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Basenji Rescue
  • Actually that's not quite true.
    From their website:
    "**Weekly Prizes: $1,000 will be awarded each week during the voting period for each organization with the most votes during that week (10 prizes of $1,000 each during the first voting period; participants are eligible for only one weekly prize during each voting period). Winners of Weekly Prizes are not eligible for Regional Prizes during the same voting period…No organization may win more than one Weekly Prize during each voting period. Organizations may win up to three (3) prizes total during each voting period. The Grand Prize for each voting period winners must be separate organizations (no organization can win more than one of the Grand Prizes for the most votes). Organizations receiving the Grand Prize are ineligible for Regional Prizes during that voting period (For example, if the Grand Prize Winner is located in California, the State Prize will go to the organization in that state with the highest vote total after the Grand Prize Winner). The Challenge Champion Prize winner from the previous calendar year is not eligible for the Grand Prize during the current calendar year, but remains eligible for all other prizes including the Weekly and Regional prizes."

  • Just voted….BRAT was top shelter in state but 8th overall....Keep voting

  • I am pestering all my friends to vote. Gosh knows we need the funds.

  • Well we started in 8th place but now have slipped to 10th.
    GET OUT THERE AND VOTE!
    :)

  • voting….

  • This is the email I sent to every person in my address book that I didn't think would kill me:

    We have sadly dropped to 10th place overall. PLEASE can you vote and ask just a few friends to vote. One high burst might help us hold onto our top 10 spot. So many of the other rescues actually take out advertisements for people to vote. Since our rescue is national, that isn't an option for us. The only hope we have is for people like me to annoy people like you all and beg for help.

    The massive rescue of over 50 dogs, and then all the litters, has severely strapped up. It is raining Basenjis.

    On the other hand, want to see a miracle? This is what Florida rescue and truly saintly Pam started with:
    http://www.ottaray.com/PICDog/wimauma/Doginshelter/index.html

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4DFrxtU45Y&feature=related

    From feral dogs, with only 11 adults now left, here are the final group, learning manners, understanding love:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPAhy5zmJY8

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5sPR5fbkmk

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCmtYxEOm_g

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX7SX6-l2tg

    http://basenjirescue.org/DOGS/FL/FL-Wimauma.asp

    Debra

    Go to the site, type in Garland, TEXAS and vote for the Basenji Rescue or use the below. Most browsers will save so the next time you are automatically given BRAT to vote for.

    Vote for a Shelter @ The Animal Rescue Site
    www.theanimalrescuesite.com

  • And remember that the shelter challenge goes until March something – so you need to vote EVERY DAY.

  • Oh oh, BRAT has slipped out of the top ten!
    Vote, vote, vote.

  • I know, just came to post. Please ask 10 of your friends, email every day or 2 a reminder. Surely we can bump this back up!

  • We are still out of top.. but encouraged at 12… PLEASE nag your friends and family to help!

    1 Villalobos Rescue Center
    Santa Clarita, CA

    2 Rescue Ink
    New York City, NY

    3 Blind Cat Rescue and Sanctuary, Inc.
    St Pauls, NC

    4 Rolling Dog Ranch Animal Sanctuary
    Lancaster, NH

    5 The Cat House on the Kings
    Parlier, CA

    6 The Oasis Sanctuary
    Benson, AZ

    7 Rikkis Refuge
    Orange, VA

    8 Best Friends Animal Society (previous grand prize winner, ineligible for top prizes)*
    Kanab, UT

    9 Delaware Valley Golden Retriever Rescue
    Reinholds, PA

    10 Oldies But Goodies (Northern VA) ****er Rescue
    Newington, VA

    11 Save-A-Pet
    Grayslake, IL

    12 Basenji Rescue and Transport, Inc.
    Garland, TX

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    @kembe thank you for passing this info along!
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    The rules did change this time and made it more fair: Under the rules of the 2012 Shelter+ Challenge: ? No group may win more than one Grand Prize in 2012. Winners of the Grand Prize are not eligible for state or regional grants during the same voting round, but are eligible for all other prizes. We congratulate Blind Cat Rescue & Sanctuary, Inc., our first Grand Prize winners of 2012! ? Regional prizes (State, Canadian, or International) may not be won during two consecutive voting rounds by a single organization; they are now limited to a maximum of two prizes during non-consecutive voting rounds per group per year. ? Weekly Winners are not eligible for Regional (State, Canadian, or International) awards during the same voting round. Weekly Winners are not excluded from Grand prizes and Special prizes.<<< But I agree. I think that they should limit Grand Prize to every OTHER year and state to once a year, not every other voting. It has become much like a steady supplemental income for a few groups. I think after so much money, the group should be eliminated completely for a while. As it is, many wonderful rescues have zero chance.
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    VOTE! I voted and don't see BRAT in the top ten…. let's get busy!
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    Sharron, thanks for bringing this forward again. Vote every day, folks!
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    Sorry my welcome is so late. Let me know if you need anything re BRAT. I love that group!