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Please help a
dog in need!










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If you cannot adopt or foster a dog,
could you help:
- Transport a dog?
- Donate a dog bed or towels or other *bedding*
type items?**
- Donate MONEY (collect your change for a week or
a month and donate that!)?
- Donate a Kong? A nylabone? 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 hw 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?
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 # 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 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 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 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?
- Donate frequent flyer points so that rescue can
fly a dog from another area to safety?
- Offer to be a rescued dog's flight escort,
especially if your work requires you to travel
frequently or you work in the travel industry?
- Do something not listed above to help rescue
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