We had an overwhelming show of support for all ten finalists in this year’s $1,000 Catification Makeover sponsored by The Vertical Cat! We received 22,659 total votes. Clearly all of these organizations are doing excellent work and each one of them deserves to win!
Competition for the top spot was fierce! We are pleased to announce the first place winner of this year’s contest is Cat’s Cradle Shelter in Fargo, North Dakota with 5,774 votes! Congratulations! These lucky cats will receive the grand prize package including a phone consultation with the “Catification Team,” Jackson Galaxy of My Cat From Hell and Kate Benjamin of Hauspanther. We will work together with the team from The Vertical Cat to plan a spectacular new room using $1,000 worth of Vertical Cat climbing products. Cat’s Cradle will even get to choose a custom finish for their snazzy new setup!
But that’s not all! We have something for all of the finalists! Here are the final standings:
- 2nd place – Puffy Paws Kitty Haven – Englewood, FL with 3,861 votes
- 3rd place – Humane Society of Vero Beach & Indian River County – Vero Beach, FL with 3,529 votes
- 4th place – Colony Cats (& Dogs) – Dublin, OH with 2,204 votes
- 5th place – Tree House Humane Society – Chicago, IL with 1,928 votes
- 6th place – Hobo Hotel for Cats, Inc. – Lake Charles, LA with 1,663 votes
- 7th place – Save The Animals Rescue Team II (S.T.A.R.T. II) – Englewood, NJ with 1,423 votes
- 8th place – HART (Homeless Animals Rescue Team of Maine) – Cumberland, ME with 839 votes
- 9th place – PAWsitively Cats – Tucson, AZ with 803 votes
- 10th place – Friends of Cats – El Cajon, CA with 635 votes
Here are the goodies you’ll all be getting:
Auntie Em Creations is going to work with the second place finalist to create a custom configured 5-tier Cat Condo, plus they are giving the third place finalist a Bunk Bed, and BOTH the fourth and fifth place finalists will receive a Single-tier Hammock.
The second and third place finalists will each receive a 3 Ramp Wall Package and a set of Cat-Themed Wall Decals compliments of CatsPlay.com.
The second place thru tenth place finalists will each receive a 23″ Cat Shelf from The Vertical Cat.
All ten finalists will receive prize packages including a Valerian Spiced Kitty Cuddler Cat Toy from Plain Brown Tabby; Lion Lures from Tiger Teasers; a case of 12 cage scratchers from Stretch & Scratch; and an assortment of designer cat toys from Hauspanther.
Thanks to everyone who nominated a shelter and who voted. A big thank you to all of our sponsors and especially to Kathie from The Vertical Cat for all her hard work making this contest happen for a second year! We will be in touch with all the finalists shortly to get your prizes to you.
Woo Hoo!! North Dakota won!! I thought this would be the perfect shelter to win. Has anyone ever been to North Dakota? I have. It must be hard to get donations due to the population and economy. Have fun Cat’s Cradle Shelter, and give the kitties a hug from me!!
And they REALLY needed it because they lost a LOT of their gear in a bad ringworm outbreak earlier this year. They even put their reception room furniture outside to clean the carpet and it was STOLEN off the sidewalk right outside their door! They NEEDED this! I’m so happy to have helped!
Actually, North Dakota is growing and it has about the lowest unemployment rate in the country, about 3.5%. There are very generous people here and Cat’s Cradle has a national following.
WOO HOO!!!!!!! Great stuff for all of them! Thank you to all of the sponsors, Kate and Jackson!
I live in North Dakota and we have numerous rescues around town. You would be surprised the love and dedication our smaller community has for our animals. In fact, we just had a raid on a puppy mill in the area and had over 170 dogs tht needed vet care and adoption. A local vet donated their services (worth tens of thousands of dollars) and we had an overwhelming number of homes willing to adopt them and so they’ve all been placed! Cats Cradle just had a ringworm outbreak (I think that’s the type of worm it was) and had to get rid of a lot of theirs toys, and in the meantime had their furniture stolen. Fargo is an amazing community and I am proud te be from here and tickled pink that cats cradle will be able to make over their rescue after such devastation this year!!!
Congratz to Cat’s Cradle for taking 1st place!!! Also, Congrats to the 2nd-10th place winners as well!!! I think every one did an amazing job promoting their shelters, too bad only one can win the Catification! Thank you to Hauspanther for such an amazing contest!!! I am sure all the winners are proud to be a part of such a lovely and thoughtful event/contest! <3
Congratulations to all the winners. They do such great work.
I’m so glad that all of the top ten benefitted from this contest. Way to go!!! A nice way to show support for those who do so much for animals in need!
This is wonderful — everyone wins! Very glad 😉 and thanking everyone responsible. Now, GO FORTH AND CATIFY >^^<
Well at least we made the top 10! Congratulations Cat’s Cradle! Enjoy your new kitty furnishings! I’m sure everyone will love their new housing and goodies! Sending happy adoption thoughts and paws crossed your way from Vero Beach!! 🙂
I know all the shelters do wonderful work but I’m so happy for Cat’s Cradle! This came at a really good time. Fargo, you ROCK for stepping up and voting!
The awesome thing about this contest is that each of the the top 10 shelters won some great things. I am so happy Corky;s Shelter The Cats Craddle took first You guys run a great contest and have some great prizes. I sure hope eveyone that voted supports your organization and orders some great products for their favorite felines too.
Thank you
Puffy Paws Kitty Haven came in second place with the makeover contest, what a honor!!! Cats Cradle came in first, we are so happy for them and their cats.We will be getting a 5 tier cat condo from Auntie Em Creations LLC. , how cool is that, what a wonderful thing for the cats! plus they will be getting all kinds of toys! We are just so honored that we came in second, we feel all the rescues deserved to win! Thank you everyone for voting and making this a dream come true for these cats , they will get presents because of this.
Thank You
Mad Kitty Love
Chrissy Kingston
Puffy Paws Kitty Haven
While I love entering contests for myself, I *always* feel like I win when I see these great shelters getting prizes. Thank you Hauspanther, The Vertical Cat, Jackson and Kate.
So happy for all of you !!! And I thank you all for the love and time put in for our beloved Kitties !!!
i know we all had the chance to vote for our favourite shelter, but
we all owe a HUGE THANK YOU TO HAUSPANTHER for arranging for these wonderful products to be donated to these cats. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!