NE/IA Saint Bernard Rescue

Saint Bernard Rescue Foundation - Nebraska Chapter

Ways to Help

  1. Transport a dog?
  2. Donate a dog bed or towels, blankets or other bedding type items?
  3. Donate MONEY?
  4. Donate a Kong? A nylabone? A hercules?
  5. Donate a crate?
  6. Donate an x-pen or baby gates?
  7. Donate a food dish or a stainless bucket for a crate?
  8. Donate a leash?
  9. Donate a collar?
  10. Donate some treats or a bag of food?
  11. Donate a halti or promise collar or a gentle leader?
  12. Walk a dog?
  13. Groom a dog?
  14. Donate some grooming supplies shampoos, combs, brushes, etc.)?
  15. Provide local vet clinics with contact information for educational materials on responsible pet ownership?
  16. Drive a dog to and from vet appointments?
  17. Attend public education days and try to educate people on responsible pet ownership?
  18. Donate a gift certificate to a pet store?
  19. Donate a raffle item if your club is holding a fund raiser?
  20. Donate flea treatment supplies(Advantage, etc.)?
  21. Donate heartworm pills?
  22. Donate a canine first aid kit?
  23. Pay the boarding fees to board a dog for a week? Two weeks?
  24. Be a "Santa paws" foster to give the foster a break for a few hours or days?
  25. Clip coupons for dog food or treats?
  26. Make purchases through Amazon via a web site that contributes commissions earned to a rescue group?
  27. Host rescue photos with an information link on your web site?
  28. Donate time to take good photos of foster dogs for adoption flyers, etc.?
  29. Conduct a home visit or accompany a rescue person on the home visit?
  30. Go with rescue person to the vet to help if there is more than one dog?
  31. Have a yard sale and donate the money to rescue?
  32. Volunteer to do rescue in your area?
  33. Talk to all your friends about adopting and fostering rescue dogs?
  34. Donate vet services or can you help by donating a spay or neuter each year or some vaccinations?
  35. Interview vets to encourage them to offer discounts to rescues?
  36. Write a column for your local newspaper or club newsletter on dogs on dogs currently looking for homes or ways to help rescue?
  37. Take photos of dogs available for adoption for use by the Club?
  38. Maintain web sites listing/showing dogs available?
  39. Help organize and run fundraising events?
  40. Microchip a rescued dog?
  41. Donate a bottle of bleach or other cleaning products?
  42. 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?
  43. Use your video camera to film a rescue dog in action?
  44. Pay the cost of taking a dog to obedience class?
  45. Be the one to take the dog to its obedience class?
  46. Go to the foster home once a week with your children and dogs to help socialize the dog?
  47. Help the foster clean up the yard
  48. Pay for the dog to be groomed or take the dog to a "Do It Yourself" Grooming Place?
  49. Lend your artistic talents to your club's newsletter, fundraising ideas,T-shirt designs?
  50. Donate printer paper, envelopes and stamps to your club?
  51. Go to local businesses and solicit donations for a club's fundraising event?
  52. Offer to try and help owners be better pet owners by holding a grooming seminar?
  53. Help pet owners be better pet owners by being available to answer training questions?
  54. Put together an Owner's Manual for those who adopt rescued dogs of your breed?
  55. Provide post adoption follow up or support?
  56. Pay for an ad in your local/metropolitan paper to help place rescue dogs?
  57. Get some friends together to build/repair pens for a foster home?
  58. Donate a small percentage of the sale of each pup to rescue if you are a breeder?
  59. Buy two of those really neat dog items you "have to have" and donate one to Rescue?
  60. 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?
  61. Make a bequest in your will to your local or national Rescue?
  62. Donate your professional services as an accountant or lawyer?
  63. Donate other services if you run your own business?
  64. Donate the use of a vehicle if you own a car dealership?
  65. Donate your used dog dryer when you get a new one?
  66. Donate a grid for a van or other vehicle?
  67. Organize a rescued dog picnic or other event to reunite the rescued dogs that have been placed?
  68. Donate other types of doggy toys that might be safe for rescued dogs?
  69. Donate a roll-a-treat or Buster cube?
  70. Donate clickers or a video on clicker training?
  71. Donate materials for a quarantine area at a fosters home?
  72. Donate sheets of linoleum or other flooring materials to put under crates to protect the fosters floor?
  73. Donate an engraving tool to make ID tags for each of the rescued dogs?
  74. Remember that rescuing a dog involves the effort and time of many people. Can you make yourself available on an emergency basis to do whatever is needed?
  75. Do something not listed above to help rescue?

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