If you can’t foster or adopt a dog, there are still many ways you can help Ginger’s Pet Rescue. Here are just a few of them:
Your time:
- Transportation for dogs to/from adoption events, vet clinics, etc.
- Photography services – great pictures can help a dog get adopted; if you’re good with a camera we want your help!
- Walk a dog in our boarding facility
- Groom a dog
- Be a Santa-Paws Foster to give a Foster a break for a few hours or days
- Clip coupons for dog food, treats and supplies
- Bake homemade dog biscuits
- Post rescue photos and postings on your own website or social media channels
- Conduct a home visit for Ginger’s Pet Rescue
- Talk to all your friends about fostering and adopting dogs
- Contact vets to encourage them to offer discounts to local rescue organizations
- Write a column for your local newspaper or club newsletter on dogs on dogs currently looking for homes or ways to help rescue
- Help plan and organize fundraising events
- Help maintain records for dogs
- Go to a foster’s home with your kids/dogs to help socialize a dog
- Help a foster clean up the yard
- Bring a dog to a DIY Grooming Facility
- Lend your artistic talents to your club’s newsletter, fundraising ideas, t-shirt designs
- Go to local businesses and solicit donations for a club’s fundraising event
- Organize a rescued dog picnic or other event to reunite the rescued dogs that have been placed
Supplies we always need
- Dog food and treats
- Dog beds, towels, crate pads
- Chew toys, nylabones, kong toys, hercules
- Crates – folding, plastic, metal
- Food and water bowls
- Leashes, collars, halters
- X-pens, baby gates
- Grooming supplies – shampoos, brushes, ribbons
- Medical Supplies (Advantage, Heartworm Pills, First Aid Kits, etc.)
- Bleach or other cleaning products
- Printer paper, envelopes, stamps
- Doggy seatbelts
- Dog toys
- Training tools and clickers
- Sheets of linoleum or other flooring materials
- Loan your carpet steamcleaner to someone who has fostered a dog that was sick or not housetrained
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