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Please Refrain from a Christmas
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'There
is no therapist
in the world as effective
as an adoring
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Don’t know what to do . . but really want to help?
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If everyone did just
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1. The biggest need of rescue is foster homes. Rescues cherish the help of loving, dog savvy people who can foster dogs from a few days to several weeks or, in some cases, months. Some dogs need R & R before they'll be able to go to a permanent forever home. Some need to be housetrained. Others might need a bit longer evaluation period than normal. The bottom line is: If you can foster for any time at all, please volunteer! 2. Transport a dog for a ‘leg’ of it’s journey to a safe haven. 3. Sponsor a dogs needs while it's being rehabilitated 4. Write your favorite rescue into your will. Create a legacy in your name 5. Have a yard sale and donate some of the money to rescue 6. Offer to do a shelter ID for a rescue 7. Provide local vet clinics with contact information for responsible rescues that have volunteers in your area. 8. Volunteer to create a brochure for the rescue of your choice 9. Drive a rescued dog to and from vet appointments 10. Walk and/or brush out a dog
Equipment requirements -
Responsible rescues keep new dogs totally separated from other dogs for
cautionary health quarantines if the dog has come from a shelter,
behavioral evaluations, health concerns, or other possible contagious
conditions that need treatment time. Some items that rescues
and shelters often need: 12. Crate or wire cage ... or crate pads ... all appropriately sized to breed specifics 13. Exercise pens a/k/a 'expens' ... you can't imagine how helpful these are to rescuers! 14. Baby gates - do you have one in your basement or garage? 15. Leashes and/or
collars
Facility Maintenance Needs: In order to know the dog well enough to properly represent it to potential adoptors, rescues need to keep dogs in residence long enough to do behavior, health and temperament evaluations. This evaluation time requires much which is always welcome from supporters: 21. Quality kibble & canned foods 22. Food & Watering dishes 23. Treats for training/behavioral modification 24. Paper towels by the case (!) 25. Canine First Aid Kit 26. White vinegar 27. Bleach &
cleaning products
Administrative: There is
much clerical work that accompanies the rescue and rehab of animals. The
following are related needs: 32. Long distance phone expenses 33. Facsimile machine 24. Printer 26. Photocopier 27. Paper 28. Desk/chair 29. Answering machine 30. Volunteer to file, answer mail, run off adoption applications, etc.
32. Provide a shoulder to cry on when the rescue person is overwhelmed 33. Bake some homemade doggie biscuits 34. Attend public education days and try to educate people on responsible pet ownership 35. Host rescue photos on your website ... give the info link .. 36. 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. Donate a raffle item if your rescue affiliate is holding a fundraiser 40. Be a volunteer contact in your area (this means learning about responsible rescue policies and procedures.)
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41. 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 local rescue's name and phone # to contact
42. Talk to all your dog savvy friends who have the time ...about adopting and fostering rescue dogs 43. Donate vet services or a spay or neuter or some vaccinations now and again 44. Interview vets to encourage them to offer discounts to rescues 45. Write a column for your local newspaper or club newsletter on dogs on dogs currently looking for homes and/or ways to help rescue 46. Be a spokesperson in your community for rescue .. encourage people to surrender their unwanted dog to a responsible rescue instead of a germ ridden dog pound. 47. Maintain web links to www.petfinder.com rescue dogs 48. Volunteer to help organize and run fundraising events (the life of rescue ..) 49. Help maintain the paperwork files associated with each dog or enter the information into a database 50. Sponsor a tattoo for a rescued dog
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| 51. Sponsor a microchip for a rescued dog 52. Loan your carpet steam-cleaner to a rescue foster home. 53. Speak to children in school about the important and spaying & neutering. Many do this through 'animal care' special topic classes. 54. 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 dog pound. 55. Drive the fosters' children to an activity so that 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 its obedience class 59. Go to the foster home once a week with your children and dogs to help socialize the dog 60. Help the foster clean up the yard (yes, we also have to continually scoop up what those foster dogs poop)
61. Offer to test the foster dog with cats 62. Pay for the foster dog to be groomed or take the dog to a *Do It Yourself* Grooming Place 63. Bring the foster family take out supper so they don’t have to cook dinner 64. Pay a house-cleaning service to do the spring cleaning for someone who fosters dogs all the time 65. Lend your artistic talents to a rescue newsletter, fundraising idea, and t-shirt design 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 - this job is the worst .... 68. 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 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
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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 ... All responsible rescues followed up after adoptions. 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/metropolitan paper to help place rescue dogs 77. Volunteer to screen calls for that ad 78. Get some friends together to build/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. If you are a breeder, donate a small percentage of the sale of each pup to rescue
81. Buy two of those really neat dog-items you "have to have" and donate one to Rescue 82. Make financial arrangements in your will to cover the cost of caring for your dogs after you are gone. 83. Make a bequest in your will to your local or a 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 (and 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 and that you'd be willing to be a rescued dog's escort 90. Donate a doggy seatbelt
91. Donate a grid screen for a van or other vehicle 92. Organize a rescued dog picnic or other event to reunite the rescued dogs that have been placed and elevate awareness of pet overpopulation 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 foster's home 97. Donate sheets of linoleum or other flooring material to put under crates to protect the foster's floor? 98. Donate an engraving tool to make ID tags for each of the rescued dogs
99. Remember that rescuing a dog involves the effort
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