This weekend we’ve just finished round one of this year’s Blog the Change for Animals – imagine 100 blogs, featuring causes and ways for you to get involved and do something for the welfare of our furry friends. Imagine, too, the impact of these blogs; each with their own readership, spreading awareness about wonderful things being done and suggestions for what people can do. Who even knows how many posts were read through Facebook, Twitter, emails…! It’s been an exciting weekend, full of hope and promise for our animals.
Blog the Change for Animals was inspired by the Be the Change Challenge, put forth during the first pet bloggers conference of BlogPaws in March, 2010. Afterward, Kim Clune and Amy and Rod Burkert discussed how it would be wonderful to continue what had been an amazing idea and enthusiastic results – and Be Change for Animals – BTC4Animals – was born. It’s purpose is to gather together the community of animal lovers, provide support for communications of the needs and issues, and to highlight some of these issues. Blog the Change occurs quarterly throughout the year, with bloggers and social media posters all promoting their favorite causes, concerns, solutions. Kim Clune was featured here two days ago, and if you haven’t checked out her sites yet, please do so. I highly recommend them!
Amy Burkert is someone you should also know of; she is not only the co-founder of BTC4Animals, she is the Social Media Director of the collaboration. She is also co-founder of GoPetFriendly.com, an extremely insightful, useful website that aims to provide all the information anyone would need whenever travelling with their pet, be it a short drive or an extended trip. She and her husband, Rod, travel frequently with their dogs;she and Rod created the website after finding it frustrating to obtain good information pertaining to travelling with pets and her blog, Take Paws, is filled with great travel tips and stories of the couple’s adventures with their dogs, Ty and Buster.
Whether you take road trips with your dogs, are considering it, or just like to bring Fido along when you visit your grandmother, these websites are invaluable tools. Enjoyable to read, too! As for Amy, she is one more example of how one person, who happens to love animals, found a way to use her skills and interests to better the lives of animals.
In addition to the website, GoPetFriendly.com, you can find Amy’s great tips at
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Amy is living my dream! I hope someday to be able to cruise around in an RV with my dogs. I had the privileged of meeting Amy and her husband at Blogpaws last year and was overwhelmed how kind, friendly, and helpful they were. Role models!
Oh, that would be such an experience(s)! From what I understand, Amy and Rod hit the road often in a Winnebago? It must be a great life. Kyla, ask her if they’ve got room for you on their next trip! lol
Traveling with cats is in our future and I sure appreciate the connection to Amy. Lots to learn!
thanks for the great info!!!!!!!
Amy does such great work — thank you for the great post!
What a great post. Thanks to Amy for all the good she does!
Thank you so much for your kind words. I love the “work” I do and so appreciate you spreading the word to others that might travel with their pets, or who would like to travel along with us vicariously. I’m also living my dream and I’m glad I can share it.
I already found and am following their blogs, but I didn’t know all the story behind the Be the Change project. Thanks for sharing this. I hope everyone continues supporting and spreading the word about causes for animals.