Other Ways to help Rescue Organizations

Can you help to:

• Walk a dog?
  
  
• Groom a dog or cat?
  
  
• 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 or cat to and from vet appointments?
  
  
• Attend public education days and try to educate people on responsible pet ownership?
  
  
• 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?
  
  
• 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?
  
  
• A home visit or accompany a rescue person on the home visit Donate time to take good photos of foster dogs for adoption flyers, etc.?
  
• Go with rescue person to the vet to help if there is more than one dog or cat?
  
• 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 rescue's name and phone # to contact?
  
  
• Talk to all your friends about adopting and fostering rescued dogs and cats?
  
  
• 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?
  
  
• Tattoo a rescued dog?
  
  
• Loan your carpet steam cleaner to someone who has fostered a dog that was sick or marked in the house?
  
  
• Drive the fosters' children to an activity so that the foster can take the 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?
  
  
• Offer to test the foster dog with cats?
  
  
• Bring the foster or rescue person take out so the foster or rescue person doesn't have to cook dinner?
  
  
• Pay a house-cleaning service to do the spring cleaning for someone who fosters/rescues dogs and cats all the time?
  
  
• Go with a rescue person to the vet if a foster dog or cat 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?
  
  
• 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/cats of your breed?
  
  
• Provide post-adoption follow up or support?
  
  
• Volunteer to screen calls for that ad?
  
  
• 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?
  
  
• Loan your cell phone (and cover costs for any calls) to someone driving a rescued dog?
  
  
• Organize a rescued dog picnic or other event to reunite the rescued dogs that have been placed?
  
  
• Do something not listed above to help rescue?
  
  
• Offer to take a penny jar for the rescue and put it in your work lunchroom or on your desk?
  
  
• Offer to talk to pet stores or pet supply stores about putting a penny jar on their counter? If you do please remember to go back and collect the jar
  
  
• Offer to talk with carpenters about building a dog house for a foster home or rescue organization.
  
  
• Talk to dog trainers in your area about animal rescue?
  
  
• Talk to dog trainers in your area about helping the rescue assess rescue dogs?
  
  
• Help the rescue by talking to pet shops about not selling dogs in their store?
  
  
• Offer to write a information package on the breed of dog or cat you are familiar with?
  
  
• Spay or neuter your own pet?
  
  
• Donate film for taking pictures of the rescue dogs?
  
  
• Talk to strata councils about letting the rescue organization hold adoption events in their parking lots?
  
  
• Give your time to research medical conditions that may pertain to the breeds of dogs currently in the rescue?
  
  
• Offer to assist with special needs rescue dogs (give shots, medications, special training for deaf dogs)?
  
  
• Talk to health food and naturopathic stores about donating items to canine rescue organizations?
  
  
• Talk to alternative vets about dogs with special needs?