Finding a Way to Help – Dog Rescue

These days, fostering dogs is pretty much on hold for me. I feel sure there will come a time when I will return to this phase of helping out in the dog rescue effort. But for now, I have many older dogs to care for, and I feel they need my full attention.

There are other ways to help though, and I think we owe it to ourselves to offer what we have to give in the different phases of our lives. I spent most of today working at our local adoption center’s fundraising store – Purrfect Treasures. I worked on placing product for this coming weekend’s shoppers.

And while I come home tired after one of these days, I always feel good about the effort. The funds raised here go directly to the Franklin County Humane Society Adoption Center, helping to pay for medical treatments for the dogs and cats there as well as all the other things needed to keep the doors open.

Non-profits like our local rescues do incredible work, often offering opportunities to abandoned pets who otherwise would have their lives ended at county or city pounds. Most are in dire need of volunteers who can help in many different capacities.

If you have a few hours a week to spare, check into your local rescue and see what they need help doing. It is an incredibly rewarding effort. You never know what you’ll end up getting to do!

Tomorrow, it’s back to writing!