I volunteer at the shelter 2-3 days per week, and I've made it my goal to take some of the more hyper, exciteable dogs out to the play yard and let them have some "free-running" time. This helps them learn to socialize with humans, and it also helps them burn off the excess energy that gets built up living in such close quarters.
The problem is, when we get out to the yard, we have no toys for them to play with. I don't mean the expensive kind of dog toys. I mean, we don't even have tennis balls to throw for them. NOTHING. The shelter is so over-wrought, all the funding and donations go for the basics... food, water, medical care, staffing... there's no $$ for "extras" like toys.
I need some ideas for getting toys donated, or at a great discount, so the dogs can at least have something to fetch. Right now, all they have are rocks! I need names of charities to contact, even those philanthropists who give small sums to charities. Anything you can think of. Thanks!
2007-09-16
16:48:22
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Jennifer
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