There’s lots of ways to support animal rescue in Savannah. One really big one is to make sure you spay and neuter your pets! In rescue work, we never send our animals to new homes without a spay or neuter and in a few cases, a future appointment. But most of our animals are coming from unspayed street cats.
Of course donations are always appreciated. Caring for animals is expensive, we support our animals and fosters by giving them food and litter. And each animal will get basic care such as vaccines and parasite treatment (think worms, fleas etc). And some of our cases often involve specialized medical care for things like eye, ear, nose and teeth problems. Limb issues, which often include fractures that may heal on their own, with a cast and support or in some cases require amputation. Intestinal issues might range from more severe infections to blockages. Sometimes we have to help animals recover from accidents and physical trauma. We are a small rescue, but we do what we can!
Monetary donations are always helpful as are items on our Amazon list or our Chewy list.
Volunteers can be helpful. Tasks that we often need doing:
- a bit of clean up! We especially need this when we move groups of kittens from one place to another, as a way to make sure no unforeseen medical issues are transferred.
- transport! Sometimes we have to travel to a near county to pick up animals. Or we are trading animals with another rescue, which we might do to get a kitten a friend, or take an older dog for a prearranged placement, for instance.
- socializing! It’s important for animals to be able to be comfortable around humans for adoptions. Working to expose them to different people and animals helps with that.
Fostering is a special kind of volunteer work that can be time intensive as you have to be regularly feeding, cleaning up after, and monitoring the health of an animal. You also need to have the appropriate dedicated space and be able to transport for check ups and the occasional vet appointment.