Romeo and Pugsley of romeothecat.com are two rescued Persian cats who are on a mission to raise money for animal charities around the U.S. Just this past month, they raised $1300 for Animals in Distress, a no-kill animal sanctuary in Pennsylvania. With the help of the online community, the pool for April’s donation is already over $1000.

Nominate your charity of choice

You can help select which charity will be the recipient of the April’s donation by posting your nomination. If you know if a deserving animal charity that is a U.S. organization, an official non-profit (501 C3) and includes cats in its efforts, drop by the blog and nominate them. Romeo also offers suggestions for improving the chances of your nominee being selected, such as spreading the word to your friends, Twittering and blogging about the campaign.

Drop by to nominate your favourite animal charity, donate if you have a dollar to spare (and you can help with as little as $1!) or help spread the word. This is a great campaign by cat bloggers giving back to the community. I’d love to see a cat blogger undertake a similar campaign for Canadian animal charities. (Hint to all you blogging Canadian cats out there who are looking for a project )

ncmarksman25 recently adopted Dark, a rescue cat and surprisingly, also an artist. ncmarksman25 says:

We recently adopted our wonderful cat named Dark… he was rescued from a house fire in North Carolina and was in need of a new home.. so we answered his call! Dark is a very loving cat and my wife and I are very happy to have him in our home… if it wasn’t for our rescue Dark would have most likely been euthanized and wouldn’t have been able to enjoy our love and affection that we share with him… needless to say he’s doing great and very happy to be in a new home!

Just the other day my wife was painting a picture and Dark had stepped in the paint and jumped all over her canvas on our coffee table… he seemed to really enjoy it so we both thought why not have Dark paint on his own canvas’s and sell them on Ebay as a way to give back to the Humane Society and help other animals in need, and thats exactly what we did!

You can see Dark’s painting on eBay and 50% of the proceeds will be donated to the Humane Society of the United States, through eBay Giving Works.

I think this is a great idea to raise money for animals charities and have your rescued cat involved in saving other cats.

What are your creative ideas for helping animal welfare organizations?