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1. Transport
a dog?
2. Donate a dog bed or towels
or other bedding items?
3. Donate money?
4. Donate a Kong? A Nylabone?
A Hercules?
5. Donate a crate?
6. Donate
an x-pen or baby gates?
7. Donate a food dish or a
stainless bucket for a crate?
8. Donate a leash?
9. Donate a collar?
10. Donate some treats or a bag of
food?
11. Donate a halti or promise collar
or a gentle leader?
12. Walk a dog?
13. Groom a dog?
14. Donate some grooming supplies
(shampoos, combs, brushes, etc.)?
15. 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?
16. Make a few phone calls?
17. Mail out applications to people
who've requested them?
18. Provide local vet clinics with
contact information or educational materials on responsible pet ownership?
19. Drive a dog to and from vet appointments?
20. Donate long distance calling
cards?
21. Donate the use of your scanner
or digital camera?
22. Donate the use of a photocopier?
23. Attend public education days & try
to educate people on responsible pet ownership?
24. Donate a gift certificate to
a pet store?
25. Donate a raffle item if your
club is holding a fund raiser?
26. Donate flea stuff (Advantage,
etc.)?
27. Donate HW pills?
28. Donate a canine first aid kit?
29. Provide a shoulder to cry on
when the rescue person is overwhelmed?
30. Pay the boarding fees to board
a dog for a week?
31. Be a Santi-paws foster to give
the foster a break for a few hours or days?
32. Clip coupons for dog food or
treats?
33. Bake some homemade doggie biscuits?
34. Make book purchases through Amazon
via a website that contributes commissions earned to a rescue group?
35. Host rescue photos with an information
link to your website?
36. Donate time to take good photos
of foster dogs for adoption flyers, etc.?
37. Conduct a home visit or accompany
a rescue person on the home visit?
38. Go with rescue person to the
vet to help if there is more than one dog?
39. Have a yard sale and donate the
money to rescue?
40. Be a volunteer to do a rescue
in your area?
41. Take advantage of a promotion
on the web or store offering a free ID tag & instead of getting it
for your own dog, have the tag inscribed with your Club's name & phone
number to contact?
42. Talk to all of your friends about
adopting and fostering rescue dogs?
43. Donate vet services or donate
a spay or neuter each year or some vaccinations?
44. Interview vets to encourage them
to offer discounts to rescues?
45. Write a column for your local
newspaper or club newsletter on dogs currently looking for homes or ways
to help rescue?
46. Take photos of dogs available
for adoption for use by the Club?
47. Maintain website listing/showing
dogs available?
48. Help organize and run fundraising
events?
49. Help maintain paperwork files
associated with each dog or enter info into a database?
50. Tattoo a rescue dog?
51. Loan your carpet steam cleaner
to someone who fostered a dog that was sick or marked in the house?
52. Microchip a rescue dog?
53. Donate a bottle of bleach or
other cleaning products?
54. Donate or loan a portable dog
run to someone who doesn't have a quarantine area for a dog that has
an unknown vaccination history and has been in a shelter?
55. Drive fosters' children to an
activity so the foster can take the dog to obedience class? |
56. Use
your video camera to film a rescue dog in action?
57. Pay the cost of taking a dog to
obedience class?
58. Be the one to take the dog to an obedience class?
59. Go to the foster home once a week
with your children & dogs to help socialize the dog?
60. Help the foster clean up the yard
(yes, we also have to scoop what foster dogs poop)?
61. Offer to test the foster dog with
cats?
62. Pay for a dog to be groomed or
take the dog to a "do it yourself" grooming place?
63. Bring the foster takeout so the
foster doesn't have to cook dinner?
64. Pay house-cleaning service to do
spring cleaning for someone who fosters dogs?
65. Lend your artistic talents to your
club's newsletter, fundraising ideas, t-shirts designs?
66. Donate printer paper, envelopes
and stamps to your club?
67. Go with a rescue person to the
vet if a foster dog needs to be euthanized?
68. Go to local shelters & meet
with shelter staff about how to identify your breed or provide photos & breed
info showing the different types of that breed that may come in & the
different color combinations?
69. Go to local businesses and solicit
donations for a club's fundraising event?
70. Offer to try and help owners be
better pet owners by holding a grooming seminar?
71. Help pet owners be better pet owners
by being available to answer training questions?
72. Loan a crate if a dog needs to
travel by air?
73. Put together an Owner's Manual
for those who adopt rescued dogs of your breed?
74. Provide post-adoption follow up
or support?
75. Donate a coupon for a free car
wash or gas or inside cleaning of a vehicle?
76. Pay for an ad in your local or
metropolitan paper to help place rescue dogs?
77. Volunteer to screen calls for that
ad?
78. Get some friends together to build
or repair pens for a foster home?
79. 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?
80. Donate a small percentage of the
sale of each pup to rescue if you are a breeder?
81. Buy two of those really neat dog
items you "have to have" and donate one to a rescue?
82. 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?
83. Make a bequest in your will to
your local or national rescue?
84. Donate your professional services
as an accountant or lawyer?
85. Donate other services if you run
your own business?
86. Donate the use of a vehicle if
you own a car dealership?
87. Loan your cell phone (an cover
costs for any calls) to someone driving a rescued dog?
88. Donate your "used" dog
dryer when you get a new one?
89. Let rescue know when you'll be
flying & you'd be willing to be a rescue dog's escort?
90. Donate a doggy seatbelt?
91. Donate a grid for a van or other
vehicle?
92. Organize a rescued dog picnic or
other event to reunite rescued dogs that have been placed?
93. Donate other types of doggy toys
that might be safe for rescued dogs?
94. Donate a roll-a-treat or Buster
cube?
95. Donate clickers or a video on clicker
training?
96. Donate materials for a quarantine
area at a fosters home?
97. Donate an engraving tool to make
ID tags for each of the rescued dogs?
98. Donate
sheets of linoleum or other flooring materials to put under crates to protect
fosters floor?
99. 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?
100. Do something not listed here to
help a rescue?
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