Zootoo Makeover Contest

Thanks to all who have signed up. The Austin Humane Society just moved into 7th place!! When I first joined back in December, the shelter was in 49th place and I thought we'd be lucky just to crack the top 20. Check THIS out for more info on how the contest works, but here is the skinny. Read the last blog for more info and remember to use my referral link when join up and finish the registration process by clicking on the link in the confirmation e-mail you get after you join up. Thanks.

Phase I: This is the phase we are in now. It working on point accumulation. Thanks to you all the shelter is steadily climbing up the rankings in points! This phase ends on Mar. 13, 2009 -- 59 days left!

Phase II: Top 20 shelters are visited by Zootoo officials and they determine which 10 shelters are most in need of the makeover. Points don't matter here. This phase ends on Apr. 1, 2009.

Phase III: This phase starts Apr 4, 2009 and ends on the 24th. This is the public voting phase to determine the winner. So if we make the top 10 in phase 2, please be ready to vote and spread the word!

If we can stay in the top 20 in phase I, then we are guaranteed at least $5,000 for the shelter. If we make the top 10 then we get at least $10,000 - first runner up gets $50K and second runner up gets $25K.

A volunteer at AHS is tracking point totals for us on how we our doing in phase I...here is is last update:

Up another place to 7th! We gained 9633 points yesterday, even though it was a school day, and now have 224,657 points. We're on track to march past both 6th and 5th places before the week is over.

And we continue to gain affiliated members. Just a couple days ago, I wrote that we had increased by 134 in the previous 5 days to 715 members. Well, when I looked this morning we had 841 affiliated members, up 126 members in just two days. Way to go!