Part of the great success of Freekibble.com’s Halo-sponsored Hi-5 event – which resulted in 20,000 meals donated to shelter pets – was the media coverage it received. We appreciate that the Los Angeles Times told its readers about this opportunity to help cats in animal shelters!

Here’s some of what they had to say: “On an average day, FreeKibbleKat posts a cat-related multiple-choice trivia question, and each visitor’s answer triggers the donation of 10 pieces of dry cat food to a shelter. But during Friday’s Hi-5 event, it’s upping the ante, donating five times the amount of cat food it normally would (that’s 50 pieces of cat food, kids) for each response. (Pet food company Halo is sponsoring the event…”

They were also kind enough to talk about our continuing donations of one meal for each follower of @freekibble and @halopets on Twitter. Let’s keep feeding those pets waiting to be adopted!

Click over to our News page for the story.

Every time we sponsor a Freekibble.com or Freekibblekat.com event to help shelter pets on Twitter, People Pets sends notice to their 1 million + followers. Sometimes People Magazine does the same, reaching their 1.9 million followers! Most recently, they were kind enough to promote the Hi-5 event, which resulted in 20,000 meals donated. Here’s People Pets’ most recent tweet.

Mimi Ausland, the 13 year old force behind Halo philanthropic partner Freekibble, is featured on the Tonic “goodness” web site. It’s the second feature article on Mimi written by Halo blogger Diane Herbst (who first covered her for People Magazine). We’re honored to be included in the story!

Here are a couple tidbits from Diane’s article:

When she was a toddler, Mimi Ausland loved animals so much her parents called her Dr. Doolittle. At her home in Bend, Oregon, Mimi rescued injured birds and fish, even spiders. At the age of seven, told she was too young to work at the local Humane Society, Mimi started mailing spare change to the shelter. “She just has this huge heart and it plays out with animals,” says her father, Kelly, 48. “She’s always been protective and passionate about animals.”

And:

Since its start on April 1, 2008, Freekibble.com has donated more than 400,000 pounds of dog and cat food. The organization is the sole supplier of food for 14 shelters across the country. Another 60 rescues have received tens of thousands of pounds of huge one-time donations. An average of 45,000 people visit the site daily. “It’s so cool, it’s really exciting,” says Mimi, a seventh grader. “I knew it was important that I did something for others.”

Click over to our news page to get the whole story!

@Freekibble, the Twitter voice of Mimi Ausland’s freekibble.com and freekibblekat.com, announced that Friday’s Halo-sponsored Hi-5 event was a “huge success” – raising “20,000 yummy meals (of Halo Spot’s Stew) for shelter cats.

Thank you to everyone who played! We look forward to participating in more great events with Freekibble in the future to help shelter pets awaiting their forever homes.

Let’s donate a bazillion meals of Halo to homeless kitties! Play Meow Trivia at Freekibblekat.com today (2/5/10) and Halo is donating 5x the normal kibble. As a reminder, here’s yesterday’s post on the event:

On Friday, February 5th, don’t forget to play for the kitties on Freekibble.com!

The website and Halo, Purely For Pets have teamed up to generate five times the kibble (50 pieces) each time you play Freekibblekat.com (the cat section of Freekibble.com) for homeless cats.

Freekibble.com founder Mimi Ausland, 13, hopes that the event — called Freekibblekat Hi-5 — attracts some 65,000 players to the site that day. (On normal days, 40,000 to 50,000 people play daily; for each question answered, right or wrong, 10 pieces of kibble are raised.)

Freekibble.com’s first Hi-5 event on November 5th was a huge success: twenty-thousand meals for dogs were raised. “We hope to raise that for the cats,” says Mimi. “I know there arealot of cat lovers out there.” As of this week, FreeKibble has raised and donated 400,000 pounds of cat and dog food to scores of shelters across the U.S.

The food generated from Friday’s gaming is going to about six shelters in the Southeast; Mimi hopes the donation feeds each shelter’s cats for many months. Says Mimi: “It’s a big thing for them because it’s unusual to get high end cat food.”

Click here to send your friends and family an e-card to tell them to play on February 5th.

And click here to play FreekibbleKat.