Canine takes lead in Pet Picture Contest – The Troy Messenger

Canine takes lead in Pet Picture Contest

Revealed 7:11 pm Monday, August 22, 2022

In the end, a canine has gotten off the porch and is making a powerful run towards the end line of the Humane Society of Pike County’s 2023 Pet Picture Contest.

Kaylin Gibson’s pup “Gracie” is main the Pet Picture Contest with 512 votes with Kenny and Elaine Pinckard’s feline, Brandy Grace, holding second place with a tenuous 302 votes.

Cats and kittens proceed to carry the large quantity’s lead within the humane society’s Pet Picture Contest. However, the canine nonetheless have time to enter and tally votes in addition to different pets.

The Humane Society of Pike County will settle for entries within the 2023 Pet Picture Contest till 5 p.m. August 31 and voting will finish at 5 p.m. on September 10. Entry price is $10 and votes are just one greenback.

“There may be nonetheless time to enter a pet within the Pet Picture Contest and we encourage all pet house owners to enter their pets in order that they received’t be dissatisfied,” mentioned Donna Brockmann, president of the Humane Society of Pike County.

The native humane society is the sponsor of the annual Pet Picture Contest which is a fundraiser for the society’s annual spay/neuter clinic.

“Each entry and each vote helps scale back the variety of undesirable, unloved and, too typically mistreated, animals in Pike County,” Brockmann mentioned. “So, all Pike County advantages.”

Brockmann encourages everybody to help a pet within the photograph contest.

“Should you don’t have a guess within the contest or know somebody who does, simply choose a pet that steals your coronary heart and help it along with your votes and encourage others to do the identical,” Brockmann mentioned. “Along with our cowl pet, 13 pets might be honored as month-to-month winners and 52 might be featured weekly winners. Each pet that’s entered might be pictured on the calendar so each calendar might be a treasured assortment of the pets which might be so cherished.”

Coming into on-line and voting is straightforward and handy by visiting the HSPC’s web site at www.pikehumane.org or at Guynn’s Earnings Tax and Bookkeeping Companies, Jinright’s Hillside Antiques and Haisten, Shipman & Wiggins.