In a message dated 7/30/2005 12:00:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
owner-pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org writes:
I would also like to suggest that everyone who has expressed so much
concern get themselves involved in rescue. You don't necessarily have
to take in a dog to foster or
adopt. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
100 ways to Help Rescue
- Donate a dog bed or towels or other *bedding* type
items?**
- Donate MONEY?
- 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 a 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 colour
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?
- 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?
- transport a dog ?
**gently-used dog equipment is always welcomed.
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