The Animal Rescue Site along with Petfinder have been running a contest with weekly winners and one big $100,000 prize for the shelter that gets the most daily clicks in total during the course of the contest.
I'm a little guy, a one person operation. And yet, you blog readers have at one point, pushed me to Number 13 in Oregon, in votes.
How do little guys ever have a chance over big time big publicity shelters like Best Friends? We probably don't have a chance.
Unless, people would think local. And vote local. Best Friends is in Utah. They have lots of paid staff and a lot of publicity. They have a get out the vote machine ready to go and bring in the daily clicks, because of their website, e-mail lists and forums. They have a very beautiful full color magazine they put out. But do they do a thing for Oregon? No. They don't.
The little guys really don't have much of a chance by comparison. The Click Daily to feed rescued cats and dogs campaign the Animal Rescue Site has going, well donations generated by those clicks go to a very few shelters. Again, they're the big ones.
I know, the big ones have lots of mouths to food, so that's good for them.
Money generated in Animal Rescue Sites' click to feed campaign also goes to the Petfinder Foundation and that money went last year to buying some generators for shelter emergency backup, should disaster strike the area where a shelter operates. This is a good thing. I can't remember how many Petfinder gave away, again, in a contest, using Animal Rescue Site funds in part. These things are needed by shelters and usually there's no money to buy them.
The Little guys like myself don't stand much chance against the publicity machines some of these big shelters have in place. But for awhile, I was number 13 in Oregon, in total clicks and that is only because of you blog readers out there.
One thing I wish these money distributors would consider in contests. I wish they wouldn't be giving money or equipment to shelters that kill healthy animals. Why support such operations? Reward instead those groups and individuals actually moving forward to help animals, and do not reward those who do not change and kill thousands upon thousands each year.
Anyhow, to you crazy clicking blog readers, I love you guys.
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I'm clicking every day. I agree with you about supporting only no kill facilities and the Little Guys. In the UK we see some animal charities sitting on VAST fortunes, able to afford the publicity and fat salaries, whilst individual efforts to help animals get ignored or refused even the most basic help from these wealthy organisations - this world is arse about face sometimes, it really is.
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