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100 Ways You Can Help
Many people think the only way to help is to foster a dog. This is not true, there are many ways to help rescue dogs without fostering. Below is a list compiled by some rescues/shelters that are just 100 ways you can help! |
Help the shelter clean up the yard/kennels (yes, we also have to scoop what those rescued dogs poop)
Donate a dog bed or towels or other *bedding* type items... (Gently used dog equipment is always welcome)
Donate MONEY
Donate a Kong? A Nylabone? A Hercules?
Donate a crate
Donate a x-pen or baby gate
Donate a food dish or a stainless bucket for a crate
Donate a leash
Donate a collar
Donate some treats or a bag of food
Donate a Halti or promise collar or a gentle leader
Walk a dog
Groom a dog
Donate some grooming supplies (shampoos, combs, brushes, etc.)
Donate a lawnmower
Make a few phone calls
Mail out applications to people who've requested them<
Provide local vet clinics with contact information for educational materials on responsible pet ownership
Drive a dog to and from vet appointments
Donate long distance calling cards
Donate a scanner or digital camera
Donate a photocopier
Attend public education days and try to educate people on responsible pet ownership
Donate a gift certificate to a pet store
Donate a raffle item if your club is holding a fundraiser
Donate flea stuff (Advantage, etc.)
Donate Heartworm pills
Donate a animal first aid kit
Provide a shoulder to cry on when the rescue person is overwhelmed
Pay the boarding fees to board a dog for a week? Two weeks?
Be a Santi-paws foster to give the foster a break for a few hours or days
Clip coupons for dog food or treats
Bake some homemade doggie biscuits
Make purchases through or via a web site that contributes commissions earned to a rescue group
Host rescue photos with an information link on your website
Donate time to take good photos of foster dogs for adoption flyers, etc.
Conduct a home visit or accompany a rescue person on the home visit
Go with rescue person to the vet to help if there is more than one dog
Have a yard sale and donate the money to rescue
Volunteer to do rescue in your area
Take advantage of a promotion on the web or store offering a free ID tag and instead of getting it for your own dog, have the tag inscribed with your rescue's name and phone # to contact
Talk to all your friends about adopting and fostering rescued dogs
Donate vet services or can you help by donating a spay or neuter each year or some vaccinations
Interview vets to encourage them to offer discounts to rescues
Write a column for your local newspaper or club newsletter on dogs on dogs currently looking for homes or ways to help rescue
Take photos of dogs available for adoption for use by the rescue groups
Maintain web sites listing/showing dogs available
Help organize and run fundraising events
Help maintain the paperwork files associated with each dog or enter the information into a database
Tattoo a rescued dog
Microchip a rescued dog
Loan your carpet steam cleaner to someone who has fostered a dog that was sick or marked in the house
Donate a bottle of bleach or other cleaning products
Donate or loan a portable dog run to someone who doesn't have a quarantine area for quarantining a dog that has an unknown vaccination history and has been in a shelter
Drive the fosters' children to an activity so that the foster can take the dog to obedience class
Use your video camera to film a rescue dog in action
Pay the cost of taking a dog to obedience class
Be the one to take the dog to its obedience class
Go to the foster home once a week with your children and dogs to help socialize the dog
Transport a dog or cat
Offer to test the foster dog with cats
Pay for the dog to be groomed or take the dog to a *Do It Yourself* Grooming Place
Bring the foster take out so the foster doesn't have to cook dinner
Pay a house-cleaning service to do the spring cleaning for someone who fosters/rescues dogs all the time
Lend your artistic talents to your club's newsletter, fundraising ideas, T-shirt designs
Donate printer paper, envelopes and stamps to your club
Go with a rescue person to the vet if a foster dog needs to be euthanized
Go to local shelters and meet with shelter staff about how to identify your breed or provide photos and breed information showing the different types of that breed may come in and the different color combinations
Go to local businesses and solicit donations for a club's fundraising event
Offer to try and help owners be better pet owners by holding a grooming seminar
Help pet owners be better pet owners by being available to answer training questions
Loan or donate a crate if a dog needs to travel by air
Put together an *Owner's Manual* for those who adopt rescued dogs of your breed
Provide post-adoption follow up or support
Donate a coupon for a free car wash or gas or inside cleaning of a vehicle
Pay for an ad in your local/metropolitan paper to help place rescue dogs
Volunteer to screen calls for that ad
Get some friends together to build/repair pens for a foster home
Microchip your own pups if you are a breeder, and register the chips, so if your dogs ever come into rescue, you can be contacted to take responsibility for your pup
Donate a small percentage of the sale of each pup to rescue if you are a breeder
Buy two of those really neat dog-items you "have to have" and donate one to Rescue
Make financial arrangements in your will to cover the cost of caring for your dogs after you are gone - so Rescue won't have to
Make a bequest in your will to your local or national Rescue
Donate your professional services as an accountant or lawyer
Donate other services if you run your own business
Donate the use of a vehicle if you own a car dealership
Loan your cell phone (and cover costs for any calls) to s/one driving a rescued dog
Donate your *used* dog dryer when you get a new one
Let rescue know when you'll be flying and that you'd be willing to be a rescued dog's escort
Do something not listed above to help rescue
Donate a doggy seatbelt
Donate a grid for a van or other vehicle
Organize a rescued dog picnic or other event to reunite the rescued dogs that have been placed
Donate other types of doggy toys that might be safe for rescued dogs
Donate a roll-a-treat or Buster cube
Donate clickers or a video on clicker training?
Donate materials for a quarantine area at a foster's home
Donate sheets of linoleum or other flooring materials to put under crates to protect the foster's floor
Donate an engraving tool to make ID tags for each of the rescued dogs?
Remember that rescuing a dog involves the effort and time of many people and make yourself available on an emergency basis to do *whatever* is needed?
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gently-used dog equipment is always welcomed.
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