NEW KONTEST: Tell yer Tale of Devoshun

As Thanksgiving aprochez, it's time to give thanks for the happy homes owr hyoomans have givin us, and heck, it'd be nice for owr hyoomans to aknolije how thankful they are to have us arownd!

So, heer's yer chanse to git yer hyoomans to say why yer importunt to them.

This is a "Tales of Devoshun" contest. For this contest, yer hyooman(s) will rite a storey abowt why YOO are importunt to them. Yoo can inklood text, fotos, video, and anything else yoo can think of. No limits. It can be as long or short as yoo like, and it can be in any format (a story, a poem, a song, a top ten list --- anything!) Yoo can see samples heer. Altho yoo can rite abowt anything, heer are sum things yer persun mite wunt to diskuss if s/he duzn't know ware to start:

• How did yer cat come to liv with yoo?
• How duz yer cat demonstrate affekshun to yoo?
• How has yer cat endeerd him or herself to yoo?
• Did an event happen that bonded yoo with yer cat?
• What makes yer cat a member of yer famly rather than just a creechur yoo feed Fancy Feest to?

Reed this exserpt frum the introdukshun to the book, "Tails of Devotion," by Emily Scott Pottruck to find owt more. And heer's Catster's Tails of Devotion page, with lots of samples.

As an ixzample, this is whut my Food Lady mite rite abowt me:

My Tale of Devoshun to Skeezix the Cat:
I reely love Skeezix the Cat. I'm lukkey to have a cat hoo dresses as well as Skeezix duz. Skeezix has lots of frends. He's a frendly cat. Even tho he's stinky, we still love him. Evry morning, he can't wate to come into the peeple bedroom and sit on my nek and purr. He's the best cat ever. --- By the Food Lady

PRIZE
Heer's all the stuff the lukkey winner will git:

• The book, Tales of Devotion, by Emily Scott Pottruck (all proseeds frum sales of this book go to animul chariteez).
  
• Sponsership of a Best Frends Animul Sankchewery cat in yoo or yer hyooman's name
• A $50 gift certificate to either Honeybaked Ham or Great Harvest Bread Company
• A Whirlybird cat toy
• A can of Mao & Rocky's Vishus Deer Repelunt
  

HOW TO ENTER:

1. Go to blogger.com
2. Sign in with username: frendofskeezix and passwerd: skeezix
3. Click the "Tell Yer Tale of Devoshun" link
4. Create yer entry and publish

ROOLZ

1. Yer Tale of Devoshun must be submitted by yer hyooman(s). Yoo can't rite one abowt yerself and enter it. That wood be cheeting and cheeting izn't nice.
   
2. Yoo can enter one cat or a household of cats for each tale. HOWEVER, no cat can appeer in more than one entrey. (For example, Grr, Midnight and Cocoa cood be entered as three entreez: one for Grr, one for Midnight, and one for Cocoa; or they cood be entered as one entrey: Grr, Midnight and Cocoa; or two entreez: one with Grr and Midnight, and one for Cocoa; but they cood NOT be entered as a groop AND indivijually.)
3. Entreez must be submitted prior to NOON (PST) Friday, November 17th.
   
4. Yoo can update, revise and add to yer entry at any time, even after voting has begun.
   
5. Winners will be chozen by popyuler vote. Voting will begin at 12:01 pm on Saturday, November 18th and continue through 11:59 pm on Wednesday, November 23rd. Voting instrukshuns will be posted on my blog when voting opens.
   
6. In the event of a tie, a panel consisting of Skeezix the Cat, Mao, Rocky the Gutter Cat and Tripper the psyko stray cat will chooze the winner. In that case, the one not chozen the winner will still reeseeve a copy of the book.
7. I can change the roolz anytime I wunt becuz it's my contest.
8. Voting is open to anyone. Only one vote allowed per valid emale adress. Yoo are enkerijed to solisit votes frum yer frends and famly.
9. Eech entrey gits a secund vote. If multiple cats are grooped in a singul entrey, they git one extra vote. If they are in seprit entreez, eech entrey gits a vote. Yoo will post yer extra vote in the comments sekshun of yer entry. For yer extra vote, yoo cannot vote for yerself or a cat in yer howsehold.
10. The winner will be annownst on Thanksgiving Day.
    
    

In case yer wundering why this isn't a contest for YOO to say how importunt yer persun is to yoo, yoo'll git yer chanse with the next contest. The last contest of the yeer will be a "Food Lady/Food Dude of the Yeer Award," in wich yoo'll git to nominate yer persun with yer own tale of devoshun.

NEW KONTEST: Tell yer Tale of Devoshun

http://www.skeezixthecat.com/scratchingpost/2006/11/new-kontest-tell-yer-tale-of-devoshun.html