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- Transport
a dog.
- Donate
a dog bed or towels or other bedding type items.
- Donate
MONEY.
- Donate
a Kong, Nylabone or a Hercules.
- Donate
a crate.
- Donate
an x-pen or baby gates.
- 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.).
- Go to
the local shelter and see if that dog is the breed the shelter
says it is or go with rescue to be a second opinion on the
dog.
- 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
the use of your scanner or digital camera.
- Donate
the use of 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 fund raiser.
- Donate
flea stuff (Advantage, etc.).
- Donate
heartworm pills.
- Donate
a canine 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 or 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
book purchases through Amazon 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.
- Be 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 Club's name and phone number to contact.
- Talk
to all your friends about adopting and fostering rescue 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
currently looking for homes or ways to help rescue.
- Take
photos of dogs available for adoption for use by the Club.
- 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 steamcleaner 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.
- Help
the foster clean up the yard (yes, we also have to scoop what
those foster dogs poop).
- 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 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
colour 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
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 someone
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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