Support the Shelter
MEMBERSHIP
Be a sustaining M
ember ensuring a bright future for Shelter pets and you’ll benefit too. Membership benefits include: 20% off all retail products, acknowledgment on a Shelter display and in our newsletter mailed to 2,500 people, invitation to an exclusive event – and oh yeah, saving animals lives! Levels are: $50 for Individual Annual Membership, $100 Family Annual Membership, $35 Senior Annual Membership, or you can become a Monthly Supporter at any level that fits your budget. Call 406/222-1311 or email sased@imt.net. Welcome to the family!
BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS
Business Partners provide crucial funds and receive multi-media publicity exposure including live links to your logo in several places on our website which receives about 1,000 hits per week, acknowledgement in our popular color newsletter with a circulation of 2,500, on event posters and advertisements, in pet of the week newspaper ads and more! Support levels to fit every budget are available so take the opportunity to deepen your relationship with your customers and raise your profile in the community. Download the form and contact Kris at 406/222-1313 or shelterbark@imt.net today!
ENDOWMENTS and PLANNED GIVING
The Stafford Animal Shelter has an established endowment that’s key to our long-term viability. To take advantage of the many planned giving options, talk to your financial professional or contact the Executive Director Vicki Blakeman at (406) 222-1311 or sased@imt.net to discuss the many great tax benefits of supporting the Shelter.
IN HONOR OR MEMORY OF A SPECIAL PET OR PERSON
What more meaningful gift can you give than life and love to a pet who will become an adopter’s best friend? All donations made in honor or memory of either people or pets will be listed on our Memorial Boards at the Shelter, in our newsletter, and the person who your gift will mean so much to will receive a special letter from our Executive Director telling them of your generous gift. Thanks for paying the love forward. Call (406) 222-1311, email sased@imt.net or mail your check with the name of your honoree and the of contact information of their loved one to: SAS, 3 Business Park Rd, Livingston, MT 59047.
STAFFORD SHELTER LICENSE PLATE
Park County residents can pick up the plate at your motor vehicle office. Show off your love of animals and support adoptions. The cost of the plate the first year is $35 and $20 to renew. These fun plates raise hundreds of dollars every year to feed our ‘pets in waiting.’
Rosie, the fund's namesake
ROSIE MEDICAL FUND
Donate to this special medical fund exclusively used to heal pets in pain who have severe medical conditions. Just write “Rosie Fund” in the MESSAGE box to the right or in your note when you mail your donation. The fund is currently depleted and animals must wait until there are funds to cover their treatment. Recently, the Rosie Fund helped a dog who broke his leg twice in a row, a cat with a painful eye disease, a dog who needed a leg amputation, chronic ear infection medication, and both eyes removed. Thanks for helping the next suffering animal through our doors heal.
WHILE YOU SHOP
WISH LIST
Having needed items donated makes it possible for our limited funds to go directly to the feeding and care of our animals. Please drop items off during our business hours: Tuesday – Sat 12 noon to 6 p.m. and ask for your tax deduction receipt! See our Wish List for current needs.
Donating your time: VOLUNTEER
Our volunteers average over 100 hours each month walking dogs, brushing and playing with cats, doing laundry, taking pet photos, helping at fundraisers, and fostering orphan kitten or puppies. We are always looking for volunteers and, once trained, you may volunteer as frequently or infrequently as your schedule allows during our business hours Tuesday through Saturday between 12 noon and 6 pm. Here are some of our needs:
Dog Do-er: improve dogs’ physical, mental and emotional well-being by playing catch, leash walks, treadmill exercise, brushing and teaching them to sit for treats. Puppies need help learning to chew on toys and play gently.
Cat Cuddler: help abandoned and abused cats learn to trust and love again with calming touch, grooming and cuddling. Kittens need plenty of active play to develop agile muscles and minds.
Foster Care: extraordinary homes needed where nursing or orphan litters can be quarantined from other household pets until their immune systems are fully developed. This requires dedicated medical-grade hygiene and often multiple bottle feedings throughout the day and night. Special homes are also needed for dogs going “Kennel Crazy” from being confined and surrounded by other dogs until their stress levels improve.
Outdoor Maintenance: help create positive exercise and interactive outdoor environments for Shelter pets by weeding, working in the gardens, shoveling snow, installing and filling bird feeders outside of Cat Wing windows, or any other maintenance special skills you may have.
Special Events: Fur Ball every May and Bark in the Park every August require hundreds of volunteer hours; sit on an advisory committee, help gather donations, set up, work at the event, or clean up. We can match your skills to our needs. We also need newsletter and mailing volunteers to address and prepare bulk mailings quarterly (we provide the coffee, donuts, juice and plenty of socializing for these fun work days.)
Homew
ard Bound:volunteers learn basic dog training methods and work with untrained or high energy dogs to help make them more adoptable. Volunteers attend several classes to learn our methods, and then practice what they’ve learned with the shelter residents weekly for a six-month period. Homeward Bound trainings are scheduled twice a year.
Contact Volunteer Coordinator Kris King to schedule your one-hour training to work with animals or for information on other volunteer opportunities. Youth, families, and seniors welcome. Youth 12 and under need to be accompanied at all times by an adult. Contact 406-222-1313 or email shelterbark@imt.net - one hour trainings are scheduled weekly at your convenience Tues – Fri noon to 6 pm.
