Fostering
DREAM needs foster homes in the Atlanta and Savannah areas. Click here for details on our fostering program. If you cannot foster long-term, consider being a "vacation foster" for when our foster homes need a backup.
Volunteering
All year round, we need people to drive dogs from shelters, to the vet, to their foster homes. It's a lot of coordination, and we have only a small number of people.
We also can use help with Howl-O-Weenie, our annual October event. Can
you volunteer for an hour or two cooking hotdogs, selling t-shirts,
managing the flow of contests, helping with registration, setting up, or cleaning up?
Of course -- Donations
If you can help financially, we are always in need of donations to pay for veterinary care for our dachshunds. Since we are volunteer-run, and have many of our services (like web hosting) donated, our non-veterinary expenses are extremely low. Our policy is that 90% of our funds raised go to medical care, but the reality is closer to 95%. Contact sherryaden (at) bellsouth.net if you have any questions about donating.
Put Us in Your Will.
If you can't give money now, how about after you're gone? You can leave a legacy of love by recognizing DREAM in your estate plan. Any amount will help tremendously: a % of your IRA, a % of total estate, or a set amount. Your gift also communicates your values to your loved ones, letting them know how important your dachshunds have been to you.
And please -- make sure you have made plans for your own animals in your will, so they do not end up needing rescue if something happens to you.
Have you considered starting a rescue?
Please contact
helpmedream (at) gmail.com if you are interested in starting your own
rescue group. We can set you up with forms, processes, legal templates,
and lots of advice and support. Rescue is a grassroots thing, and we
think it works best done on a small scale by lots of people.
What else can I do?
There are far more dachshunds than there are homes; please do not add more to that number.
If you cannot donate time or money, the biggest things you can do to help dachshunds are:
- make sure your own are spayed or neutered
- until we have licked the overpopulation problem, adopt instead of buying from a breeder or petstore
- talk about rescue to everyone you know. Let them know that rescue dogs are not "problem" dogs -- they are just dogs. They come from every situation. There is no such thing as a "typical rescue dog."
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