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Win a trip to the Lint Roller Party

August 31, 2009, 6:26AM MT

By Best Friends staff

It’s Best Friend’s gala event of the year, and we want to send one lucky winner and a guest to be a part of it.

Get in on the excitement, enter now to win a trip for two to the Lint Roller Party!

It’s glitzy, glamorous, celebrity-packed, and it’s all for the animals. It’s the Lint Roller Party, and Best Friends is going to send one winner of our win-a-trip drawing and guest to attend it. The annual event raises funds for the Best Friends’ Los Angeles Programs, a vital cog in our mission to bring about a time of No More Homeless Pets.

This year, the Lint Roller Party will be held on October 3, 2009 at the Hollywood Palladium. To celebrate Best Friends 25^th anniversary, we’ll be going back in time to the year Best Friends was founded, and partying like it’s 1984. To that end, the Bangles (one of the greatest all-female bands ever) will be providing the live entertainment, and a D.J. will be spinning all the favorites of the decade.

Vegetarian cuisine by Wolfgang Puck, auctions, open bar and dancing until midnight round out the evening.

The chair of this year’s Lint Roller honorary committee and the recipient of a special award is actress Katherine Heigl, star of “Grey’s Anatomy” and the summer blockbuster “The Ugly Truth.”

The winner of the drawing and his or her guest will receive:

free airfare to/from Los Angeles
two-nights accommodation at the famed Roosevelt Hotel
VIP passes to Lint Roller, which includes reserved premiere seating, VIP lounge access and valet parking
tickets to the pre-party Founders’ Reception, where you can hobnob with the people who built Best Friends from the ground up and chat with the stars of National Geographic Channel’s “DogTown”
the chance to walk the Red Carpet

… all in all, a prize worth around $2,000, and a great way to support Best Friends while having a great time in la-la land.

To enter is easy. Simply text “PARTY” to 90999 on your cell phone.* You will then be entered to win, plus you’ll receive text alerts from Best Friends. (You’ll also receive a message asking if you’d like to donate $5 to Best Friends. Of course, the donation is not necessary to enter the drawing.)

Update: If you have a mobile number but do not have text messaging capability, you can enter using the online form. Just enter this URL into your web browser and fill out the form. Be sure to include your mobile number at the end of the URL:

http://m.mgive.com/5260/s/YOUR11DIGITMOBILENUMBER

(For example: http://m.mgive.com/5260/s/13035551234)

You can also enter by mail. Send a stamped 3x5 card with name, address, daytime phone number and email address to Best Friends Animal Society, Attn: Lisa Ladd, 5001 Angel Canyon Road, Kanab, Utah 84741.

The win-a-trip drawing has already begun and ends at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, September 13. The winner will be announced on Thursday, September 17. Stay tuned to our website for the announcement.

For more information on the Lint Roller Party, click here.

* Free SMS Service is available on most carriers. Standard/Other messaging rates may apply. Reply STOP to unsubscribe. For more information please visit mGive.com/e. No purchase necessary.

Photos by AndySheng

As part of Best Friends 25th anniversary in 2009, our goal is to double our membership, so we can double our efforts to bring about a time when all companion animals have a forever home. What can you do to help? Give the Gift of a Best Friends membership to family and friends.

Comments

Posted September 01, 2009, 4:45AM by cambridge_rat_mom

I guess that means I can't enter since I don't have a cell phone. Too bad we assume everyone has a cell phone. Is there another option that I missed?

Posted September 01, 2009, 4:53PM by cgardner702

I also would love to enter but do not TEXT! Anyother way to enter???

Posted September 01, 2009, 5:51PM by carrie_fosters

I was so motivated that I learned how to text just to enter!

Posted September 02, 2009, 5:28AM by speshalkinca

{nods in agreement with cgardner702} I have a phone with digital voice mail along with two email addys so that folks can reach me as needed. I also pay a huge amount of money for the fastest internet connection known to mankind. I do that in order to have fast access to info on the planet, so why are we now also all supposed to become slaves to a cell phone. Personally I see people spending most of their time playing games on them! lol

Posted September 02, 2009, 2:45PM by caroljean35

I too have NO text, i have an email, i have a home phone and I have a cell but NO text....please tell people like us how to enter this contest!

Posted September 02, 2009, 2:56PM by Jenni1313

I texted and then got a return text telling me to go to some website to enter. So, I went. It was a page to register to be a part of Best Friends and receive emails from them. Ummmm....I am already a member and receive emails. That's how I found out about the contest in the first place. I still didn't see any button or anything to click to actually enter this contest!!! Can someone tell me if I am actually entered or not??????? This shouldn't be so confusing and difficult to enter!!!!!!

Posted September 02, 2009, 3:57PM by fouts2jj

Having to mess with texting on my cellphone...what a fatally flawed requirement...i dont do text...this contest should have a website to enter in to the contest through...

Posted September 02, 2009, 6:41PM by dartania

I've been a member for YEARS, and now I'm not able to enter a contest because I don't TEXT ???? What's that about ??

Posted September 02, 2009, 10:59PM by farfaraway002

Too bad you only want to hear from/get entries from people who have cell phones and know how to text message! No purchase necessary? Hah!!! Just pay for a cell phone, cell phone service, messaging fees, and give your privacy away by giving untold persons and organizations carte blanche to load you up with future messages, which may or may not be an additional ongoing expense. Somebody either didn't think this through, or is hoping that your supporters won't! I'll give you cell phone access when Katherine Heigl gives her # to all of us "little people" who support Best Friends...like, will never happen???

Posted September 03, 2009, 5:13AM by rls1206

Wow.... I've been a member of Best Friend's for almost 20 years and can't enter because I don't have TEXT capabilities. What a shame.....

Posted September 03, 2009, 6:44AM by pinkylyons

I don't text either but no biggie - I'll just forgo the bash and the airfare and send a donation instead! No matter what - I know that Best Friends will be the best money I ever spent!

Posted September 03, 2009, 9:0AM by animalnurse

I would LOVE to be able to take my best friend with me and show him off on the red carpet. He already owns a bow tie.

Posted September 03, 2009, 12:15PM by lauran

Easiest entry ever. Thanks

Posted September 04, 2009, 8:40AM by Shadoe15

I tried to text the word Party and it was sent back that the word was not recognized. How can I enter? Thanks!

Posted September 06, 2009, 1:52PM by ann99

I don't text either, but you can also enter by mail.