Volunteer For Your Local Dog Shelter

Animal shelters and animal welfare agenciesonline and they need great pictures to show
always need volunteers. They need money too!potential adopters.
But besides donating money there are a ton ofYou can use your own vehicle to help transport
other ways you can help.dogs - either taking a foster dog to a vet
Did you know you can foster a dog? Yep, manyappointment, or picking up a dog that needs to be
shelters don't have enough room for all therescued and brought to the shelter. If you're a
animals brought to them so they need people tobreeder, could you donate a portion of the
house these animals until they can be placed in amoney you make on each puppy to an animal
permanent home. Or sometimes a dog may be illshelter?
or too young to be adopted. How fun to care forDid you know that some agencies rescue dogs
one of these dogs until they are ready forfrom out of state? You could donate your
adoption.frequent flyer miles to fly a dog from another
Some shelter dogs could use obedience trainingarea to the safety of the shelter. You could even
and you can be the one to take him there. Younotify the shelter when you're flying and be the
can volunteer your time at the shelter where youone to accompany a dog back to the shelter.
can walk the dogs, or clean the kennels, or workIf you have an extra bowl, or some toys, or a
in the office.collar your dog has outgrown, donate them. All
If you are computer savvy, you can help createhelp is welcome. These are just a few of the
posters about adoption events or createmany things you can do to help a dog in a shelter.
brochures with adoption information. If you are aJust call and ask what you can do to volunteer or
photographer, you can take pictures of the dogsfill out an online application that many of the
that need adopting. Many shelters post their dogsshelters are now using.