below. We've raised nearly $2K for Kitten Rescue. Meow!

It's time to choose our May recipient!

We're close to wrapping up another successful month of our FURPOWER $1 Donation Challenge. GREAT job raising money this month for Kitten Rescue. The grand total will be close to $2,000 including on and off-line donations. THANK YOU!

Now it's time to select another organization to help in May.

Please comment below with the name of the rescue organization you'd like to submit into our drawing. The organizations must: be a U.S. organization, a designated 501c3 non-profit and include cats in its efforts.

Also, to be fair I can't accept "anonymous" submissions so please leave your name OR email me at romeo at romeothecat dot com with your submission.

We'll be taking submissions until April 30, 9 p.m. EST and doing our random drawing and announcing the winner on Friday May 1.

Here's how to increase the chances of your favorite being selected:

1. Tell your friends to come here and comment! The more submissions for your organization, the better chance you have of winning.
2. Subscribe to this blog and leave an additional comment telling me you did!
3. Tweet about this campaign and leave a comment telling me you did (with your twitter handle).
4. Blog about this on your blog! And leave a comment linking to your post.

Pugs and I can't wait to help another hardworking, deserving organization!

Email me with questions at romeo at romeothecat dot com.

GO FURPOWER!

xo,

R & P

Lost.

Pugsley's up to his hide-and-seek shenanigans again. Any idea where he might be?

And our other winner is...

for the blogger drawing.....Peggy and the Cats!

Congrats Peggy (and the cats!) You are the proud owner of a brand new FURminator!

Thank you to everyone who supported the National Hairball Awareness Day "Who's your Favorite Furball?" contest. I had a lot of fun and I hope you did too!

Special thank you to Ann at Zoolatry for the fantastic badge and superwonderful new blog header.

Have a great weekend and xo!

R&P