1000 Halo / Free Kibble Meals Shelter Winner, Meow.com Winners, and Tiniest Tiger Tote Winner Annoucements!
On the heels of crowning Katie of Glogirly as the official Cat Ruler of the World last week, we still have a few more announcements to make and prizes to give away. As you may recall, the dapper Austin of CATachresis was unable to win the runner-up prize of 1000 cat food meals from Halo / Free Kibble for the shelter he was campaigning for, Freshfield’s Animal Rescue, because they cannot ship outside of the U.S. and Austin is a Brit through and through.
Being the benevolent chap he is [this might be an exaggerated and unconfirmed point], he offered to donate his share of the meals to a U.S. shelter and we loved the idea so much that we asked readers to leave a comment as to which shelter they wanted to donate them to.
The response was absolutely overwhelming – so many wonderful people are grateful for all the shelters across the country and we are so glad that the drawing was random, because all the shelters are so deserving. Now that we have the winner, we decided that Austin should get to wear his tux one more time and make the announcement. We are also letting him announce all the $20.00 gift certificate winners provided by our friends at Meow.com, as well as who won our Tiniest Tiger Tote from the Red Carpet Cat Twitter Party that we were part of last week.
We also decided not to tell Katie about giving this honor to Austin, but somehow I don’t think she will mind. So, please Austin, the winners are:
We want to thank everyone who took the time to leave a comment to help a shelter. There is no doubt that all of them do an incredible job each and every day taking care of cats and we wish we could win the lottery and help all of them. There is also no doubt that Sumter T.N.R., Kitten and Rescue of South Carolina is a very special place, as so many of you nominated this shelter to win the meals.
And we could not agree more -while there are so many issues to focus on in the world of cat welfare, trying to help educate people about the misconceptions of feral cats and ways to encourage community wide T.N.R. programs is something we feel very strongly about at Zee/Zoey and we are extremely proud to be able to help Sumter T.N.R. pursue that goal.
Taken from their website about their mission, they state, “The purpose to which this nonprofit organization is formed is to institute a TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return) program for feral cats and kittens; rescue, socialization or re-domestication of feral cats and kittens that are able to be homed or re-homed; provide adoption, care and fostering services for all cats and kittens; reduce the dependence on area kill shelters and animal control agencies; actively recruit willing and able volunteers and aggressively seek donations to further our “every cat deserves a chance at life” cause in Sumter, South Carolina and surrounding areas.”
Thank you again for your kindness, Austin. And please don’t feel too bad – Freshfield’s will be receiving a $250.00 donation from Zee and Zoey and we hope that will help in some way. Thank you again to all the generous sponsors and to all of you wonderful readers for making this contest such a worthwhile event.
Congrats to the winners! And purrs to our friend Austin.
Thank you SO much! I am so surprised and pleased to be chosen the winner of the Tiniest Tiger Tote! I’d also like to congratulate all of the other winners as well. (And, Yay! A SC shelter won the Halo meals!). I appreciate all that you do for the kitties.
Austin here. I am really delighted that such a worthy cause won the meals and conCats too to all the other winners! >^,,^< xx I sure do look dapper, don't I! 😉
Caro here. I spoke to Lesley at Freshfields and she was highly delighted with the donation. I do hope to go out there for a visit before too long. Well done, Deb on hosting such a successful contest. I know you worked so hard xox
CONCATULATIONS TO ALL OF THE WINNERS!
Austin
You are so handsome and such a gentleman!
Congratulations to everyone!
A BIG congratz to all the winners! We are so happy for Sumter TNR Kitten & Rescue : ) …and very excited for all the lucky readers! …so fun to recognize their names too!
…and Austin…you look so very distinguished and, dare I say, ‘comfortable’ on that stage.
Hip Hip Hooray!
xo, Katie
a special thanks to austin for allowing his prize to be donated. i am so happy for sumter tnr kitten and rescue! they will be able to help so many rescue kittys with this prize.
Congrats to all the winners especially the shelters. We are big advocates of TNR here.
Congrats to all the winners. That sounds like a neat shelter. Congrats to them too. Thanks for donating your prize Austin.
Concatulations to ALl!!
The shelters, and the cats benefit which is wonderful.
Lots of voters got great stuff too!! Myself included,
so I don’t want to blow that horn quite as loud.
It’s the cats that count.
GREAT JOB!!!!!!!
cong ratz two all de winners; pursons N shelters alike….austin; ther bee sum trout on de way for ya buddy
Congrats to all the winners! ‘Specially Sumter TNR!!
That sure was nice of Austin. Concats to all the winners.
We would like to send a HUGE Thank You to Deb, Austin, the sponsors/donors and everyone who voted for us! We are both surprised and pleased to have won the 1000 meals! Words can not express our heartfelt gratitude! The kitties will be so happy 🙂
Congratulations to the other winners!
Sincerely,
Dave & Colette Kibbe of Sumter TNR Kitten and Rescue
Me is so happy to see my friend Austin looking his most dapper announcing the winner! And Deb, you are a master at running the Cat Ruler of the World contest. Me shall now turn it over to Kozmo.
Hi Everybody!
I came to thank you for coming to my birthday party! Each comment is a donation for Marg to help her with the vet bills for Jasmine.
We also wanted to let you know we are taking a blogging break. Mommy is super busy and we will be around, but we may not be commenting or posting much.
Kisses
Kozmo and Nellie
Austin, you are one classy dude!
We are so excited to have one and we want to say a big Concats to Sumter TNR!
And thanks to Zee and Zoey for their contribution to Freshfields on Austin’s behalf.
Harry, Dexter and Tipp
Oh thank you! I can’t believe I won a $20 gift certificate! This whole contest has been so much fun! Thank you for putting it on!
Concatulations to the winners!
Many purrs too =^.^=
That is SO cool! Concatulations to all of the winners! 🙂
We are so excited about winning something. We are also happy that the shelter is receiving supplies it needs as a result of this competition.