Happy Rescue Holidays...

[Gina Heitz <brier@oregonsbest.com>]

a little bird on this list shared this list with another list and I am 
reprinting it here... :-)

Krys Prichard's 100 ways to help rescue:

So many people think fostering is the only way to help rescue. That is just
one thing rescue needs, fosters.

So you can't foster or adopt a dog,here's the on-going 100 Ways to Help
Rescue list...Can you...

1. Transport a dog?
2. Donate a dog bed or towels or other *bedding* type items?(gently-used
dog equipment is always welcomed.)
3. Donate MONEY?
4. Donate a Kong? A nylabone? A hercules?
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?
12. Walk a dog?
13. Groom a dog?
14. Donate some grooming supplies (shampoos, combs, brushes, etc.)?
15. Go to the local shelter and see if that yellow lab is a golden 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 with contact information for educational
materials on Goldens?
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 and try to educate people on responsible
pet ownership?
24. Donate a gift certificate from 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? 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 the GRCA Website
35. Host rescue photos with an information link on your website?
36. Donate time to take good photos of foster goldens 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 a 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 a
quarantine 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. 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 a house-cleaning service to do the spring cleaning for someone who
fosters dogs all the time?
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 and meet with shelter staff about how to identify
goldens or provide photos and breed information showing the different looks
of goldens.
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 available to answer
training questions?
72. Donate or loan a crate if a dog needs to travel by air?
73. Put together a *Golden's Owner's Manual* for those who adopt rescued
goldens?
74. Provide post-adoption follow up or support?
75. Offer to pet-sit or feed for a weekend so the foster family can get
away for a holiday.
76. Pay for an ad in your local/metropolitan paper to help place rescue dogs.
77. Volunteer to screen calls for that ad. (What? A Golden needs lots of
exercise? I didn't know.)
78. When you buy your own dog food, buy an extra bag for a foster home.
79. Get some friends together to build/repair pens for a foster home.
80. If you are a breeder, 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
81. Donate a small percentage of the sale of each pup to rescue.
82. Save clean, groomed-out undercoat for that member who is a spinner and
wants to make a hand-spun, woven item for fund-raising.
83. 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.
84. 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.
85. Make a bequest in your will to your local or national Rescue.
86. Volunteer to pet sit so the foster can take time off
87. Volunteer to take a foster dog or rescue dog to local pet stores and
"adoption" days to educate
the public about the breed
88. Can you do something not mentioned on this list to help rescue?