Posts Tagged ‘Petfinder.com’

Petfinder.com will be celebrating their 15th birthday from July 15-17 during their Big Birthday Adoption Weekend. In conjunction with that, they are aiming for 15,000 adoptions over the course of that weekend.

In case, you don’t know what Petfinder.com is, they are an online resource that rescues and shelters can use to post adoptable animals that can be viewed nationwide.

Over the past 15 years, Petfinder.com has worked with rescues and shelters to adopt more than 17 million pets into loving homes. If you visit the Birthday page for Petfinder, you can find local shelters and rescues that are participating in the event, see adoptable pets, and sign a birthday card with a photo of your pet. Visit their birthday page HERE.

Black and Orange Cat Foundation will be doing their best to help Petfinder.com reach their goal of 15,000 adoptions. So please take a look at their adoptable kitties and plan to take one home over that weekend: www.bandocats.petfinder.com

Rhatima, or Queen Rainey as she has been nicknamed, is the featured B and O kitty for the Birthday celebration. Black and Orange would LOVE to find her forever home during this celebration. To see photos of Rhatima and read her story, visit her on Petfinder.com or the B and O blog.

Black and Orange Cat Foundation will be holding their 5th Annual Garage sale over that weekend, too, from Thursday, July 14 to Sunday, July 17. The garage sale always coincides with the Miami Valley Steam Threshers Association Show at Pastime Park in Plain City. This is the 62nd year for the Steam Show and they will be featuring the Cockshut/Co-op Tractors. To see a full schedule of Steam Show events, go HERE.

As most of you know, Black and Orange’s board member, Carol Gaul, lives at 176 Anderson Avenue, which abuts Pastime Park and makes it a perfect place to hold the garage sale.  Carol and her husband, Chuck, lost their home and their kitties last August to a house fire. But they have emerged from the ashes, rebuilt, found new kitties to love, and are planning on having the sale again this year.

Black and Orange is still collecting donations for the sale.  If you have anything you would like to donate, please call Carol at 614-419-1553.

The garage sale will begin each day at 9 am (maybe earlier if Carol has her coffee) and will last until the final buyer leaves for the day. There is always a wide mixture of things and new stuff arrives daily. So come, shop early, and shop often.

With Carol and Chuck back home, Black and Orange Cat Foundation has a lot to celebrate, so please join all of us over this festive weekend!

The Animal Rescue Site and Petfinder.com are holding Round 2 of the 2011 $300,000 Shelter Challenge. Most of you know how to do this, because you have been clicking daily to vote for Black and Orange in past contests. But here we go again!

Visit The Animal Rescue Site each day and click on the purple button that says, “Click Here to Give–it’s FREE!” to give free food to shelter animals. After you click on the purple button, you will be directed to a second page where a “Vote Now” box will appear. Click on that box to vote each day for Black and Orange Cat Foundation. You can find us by putting in our name and Plain City, Ohio.

The grand prize is a $5,000 grant! State winners each receive $1,000. Weekly winners, over the eleven weeks of the challenge, will each win $1,000.

So please vote for Black and Orange Cat Foundation daily by going HERE to click to give.

Besides the daily voting, The Animal Rescue Site is also offering a Spring Romp Photo Contest. The grand prize photo winner will choose a rescue or shelter to receive a $2,000 grant. The Photo Contest begins on April 4 and ends on April 17. To find out more about the contest and enter your photo, go HERE.

Thank you to everyone who continues to vote for Black and Orange in these contests each day! Even though the group hasn’t won yet, with your support it is a real possibility! And, of course, any funds that do come in will be used to spay and neuter area cats.

Vote for Black and Orange Cat Foundation in The Animal Rescue Site’s $300,000 Shelter Challenge of 2011. In conjunction with Petfinder.com, The Animal Rescue Site will be giving away grants totaling $300,000 to the animal shelters and rescues that garner the most votes. You have 10 weeks to vote and you must vote each day to help Black and Orange get the most votes. Among the 69 monetary prizes that are being given away are ten $1,000 weekly winners.

All you have to do is go to The Animal Rescue Site HERE.

Click on the Purple Button that says, “Click Here, it’s FREE.” This will give free food to participating shelters and rescues. Once you have clicked, you will be taken to a second page. At the top of that page is a “Vote Now” box. Click on that and you will go to a page where you can vote for Black and Orange Cat Foundation.

To vote, put in Black and Orange Cat Foundation under the name of the rescue. You may also need to put in the city and state: Plain City, Ohio. After you have voted once, you will automatically have Black and Orange Cat Foundation come up as the group you are voting for the next time you return to vote.

Besides voting for Black and Orange each day after you click, you can also enter a story about a rescued animal in the “New Beginnings Story Contest.” By entering your story and mentioning Black and Orange Cat Foundation in the entry, you will give the group a chance to win a grand prize of $3,000 or four runners-up prizes of $1,000. On February 28 and 29, the judges at The Animal Rescue Site will pick five story finalists. Then between March 2 and 20, everyone gets to vote on their favorite stories–once every day.

To find out more and to enter your story, go HERE.

Thank you for doing all that you can to help Black and Orange Cat Foundation!