Make a Difference;
Volunteer!
Labradors need your time and talent! There are many ways to volunteer. Some absorb very little time. Here are some ways to get involved:
Fostering
This is at the top of the needs list. Fostering can be a very rewarding experience. While in your care, veterinary expenses are covered. You can play an active role, if you want, in selecting the home for your foster dog.
As a foster home you will help your foster dog learn new skills and get ready for their adoptive home. Some of the things that foster homes may help foster dogs with:
*Love and care, many times fosters have not had these before they arrive in our homes.
*play
*petting ond affection
*potty training
*basic training
*leash skills
*health issues
*behavioral issues
Need time away for vacation? Go and don't worry about a pet sitter. TLC will care for your foster dog while you are gone. On any given day in a lab rescue, there is a long list of labs waiting to come into rescue. Many will be euthanized without our assistance. Even though it would be impossible to keep on top of the demand to save labs if you help us by fostering that is one more lab who was saved through the efforts of volunteers like you.
Thought for the day: If everyone who adopts a lab would volunteer to foster just once every year we could save 125 more labs annually. As our adopter list increases so will that number. Think about it. If you are able to offer temporary housing to a needy lab even once per year, you will make an impact.
Home Visits
Also extremely important. Each application we receive requires a homevisit by a volunteer prior to placement. The more homevisits completed, the more labs adopted. The more labs adopted, the more space we;ll have to take in others. Home visits can be very rewarding. Especially when you watch a great family get a great lab.
Transportation
We have to get our labs out of the shelters or from owner's homes. Some of the shelters we work with in Illinois are as far as 8 hours away. This means there is a lab 8 hours from safety. Volunteers pull together and make arrangements to get the labs from point A to point B. The more volunteers we have scattered throughout Wisconsin and Illinois, the easier it is to get these labs to safety.
Events
Come on out and join fellow TLC volunteers at an event. Pet fairs, dog walks, meet and greet in stores, etc., are powerful ways for TLC to get their labs out into the public and ultimately adopted. TLC can always use help implementing and staffing events.
Amber's Pups. Born 2/14/07 and left at the side of the road. Rescued by TLC. Adopted in May 2007
