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Helping the little ones. How can you help YCR? You can help YCR in so many ways, even if you can't foster or adopt a YCR dog!
- Apply to be a YCR representative for your area.
- Pay for an ad in your local/metropolitan paper giving contact information for YCR.
- Transport a dog.
- Go to the local shelter and watch out for needy dogs.
- Provide local vet clinics with contact information and/or educational materials on responsible pet ownership.
- Attend public education days and try to educate people on responsible pet ownership.
- Conduct a home visit or accompany a YCR person on a home visit.
- Go with a YCR person to the vet to help if there is more than one dog.
- Write a column for your local newspaper, club or YCR newsletter on dogs currently looking for homes, ways to help YCR, or responsible dog ownership in general.
- Drive a dog to and from vet appointments.
- Talk to local vets and encourage them to offer discounts for YCR dogs.
- Maintain web sites listing/showing available dogs.
- Help organize and run fundraising events.
- Hang a poster at the grocery store, giving contact information for YCR.
- Go to a foster home once a week to help socialize a dog.
- Put together an "Owner's Manual" for those who adopt YCR dogs of your breed.
- Provide post-adoption follow up or support.
- Offer to test a foster dog with cats.
- If you are a breeder, microchip your own dogs and register the chips, so if your dogs ever come into YCR, you can be contacted to take responsibility.
- Donate a small percentage of the sale of each dog to YCR if you are a breeder.
- Have a yard sale and donate the money to YCR.
- Make a financial donation (even the smallest amount helps).
- Donate a dog bed, towels or other bedding type items.
- Donate a sterilized bone, chew toy, or stuffed squeaky toy.
- Donate a crate.
- Donate a blanket or baby blankets.
- Donate a stainless steel food dish.
- Donate a collar and leash.
- Donate grooming supplies, such as shampoos, brushes, ear cleaner, toothbrushes, or toothpaste.
- Donate some treats or a bag of food.
- Donate long distance calling cards.
- Donate a gift certificate to a pet store (one that sells supplies only).
- Donate a raffle item.
- Donate flea control products (Bio-Spot, Advantage, Frontline, etc.).
- Donate a canine first aid kit.
- Donate a spay or neuter each year (or some vaccinations).
- Donate a bottle of bleach or other cleaning products.
- Donate or loan a portable xpen to a foster home.
- Donate printer paper, envelopes and stamps to YCR.
- Donate sheets of linoleum or other flooring materials to protect the foster home's flooring.
- Donate other types of dog toys that might be safe for YCR's foster dogs.
- Buy two of those really neat dog items you "have to have" and donate one to YCR.
- Donate the use of your scanner or digital camera.
- Donate the use of a photocopier.
- Host photos of YCR dogs with an information link on your website.
- Loan your carpet steam cleaner to someone who has fostered a dog that was sick or marked in the house.
- Pay a housecleaning service to do spring cleaning for someone who fosters dogs.
- Lend your artistic talents to your YCR's newsletter, fundraising ideas, or t-shirt designs.
- Go with a YCR person to the vet if a foster dog needs to be euthanized due to incurable health conditions and suffering.
- Go to local businesses and solicit donations for a YCR fundraising event.
- Help pet owners be better pet owners by being available to answer training
- Donate a coupon for a free car wash or gas or inside cleaning of a vehicle for a foster home.
- Make financial arrangements in your will to cover the cost of caring for your dogs after you are gone, so YCR won't have to.
- Make a bequest in your will to your local or national YCR.
- Donate your professional services as an accountant or lawyer.
- Donate other services if you run your own business.
- Loan your cell phone (and cover costs for any calls) to someone transporting a YCR.
- Donate your used xpen/crate when you get a new one.
- Organize a YCR dog picnic or other event to reunite the other adopters and volunteers.
- Educate friends/family/coworkers on the reasons NOT to buy from a pet store. Encourage them to adopt from rescues or shelters, or to purchase ONLY from a responsible breeder.
- Join your local kennel club or dog training club and become involved in community-level activities.
- Volunteer at your local shelter/humane society.
- Remember that rescuing a dog involves the effort and time of many people. Make yourself available on an emergency basis to do *whatever* is needed.
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