Did you vote for Celia Hammonds in the Mumsnet animal charity vote? They are in the final and need your vote again

[thecatneuterer]

The final of the Animal Friends Insurance competition which will see one animal charity win £100.000 is now taking place.

Mumsnet voted overwhelming for The Celia Hammond Animal Trust www.celiahammond.org to be a finalist. They now need your vote again in the final.

Please vote here:

www.animalfriends.co.uk/100kcharitygiveaway/?fbclid=IwAR1n_BI-sH85-UBYlFHIrqPHNP2NCLjBNX47hdULtNyO0_b6_XBjVdXgxB4

I just want to rub the furry little tummy!

Asbo cat seconds Leroys motion

Voted!!

How many do you have on the bed every night TCN?

Voted

Someone I know was telling me today about a CHAT volunteer with 20+ cats. I wonder who that could be.

Hmmm. If only we knew of someone.

Leroy lookin' for more votes for CH.

And shamelessly bumping the thread in the process.

Bumping with Olicat's best stern look.

I’m quaking. What’s next Olicat? The hard stare.

Inaction only looks good on cats. Vote!

Update on this. Streetvets are not a charity. Statement from Animal Friends suggests if they win and don’t get recognition as a charity then they won’t get a penny.
Another reason to vote for Celia Hammond.

Wowzer. I knew about them not being a charity, and I knew they have applied for charitable status, but I didn't know CHAT would get it should it not go through ....

@LanaorAna2 I only have the one cat on my bed at night - Lydia. Lydia is very definitely top cat. She has claimed the bed and no other cat is allowed anywhere near. She also has the right to eat first at the communal food dish, alone, and only when she has finished do all the other cats pile in, elbowing each other out of the way. She's quite some cat is Lydia.

She sounds really special.
I don’t know what happens to the money if they don’t achieve charity status. That wasn’t included in the statement.
CHAT does such amazing work and you too TCN. I have voted and shared on FB. Thanks partly to you I also volunteer at a shelter. Some of the cats that come in.

Lydia rocks. Mr C's just entertained guests for drinks and been incredibly good about not eating the ham laid out with ceremony on a platter. M&S ham, innit.

He shot me a backwards look of deep mourning and reproach as he allowed himself to be picked up and cuddled senseless by a guest, then passed from neighbourhood lady to neighbourhood lady, each more of a drunken spinster than the last.

Mine wouldn’t allow such dreadful behaviour. Revenge would be stealthy and sharp.

Voted. This cat caught a birdie.

I refuse to believe such a dainty cat caught a bird.

Asbo ought to take charge of Brexit. He'd show those pesky neighbours who's Boss. Fluffy that is a glorious mugshot.

Bumping.

(Am so close to Fluffycloudland77’s post I think I’m probably more Rowed Over than Bumped, but...)

Have of course voted for CHAT & am genuinely shocked they somehow let an organisation that’s not a charity enter. Just... surely if you’re running a competition for charities to win money you get their charity number as part of the process. You know, to ensure their legitimacy?

My Brownie Unit sponsor the very dashing CHAT-cat Mr Brown - you can’t really see it in this picture, but his facial markings give him a slight look of the WWI fighter ace... when they were choosing which cat to sponsor they picked him in part because the blurb about him mentioned he has a neurological condition & they were worried other people might not pick him “because not everyone is understanding about disabilities; & we don’t want him to think that he’s not as good as the other cats”. (They were also a bit worried about whether the other cats would be friends with him, but we reassured them that cats are MUCH cleverer than humans & he has lots of friends despite having a disability.)

We also collect used stamps for CHAT & have done a few donations of food/toys/bedding/treats to our local branch. The Brownies are quite proud of “our” cat (I've overheard some showing-off to the Cubs on the matter) & get excited about his letters. Two of our oldest Brownies did a collection of items for our local branch for their Charities badge at our National Cat Day meeting at the start of the month. (Of all the festivals & celebrations happening this term, the Brownies were keenest to celebrate this. Even after we told them that no, we wouldn’t invite some local cats to join us for the evening...)

Had I not adopted my two cats as 8-week-old kittens they’d have had to go to CHAT. Where potentially I’d have then adopted them, as I’d been planning to adopt from CHAT before my moglets basically dropped into my lap (from a local loft - undersized & weaned onto adult food; having had barely any human contact; & confused by the concept of anything beyond that loft). CHAT so deserve the money - the difference that £100,000 could make to them is... incredible.

They really are wonderful at CHAT - if I’ll ever get rich, they are first on my list!

bumpo

My Brownies decided last week we’re going to buy the local CHAT cats some Christmas presents with the money we raise at coffee morning next month rather than keep it for ourselves.

We’re not going to raise anything like £100, never mind £100,000, so

BUMP

Marie that’s lovely.
Bump!!