Help your favorite rescue group win ten thousand bucks.
You can't vote for President until November. But you can vote for your favorite rescue group right now -- and help them win $10,000.
Care2.com -- a Web site that connects the socially conscious with news and petitions for a variety of causes, including animal welfare -- is hosting the America's Favorite Animal Shelter contest. No butterfly ballots here; voting is easy!
Here is a list of of all the Florida shelters, by city, in the running. There are many from South FLorida. Scroll down to find your choice.
Don't see your group? Go up to the right hand corner and you can add it.
There is a total of $15,000 in prize money, with the first-place winner receiving $10,000.
The balloting ends at midnight, Nov. 1.
Hurry, hurry! The leader, Small Paws Rescue of Oklahoma, already has 1,994 votes.
Care2.com also has downloadable information and fliers to help rescue groups promote the contest as well as the work they do.
The contest is being held in conjunction with Adopt-A-Pet.com, a Web site similar to Petfinder that can point you to adoptable companion animals in your area. Adopt-A-Pet also is offering prizes to people who recruit the greatest number of voters as well as picking shelters at random to receive $1,000.
ANGIE BRENNAN, a Sun-Sentinel page designer,
lives with four dogs and one boyfriend. And has a lifetime of animal stories to share.
DIANE LADE, a reporter on the Sun-Sentinel's Help Team, has lived with cats, dogs, reptiles, fish, an iguana, and an armadillo.
CYNDI METZGER, editor of the Sun-Sentinel's Outlook section, is smitten with Bella, her poodle who regularly ignores requests to sit, stay and get off the ivory-colored sofa. 
JOHN TANASYCHUK, a Sun-Sentinel lifestyle writer, has lived with cats as long as he can remember. He and his partner currently share their home with three.
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Posted by: Luisa Lapus Tiong | October 6, 2008 2:40 AM
ZooToo is running a similar, but much larger-scale contest! A Million Dollar Shelter Makeover. We would love to see the community support us by signing up to any one of these free sites, zootoo.com and care2.com, and voting for our shelter!
What a huge difference these contests can make for your local rescues!
Best of luck to all of us in the running!
Posted by: Jessica Torrence | October 13, 2008 3:39 PM