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Fostering is one the best ways you can be a part of our organization and help rescue Border Collies.
However, not everyone is able to foster. How else can you help? |
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Border Collies in Need spends an average of $600-$900 to ready one of our dogs for adoption. Once a dog enters our rescue program, we quarantine them between 14-21 days to ensure that they are in good health and to evaluate their temperaments before we list them for adoption. Of course, this cost is added on top of the cost of a medical needs dog which can be several more thousand dollars. The end result is the same, finding forever loving homes for BCs, no matter the cost.
Please watch this short video of A Rescue Dog's True Cost.
BCIN depends on private donations and our fundraisers to keep our doors open. Won't you join us in being a part of our Circle of Life Mission to Rescue, Rehabilitate, and Rehome those Border Collies who have found themselves through no fault of their own?
You may donate via BCIN's Pay Pal Account.
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Border Collies In Need will receive 40% of each portrait commissioned by the artist.
See more here: http://www.bordercolliesinneed.org/judithhopkinsdogpaintings.html |
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Our directory includes more than 25,000 hotels, bed & breakfasts, vacation rentals, campgrounds, and long-term apartments that welcome pets in more than 54 countries worldwide. |
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Ruff Guide to the United States features 365 of the BEST places
to stay and play with your dog in all 50 states.
Whether your pooch prefers to ‘ruff it’ on a hiking adventure or sit in the lap of luxury at a five-star resort, the assortment of trips in this book is sure to have him (and you) begging for a vacation! And best of all, BCIN receives 10% of your purchase!
HARDCOVER EDITION
Size: 9" x 6"
Pages: 296
Weight: 2 lbs.
$24.99
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If you have a rescued pet, you'll get 10% off your new pet door AND we'll donate that amount to BCIN. To order online and receive your discount simply enter Border Collies In Need during checkout. Click here |
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Other Ways To Help
SHELTERS
- Be a shelter watcher and contact us if you see BC's in need of rescue
- Take *good* photos of dogs at shelters to help us identify breed
- Use your digital video camera to film a rescue dog in action at a shelter or event
LABOR
- Volunteer to be a Border Collies In Need rescuer in your area
- Conduct a home visit or accompany a rescue person on the home visit
- Walk a Border Collie at events
- Get some friends together to build/repair pens for a foster home
- Volunteer to help with foster yard clean-up
- Help enter Border Collie and adopter information into our database
- Make a few phone calls
- Drive a dog to and from vet appointments
PROMOTE
- Link to us on your website
- Provide local vet clinics with BCIN contact information
- Spread the word about the work we do
EDUCATE
- Educate local shelter staff about how to identify a Border Collie and take good photos
- Educate people on responsible pet ownership
- Talk to all your friends and co-workers about adopting and fostering rescue dogs
- Encourage your local pet store to sponsor rescue groups and local shelters to promote adoption of animals rather than selling puppies or kittens
- Hold a grooming seminar
HELP FINANCIALLY
- Donate directly to Border Collies In Need
- Help organize and run fundraising events
- Pay for spay/neuter or vaccinations services
- Have a yard sale and donate the money to Border Collies In Need
- Pay for the dog to be groomed or take the dog to a *Do It Yourself* Grooming Place
- Pay for an ad in your local/metropolitan paper to help place rescue dogs
- Donate a coupon for a free car wash or gas or inside cleaning of a vehicle
- Pay the cost of taking a dog to obedience class
- Solicit donations for Border Collies In Need from local businesses
- Donate an AVID microchip for a rescued dog
- Interview vets to encourage them to offer discounts to rescues
- Clip and send coupons for dog food or treats
- Find promotions offering a free ID tag - inscribe it with BCIN contact info for our rescues
- Bake some homemade doggie biscuits
- If you are a breeder, donate a small percentage of the each sale to BCIN rescue
- Buy two of those really must-have dog items and donate one to BCIN
- Loan your carpet steam cleaner to a foster home
- Pay for a house-cleaning service to do the spring cleaning for someone who fosters dogs all the time
- Pay for BCIN business cards and banners
- Make a bequest in your will to BCIN
ARTISTIC
- Lend your artistic talents to BCIN for newsletters, fundraising ideas, t-shirt designs
- Write an article for our web site
- Write an article on training or dog-sport
- Write a column for your local newspaper or club newsletter on the benefits of rescue
- Make a BCIN sign for display at your public library
TAKE RESPONSIBILITY
- Speak up if you see an animal being abused or neglected
- Spay and neuter your animals
- Microchip your animals so if they ever come into rescue, you can be contacted
- Provide for your animals in your will so they won't end up in rescue
SHOW SUPPORT
- Provide a shoulder to cry on when the rescue person is overwhelmed
- Thank a rescuer for all that they do
DONATE
- Give a tax-deductible donation to Border Collies In Need
- Dog beds
- Towels or other *bedding*
- Dog equipment (in good condition)
- Chew Toys such (Kong, Nylabone, or Hercules)
- Doggy toys that might be safe for rescued dogs
- Roll-a-Treat or Buster cube
- Crates or Vari-Kennels
- Baby gates or X-Pens
- Bags of food
- Treats
- Food dishes or stainless buckets for a crate
- Leashes
- Collars
- A halti, promise collar, or a gentle leader
- Grooming supplies (shampoos, combs, brushes, etc.)
- Grooming equipment (Furminator, Hydrosurge Animal Bathing System, dryer)
- Flea & tick treatments (Advantage, etc.)
- Heartworm pills
- A Canine First aid kit
- The use of a vehicle if you own a car dealership
- Doggy seatbelts
- Grids for a van or other vehicle
- Use of your scanner, digital camera, or photocopier
- Printer paper, envelopes and stamps, printer ink
- Gift certificates to a pet store
- Long distance calling cards
- A raffle item if your club is holding a fundraiser
- Your time to take good photos of dogs at shelters
- Bottles of bleach or other cleaning products
- Portable dog runs and/or fencing
- Clickers or a video on clicker training
- Materials for a quarantine area at a foster's home
- Sheets of linoleum or other flooring materials to put under crates to protect the foster's floor
- An engraving tool to make ID tags for each of the rescued dogs
- Your professional services as an accountant or lawyer
- Other services if you run your own business
- Obedience or sport-training
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If you feel you have what it takes to help rescue, please fill out our Volunteer Application form. If you would like to foster a border collie, you must fill out the Volunteer Form, as well as our Foster Application forms.
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