Would you like to volunteer with Triangle Beagle Rescue?
Here are 95 Ways You Can Help...
E-mail h-e-l-p-m-e @tribeagles.org if you'd like to help! Remove the space before the @ and all the dashes to send an email.
- Transport a dog?
- Donate a dog bed or towels or other *bedding*
type items?**
- Donate MONEY?
- Donate a Kong? A nylabone?
- Donate a crate?
- Donate an x-pen or baby gates?
- Donate a food dish or a stainless bucket for a
crate?
- Donate a leash?
- Donate a collar?
- Donate some treats or a bag of food?
- Donate a halti or promise collar or a gentle
leader?
- Walk a dog?
- Groom a dog?
- Donate some grooming supplies (shampoos, combs,
brushes, etc.)?
- 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?
- Make a few phone calls?
- Mail out applications to people who've requested
them?
- Provide local vet clinics w/contact info for
educational matls on responsible pet ownership?
- Drive a dog to and from vet appointments?
- Donate long distance calling cards?
- Donate the use of your scanner or digital
camera?
- Donate the use of a photocopier?
- Attend public education days & try to educate
people on responsible pet ownership?
- Donate a gift certificate to a pet store?
- Donate an auction item if your club is holding a
fund raiser?
- Donate flea stuff (Advantage, etc.)?
- Donate HW pills?
- Donate a canine first aid kit?
- Provide a shoulder to cry on when the rescue
person is overwhelmed?
- Pay the boarding fees to board a dog for a week?
Two weeks?
- Be a Santi-paws foster to give the foster a
break for a few hours or days?
- Clip coupons for dog food or treats?
- Bake some homemade doggie biscuits?
- Host rescue photos with an information link on
your website?
- Donate time to take good photos of foster dogs
for adoption flyers, etc.?
- 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 a volunteer to do rescue in your area?
- 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?
- Talk to all your friends about adopting and
fostering rescue dogs?
- Donate vet services or donate a spay or neuter
each year or some vaccinations?
- Interview vets to encourage them to offer
discounts to rescues?
- Write a column for your local newspaper or club
newsletter on dogs currently
looking for homes 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 paperwork files associated with
each dog or enter info into a database?
- Tattoo a rescued dog?
- Microchip a rescued dog?
- Loan your carpet steamcleaner to someone who
fostered a dog that was sick or marked in the house?
- Donate a bottle of bleach or other cleaning
products?
- 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?
- Use your video camera to film a rescue dog in
action?
- Go to the foster home once a week with your
children & dogs to help socialize the dog?
- Help the foster clean up the yard (yes, we also have to scoop what 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 the foster doesn't
have to cook dinner?
- Pay house-cleaning service to do spring cleaning
for someone who fosters dogs?
- Lend your artistic talents to your club's
newsletter, fundraising ideas, t-shirt designs?
- Donate printer paper, envelopes, printer
cartridges and stamps to your club?
- Go with a rescue person to the vet if a foster
dog needs to be euthanized?
- 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 grooming 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 or support?
- Donate a coupon for a free car wash or gas 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 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?
- 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 a bequest in your will to your local or
national Rescue?
- 77. 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?
- Donate your professional services as an
accountant or lawyer?
- Donate other services if you run your own
business?
- Donate the use of a vehicle if you own a car
dealership?
- 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 & you'd
be willing to be a rescue dog's escort?
- Donate a doggy seatbelt?
- Donate a grid for a van or other vehicle?
- Organize a rescued dog picnic or other event to
reunite rescued dogs that have been placed?
- Donate other types of doggy toys that might be
safe for rescued dogs?
- Donate a roll-a-treat or Buster cube?
- Donate clickers or a video on clicker training?
- Donate materials for a quarantine area at a
fosters home?
- Donate sheets of linoleum or other flooring
matls to put under crates to protect fosters floor?
- Donate an engraving tool to make ID tags for
each of the rescued dogs?
- 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?
- Do something not listed above to help rescue?
E-mail h-e-l-p-m-e @tribeagles.org if you'd like to help! Remove the space before the @ and all the dashes to send an email.
Last updated on 16 May, 2006.
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