YOU have been voting for your favourite animals in our Pets Factor contest – and now we can reveal the early frontrunners!

In today's Tele are the top 12 pets competing to be crowned our 2014 Pets Factor champion – and win £500 cash.

Don’t worry if your favourite hasn’t made the first update, there are still over two weeks to help them climb the leaderboard and take the coveted Pets Factor title.

We’ll print tokens every day in the Telegraph before we close voting at 10am on 25 August. We will then announce your top three.

As well as the £500 top cash prize there will be £100 of vouchers for our runner-up, courtesy of Abbey Veterinary Group in Murdieston Street.

The third placed pet will win £50-worth of goodies from the Pets at Home superstore in Greenock.

The top three will each win £30 to spend at A Pet’s Paradise in Port Glasgow and have a professional, framed photograph taken by top Tele snapper George Munro.

Last year’s competition attracted over 12,000 votes, and hundreds have already been cast this time around.