FLP needs lots of volunteers with many different skills. If you have a few hours a week, perhaps a half day, a day or even a weekend once or twice a month that you could spare to help us create a peaceful, beautiful haven for domestic animals in need – the homeless/abandoned, abused/neglected, injured/sick and the unadoptable – we need you.
We also need volunteers to work in our unique thriftshop, "Paws-itively Charming".
25. Donate a raffle item if your club is holding a fundraiser?
26. Donate flea stuff (Advantage, etc.)?
27. Donate heartworm pills?
28. Donate a canine 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/cat for a week? Two weeks?
31. Be a Santa-paws foster to give the foster a break for a few hours or days?
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 animal?
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, have the tag inscribed with our club's name and phone # to contact?
42. Talk to all your friends about adopting and fostering rescue dogs/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/cats currently looking for homes or ways to help rescue?
46. Take photos of dogs/cats available for adoption for use by the club?
47. Maintain web sites listing/showing animals available?
48. Help organize and run fundraising events?
49. Help maintain the paperwork files associated with each animal or enter the information into a database?
50. Tattoo a rescued dog or cat?
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DOMESTIC ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUARY
51. Microchip a rescued dog/cat?
52. Loan your carpet steamcleaner to someone who has fostered an animal 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/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 a 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 animals all the time?
65. Lend your artistic talents to our club's newsletter, fundraising ideas, t-shirt designs?
66. Donate printer paper, envelopes and stamps to oour club?
67. Go with a rescue person to the vet if a foster animal needs to be euthanized?
68. Go to local shelters and meet with shelter staff about how to identify breeds 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 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 animals?
74. Provide post-adoption follow up or support?
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 animals?
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-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 animals 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* 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 or cat’s escort?
90. Do something not listed above to help rescue?
91. Donate a doggy seatbelt?
92. Donate a grid for a van or other vehicle?
93. Organize a rescued dog/cat picnic or other event to reunite rescued animals that have been placed?
94. Donate other types of dog and cat toys that might be safe for rescues?
95. Donate a roll-a-treat or Buster cube?
96. Donate clickers or a video on clicker training?
97. Donate materials for a quarantine area at a foster's home?
98. Donate sheets of linoleum or other flooring materials to put under crates to protect the foster's floor?
99. Donate an engraving tool to make ID tags for each of the rescued animals?
100. Remember that rescuing an animal involves the effort and time of many people and make yourself available on an emergency basis to do *whatever* is needed?
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