Calling all readers, friends, and family! I’m unleashing my inner stage mom and trying to turn my little baby into a star! I’ve entered Willie in the Bissell Most Valuable Pet contest to see if Willie can win the chance to have his picture featured on a Bissell Box! Crazy, right? I know, but it can’t hurt to try! Basically how it works is that there is 12 weeks of voting and each week there are 5 semifinalists chosen based on the number of votes they receive during their voting period. I have entered Willie in the week 6 voting session and that’s where I need your help! Here’s what you do:

1. Click Here (I also added a convenient button for you to click on the side of the blog!)

2. VOTE FOR WILLIE! (Entrant #0601798)

Easy enough right? Tell your friends, tell your neighbors, tell your friends’ neighbors! Willie’s currently racing 5000 other pets on his quest to become the Week 6 Votes Winner and he needs your help!

Voting begins TODAY, February 12 and continues through Thursday, February 18. You have to create an account with Bissell online in order to vote, but it’s very quick and easy and there is no junk mail attached to creating an account! I Promise! My inbox is Bissell junk mail free You can only vote once during the entire voting session, so make that one vote for Willie!

An even better reason to vote is that if Willie wins, not only will he be a featured pet, but $10,000 will be donated in his name to any animal charity that his owners choose. How wonderful is that? Think about what a huge difference $10,000 could do if given to the ASPCA, or even given to a local animal shelter of our choosing? How many pet’s lives could be saved with that kind of money? Or how many malnourished or sick animals could get the treatment they need? Tremendous.

Let’s see if we can get 1000 votes for Willie! Come on y’all, we can do this!!! I’ll keep you update as the week progresses!