Be the Change for Pets: Paws for Japan

It's situations like the earthquake and tsunami in Japan that remind us how precious - and volatile - life is.  One minute you could be happily petting your cat or dog on your couch, and the next, homeless, injured, unable to locate loved ones, or worse.

BlogPaws Be The Change for Pets is committed to taking action to help relief efforts for animals in Japan. One of our community members, Cathy King, is the founder and executive director of World Vets, an organization dedicated to providing veterinary aid worldwide.  The first World Vets responder deployment is en route with supplies to Japan to meet up with a coalition of Japanese animal welfare groups.

To assist World Vets in their extremely important work, Be the Change for Pets is asking the online pet community to help raise funds and awareness for the World Vets efforts.

Today, Thursday, March 17, 2011 is Paws for Japan Day.

How can you help?

1. Grab the badge, using the following code: <a href="http://www.pawcurious.com/2011/03/paws-for-japan/#more-6858" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Paws for Japan" src="http://www.thekittencrew.com/images/paws-for-japan.gif"/></a><br />

 

2. Promote the Chip In tool where people can make a donation. Note: this is the legitimate Chip In widget where all funds donated go directly to World Vets. If you'd like to post the Chip In tool on your site, you can get the code here. 

2. Today, please post, tweet, or share on Facebook about the World Vets effort for animal relief in Japan. Be as creative as you wish in promoting the cause!

3. Check out the links below - add yours and get the code to add the linky tool to your own blog here.

4. If you are a business and want to assist, please consider matching donations or contact us to learn about how you can participate.

Thank you everyone for joining in our efforts to support pets - and their humans - in need.

 

Comments

[Adrienne Gilbreath]

The Chip-In link has an internal error.

[Christine]

Same problem here.

[StellalunaKat]

You have to delete the on the link!

[StellalunaKat]

D: What happened, well I guess it was a mistake, there is a HTML closing tag on the link, it's /p and the tags, or just this link:
http://www.chipin.com/mywidgets/id/a1b3944b591e5157

[Portraitsofanimals.wordpress.com]

I am offering half the price of select hand-printed tees and framed prints donated to Animal Refuge Kansai. I still have a few shirts and a set of prints left, total donation amount is now up to $125.00 from purchases. Incidentally, the block-printed hand-tinted shirts and prints are inspired by Japanese art! http://portraitsofanimals.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/we-really-are-helping-our-friends-in-japan/

I'll gladly put the badges on my sites tonight or tomorrow!

[Dorian @ Your Daily Cute]

Working on fixing the link! Thanks for the heads up, guys!

[Caroline]

Fixed, thanks guys. Sorry about the inconvenience!

[Vicki Cook]

Caroline - when you say contact us. Do you mean contact BlogPaws or someone on the BtC team?

[Dorian @ Your Daily Cute]

If you are a business and want to help, here is the contact info: http://www.blogpaws.com/contact.html

Phone number, email, Facebook, you name it! We'd love to have you on board.

Thanks for catching that, Vicki!

[elaine]

I've posted the info on my blog!

http://www.cybertoad.us/blog/index.php/2011/03/17/paws-for-japan-donate-today/

Thank you!

[pet toys]

So many folks have done such a great job of letting folks know how they can help the animals in Japan and especially help World Vets help those animals, and in doing so help their people too!
Even after two years of the Twitter Pawpawties and reading along with some of the Be the Change blogs, I still am so happy to see how much the animal/anipal community cares for others. It should give us all hope that so many folks care so much. Thank you. It’s great to be part of the community. Thank you for everything you do. You are a catalyst.

[pet care tips]

It’s great to be part of the community. Thank you for everything you do.

[Sharon J.]

I love the blog. I am an animal lover- I always have been. I currently have a miniature schnauzer, an English bulldog, and I am getting a Persian cat in a few weeks.