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- Donate a dog
bed or towels, blankets or other *bedding* type items?
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- Donate a
Kong? A nylabone? A hercules?
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- Donate an
ex-pen or baby gates?
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- Donate a food
dish or a stainless bucket for a crate?
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- Donate some
treats or a bag of food?
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- Donate a
halti or promise collar or a gentle leader?
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- Donate some
grooming supplies (shampoos, combs, brushes, etc.)?
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- 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?
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- Mail out
applications to people who've requested them?
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- Provide local
vet clinics with contact information for educational materials on
responsible pet ownership?
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- Drive a dog
to and from vet appointments?
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- Donate long
distance calling cards?
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- Donate the
use of your scanner or digital camera?
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- Donate the
use of a photocopier?
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- Attend public
education days and try to educate people on responsible pet ownership?
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- Donate a gift
certificate to a pet store?
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- Donate a
raffle item if your club is holding a fundraiser?
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- Donate flea
stuff (Advantage, etc.)?
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- Donate a
canine first aid kit?
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- Provide a
shoulder to cry on when the rescue person is overwhelmed?
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- Pay the
boarding fees to board a dog for a week? Two weeks?
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- Be a
Santa-paws foster to give the foster a break for a few hours or days?
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- Clip coupons
for dog food or treats?
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- Bake some
homemade doggie biscuits?
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- Make book
purchases through Amazon via a web site that contributes commissions
earned to a rescue group?
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- Host rescue
photos with an information link on your website?
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- Donate time
to take good photos of foster dogs for adoption flyers, etc.?
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- Conduct a
home visit or accompany a rescue person on the home visit?
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- Go with
rescue person to the vet to help if there is more than one dog?
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- Have a yard
sale and donate the money to rescue?
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- Be volunteer
to do rescue in your area?
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- 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?
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- Talk to all
your friends about adopting and fostering rescue dogs?
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- Donate vet
services or can you help by donating a spay or neuter each year or some
vaccinations?
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- Interview
vets to encourage them to offer discounts to rescues?
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- Write a
column for your local newspaper or club newsletter on dogs on dogs
currently looking for homes or ways to help rescue?
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- Take photos
of dogs available for adoption for use by the Club?
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- Maintain web
sites listing/showing dogs available?
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- Help organize
and run fundraising events?
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- Help maintain
the paperwork files associated with each dog or enter the information into
a database?
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- Loan your
carpet steam cleaner to someone who has fostered a dog that was sick or
marked in the house?
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- Donate a
bottle of bleach or other cleaning products?
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- 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?
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- Drive the
fosters' children to an activity so that the foster can take the dog to
obedience class?
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- Use your
video camera to film a rescue dog in action?
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- Pay the cost
of taking a dog to obedience class?
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- Be the one to
take the dog to its obedience class?
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- Go to the
foster home once a week with your children and dogs to help socialize the
dog?
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- Help the
foster clean up the yard (yes, we also have to scoop what those foster
dogs poop)
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- Offer to test
the foster dog with kids/cats/men?
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- Pay for the
dog to be groomed or take the dog to a *Do It Yourself* Grooming Place?
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- Bring the
foster take out so the foster doesn't have to cook dinner?
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- Pay a
house-cleaning service to do the spring cleaning for someone who fosters
dogs all the time?
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- Lend your
artistic talents to your club's newsletter, fundraising ideas, T-shirt
designs?
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- Donate
printer paper, envelopes and stamps to your club?
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- Go with a
rescue person to the vet if a foster dog needs to be euthanized?
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- 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?
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- Go to local
businesses and solicit donations for a club's fundraising event?
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- Offer to try
and help owners be better pet owners by holding a grooming seminar?
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- Help pet
owners be better pet owners by being available to answer training
questions?
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- Loan a crate
if a dog needs to travel by air?
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- Put together
an *Owner's Manual* for those who adopt rescued dogs of your breed?
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- Provide
post-adoption follow up or support?
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- Donate a
coupon for a free car wash or gas or inside cleaning of a vehicle?
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- Pay for an ad
in your local/metropolitan paper to help place rescue dogs?
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- Volunteer to
screen calls for that ad?
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- Get some
friends together to build/repair pens or training areas for a foster home
or rescue?
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- 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?
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- Donate a
small percentage of the sale of each pup to rescue if you are a breeder?
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- Buy two of
those really neat dog-items you "have to have" and donate one to
Rescue?
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- 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?
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- Make a
bequest in your will to your local or national Rescue?
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- Donate your
professional services as an accountant or lawyer?
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- Donate other
services if you run your own business?
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- Donate the
use of a vehicle if you own a car dealership?
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- Loan your
cell phone (and cover costs for any calls) to someone driving a rescued
dog?
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- Donate your
*used* dog items when you get new ones?
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- Let rescue
know when you'll be flying and that you'd be willing to be a rescued dog's
escort?
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- Donate a grid
for a van or other vehicle?
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- Organize a
rescued dog picnic or other event to reunite the rescued dogs that have
been placed?
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- Donate other
types of doggy toys that might be safe for rescued dogs?
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- Donate a
roll-a-treat or Buster cube?
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- Donate
clickers or a video on clicker training?
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- Donate
materials for a quarantine area at a foster's home?
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- Donate sheets
of linoleum or other flooring material to put under crates to protect the
foster's floor?
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- Donate an
engraving tool to make ID tags for each of the rescued dogs?
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- 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?
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- Donate used
blankets, sheets, and towels.
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- Help walk or
train dogs in rescue
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- Post notices
about adoptable dogs and rescues at your workplace to help educate your
friends
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- When you make
a purchase for your own dog, but one of the same item to donate to rescue.
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- Offer to
"sponsor" a dog in rescue for $10 or more a month until it finds
a forever home.
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