Can you...

Transport a dog?
Walk a dog?
Groom a dog?
Drive a dog to and from vet appointments?
Pay the boarding fees to board a dog for a week? Two weeks?

Donate...
a dog bed or towels or other *bedding* type items? money?
a Kong? A Nylabone? A Hercules? a Roll-a-Treat or Buster cube? other types of doggy toys that would be safe for rescued dogs?
a crate?
an x-pen or some baby gates?
a food dish or a stainless bucket for a crate?
a leash?
a collar?
a doggy seatbelt?
a grid for a van or other vehicle?
some treats
a bag of food?
a halti or promise collar, or a gentle leader?
a bottle of bleach, Nature's Miracle or other cleaning products?
grooming supplies (shampoos, combs, brushes, etc.)?
long distance calling cards?
the use of your scanner or digital camera?
the use of a photocopier?
a gift certificate to a pet supply store?
a raffle item if your club is holding a fund raiser?
flea and tick control?
Heartworm pills?
a canine first aid kit?
webspace / web-hosting and photo services?
printer paper, envelopes and stamps?
your professional services as an accountant or lawyer?
other services if you run your own business?
the use of a vehicle if you own a car dealership?
clickers, or a video on clicker training?
materials for a quarantine area at a foster's home?
sheets of linoleum or other flooring materials to put under crates to protect the foster's floor?
an engraving tool to make ID tags for each of the rescued dogs?
remember that gently-used dog supplies are always welcomed?

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?

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?

Give the foster a break for a few hours or days during the Holiday season?

Clip and send coupons for dog food or treats?

Bake some homemade doggie biscuits?

Make book purchases through Amazon.com via a website that contributes commissions earned to a rescue group?

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 Rescue Dogs?

Write a column for your local newspaper or club newsletter on dogs currently looking for homes and/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 and/or Microchip a Rescue Dog?

Pay for a tattoo and microchip.

Loan your carpet steamcleaner to someone who has fostered a dog that was sick or marked in the house?

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 Rescue 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 your dogs to help socialize the Rescue Dog(s)?

Help the foster clean up their yard? (Yes, we also have to scoop what our 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 they 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?

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 to educate them about how to identify your breed? 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 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 and/or support?

Donate coupons for a free car wash, or gas fill-up, 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 the puppies you breed if you are a breeder, and register the chips, so if your dogs ever come into Rescue, you can be contacted to take responsibility?

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?

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?

Organize a Rescue Dog Picnic or other event to reunite the rescued dogs that have been placed in their second homes?

Can you remember that rescuing a dog involves the effort and time of many people. Can you make yourself available on an emergency basis to do whatever is needed?

Contact your favorite breed's Rescue organization and get in touch with a Foster Home in your area. Help those Angels who really need it by donating what you can directly to THEM !

Used with permission from Autumn Harvest Rescue