Reviews for Rescue Matters: How to Find, Foster, and Rehome Companion Animals: A Guide for Volunteers and Organizers

The average rating for Rescue Matters: How to Find, Foster, and Rehome Companion Animals: A Guide for Volunteers and Organizers based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-02-07 00:00:00 Justin Turnbaugh Reader in group - Being involved in A Paw in the Door, which is a Bath-based cat rescue group, I am always looking for reading pertaining to rescue work so that we can improve our "processes." This month I have been reading Rescue Matters! by Sheila Webster Boneham PhD. I borrowed this on Maine Cat from the Bowdoin Library which has been an invaluable resource to me during my time at Bowdoin. Rescue Matters! has provided great advice on how to run, fund, and promote our rescue. There are even some generic sample forms in the back of the book that help with adoption and foster family applications, as well as a link for a template that you can modify. It was a great read with many new ideas regarding fundraising, recruiting and keeping volunteers, organizational issues, cutting cost without cutting care, and looking into the human side of rescue work. I often borrow books from the Bowdoin Library or Maine Cat as a preview to books that I can purchase for the organization so that volunteers and board members can read them to gain perspective and insight into what we do. This is definitely one of those books that I will purchase for the group. One of the themes of the book is to "never miss an opportunity for widespread publicity, fundraising, or to recruit volunteers"; on that note, A Paw in the Door is an all-volunteer 25-year-old cat rescue organization in Bath, Maine. We take in stray and abandoned cats as well as cats who are losing their homes for a variety of reasons, sometimes health or behavioral-based. We take the cats that the shelters turn down. We also provide low-cost & no-cost spay and neuter services to low-mid income clients in our area. We assist with debilitating medical situations to diagnose and assist with treatment through our vets at the Yarmouth Vet Center. If anyone is interested in volunteering please contact us through our website at: www.pawinthedoor.org

Review # 2 was written on 2009-07-22 00:00:00 Kimberly Samuelson I received this book through Goodreads First Reads. The forward by Dean Koontz is a good beginning to the book. It was moving, and it made me feel like I want to start fostering. As for the rest of the book, it reads like a textbook and a powerpoint presentation. The format makes it easy to read, though. And it touches on Everything. It goes over the legalities of animal rescue and fostering, how you can help if you can't foster, finding volunteers, managing volunteers, financial advise, health issues and behavioral problems with the animals, how to find the right home for rescued animals, and many, many more things. At the end of the book are samples of documents. There's an adoption application you can use and a foster caretaker application. Both are highly detailed. The book is useful for those who are starting a rescue group, or for those who are managing their own already. Much of the information is also good for volunteers as well. I think if you have any interest at all in fostering or animal rescue, this is a wonderful book to read.