I’m honored today to join CindyLu’s Muse, Talking Dog’s Blog and Pet Faves in co-hosting this month’s Blog the Change blog hop.
The quick and dirty. Blog the Change is a quarterly blog hop that takes place on the 15th of January, April, July and October. It’s a blog hop where bloggers share the causes that are near and dear to our hearts. It’s a time for sharing information and coming together to help animals.
If this is your first time hearing about BTC I’ll give you a little background. Yes they do have their own website, but sadly it was hacked a number of months ago and so far they haven’t been able to sort it out and make it right. **sigh** what is wrong with people? So that’s the reason we’re hosting it on our own blogs.
I’ve written about Just One Day before, but usually it’s a lot closer to the date than it is today, so I’m one up on it. Just One Day is a pledge made by shelters, animal control, municipalities and the likes. Here’s what the Just One Day website says, “On June 11, we are asking animal shelters across the USA to take a pledge not to kill any savable animals. Instead of injecting pets with letal doses of sodium pentobarbital, we ask shelters to pick up cell phones and cameras, and to engage their communities in new and creative ways. Instead of going into trash bags, the animals will go out the front door in the loving arms of families. At the end of the day, the shelters will be emptier than when the day started.”
Isn’t that awesome? And in order to help make this day a success, Just One Day will help the organization that takes the pledge, with fliers explaining how they can showcase their adoptable pets either in traditional media or social media.
The goal of JOD is to show the nation that by working together, we can become a nation that doesn’t indiscriminately euthanize animals.
I follow JOD on Facebook. As shelters take the pledge to go No Kill for one day, the JOD page gets updated.
Then on June 11th as shelters and organizations report in, JOD posts the pictures of people lining up for the doors to open or row after row of empty cages. Watching it unfold in real time and realizing how many animals are saved in just one day, warms the cockles of my heart. (Whatever the hell that means.)
No kill is a cause that is near and dear to me as this little love bug was rescued from a High Kill Shelter.
Can you imagine how boring my life would be without her?
If you know of a shelter or organization whose animals could benefit from taking the JOD challenge, I’d ask you to please pass the information along.
Together we really can be the change.
That’s a wonderful cause. I’m very proud that our local shelter is no-kill. I used to foster dogs from high-kill shelters. The rescue I worked with spent a fortune ransoming these dogs at the last minute and placing them in foster homes. My dog didn’t come from a shelter– he came straight off the streets– but had he been brought to the nearest shelter, he most likely would have been killed within 3 days. So glad to hear him snoring on the floor beside me.
When I adopted my first cat, Emily, the surly gal at the city shelters front desk grumbled, “oh good, that one was next in line to die.” I was nineteen years old and, sadly, pretty naive about this whole kill shelter thing beyond what I had seen in “Lady and the Tramp.” So, I too know the difference just one day can make… it’s a life changer for pets and humans too. What an awesome imitative! Thank you for sharing and for hosting.
The cockles of the heart are its ventricles, named by some in Latin as “cochleae cordis”, from “cochlea” (snail), alluding to their shape. The saying means to warm and gratify one’s deepest feelings
Pledging to not kill for just one day means nothing if the people aren’t lining up outside to adopt. It is nice that people are getting on board with this and are adopting, and hopefully it will no longer be just one day.
What a nice cause!
This is awesome Jodi!! I love that we can put a face and story to these beautiful pups. They all deserve a chance at life and have SO much to offer to their forever families!!
What a worthy cause that Sam and I can gladly support. Thank you for carrying the mantle and get the word out for it and a terrific first step in changing current thinking about this issue. ღ
What a wonderful cause! I just went and liked the Facebook page and hope to follow along to see how they do, and share about it as well.
Do municipal shelters join too? I would think it a bit more complicated for them than a private shelter.
Thanks for sharing this day with us and cause. Your life would be pretty boring without that sweetheart!
Thank you, Jodi, SO MUCH for co-hosting Blog the Change – you’re awesome! BTW…what the heck *are* cockles?? Inquiring minds and all … I can see why JOD warms them, though.
Just One Day sounds like an incredible endeavor, and such an important one for all the animals waiting to be saved from shelters. Anything, any way that more pets can get forever homes is a noble, worthwhile effort in my book. We’re going to have to mark our calendars, I for one don’t want to miss it this year! Thanks for shining a light on this event.
Thank you for blogging – and being – the change for animals,
Kim Thomas
Be the Change for Animals