When You Can’t Adopt – A Helping Hand At Shelter Or Rescue Homes Is Of Much Worth
When
animals are abandoned and neglected by owners, or people are not
capable of taking care of their pets, rescue homes and animals
shelters march forward to help.
The care provided goes beyond the
basic needs, as they not only cater the basic needs like shelter and
food but also work hard to provide medical care, vaccinations,
grooming, heartworm
and flea and tick protection
before they can be placed up for adoption. Moreover, it takes a huge
toil on these organizations when large scale rescue operations are
carried out or abundance of kittens during the warmer months.
Whether
it’s a large animal shelter, a small municipal shelter or a
community-managed rescue center, these caring individuals put in
their unconditional love and ceaseless efforts to bring in a ray of
hope in the lives of helpless animals. And, to help these good
Samaritans, we can also bring in the helping hands.
Love
Is In Abundance – Share It
If
you can’t adopt, helping shelter homes by advertising pets is the
best thing you can do. Your Instagram profile, Tumbler page,
Pinterest board, Twitter stream, Facebook timeline and other social
media accounts are the crucial points to share a lot about animals
that are looking for a parent. Sharing profiles of the adoptable
animals to your groups hardly takes your time or effort in creating a
perfect match for an animal who require a home forever.
DO
you Love Driving – JUST Get behind the Wheels to Transport Animals
Can
you drive? If YES! rescue shelters are always in need of people who
can transport shelter animals. Whether it is taking animals for vet
appointments or from shelters to rescue homes, or rescued animals to
their foster homes, you can put in your driving skills to test.
Donating your little time with driving will assist animals to meet
their requirements.
DO You Love Volunteering – Helping Hands Brings in More Joy
Many
shelter homes have volunteer programs where they require helping
hands constantly to carry out certain rescue center tasks. You can
check into these programs that might include duties like making phone
calls, hanging flyers, cleaning up kennels, mailing applications or
bathing the animals. You can even apply monthly treatments such as
flea and tick preventives, heartwormers if required by the centers.
DO You Love Donating – Just Don’t THROW – Donate Items
Many
times, we just dump those useless or unnecessary items in the bin
when we do not need them. Though these things might not be of much
use to us, but they can be of great use to these animal shelter
homes.
Items
you can donate
- Towels
- Old beds/bedsheets
- Brushes
- Sweaters
- Food & Dishes
- Cleaning supplies
- Toys
- Newspaper
- Baby crates
- Polythene bags
Check
in with a local shelter near you if there’s any of the items you
can bring in. Many shelter homes have their donation policies
according to which you can donate things because some accept food
items and some may not.
DO You Love Shopping – Check On Shelter’s Wishlist & Buy
Many
shelters or rescue homes have wishlists either on their bulletin
board or links on their website. Buy items of these wishlists online
which is much easier to do as the websites’ wishlists include the
shelter homes address and you don’t need to ship any items
yourself. You can buy these items without leaving your home just at a
click.
Do You Love Walking – Walk Dogs
Due
to short of staff, shelter homes are not able to exercise or
socialize rescued animals. If you love dogs and are good at handling,
take an hour out in a week to take shelter dogs for a walk. Whether
it’s a walk, exercise or a play time, it has a positive
psychological and physical effects for waiting animals.
DO You Love Cuddling – Pet Cats
Like
dogs, cats too need socialization. You can take out an hour once in a
week if you’re a cat lover. Hang out with cats – playing,
cuddling, petting and interacting with them.
Do
You love Sharing – Donate
Rescue
homes and animal shelters are always short of money due to constant
inflow of rescued animals. Unfortunately, lot of rumor mills are
always running saying that shelter homes earn a lot from adoption
fees and government aids. On the other hand, the truth is most
shelters and rescue homes don’t receive much from state funding,
and adoption fees are never too high. Therefore, donations and
adoption fees are the only way that helps them in saving lives of
furry pals.
