1. Sponsor a pet in a local newspaper
2. Donate a dog/cat bed or towels or other *bedding* type items (Gently used dog/cat equipment is always welcome) blanket, afghan, towel or other soft fuzzy item to use inside a crate
3. Donate Money (collect your change for a week or a month and donate that!)
4. Donate a Kong, Nylabone or Hercules
5. Donate a pet crate or baby gate
6. Donate a food dish or a stainless bucket for a crate
7. Donate a leash or collar
8. Donate some treats or a bag of food
9. Walk a dog
10. Groom a dog or cat
11. Donate some grooming supplies (shampoos, combs, brushes, etc.)
12. Make a few phone calls
13. Mail out newsletters to people who’ve requested them
14. Provide local vet clinics with contact information for educational materials on responsible pet ownership
15. Spread the word about early spay/neuter programs
16. Donate long distance calling cards
17. Donate a scanner or digital camera
18. Donate cases of blank white paper for the copy machine
19. Attend public education days to educate people on responsible pet ownership
20. Donate a gift certificate to a pet store
21. Donate a raffle item if your club is holding a fundraiser
22. Donate flea stuff such as Frontline drops
23. Donate Heartworm pills
24. Donate an animal first aid kit
25. Provide a shoulder to cry on when the rescue person is overwhelmed
26. Pay the fees to care for a dog for a week or two
27. Be a Santi-paws foster to give the foster a break for a few hours or days
28. Sponsor a cat cage or kennel run
29. Bake some homemade doggie biscuits
30. Make book purchases through Amazon via a web site that contributes commissions earned to a rescue group
31. Host rescue photos with an information link on your website
32. Donate time to take good photos of foster dogs for adoption flyers, etc.
33. Help rescue unwanted puppies and kittens and take them to the safety of the shelter
34. Go with rescue person to the vet to help if there is more than one dog or cat
35. Have a yard sale and donate the money to rescue
36. Volunteer to do rescue in your area
37. 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 rescue’s name and phone # to contact
38. Talk to all your friends about adopting and fostering rescued dogs and cats
39. Donate vet services or can you help by donating a spay or neuter each year or some vaccinations
40. Interview vets to encourage them to offer discounts to rescues
41. Write a column for your local newspaper or club newsletter on dogs currently looking for homes at a shelter.
42. Encourage the local papers to advertise a pet of the week for FREE
43. Maintain web sites listing/showing dogs and cats available, other than the shelters’ own websites
44. Help organize and run fundraising events
45. Help maintain the paperwork files associated with each dog or enter the information into a database
46. Encourage the Tattooing or Microchipping of a rescued dog
47. Loan your carpet steam cleaner to someone who has fostered a dog that was sick or marked in the house
48. Donate a bottle of bleach or other cleaning products
49. 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
50. Take a shelter dog to obedience class
51. Use your video camera to film a rescue dog in action
52. Pay the cost of taking a dog to obedience class
53. Be the one to take the dog to its obedience class
54. Go to the shelter once a week to help socialize the dog
55. Help the shelter clean up the yard
56. Offer to test the shelter dog with cats
57. Pay for the dog or cat to be groomed
58. Bring snacks and goodies for the shelter staff
59. Help paint or remodel a shelter
60. Lend your artistic talents to your shelter’s newsletter, fundraising ideas, t-shirt designs
61. Donate printer paper, envelopes and stamps
62. Have logos made up for your shelter
63. 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
64. Go to local businesses and solicit donations for the shelters fundraising events
65. Offer to try and help owners be better pet owners by holding a grooming seminar
66. Help pet owners be better pet owners by being available to answer training questions
67. Loan or donate a crate if a dog needs to travel
68. Put together an *Owner’s Manual* for those who adopt rescued dogs/cats of your breed
69. Provide post-adoption follow up or support
70. Donate a coupon for a free car wash or gas or inside cleaning of a vehicle
71. Pay for an ad in your local newspaper to help place rescue dogs
72. Volunteer to screen calls for that ad
73. Get some friends together to build/repair pens for a foster home
74. 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
75. Donate a small percentage of the sale of each pup to rescue if you are a breeder
76. Buy two of those really neat dog-items you “have to have” and donate one to the shelter
77. Make financial arrangements in your will to leave some money to the orphans at the shelter
78. Make a bequest in your will to your local or national Rescue
79. Donate your professional services as an accountant or lawyer
80. Donate other services if you run your own business
81. Donate the use of a vehicle if you own a car dealership
82. Donate money for the cell phone (and cover costs for any calls) to a rescue driver
83. Donate your *used* dog dryer when you get a new one
84. Let rescue know when you’ll be flying and that you’d be willing to be a rescued dog’s escort
85. Do something not listed above to help rescue
86. Donate a doggy seatbelt
87. Organize a rescued dog picnic or other event to reunite the rescued dogs that have been placed
88. Donate other types of doggy toys that might be safe for rescued dogs
89. Donate clickers or a video on clicker training
90. Donate materials for a quarantine area
91. Donate sheets of linoleum or other flooring materials
92. Donate an engraving machine to make ID tags for each of the rescued dogs
93. 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
94. Donate frequent flyer points so that rescue can fly a dog from another area to safety
95. Offer to be a rescued dog’s flight escort, especially if your work requires you to travel frequently or you work in the travel industry
96. Do something not listed above to help rescue
97. Offer to take a donation jar for the rescue and put it in your work lunchroom or on your desk
98. Offer to talk to pet stores or pet supply stores about putting a donation jar on their counter
99. Offer to give out flyers or pamphlets on the foster dogs or the rescue organization
100. Offer to give out flyers or pamphlets on the foster dogs or the rescue organization
101. Offer to talk with carpenters about building a dog house or doing work at the shelter
102. Talk to dog trainers in your area about animal rescue
103. Give the rescue a fax machine
104. Talk to dog trainers in your area about helping the rescue assess rescue dogs
105. Help the rescue by talking to pet shops about not selling dogs in their store
106. Offer to write a information package on the breed of dog or cat you are familiar with
107. Sponsor the gas, or tolls expense or both for the transport of a rescue dog ?
108. Spay or neuter your own pet
109. Donate film for taking pictures of the rescue dogs
110. Talk to people about WHY they should adopt vs. buy a pet from a pet store
111. Give your time to research how to get grants
112. Offer to assist with special needs rescue dogs (give shots, medications, special training for deaf dogs)
113. Talk to health food and naturopathic stores about donating items to canine rescue organizations