SCHIPPERKE RESCUE NET INC

We have one primary goal: to ensure that every Schipperke dog that needs it has a loving forever home and the care needed to provide a healthy future as well. This requires making sure we have good relations with any organization, government or independent agency likely to receive Schipperkes in need of medical support and home environments. It also requires ensuring that we are visible to individuals in the general public who are interested in Schipperkes, either to surrender, foster, adopt, and/or help provide financial support to Schipperkes in need.

We maintain a comprehensive website with up-to-date information about adoptable Schipperkes, those currently in need of special help, methods of learning about issues regarding the dogs, and providing contact information for those looking for or needing to surrender a Schipperke. The website also provides an easy way for donors to make donations electronically through which they can donate to the general fund, designate their donation for a specific dog in rescue, act as a memorial for a beloved Schipperke or human, or provide funds to help keep Schipperkes in their homes.

We are active on Facebook, disseminating information on what is happening in the Schipperke Rescue world and dynamically supporting Schipperke owners, fosters, volunteers, and those simply with a general interest, as well as providing a conduit for owners who feel they must give up their pets. Through Facebook, we also hold two auctions each year to help maintain funds not only for dogs we already have but to be prepared for the occasional puppy mill closing where we in the past we have had to handle as many as 70 dogs suddenly coming into rescue, most with serious medical and socialization issues.

We actively search all-breed rescue sites to find Schipperkes in order to help the shelters or agencies that have them. This does not mean we automatically take them over. But we are willing to help support the shelter with medical care for those Schipperkes, as well as posting information about the dog to our network of applicants in the area. Through both our website and FaceBook, we provide a means for not only such shelters and agencies but also individuals to reach us to help with Schipperkes in need of rescue.

We maintain a network of volunteer foster homes when it is necessary to remove a Schipperke from a shelter or agency or individual - at their request - provide a home environment to socialize, evaluate and prepare the rescue, whenever possible, to be adopted into a forever home. Many of these foster homes also act as permanent homes (with help from SRN) that are unadoptable due to age or medical issues.

SchipperkeRescue.Net, Inc. (SRN) has no paid staff. Everyone involved is a volunteer, generously dedicating their time, efforts and skills for the love of the dogs.

As stated above, we have a dedicated group of volunteers who have developed our network of foster homes, transport drivers, website managers, FaceBook experts and fund raisers. And we are working to expand this network in order to ensure we are ready to handle some of the emergencies that arise.

We have no kennels. Our primary assets are our volunteers who give generously of their time and effort to support our goals. Several of our volunteers consider their work with us to be a full-time job. And it is. We are incredibly grateful to them.

As stated before, we are an organization of volunteers of which there are never enough. We are looking for various people around the country who are willing to give of their time to learn how to interview prospective foster homes and adopters as well as shelters, agencies, and individuals about the dogs to be rescued.

We need people who have space in their homes and love in their hearts to provide a loving environment for a Schipperke that has lost its home or has been rescued from a puppy mill or simply surrendered by an owner who can no longer take care of it.

We need to find more people who have skills to back up our webmaster, donor outreach and many other essential functions of an effective organization - all in a volunteer capacity. We want almost every dollar we receive in donations to go to support the dogs. Right now, approximately 98% of our donations do. And we want to keep it that way.