Champion of My HeartA real-time memoir about life with a fearful border collie, by Roxanne Hawn

M’wah! Lilly and I offer our biggest THANK YOU to everyone who nominated Champion of My as Best Dog Blog in the 2012 Petties (DogTime Media Pet Blog Awards). We made the finals! So, once again, we need your help (and your votes)! Here’s how.

Voting ends Friday, July 29, 2011.

How to Vote Champion of My Heart as Best Dog Blog

1. Go to the DogTime Media Petties Page (use this URL of the link doesn’t work http://dogtime.com/petties.html).

2. Click on the little button next to Champion of My Heart in the Best Dog Blog Category (left-hand column, second block).

3. Select your choices in the other categories, if you’d like. (Our suggestions below. You do NOT have to vote in every category).

4. Click the VOTE button at the bottom , and you’re done.

If you do NOT see the VOTE button, hold down your SHIFT key and click on your page reload icon. That forces the page to dump your cache and use the most recent version of the page available.

UPDATE ON VOTING RULES (7/6/11 @ 11:30 am)

Unlike in 2010, when you could only vote once per email address, this year you can vote every day … just not excessively. According to DogTime’s Chrstina Kwan, “We aren’t capturing email like we were in the nominations phase. However, my tech team has assured me that there is something in place to prevent someone from sitting at the computer all day long submitting votes. Telling readers to go and vote once or twice a day is fine, but not excessive voting.”

That said, Lilly and I would appreciate:

• One vote now
• One vote each day (through July 29), if you are so inclined.
  

Extra Love and Gratitude to Those Who Campaign for Us

We appreciate every vote . Extra credit, good mojo, and eternal thanks to those who post our voting plea via email, Facebook, and/or Twitter as well:

Suggested Tweet:

I voted for @champofmyheart for Best Dog Blog. Won’t you please do the same? http://su.pr/1ib892

Suggested Facebook Post:

Our friends from @ChampionofMyHeart need your votes for the Best Dog Blog Award. I vote for them once each day, and I’m asking you to do the same. http://su.pr/1ib892

Share the Best Pet Blog Awards LOVE
With Champion of My Heart Friends

We’re happy to report that several of our pet blogging friends also made the finals in various Petties categories. Lilly and I would consider it a personal favor, if you voted for them too.

You do NOT have to vote in every category to take part, but we know our friends would appreciate the help.

Best Overall Pet Blog: Pet News of Views

Best Dog Blog: Champion of My Heart

Best Cat Blog: The Conscious Cat

Best Cause Related Blog: Be the Change for Animals … or K9Chronicles Rescue Me … or Raising Ruby

Best Blog Post: Raising Ruby … OR … I Love Rescue Animals … or Sparkle Cat

Best Designed Blog: your choice

Best Social Integration Blog: your choice

Funniest Blog or Blogger: Will My Dog Hate Me? … OR … Grouchy Puppy

The deadline for this year’s pet blog award nominations is tomorrow, Wednesday, June 29. Lilly and I would VERY much appreciate your nomination as best dog blog. If you’ve already done it, thanks MUCHO. If not, we hope you’ll take a few minutes to help.

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It’s time again for the Petties (pet blogging awards from DogTime Media). Last year, we were so honored that Champion of My Heart won the Best Dog Blog Award. Lilly and I are again asking for your help. Nominations for the 2011 Petties are now open (June 8). Please nominate us and ask all your friends / family / followers to do the same.

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The $500 donation is one of the biggest reasons I hoped to win the DogTime Media Best Dog Blog Award. It took some doing to work out the details, but I had the chance to celebrate the donation that YOU made possible last Friday. Thanks, again, for your votes!!

This bonus $500 helped the Never Shock a Puppy coalition reach its goal of raising more than $2,500 for the Humane Society of Boulder Valley.

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The experience of winning the DogTime 2010 Best Dog Blog Award at BlogPaws West this weekend still astounds me. I may have managed NOT to cry on the podium, but I’ve been pretty weepy ever since.

I didn’t want to get my hopes up, and I’d convinced myself another nominee was unbeatable. Many thanks to my dog food blog collaborator and friend Anthony Holloway, from K9Cuisine.com, who told me at dinner Friday night that if they knew the outcome, they wouldn’t hold the contest. I guess that’s something he has told the little league teams he coaches for years. You can read his version of this conversation on his CEO Blog today.

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I have no clue! We find out at lunch today if we won that DogTime Best Dog Blog Award. Honestly, we don’t expect to win because one of our fellow nominees has a HUGE online and social media presence (and a bazillion followers). Still, they told all of us to prepare a little acceptance speech, and we had to sign video waivers because the whole thing will be filmed. So we’ll see.

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Many thanks to all of you for your nominations. You did it! Lilly and I are finalists in the Best Dog Blog Category. And, we would really, Really, REALLY appreciate your votes.

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