Anyone that follows me on Twitter, Facebook, or Google Reader will know that I love sharing heart warming stories about dogs. I grew up with dogs and my black Lab, Cooper, accompanies me everywhere – yes, I’ve even bring her shopping with me. Â Screw it, she’s my BFF – she’s coming. Â Now that I’m back from SXSW I can focus a bit more on more important topics, like the recent tsunami in Japan.
I wanted to help and wanted it to be an animal-centric cause. Â In the hunt for a reputable cause I stumbled across the AKC’s recent post and donated immediately;
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I donated $100 on the spot. Â The AKC is a well run organization and I trust the funds will be used appropriately. Â After making the donation I stumbled across Aaron Strout’s post on how he plans to use his 40,000th tweet for the cause SXSWCares.org and it gave me another idea:
For every retweet of this post before 4/1/11 (up to 150), I will donate an additional $1.00 to the AKC.
- Pete Kuhn is adding $0.25 per tweet up to 150 tweets.
- Karen Kuhn is adding $1.00/tweet up to 150.
- Chris Garby is adding $0.25 per up to 150.
- Michelle Heaney is adding $0.75 per up to 150.
- Robert Solar is adding $0.50 per up to 150.
- Kristen Kramer is adding $1.00 per, up to 150.
- Alexis Kuhn is adding $0.30 per, up to 150.
- Kim Kuhn is adding $0.25 per, up to 150.
- Perry Hewitt is adding $0.30, up to 150.
- Devon Biondi is adding $0.25, up to 150.
- Roy Solomon is adding $0.25, up to 150.
The total per tweet is up to $6.10! Want to join our list of sponsors? Email me [mattsolar-at-gmail.com] or comment below.
We’ll be using the green Tweetmeme button at the top of the blog post to judge the total count. Â To retweet, just click on the green “tweet” button (example at left). Â You’ll need a Twitter account to retweet, obviously.
Our hope, of course, is for more people to donate to the AKC’s cause. Â We understand that budgets are tight but you can always help out by simply retweeting the article. Â Whatever number it reads on 4/1 (or when it hits 150 – whichever comes first), will determine how much we’ll be donating. Â For example, $0.10 per tweet x 37 tweets equals a total donation of $3.70.
Related articles;
- Japan earthquake: Dog leads rescuers to injured companion
- In a battered Japan, dogs search for human survivors
- Video: Pet makes it through Tsunami
- Updated 4/1: Dog rescued after surviving three weeks on floating debris in Japan.
Thanks for your help & support,
Matt & Cooper
6 thoughts on “Help Aid Dogs Impacted by Japanese Tsunami via @akcdoglovers”
Charlie the Puerto Rican Beach Hound, will match for $.25 a pop up to 150 tweets.
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i will match for $0.25 up to 150 tweets as well!
Sign me up for $0.25 a tweet as well
hey, i would really like to go to the ‘unsafe zone” in japan to help and rescue these animals…… i cant believe this is going on>>>> someone please email me so i can go there and resue these poor animals.. db@mountainsidesecurity.ca