From the Humane Society of Harford County:
The Humane Society of Harford County (HSHC) has launched its 2nd annual “Make Your Pet a Pin-Up” 2012 calendar contest, and the search is on to find the silliest, cutest, funniest or most remarkable pet photo for the cover of the calendar. The contest officially begins today, and it will conclude on October 31st at 11:50 p.m. EST.
The pet photo with the most votes (donations) at the end of the contest will be awarded the cover page of the calendar and two tickets to the 2012 Bow Wow Boogie, Harford County’s largest gala for homeless and neglected animals. The pet photo that finishes in second and third place will receive a $50 and a $25 gift card, respectively, to PetSmart. The second through thirteenth place winners will each be featured as a pet of the month.
To enter your favorite pet photo(s) online, visit https://www.360photocontest.com/106. A minimum $10 donation is required per photo. You may enter as many photos as you like, but photos must contain animals only, please. Entries may also be submitted through the US mail to the Humane Society of Harford County’s Calendar Contest, 2208 Connolly Road, Fallston, MD 21047 with the appropriate donation amount ($10 minimum per photo). Entries must be postmarked by October 17, 2011 and will appear online within 48 hours of receipt. A complete list of contest rules is available at https://www.360photocontest.com/106.
After submitting a photo, entrants have the opportunity to send an email with a unique URL to friends and family members to vote for their photo. Votes are $1 per vote with a minimum of five votes. Voters can apply all of their votes to one image or divide them across any number of pets’ entries. Votes can also be sent through the US mail to the Humane Society of Harford County’s Calendar Contest, 2208 Connolly Road, Fallston, MD 21047 with the appropriate donation amount (votes are $1 each, with a minimum $5 donation for five votes). Include a note with the check stating the pet’s name, the owner’s name, your phone number and how you want your votes distributed. Votes must be postmarked by October 17, 2011 and will be reflected online within 48 hours of receipt.
You can also pre-order the 2012 calendar now for just $10. Calendars will be ready for pick-up in mid-November. Order forms are available at https://www.360photocontest.com/106.
Entry fees as well as votes are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. Let the fun begin!
About the Humane Society of Harford County:
The Humane Society of Harford County, Inc., is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to the welfare and well-being of the approximately 4,500 animals that come to us each year. We promote the kind treatment of homeless, stray and abandoned animals by providing shelter, care, adoptions, and community education. We are not a county agency nor are we affiliated with any national or regional organization. Your tax-deductible donations, bequests, and proceeds from events are crucial to our life-saving efforts on behalf of the animals of our community.
I approached the Humane Society about adopting a cat last September. I met the kitten with my son and we asked them to make preparations for us to pick it up the next day and to make sure we had all the paperwork filled out in advance. When we showed up we spent about a half hour filling out paperwork and I was subjected to a lecture on all the things I must do for my new adopted pet otherwise the Humane Society reserved the right to take it back.
I looked at the girl and told her pointedly that the Humane Society seems to show more concern for pets than our society does for people who reproduce with no regard for how to care for the children they spawn or the wicked and nasty people they expose their kids to. I mentioned specifically a girl who was on welfare for food, power and medical care to the tune of over $20,000 a year who just married the third father of her third baby after he got out of prison for trying to pass a forged prescription for a controlled substance.
I realize that it’s important to care about someone besides yourself, and if you adopt a pet without regard for its well being there is something wrong with you – but how about a little perspective in our society? Is a pet being adopted in a good home more important than children being raised in a bad home by sick or dysfunctional people?
Maybe you can search for a cover model and pin-up stars for your “Welfare Queen of the Month” calendar.
Um it’s the Humane Society of course they have more concern for pets? You wasted your speech on someone I doubt gives a crap.
Sadly you can control who pets go to, you cant control who has kids
And your rant to the person who is looking out for the welfare (something you obviously can’t deal with) of their cats is supposed to resonate with her? I would guess that she is not there to support your particular brand of politics, and that she is only there to do her job.
Glad to hear the cat is doing so well. However, dude, you on the other hand, need to chill. It’s all Obama’s fault anyway.
Whether you care to believe it or not it’s everyone’s responsibility. You can marginalize people and place them in the corner and give them money in the hopes they will go away but their deficiencies will come back to haunt us all in the form of her progeny.
It’s just a cat. And she is a human being as repulsive and as degenerate as her behaviors may be.
And I can’t save her, but I saved a cat.
Well the cat is doing fine with or without the intrusion by the Humane Society. But I think you understood my point.
Your point is clear. I fully intend to rant to my postman later today about my taxes, my doctor about the poor service I received last week at a car dealership, and my spouse about my boss insisting I adapt my attire at work. Each will be equally effective.
Seriously Dave, you took up this woman’s time with your self-serving rant about something she could not remotely effect in any way. You are lucky she didn’t have you removed from the premesis. It is great you have provided a home for a cat who otherwise may well have been euthanized. That is a wonderful thing to do, but it is not your right to harangue everyone with your own personal agenda/vendetta against one person.
Your obsession with this one person seems unhealthy at best, veering toward creepy and unstable.
So the kids heard about this so we entered the cat pic, Well they haven’t put it up, yes we paid,,,Sadly the animals suffer, I guess they didn’t like our pic.
Did your cat picture get put up yet?
Yeah, his is the ugly one.
There’s some really cute pictures on the website 🙂