Volunteer: Provide Support to the Rescuers

Moral Support:
-Provide a shoulder to cry on when the rescue person is overwhelmed.
-Be a Santi-paws foster to give the foster a break for a few hours or days.
-Go with a rescue person to the vet if a foster dog needs to be euthanized.
-Go with rescue person to the vet to help if there is more than one dog.


Material Support:
-Pay the boarding fees to board a dog for a week or two.
-Donate a coupon for a free car wash or gas or inside cleaning of a vehicle.
-Pay for an ad in your local/metropolitan paper to help place rescue dogs.
-Donate materials for a quarantine area at a foster home.
-Donate sheets of linoleum or other flooring materials to put under crates to protect the foster's floor.
-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.

General Help:
-Clip coupons for dog food or treats.
-Help the foster clean up the yard (yes, we also have to scoop what those foster dogs poop).
-Offer to test the foster dog with cats.
-Loan your carpet steam cleaner to someone who has fostered a dog that was sick or marked in the house.
-Loan a crate if a dog needs to travel by air.
-Get some friends together to build/repair pens for a foster home.