Voting for other's pets....

[Cataholic]

For some reason, this always makes me sad. I love everyone's pets on here. I just voted for Nakita, who is one of the most beautiful pets in this world!!! I feel badly for the other people's pets..that don't get votes. It isn't that I don't want to vote for 'your' pet....who ever you are, but, what about the feelings of all the other people's pets?

Am I the only sap out here? Does anyone else feel like this? And, I swear, I DO want to vote for your pet, and I WANT your pet to win, I just don't want anyone else to lose....

[captain]

Nope - I too am a sap ........... quiet a pathetic pair, aren't we!!?

[KYS]

I feel the same way. I always feel bad when I vote.
I think about the owners of the pets that
do not win, and how they must feel.
The contest I like best would be a costume one.
That way you are picking the best dressed, and
not which pet physically looks the cutest etc.

[wolfsoul]

I never feel bad when I vote because I never look at the results first, so I never know what to expect.

Whenever one of my pets gets bad (Leather usually lol) I just pretend to hate all the other contestants (Even though it's impossible!!) I can be a pretty sore loser when it's a contest that I really think that my pet can win....But otherwise I don't really care...

[Cookiebaker]

Oh I agree!!!! I hate entering my pets into contests, too, because they are so special to me, and I don't like to see them lose. I guess I'm an even bigger sap!

[tikeyas_mom]

I hate entering into contest because my pets hardly get any votes ever lol. it is mostly because my stupid web cam, it takes the crappiest pics in the worl. But I knw that my babies are the cutest . lol

[binka_nugget]

I tend to vote for the pets that usually don't get alot of votes.

Whenever Kai's in a contest and doesn't win..I get a bit upset but then I just tell myself that he's still my special little angel.

[micki76]

Never fails, I vote then I see the results and someone's pet has 0. Then I wish I had voted for them.

[tikeyas_mom]

micki I feel the same way, but it was usually my pets that had the 0 count so I uped then one vote hee hee

[Pam]

This brings up an interesting point. I have many, many times in the past voted for a Pet Talker's pet who is in a contest. Even though I have never met these any of them I feel I know them through their human's posts so they are special and have gotten my vote. The last few times I voted, though, I started to think of how unfair it is to vote for a pet who has a forum full of people helping to boost their numbers. I have been convicted that it's not fair to the others so I have refrained from doing any voting at all lately. I just feel that somehow it isn't right and the "win" is a bit unfair. Anyone else feel like this? (Sorry to all who have pets presently in contests. I'm not criticising you. It's just my own personal conviction).

[primabella]

Geez I feel bad cause I hold a lot of these contests. I don't feel bad when Mickey doesn't win (he doesn't get a lot of votes either). It's just for fun...that's how I look at it. Well if you guys don't wanna hold contests anymore...

[Barbara]

I never enter my pets in a contest because I know anyway they are the best and cutest and nicest and...

People who do know they can loose as well and "ours" have not always won (like Inka, as I remember).

It was easy to vote for Nakita, as she is one of the cutest kitties worldwide and it's also a fun thing -not to be taken too serious

[micki76]

The funny thing is that I don't feel bad for the owner, I feel bad for the pet. Ya know, like the pet knows they're losing or have no votes? Isn't that silly?

[primabella]

But does this mean I should cancel the ears contest? I mean it's all in good fun...I don't want to hold a contest where we get like, 5 votes max and everyone else is against it.

Micki, That's how I would feel too. But I don't feel bad voting for pets. Like, I know it's a game...people who take it WAY to seriously really shouldn't be taking part in it. If they're going to hold a grudge against me because I didn't vote for them, or start crying because they didn't win, well that's just a bit far...what's gonna happen now?

[Cataholic]

Originally posted by micki76
The funny thing is that I don't feel bad for the owner, I feel bad for the pet. Ya know, like the pet knows they're losing or have no votes? Isn't that silly?

Ok, we are twins...cause I was thinking the exact same thing as I read Barbara's post...I don't care about the human...I care about the pet that got no votes...