100 Ways to Help Rescue
- 1. Foster a Dog
- 2. Adopt a dog
- 3. Transport a dog
- 4. Donate a dog bed, towels or other bedding
- 5. Donate MONEY
- 6. Donate a Kong - a Nylabone - a Hercules - a Buster cube
- 7. Donate a crate
- 8. Donate an exercise pen or baby gates
- 9. Donate a food dish or a stainless bucket for a crate
- 10. Donate a leash
- 11. Donate a collar
- 12. Donate some treats or a bag of food
- 13. Donate a Halti or Promise collar
- 14. Walk a dog
- 15. Groom a dog
- 16. Donate some grooming supplies (shampoos, combs, brushes, etc.)
- 17. Go to the local shelter and see if that Big White dog is a Pyr (or Kuvasz, or Saint, or whatever) or go with rescue to be a second opinion on the dog
- 18. Make a few phone calls
- 19. Mail out applications to people who've requested them
- 20. Provide local vet clinics with contact information for educational materials on Pyrs
- 21. Drive a dog to and from vet appointments
- 22. Donate long distance calling cards
- 23. Attend public education days and 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 heart-worm pills
- 28. Donate a 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 or two
- 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. Offer use of your computer to print forms
- 35. Host rescue photos with an information link on your website
- 36. Donate time to take good photos of foster Pyrs 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 volunteer to do rescue in your area.
- 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 Club's name and phone # to contact This makes a reusable ID tag for dogs while in foster care.
- 42. Talk to all your friends about adopting and fostering rescue dogs
- 43. Donate vet services or 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 web sites listing/showing dogs available
- 48. Help organize and run fundraising events
- 49. Help maintain the paperwork files associated with each dog or enter the information into a database
- 50. Tattoo a rescued dog
- 51. Microchip a rescued dog
- 52. Loan your carpet steam cleaner to someone who has fostered a dog that was sick or marked in the house
- 53. Donate a bottle of bleach or other cleaning products
- 54. Donate or loan a portable dog run to someone who doesn't have an area for quarantining a dog that has an unknown vaccination history and has been in a shelter
- 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 scoop what those foster dogs poop)
- 61. Offer to test the foster dog with cats
- 62. If you have livestock, offer to test the foster dog around the livestock.
- 63. Pay for the dog to be groomed or take the dog to a "Do It Yourself" Grooming Place
- 64. Bring the foster take-out so the foster doesn't have to cook dinner
- 65. Pay a house-cleaning service to do the spring cleaning for someone who fosters dogs all the time
- 66. Lend your artistic talents to your club's newsletter, fundraising ideas, t-shirt designs
- 67. Donate printer paper, envelopes and stamps to your rescue group
- 68. Go with a rescue person to the vet if a foster dog needs to be euthanized
- 69. Go to local shelters and meet with shelter staff about how to identify a Pyr.
- 70. Provide a shelter with breed information showing the different types of Pyrs and the different color combinations
- 71. Go to local businesses and solicit donations for a club's fundraising event
- 72. Offer to try and help owners be better pet owners by holding a grooming seminar
- 73. Help pet owners be better pet owners by being available to answer training questions
- 74. Donate or loan a crate if a dog needs to travel by air
- 75. Put together a *Pyr Owner's Manual* for those who adopt rescued Pyrs
- 76. Provide post-adoption follow up or support
- 77. Do a pre-placement home inspection for a potential adopter
- 78. Pay for an ad in your local/metropolitan paper to help place rescue dogs.
- 79. Volunteer to screen calls for that ad. (What? A Pyr is a big dog? I didn't know.)
- 80. When you buy your own dog food, buy an extra bag for a foster home.
- 81. Get some friends together to build/repair pens for a foster home.
- 82. If you are a breeder, spay/neuter all pet and LGD pups before they leave you. That way, their offspring won't become a rescue problem.
- 83. Microchip your own pups, and register the chips, so if your dogs ever come into rescue, you can be contacted to take responsibility for your pup
- 84. Donate a small percentage of the sale of each pup to rescue.
- 85. Save clean, groomed-out undercoat for that member who is a spinner and wants to make a hand-spun, woven item for fund-raising.
- 86. If your Rescue has an annual raffle, auction or other fund-raiser, when you see a really neat dog-item you "have to have" - buy two, and donate one to Rescue.
- 87. 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.
- 88. Make a bequest in your will to your local Rescue.
- 89. Volunteer to pet sit so the foster can take time off
- 90. Volunteer to take a foster dog or rescue dog to local pet stores and "adopt" days to educate the public about the breed
- 91. Offer to pet-sit or feed for a weekend so the foster family can get away for a holiday.
- 92. Donate a computer
- 93. Donate the use of your scanner or digital camera
- 94. Donate the use of a photocopier
- 95. Donate a fax machine
- 96. Donate a color printer
- 97. Donate printer cartridges
- 98. Donate a box of printer paper
- 99. Use your graphic skills to produce flyers and information pamphlets
- 100. Think of other ways to help Rescue, the dogs and your Rescue Representatives
Hugs & Wags, Jess
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