100 Ways To Help a Rescue
For anyone out there who might have wanted to help rescue but just
weren't sure how. We're not asking for these things. These are just some suggestions.
OF COURSE THE NUMBER ONE THING YOU CAN DO IS RESCUE A CAT OR DOG ... PRICELESS AND YOU FEEL GOOD ABOUT IT!

A BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO PAM AND JIM AMBROSE FOR ADOPTING A RESCUE KITTY TODAY!!!

Can you...
1. Transport a dog?
2. Donate a dog bed or towels or other *bedding* type items?**
3. Donate MONEY?
4. Donate a Kong? A nylabone?
5. Donate a crate?
6. Donate an x-pen or baby gates?
7. Donate a food dish or a stainless bucket for a crate?
8. Donate a leash?
9. Donate a collar?
10. Donate some treats or a bag of food?
11. Donate a halti or promise collar or a gentle leader?
12. Walk a dog?
13. Groom a dog?
14. Donate some grooming supplies (shampoos, combs, brushes, etc.)?
15. Go to the local shelter & see if that dog is the breed the shelter
says it is or go with rescue to be a second opinion on the dog?
16. Make a few phone calls?
17. Mail out applications to people who've requested them?
18. Provide local vet clinics w/contact info for educational materials on
responsible pet ownership?
19. Drive a dog to and from vet appointments?
20. Donate long distance calling cards?
21. Donate the use of your scanner or digital camera?
22. Donate the use of a photocopier?
23. Attend public education days & 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 Heartworm pills?
28. Donate a canine 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? Two weeks?
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. Make book purchases through Amazon via a web site that contributes
commissions earned to a rescue group?
35. Host rescue photos with an information link on your website?
36. Donate time to take good photos of foster dogs 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 & instead of getting it for your own dog, have the tag inscribed with your Club's name & ph # to contact?
42. Talk to all your friends about adopting and fostering rescue dogs?
43. Donate vet services or donate 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 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 paperwork files associated with each dog or enter
info into a database?
50. Tattoo a rescued dog?
51. Microchip a rescued dog?
52. Loan your carpet steamcleaner to someone who 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 a
quarantine area for quarantining a dog that has an unknown vaccination
history and has been in a shelter?
55. Drive fosters' children to an activity so 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 wk with your children & dogs to help
socialize the dog?
60. Help the foster clean up the yard (yes, we also have to scoop what foster dogs poop)
61. Offer to test the foster dog with cats?
62. Pay for the dog to be groomed or take the dog to a *Do It Yourself* Grooming Place?
63. Bring the foster take out so the foster doesn't have to cook
dinner?
64. Pay house-cleaning service to do spring cleaning for someone who
fosters dogs?
65. Lend your artistic talents to your club's newsletter, fundraising
ideas, t-shirt designs?
66. Donate printer paper, envelopes and stamps to your club?
67. Go with a rescue person to the vet if a foster dog needs to be
euthanized?
68. Go to local shelters & meet w/shelter staff abt how to identify
your breed or provide photos & breed info showing the different types of that breed may come in & the different color combinations?
69. Go to local businesses and solicit donations for a club's
fundraising event?
70. Offer to try and help owners be better pet owners by holding a
grooming seminar?
71. Help pet owners be better pet owners by being avail to answer
training
questions?
72. Loan a crate if a dog needs to travel by air?
73. Put together an Owner's Manual* for those who adopt rescued dogs of your breed?
74. Provide post-adoption follow up or support?
75. Donate a coupon for a free car wash or gas or inside cleaning of a
vehicle?
76. Pay for an ad in your local/metropolitan paper to help place rescue dogs?
77. Volunteer to screen calls for that ad?
78. Get some friends together to build/repair pens for a foster home?
79. 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?
80. Donate a small percentage of the sale of each pup to rescue if you are a breeder?
81. Buy two of those really neat dog-items you "have to have" and
donate one to Rescue?
82. 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?
83. Make a bequest in your will to your local or national Rescue?
84. Donate your professional services as an accountant or lawyer?
85. Donate other services if you run your own business? (i.e. Web Designer)
86. Donate the use of a vehicle if you own a car dealership?
87. Loan your cell phone (and cover costs for any calls) to s/one
driving a rescued dog?
88. Donate your *used* dog dryer when you get a new one?
89. Let rescue know when you'll be flying & you'd be willing to be a
rescue dog's escort?
90. Donate a doggy seatbelt?
91. Donate a grid for a van or other vehicle?
92. Organize a rescued dog picnic or other event to reunite rescued
dogs that have been placed?
93. Donate other types of doggy toys that might be safe for rescued
dogs?
94. Donate a roll-a-treat or Buster cube?
95. Donate clickers or a video on clicker training?
96. Donate materials for a quarantine area at a fosters home?
97. Donate sheets of linoleum or other flooring matls to put under
crates to protect fosters floor?
98. Donate an engraving tool to make ID tags for each of the rescued
dogs?
99. 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?
100. Do something not listed above to help rescue?

Gently used dog and cat TOYS are ALWAYS welcomed to rescue animals in the shelter!

by Sharon Fitzgerald on Sat, Sep 06, 2008 @ 7:42 PM

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We are Ready to Walk Rain or Shine!
We have had some generous donations online and we have also received some checks over the past few days that we will bring with us to the Registration Center before the walk. With the additional offline donations we are closer to our goal. We also had a neighbor Sonia donate a wonderful gift of canned cat food. Sadly she and her children Alyssa and Sammy recently lost two cats, but still found it in their hearts to take the remaining cat food and donate it to animals at the shelter in need. That says a lot about Sonia and her children.

Also, for those of you that want to help other than financially, but do not know how, there is a long list of "100 Ways to Help Your Local Animal Shelter". Things such as old blankets, food, etc. are so appreciated. I will be posting that list soon. Again thanks to all who have helped us out, and we are ready for the Walk!

Sharon & The Shiba Scream Team

by Sharon Fitzgerald on Sat, Sep 06, 2008 @ 6:57 PM

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We are having a RAFFLE for anyone who donates!
PLEASE HELP ANIMALS IN NEED - It can be $5 dollars, every donation counts.
You will automatically be entered into our Team Raffle!!

We Shibas are very excited, as this is our very first time participating in the MSPCA's Walk for Animals on Sunday, September 7th here in Boston on the Boston Common. We have been getting ready and Mom has been taking us for extra long walks lately. Suki is doing pilates to get in shape, and as for me, Kitsu, I have been doing bench presses.

Suki and I just set up our fundraising page, and we plan on sending out an email to a lot of our family and friends for donations over the next few days. We have even decided to have a TEAM RAFFLE!! There are different prizes for different amounts raised by teams. We already have a lot of verbal pledges, as our two legger kids tell us many family and friends of ours are already donating to our Shiba Scream Team. For example, on our page it has just Mom's starter donation of $25. As we have six members of our family walking (so far) they each have their own pages and at $25 each we have already raised $150 from just our own family at home. Mom has started early as she really wants to get enough donations to hit the $1000 mark. She plans on pitching in more later depending on how we are doing. Also any two leggers who want to walk with us will get their own page to customize, along with an MSPCA t-shirt and can raise their own funds. Registration for the Walk for Animals is $25.

HERE IS THE GOOD PART: If you donate to the Walk for the Animals and donate a minimum of $5 (directly to the MSPCA) via our page the Shiba Scream Team, we will enter every donor, regardless of amount donated, into the raffle for the GRAND PRIZE! Remember every dollar counts! This is what the raffle winner will get depending upon how much the Shiba Scream Team raises:

$300 raised: MSPCA-Angell pet bandana
$500 raised: MSPCA-Angell bag
$1,000 raised: Digital Camera
$3,000 raised: Digital Photo Frame
$5,000 raised: Portable GPS Navigation System


Also click on "Team Information" as each walker is raising money for the entire team. I am just the captain of this one team and there are other walkers contributing to our team. We started early to make sure we are set to go September 7th.

In the meantime, we will be Shibas-In-Training for the big Walk.
If you are interested in walking with us and live in the Boston area, there will also be plenty of activities during the day to entertain both dogs and their two-legger friends on the Boston Common. On-site entertainment will include more raffles, prizes, food, contests, microchipping, behavior demonstrations, agility, kid's corner activities, crafts, music and more. We will keep you up to date on our progress via our MSPCA page, and hopefully post some pictures of us working out for the Walk!

by Sharon Fitzgerald on Wed, Aug 20, 2008 @ 5:09 PM

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