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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 100 ways you can help! Can you... Help the foster clean up the yard (yes, we also have to scoop what those foster dogs poop) - Donate MONEY?
- Donate a gift certificate to a pet store?
- Donate a gift card to Poplar Animal Hospital (704-795-7200)
- Offer to take a penny jar for the rescue and put it in your work lunchroom or on your desk (Pennies for Puppies)?
- Donate flea stuff (Frontline, Advantage,
etc.)?
- Donate
heartworm pills (Heartgard, Sentinel)?
- Donate a food dish or a stainless bucket for water?
- Donate some treats?
- Donate a bag of puppy food?
- Donate printer paper, envelopes and stamps?
- Donate a Kong chew toy?
- Donate a nylabone chew toy?
- Donate a
hercules chew toy?
- Donate a crate?
- Donate an x-pen?
- Donate a baby gate?
- Buy two of those really neat dog-items you "have to have" and donate one to Rescue?
- Donate a leash?
- Teach a puppy to walk on a leash?
- Donate a
collar?
- Walk a dog?
- Groom a dog?
- Donate a canine first aid
kit?
- Donate other types of doggy toys that might be safe
for rescued dogs?
- Walk the dogs owned by the rescue group?
- Donate sheets of linoleum or other flooring materials to protect the rescues floor?
- Bake some
homemade doggie biscuits?
- Make phone calls?
- Donate time to take good
photos of foster dogs for flyers, web page etc.?
- Talk to all your friends about adopting and
fostering rescue dogs?
- Donate vet services or can you help by donating spay or neuter each
year or some vaccinations?
- 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 rescue?
- 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?
- 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?
- Clean carpets at the rescue?
- Donate a bottle of bleach?
- Donate cleaning products?
- Pay the cost of taking a dog to obedience class?
- Be the one to take the dog to its obedience class?
- 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?
- 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?
- Pay for the dog to be groomed?
- Take the dog to a *Do It Yourself* Grooming Place?
- Donate services if you run your own business?
- Donate the use of a vehicle if you own
a car dealership?
- 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?
- Go to the
foster home once a week with your children and dogs to help socialize the dog?
- Donate a roll-a-treat or
Buster cube?
- Donate clickers or a video on clicker training?
- Donate an
engraving tool to make ID tags for each of the rescued dogs?
- Make ID tags for the rescue to use
for their dogs?
- Offer to give out flyers or pamphlets on the foster dogs or the rescue organization?
- Give the rescue a fax machine?
- Talk to dog trainers in your area about helping the
rescue assess rescue dogs?
- Sponsor the gas, ferry expense or both for the transport of a rescue
dog?
- Attend public education days and try to educate people on responsible pet ownership?
- Donate a dog bed or towels or other *bedding* type items?
- Gently-used dog equipment
(always welcomed)
- Donate some grooming supplies (shampoos, combs, brushes, etc.)?
- Make a few phone calls?
- Mail out applications to people who've requested them?
- Drive a dog to and from vet appointments?
- Donate the use of your scanner or digital camera?
- Donate the use of a photocopier?
- Donate materials for a quarantine area
at a foster's home?
- Provide a shoulder to cry on when the rescue person is overwhelmed?
- Be a Santi-paws foster to give the foster a break for a few hours or days?
- 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?
- 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?
- 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 rescues name and phone # to contact?
- Go with a rescue person
to the vet if a foster dog needs to be euthanized?
- 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?
- 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?
- 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?
- 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?
- 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?
- Donate a doggy seatbelt?
- Use your
video camera to film a rescue dog in action?
- Lend your artistic talents to your club's newsletter,
fundraising ideas, t-shirt designs?
- Do something
not listed above to help rescue?
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