Be a Foster. Rescuers can always use foster homes. It allows us the room to save one more dog. If interested in fostering, send us an email letting us know what your requirements are. If you need a dog that is good with other dogs, cats, kids, etc. You will need to provide a secure yard for the dog to be in, and allow it to sleep in the house at night. You must also be willing to walk the dog on leash for at least 45 minutes daily.
Start a Blanket Drive. Start a blanket drive at work, school, or through your neighborhood. We always need to refresh our supply of the blankets, towels, and sheets our dogs sleep on.
A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO YOUNG TY FOR STARTING A BLANKET DRIVE THROUGH HIS NEIGHBORHOOD, AND FOR COMING TO WALK DOGS AS EXTRA CREDIT FOR SCHOOL. A BIG THANK YOU TOO, TO KATHY WYCKOFF, AND NORTH COUNTY CHRISTIAN THRIFT STORE, FOR THEIR CONTINUED DONATION OF BLANKETS FOR OUR FOSTERS TO SLEEP ON. EVERY DOG DESERVES A COMFY BLANKET, AND A WARM SPOT IN THE HOUSE TO SLEEP. ESPECIALLY WHEN IT IS COLD, RAINING, AND BLUSTERY OUTSIDE!!
Cash Donations. All our dogs are spayed/neutered/vaccinated, and microchipped before they are adopted out. The adoption fee/donation covers most of those procedures, but not always. Some dogs need other procedures too. Like Hattie and Hondo, 2 Shar Peis who each needed eye surgery to correct a condition called entropian. All contributions are used for the welfare of the animals.
Construction Materials- Do you have old boards, posts, plywood, that you no longer need? We use these materials to build decks, and "play stations" for the dogs when they are out in the yards. We can even pick them up!
Food/Treats/Toys. If you would also like to contribute in this way, we feed Pedigree, Purina One, Purina Dog Chow, and Iams dry dog food. Canned food is also helpful when getting sick dogs to eat, or giving meds. Donations can be dropped off anytime at the Downtown Atascadero Salon "Pink", at 5830 Traffic Way. Pink Salon is open by appointment, so if you stop by to donate, and they are closed at the time, you can leave the donations by the back door, where there is plenty of easy parking, and the items will be safe until the salon opens. We can also accept donation directly if that is more convenient.
Lobby- Contact Animal Control and report everytime you see an ad for puppies for sale without a posted permit. That is a violation of the regulations of this county. Make a note of the name of the person you spoke to. If nothing is done, contact Eric Anderson directly to complain. If nothing is done STILL, contact Jeff Hamm. That is Eric Anderson's boss. Animal control is contracted by every city in SLO County to provide services. Each city pays tens of thousands of dollars for those services. Atascadero pays nearly twice what the other cities pay. The community needs to demand that Animal Services DOES THEIR JOB. Instead of harrassing and scrutinizing the rescuers who are cleaning up the mess that breeders make, Animal Control should be monitering the sale of puppies to this community that are sold unspayed/unneutered, mostly unvaccinated, un microchipped, etc. Even local Animal Controls officers, Alan Metzler, and Odie Cawley are backyard breeders. Pocketing tens of thousands of dollars in the sales of puppies. Selling them unspayed/unneutered. This has been their practice for years. And then they collect a paycheck from SLO Animal Control. The very organization they work for who is supposed to moniter breeders. Is that a fox in the hen house or what?? Unless the breeding for profit stops, there will never be an end to the killing of unadopted animals at the pound. If you stop the demand the supply will dry up. If you stop the supply, the killing will stop. It is not rocket science. Just simple economics.
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