Aug
13

Let’s Adopt! Pepsi Challenge – a sad realization…

HALFWAY POINT!!!

Exciting???!! Well not so much.

We just fell to 110.
I promised myself I would fight for the Pepsi Grant until the bitter end, but there’s only so much a handful of people can do.
I wholeheartedly thank everyone who supported this great opportunity for Let’s Adopt! and worked so hard, voted daily, if not twice, rallied friends, grandpa & grandma.
This evening I browsed a few pages of our ‘fans’ on Facebook and noted how few of you bothered to re-post even once, put a little note in your profile to vote for us.

Yet Farmville, Mafia Wars and most ironically, PETville are some of the favorite time killers out there.

Daily, hourly, if not every few minutes, you’re chasing cyber goats, or chickens, feed you little cyber puppy…
Well, in the real world, puppies die, kitties die.

They are being tortured to death, starved, I just learned about a cat at my vet clinic who was dropped of because someone kicked her stomach so hard it was in her chest…
I’d love to take that cat on, but I don’t have the funds or the volunteers to do so. So, the staff does what it can, they did an emergency surgery on the cat – I don’t know whether she survived.
I don’t want to know, because I can’t make any difference in its life right now.
$250k was a big dream – a lot of money to save a lot of animals, fund spay /neuter – no kill action – we had a grand dream and an even bigger plan.
But halfway through the month it looks like we can’t compete with Farmville.
We can’t compete with your virtual reality.
My reality are the animals. Every day I see them, I sense them, I smell them, I live them.
Every day my heart breaks over one I couldn’t save for one or the other reason.
What I never did was give up or put my head in the sand.
I’d always try until the end.
So, what I am going to do now is, hand the voting power and our future in terms of receiving this grant money to you. The cyber farmers, virtual pet owners, mafia lords.
I challenge you to show that you’re alive out there and help us to get the votes we need. We need to make it into the top 2 of our category.
It was a feasible concept. Now I am too disillusioned to believe that.

Let’s Adopt! is a network of ACTIVists not couch potatoes.
You want change? Join us. You want to chase cyber chickens?

Please don’t waste our time with ohhs and aaahs over cute dogs on death row.
I could post pictures of abused cats and dogs to bring my point across, but I am honestly not very hopeful it would make a difference.

Thank You… I guess

BE The Change

Misha

August 13, 2010 // About Let's Adopt! USA, Action Alerts, no-kill, volunteers // 15 Comments //

15 Comments to “Let’s Adopt! Pepsi Challenge – a sad realization…”

August 13, 2010 at 10:20 PM
sujen says:

I keep texting and e-mailing from 2 differnt accounts, but not much change in the rank.. Let’s hope the others come back to their senses and realize how important to vote daily.
amy be they are not aware that you can vote daily. Also the site is tricky, after you log on, you might assume that you voted automatically, but that is not the case , you need to click on to “vote for this idea” again until you see the sentence ” thanks for your vote”

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August 13, 2010 at 10:40 PM
Linda Baker says:

I have been voting twice a day since I heard about it, so sorry, I know exactly what you mean, people play those worthless games and ignore something important like saving precious lives! I’am so so sorry.
I also vote for a local shelter here where I live that so far only has 6 kennels til they get a new facilty,whenever that might be, but it seems I must be the only one voting for that, for the second go around too, it’s not even visible in the ranks!

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August 13, 2010 at 11:25 PM
Pelin Tezer says:

Misha good morning … I so well understand you! I, with my very low profile compared to Pepsi, have been trying real hard to attract a few seconds of what we call humans and have them vote but NO, they are not interested. It was a wonderful idea of my husband to “buy” their votes or their few seconds, if that is the right terminology. He designs little RC airplanes and I design small cross stitch patterns … You can see what I mean here : http://www.pelintezer.blogspot.com … LOVE and my high esteem to you and don’t despair, may be not today but YOU WILL WIN one day … Bless you … Pelin … PS : Hubby is also giving away one of his designs in return for each vote And let me tell you, it is not raining cats and dogs here but indeed VOTES )) for the betterment of animal rights in Turkey

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August 13, 2010 at 11:35 PM
Peter Askin says:

Misha, I haven’t been doing any of the things you outlined (chasing virtual chickens or raising crops), and I certainly haven’t been ooing and awing over any cute Internet pets, but working with others to save lives and advocate for our companion animal friends. Its true, we haven’t been promoting the Pepsi Challenge as much as we should. We’ll try to change that. Point taken.

P.S. What the hell are they doing to that guy’s eye???

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August 14, 2010 at 12:00 AM
Teresa Turner says:

I’ve been voting and sharing…..will continue to do so

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August 14, 2010 at 12:22 AM
Ginger Snoot-Snud says:

Hrm, well that sucks! We can’t let it end like that! ;D

Nuthin like a little guilt to motivate the troops?? The sad part is some of us need a kick in the pants like that to remember where our priorities should be, & your message is all too real & from the heart. So… I’ll tell ya what, I’ll make a pledge to post & vote everyday to my 2000+ kitty rescue friends… & ask them to do the same. Maybe we can get it going back in the right direction & find out if taking a moment’s break from Vampire Wars really CAN make a difference??

Btw – I prolly wouldn’t even have READ this if it weren’t for Alex. ;>

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August 14, 2010 at 1:19 AM
Stephanie Vitt says:

I have been voting every day and posting comments on another site Pets for Vets. I have reposted many times, although I will admit NOT every time. I also play farmVille. I do it to relax and regroup a little bit. I am crossposting, signing petitions ,sending e-mails, making phone calls whatever it takes! I spend around 12 hours a day online. MOST of that is activism. Thank you, now I will go vote .

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August 14, 2010 at 2:33 AM
Nina Davies says:

I have been diligently voting everyday…. and will continue to do so, I know its only one vote, but it could be the one that tips the balance !…. Living outside of the US how can we be sure that our vote even makes it through cyber-space to be counted……

I am keeping faith with the friends that I invited in the hope that they too have been voting regularly.

Misha I applaud the tenacity of you and the Let’s Adopt team, you send out a lesson that many could well do to learn.

Keep the dream alive…. it WILL happen one day.

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August 14, 2010 at 9:17 AM
Jayne Matthews (UK) says:

For some reason I have only been able to vote once a day. I’m not on FB that much at the moment only sharing things quickly. I am in the middle of doing a course to become a dog trainer/dog psychologist to be able to help more babies in the future. Whenever I am on I try to remember to vote. There is so much to do and I have so little time at the moment, sorry.

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August 14, 2010 at 9:32 PM
Tina says:

I vote every day, I managed to vote twice one day, under my facebook account and also my private email. I have tried to do so again, but it won’t let me sign in under my private email. I try to vote the 10 votes it says I have, but I can’t seem to get through, it just thanks me for my previous vote.

I don’t know how to make it stay on my page permanently, but I have shared the link on my page before.

I know how you feel, Misha. I arranged a big dinner party last night for some wealthy friends to ask for donations to rescue an elephant, not one of them would give me anything. : (

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August 14, 2010 at 9:36 PM
Bonnie says:

so sad

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August 15, 2010 at 1:39 PM
Jan Goad says:

Yep, the web site is pretty crappy and confusing.

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August 16, 2010 at 3:46 AM
aysen ertur says:

doggedly voting everyday

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August 17, 2010 at 7:07 PM
Misha says:

Thanks for the support, your personal messages and enouraging words, everyone!
Our chances of winning this at this point are close to zero.
It takes a great start and then maintaining the numbers.
We are still doing very well considering the thousands of causes in the running, but realistically – we’re toast.
We’ll move our attention and resources to our important cases, such as Ripley, the brain injured blind/deaf kitty.
Please don’t hesitate to support our work via the Simba Fund.

http://bethechange.chipin.com/letsadopt-simbafund
Viktor doesn’t mention this often enough, but please note that even though it looks as if we have enough funds in there to spend a long weekend in Saint-Tropez. Reality is that most of the money accumulated in the current chip ins, has already been spent on cases such as Ripley.
Thanks again for your support, everyone!
-Misha

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August 26, 2010 at 1:27 AM
CARINE says:

DEAR* MISHA I GO FOR VOTE AND SHARE THIS !! AND I AGREE WIHT YOU* ALL MY DEVOTION AND TANKS FOR ALL WHAT YOU DO* FOR ANIMALS*** GOD BLESS U AND BLES L’ETS ADOPT!

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