Please Help DCIN with a Contest

Diabetic Cats in Need is taking part in a popularity contest for the opportunity to win up to $1500 in surgical services from Helping Hands, a low-cost veterinary surgical center in Richmond VA. Some DCIN foster and adopted kitties have had their dentals done there, and having a credit at the center would be AWESOME!

There is no registration or profile sharing to be able to vote. Just click on this page and choose to vote for Diabetic Cats in Need (scroll down to see the choices). You can vote once/daily from an ISP, so you may have several opportunities/day to vote with your home computer, your work computer, and your mobile device.

Voting goes through June 16. DCIN is up against some very tough competition. Please share this request to vote with your social networks. (You can link your friends to the announcements on DCIN's Facebook Events page or our blog page.) You can put it on your electronic calendar to email/remind you once/day to vote.

Thanks in advance for your help!!

~Venita, DCIN Founder and Director

(Posting on FDMB approved by Rebecca, site owner)

 

Will do!

 

Done.

 

I just voted too

 

Done! Right now Diabetic Cats In Need is in 1st Place! :RAHCAT

 

Done and shared!

 

Just voted!

 

I voted last night so it won't let me vote again until later. I'm going to try voting once a day.

 

done

 

Done for 24 hours, then eligible to vote again!

Ella & Rusty

 

how can I tell if I voted?
Is it just by going to the site?

I didn't see any thing to click on....

 

I went back and tried again and got a different page....
so nevermind...

 

Voted!

 

Voting complexities--

Go to this page.

Scroll about half way down.

If you see a list of rescues/shelters with radio buttons next to the names, you have not voted in the past 24 hours from the ISP you are using. Please click the radio button next to DCIN's name then scroll down a bit more and click the submit button.

If, on the other hand, you don't see radio buttons but you see the voting results, you have voted from the ISP you are using within the past 24 hours. Only one vote from each ISP is allowed every 24 hours. But you can vote from multiple ISPs.

 

voted and will vote again tomorrow

 

Voted!

 

Voted yesterday,will do again late.

 

Done....DCIN HAD THE MOST VOTES WITH 13%.

 

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Important to remember that condition. I voted last night, but then this morning it wouldn't let me. The clock seems to not go by calendar date, but by a 24 hour timer of sorts. Compared to other contests like this that I've voted on, this seems to be a much more secure way of taking "vote fraud" out of the equation. Kudos to the guy or gal who programmed it.
If anyone lives in a city that has a free wifi spot every block, though, you could probably vote twenty times on your way to work. Just sayin' :lol:

 

Voted....also posted on the FB group

 

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Bump. DCIN made a strong showing in votes today due in large part to its FDMB friends. However, another rescue in the competition has found the support of a special needs advocate and we have lost an advantage we gained in today's voting.

I have just posted a plea to vote in the contest on a bunch of human diabetic groups and pages I found on Facebook. If you belong to large groups or pages on Facebook and you think it might be appropriate to post a plea for votes on those pages, please do so. Thanks!!

 

15% - DCIN is leading the pack!

 

Done this morning.
And I was able to vote yesterday from work, too

 

I voted from my phone this morning and just tried to vote from my computer. rats.. it won't let me vote. I suppose i should have turned off wifi on my phone before i voted. (if i'm using my home wifi, does that make my computer and my phone the same isp? ) ..but, i can try Mark's phone with the wifi turned off.....! bbl

 

Yep, I don't know anything about "smart" phones, but if yours is drawing its signal from your home Internet connection, that would be the same ISP as your home computer. I hope Mark's phone (off wifi) gives you another voting chance.

 

I can't get this to work from tbp. There are no little circles to click on.

 

You said you voted form there yesterday. If you are seeing results and not little circles, it hasn't yet been 24 hours since you last voted from that ISP.

Posting the voting page here again so people don't have to scroll up. http://www.affordablepetsurgery.com/index_12.htm

 

I was able to vote from my computer.... turned the wifi off on my phone - and was also able to vote from my phone then too

and its been 24 hours since voting from computer so I was able to vote again

 

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Our lead is now down to 37. Please vote for DCIN! http://www.affordablepetsurgery.com/index_12.htm

 

It must have been just shy of 24 hours, then. I'll keep trying to get two votes in a day.

 

DONE

 

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Bump. Please vote at http://www.affordablepetsurgery.com/index_12.htm. Despite all of the votes yesterday, DCIN gained no ground over the second place contender. Please get just one of your friends also to vote today for DCIN to try to widen the gap.

 

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KEEP IT UP!!!

 

Please vote. http://www.affordablepetsurgery.com/index_12.htm DCIN is down by 50 votes.

 

That is awesome Lisa!

 

I just voted from work

 

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Vote everyday until June 16th.

 

I just voted from home, and I voted from work today, too.

 

LET'S GO FOLKS!

 

Thanks Lisa and every one else who is voting and sharing. It's only by six votes, but DCIN is now back in 1st place.

 

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http://www.affordablepetsurgery.com/index_12.htm Please vote.

 

I voted too! Mariko & Lucy

 

http://www.affordablepetsurgery.com/index_12.htm One vote per ISP every 24 hours.

DCIN started this morning with a 90 point lead. We'll be in second place this afternoon (if history is a guide) and then back on top by the end of the day--with your help.

I continue to encourage you to share the contest on your social media sites. DCIN got an endorsement last night from a Boston Terrier Rescue that one of our adoptive Moms belongs to. And spreading the word to other groups makes others more aware that cats do indeed get diabetes and that there are places one can go to for help with that diagnosis.

 

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Just voted from work. We're tied for First!

 

http://www.affordablepetsurgery.com/index_12.htm At mid-day, DCIN's place in the contest is pretty much scruff and scruff with its nearest competitor. Please take the opportunity to vote if you haven't done so from your daytime ISP within the past 24 hours.

I think it would be really nice if DCIN could get some real distance into 1st place so that toward the end of this marathon we can encourage our friends to vote for any groups that have not yet reached 100 votes, thus allowing them to get into the 2nd place raffle for $1000 of services. As of now, 7 of the 31 groups still haven't qualified.

 

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Fabulous idea! I like this a lot. I am sending daily harassment emails to friends and family, and spamming my own FB feed. :lol:

 

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http://www.affordablepetsurgery.com/index_12.htm

Hiya. Aiz Mikey, the DCIN Fundraising Spokescat. Ya know wat? DCIN staid in furst place in de contest all day yesturday (tho not by much). No cat naps fur mai furiends, nope. Yu did wat yu needed to due to keeps DCIN moving furwards. Tank yous all bery much!

Stay wid the game, mai furiends. De awesome Helping Hands Vettybeans sez "1 vote per ISP per 24 hour period." Aiz not zactly sure wat dat means, but wat I sez iz GETS OUT DA VOTE. Puleeze votes 'n puleeze shair. Tell yur Moms, Dads, kids, furiends, kitties, droolers--anybody wif an ISP to vote vote vote fur DCIN. We wantz does sugar cats to gets der teefies cleaned 'n pulled ifen de needs it. ~Mikey!!

 

[Edited to remove post, the gist of which was, vote early and often on any device you have.]

 

Venita - I was referring to their supporters "ethical" debates.

I am sorry if you feel my post wasn't appropriate. My goal has always been about the kitties and trying to quell this mess. I posted two places on their site with calming messages, including the one that you responded positively to. I also replied in the long angry thread and that seemed to help.

I am editing my post above that mentions that Rebecca could remove it if it appeared to out-of-line for me to say vote from every phone/computer, etc.

Lisa

 

DONE

 

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:!: GO VOTE YA'LL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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Done from home this morning, will vote again from work this afternoon.

 

Voted!

 

http://www.affordablepetsurgery.com/index_12.htm Bless you all for voting in this contest. ~Venita

 

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BUMP BUMP BUMP, WE ARE BEHIND. V O T E

 

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:cry: Can't vote yet this morning from home, but on my way to the studio and I can vote from there. BTW around here McDonalds has free WiFi, vote if you stop in there! Or go there and get a smoothie and vote!! i did a Google search for free WiFi in my town, lots of hotspots!

 

Just voted from work. Looks like DCIN is behind. Come on everyone, please vote for DCIN.

 

Voted from home, work, and 3 WiFi hotspots. ;-)

BUMP!

 

Voted from home and from a coffee shop WiFi hotspot!

 

DONE

 

Bump. I found several locations to vote yesterday. One vote per ISP, no matter where you find them!

 

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I took my iPad w/ me yesterday when I went shopping a lot of major stores have free WiFi hot spots. I checked in every store I shopped at and Staples, Office Depot, Home Depot and McDonalds all had free hotspots. I got in 6 votes yesterday. Check when you go out there may be a hotspot!

 

Thanks so much to all for continuing to vote for DCIN. DCIN has some really tough competition.

Voting page---http://www.affordablepetsurgery.com/index_12.htm

 

Vote. Bump.vote. bump http://www.affordablepetsurgery.com/index_12.htm

 

Done, Venita!

 

done!

pass it on people!

 

http://www.affordablepetsurgery.com/index_12.htm Excellent job with voting today. THANKS! DCIN is 300 votes ahead. If you are heading out for evening activities, think about checking for wifi with your cell phone or other mobile device.

 

Done.
I don't have a wifi or anything mobile, but I do what I can

 

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GO VOTE IF YOU HAVEN'T YET TODAY......

spread the word and get a friend to vote too!!

 

Done.
Tomorrow, I can vote twice, once from home and once from work.

 

Done from work, and bumping this condo.

 

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Looks like we have a close competitor! It's a good suggestion if you have multiple devices, to vote from each.

 

DONE

 

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HAS EVERYONE VOTED TODAY?....... and hopefully multiple times for those with access to addt'l ISP's?​

Did you get at least one other person to vote?

Let's keep it up..they're gaining!! :!:

 

I've got three of us who can only vote in the evening....
just got to vote myself....

 

voted!

 

Just voted from work.
They're catching up a little bit. Please vote

 

They're catching up A LOT.

If everyone here gets even ONE MORE person, besides themselves to vote today, that would increase numbers significantly.

Do it!

 

Link to vote ---> http://affordablepetsurgery.com/index_12.htm

Only 326 ahead at 3pm Eastern. Down 100 votes since this morning.

 

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