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| 22 Ways You Can Help Rescue |
| Many people think if they can't foster dogs, they can't help rescue. Nothing could be farther from the truth! Here is a partial list of things YOU may be able to help with. Please feel free to email any additinal suggestions. 1. Apply to be a rescue representative for your area. 2. Pay for an ad in your local/metro paper giving contact information for rescue. 3. Transport a rescue dog. 4. Go to the local shelter and watch out for needy dogs. 5. Provide local vet clinics with contact inforamtion and/or educational materials on responsible pet ownership. 6. Attend public education days and try to educate people on responsible pet ownership. 7. Conduct a home visit or accompany a rescue person on the home visit. 8. Go with a rescue person to the vet to help if there is more than one dog. 9. Write a column for your local newspaper, club or rescue, on ways to help rescue or responsible pet ownership. 10. Drive a rescue to and from a vet appointment. 11. Talk to local vets and encourage them to offer discounts to rescues. 12. Maintain web sites listing/showing dogs available. 13. Help organize and run fundraising events. 14. Hang a poster at the grocery store, giving contact information for rescue. 15. Go to a foster home once a week to help socailize a dog. 16. Let rescue know when/where you'll be flying and that you'd like to be a rescued dog's escort. 17. Put together an "Owners Manuel" for those who adopt rescued dogs of your breed. 18. Provide post-adoption follow up or support. 19. Offer to test a foster dog with cats. 20. Microchip your own dogs 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 dog. 21. Donate a small percentage of the sale of each dog to rescue if you are a breeder. 22. Have a yard sale and donate the money to rescue. |