1. Transport a dog or cat for a 'leg' of it's journey.
2. Donate a dog bed
3. Donate your old towels for bath time - which is constant in rescue work.
4. Donate a Kong or a Nylabone
5. Donate a crate or crate pad
6. Donate an expen
7. Donate a food dish or a stainless bucket for a crate
8. Donate a leash And/or collar
9. Donate your outgrown baby gates
10. Donate some treats or a bag of food
11. Donate a halti or gentle leader
12. Walk a dog
13. Brush a dog/cat
14. Donate shampoos, combs, brushes, etc.
15. Offer to do a shelter id for a rescue
16. Write your favorite rescue into your will. Create a legacy in your name.
17. Mail out applications to people who've requested them
18. Provide local vet clinics with contact information for educational materials on responsible pet ownership
19. Drive a dog or cat to and from vet appointments
20. Donate long distance calling cards
21. Donate your old scanner or digital camera .. or just loan it to a rescue
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 to a pet supply store .. either online or in your neighborhood.
25. Donate a raffle item if your club is holding a fundraiser
26. Donate flea preventative (Advantage, Frontline, etc.)
27. Donate heartworm pills
28. Donate a canine or feline 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 or cat for a week or two
31. Be a Santa-paws foster to give the foster provider a break for a few hours ... or a day or two
32. Clip coupons for dog/cat 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/cats 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 or cat
39. Have a yard sale and donate some of the money to rescue
40. Be a volunteer contact 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 local rescue's name and phone # to contact
42. Talk to all your responsible friends about adopting and fostering rescue dogs and cats
43. Donate vet services or can you help by donating 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 and cats on dogs and cats currently looking for homes and/or ways to help rescue
46. Take photos of dogs and cats available for adoption for use by the Rescue organization
47. Maintain web sites listing/showing dogs/cats available
48. Volunteer tp help organize and run fundraising events
49. Help maintain the paperwork files associated with each dog/cat or enter the information into a database
50. Sponsor a tattoo for a rescued dog or cat
51. Sponsor a microchip for a rescued dog or cat
52. Loan your carpet steam-cleaner to a rescue foster home.
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 or cat 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 and vice versa
62. Pay for the dog to be groomed or take the dog to a *Do It Yourself* Grooming Place
63. Bring the foster family take out supper so they don't have to cook dinner
64. Pay a house-cleaning service to do the spring cleaning for someone who fosters dogs and cats all the time
65. Lend your artistic talents to your club's newsletter, fundraising ideas, and 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/cat needs to be euthanized
68. 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
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. Loan a crate if a dog or cat needs to travel by air
73. Put together an *Owner's Manual* for those who adopt rescued dogs of your breed, as well as an *owner's manual* for rescued cats!
74. Provide post-adoption follow up or support? All dogs and cats need to be followed up on ...
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 and cats
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/cat-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/cats 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
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 someone driving a rescued dog or cat
88. Donate your *used* dog dryer when you get a new one
89. Let rescue know when you'll be flying and that you'd be willing to be a rescued dog's escort
90. Donate a doggy seatbelt
91. Donate a grid screen for a van or other vehicle
92. Organize a rescued dog picnic or other event to reunite the rescued dogs that have been placed
93. Donate other types of doggy/kitty toys that might be safe for rescued dogs and cats
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 foster's home
97. Donate sheets of linoleum or other flooring material to put under crates to protect the foster''s 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. Have some old comforters? Cut those up and make some cat beds!!
101. Crosspost for rescue organizations
102. Socialize with a cat, brush a cat, etc.
103. The world is wide open ... Be creative as to what YOU can do to be a part of the solution to pet overpopulation.