Volunteering With HOPE

We are recruiting animal rescuers.

Loving and caring for animals goes without saying; but what will make you stand out from the pack?

If you don’t mind getting dirty with dog vomit, blood or mud.

Cleaning dog poo, blood and vomit is a regular affair

If you have a dog pee/poo on you and can laugh about it.

If you are willing to commit time to helping out and you don’t mind cancelling dinners with friends or skipping other social outings as rescue work is last minute and ad-hoc.

 

Having dinner with the dogs because often we rush to the kennels right after work to spend quality time with the dogs

If you can kiss and hug a stray, without worrying about getting dirty or contracting ringworms.

Spending precious weekends playing with street dogs in industrial estates

 

If you can rescue an injured animal, feel sad about it but bounce back stronger and more willing to help.

Rescued from a puppy mill

Rescue Rangers at work

If you can get down on your knees and do manual labour – bathing dogs, walking / training them, cooking and feeding them, cleaning up after them and more.

If you can put your ego aside and work with different volunteers for the betterment of the dogs.

A lot of our time is spent in industrial estates, educating workers on the importance of sterilization and being kind to the animals.

You would need to start practising to be an alpha dog at a young age!

Young volunteer, Sara, helping out a a flea mart

Treating all dogs as equals, regardless of breed or background

If you don't complain about the kind of work you are given because you know that no matter what you do, everything makes a difference to the dogs, no matter how menial it may seem.

Finding joy in the things we do (feeding street dogs)

Looking at the lighter side of things

If you can work endless days and nights like us, yet still come back for more.

 

Allowing street dogs into your car!

Eating dog food and clowning around

Then write in to us. We WANT you! Email to fiona@hopedogrescue.org

 Studio photo credits to http://www.white-roomstudio.com

 

We would like to thank White Room Studio for graciously hosting HOPE Dog Rescue's studio shoot. Our photographer, Dan, displayed true professionalism in dealing with our doggies despite their short attention span! Our volunteers and doggies certainly had a memorable evening mingling in the cozy studio. 

Christmas Is All About HOPE And Blessings

It's the time of the year to look back and reflect. To count our blessings. To give thanks.

Thank you to all who have given and helped HOPE doggies in one way or another. Even more so, to fosterers and adopters who opened their hearts and homes to our rescue dogs. You have enabled us to go on helping and saving more dogs.

Miracles do happen. We are one of the lucky few who bear testament to these miracles. Scotty, Oscar, Babu, Beano and so many more. Each rescue story is a miracle. We count our blessings to be involved in their amazing recovery stories.

We would like to invite everyone to share in our joy and pride in witnessing these miracles. See what a little love can do!

During this festive season of love, giving and merry making, let's not forget about the dogs that have been staying in the kennels for almost a year. They would have loved a home and a family this Christmas.

Momo

Sparky

Beano

Happy

On behalf of all at HOPE Dog Rescue (including the doggies), we thank everyone who have been there for us and all the doggies who have shared their lives with us, we have been truly blessed.

Cheers to another year of more rescues and more miracles ahead. Let's save more doggies. We know that there are many out there who are waiting for our paths to cross.

Whilst you celebrate your Christmas, we will be out there rescuing more dogs.

Have a Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year! Woof woof to 2013!!

Written by Esther Low

Come Meet Prince And Other Rescue Dogs Tomorrow

Pets' Day Out 2012 is happening tomorrow! Our darling pooches will all be there to meet you, so bring your friends and family down!

Remember our rescue dogs that touched your hearts? Sunday and Rei (now known as Sapporo)?

Bet you've been wondering what this frail skeletal dog with no fur looks like today. 

Struggling to hold himself up to eat

He is no longer a pile of skin and bones... Come down and see for yourself how our little Prince looks like today :)

Come meet our little Prince

While you're there, don't miss our photo booth where you can take pictures with your pets and have them framed for only S$8. 

When you take more pictures, more proceeds will be channelled towards our rescue efforts.

It takes time and effort to nurse these abandoned dogs and street canines back to good health, and we certainly wouldn't have been able to do all this without our dear volunteers and big-hearted donors. 


Buy our HOPE 2013 calendars and help save more dogs!

 Although we can't rescue every injured or abandoned dog out there, we want to help as many as we possibly can. This takes much time, effort and of course, money for vet bills and transportation of animals (for when we run rescue missions in the wee hours of the morning, or when they are too large to fit into our cars). 

Events like Pets' Day Out 2012 help us not only gain proceeds through our merchandise sales, they also allow us to educate more people about our work and why we do what we do every single day come rain or shine, because this is the most important and challenging task for any rescue/welfare organization to accomplish.

Our doggies and volunteers are very grateful for all the love and support we've been receiving thus far, so we hope to see you TOMORROW!

Written by Kyna Tan

Now you can buy HOPE!

Celebrate World Animal Day with HOPE!

HOPE’s inaugural 2013 Calendar is out! Spread some love!

Remember Prince, the skeleton dog who did not even know how to sleep lying down?

Sunday, our rescued street dog who ran out of the clinic and was found 12 days later?

Babu Boy, our hero who survived distemper and a hit and run accident.

Rei, who had slash wounds and deep cuts all over his body and was later renamed Sapporo by his adopter?

Sweet Beano, survived human abuse, chemical burns and distemper. 

George, the street dog who was so hungry he ate stones?

The stories of these dogs and others, including those rescued from breeding farms, will be featured in our 2013 calendar. For just $10/- you could save many dogs from the hardships and suffering these dogs went through.

Gracing the front cover of the calendar is Harry, a street dog that was chained on a short leash on a 6th floor factory for years. We saved and rehomed him, and for six months, before he passed on from cancer, he got to experience the warmth of human kindness and love. Harry was the reason HOPE started and it is our quest to be able to give HOPE to other dogs like him.

So please support us and join us in our venture by purchasing our HOPE 2013 calendars!

For just S$10/- per calendar, you can buy a whole lot of kindness!

1. Help with our vet bills for our rescued dogs. Vet bills inadvertently go up for dogs that require long term medical care such as old dogs and dogs with skin issues, heartworm and tick fever. Not a day goes by without us worrying about bills.
2. Put up dogs which we are unable to find a foster for at boarding kennels. As we do not have our own shelter, we pay a commercial rate to rent space at these kennels.
3. Provide food for the street and factory dogs which often live in filthy conditions and get so desperate they would even eat rubbish and stones.
4. Provide food to low income and senior citizens for their dogs.
5. Help with vet bills for low income dog-owners who love their dogs but cannot afford to take their dogs to the vet.
6. Support our Spay it Forward program, our more humane way of curbing the stray population.
7. Allow us to continue our journey in saving our furry friends, rebuild their trust in humans and try to protect more animals against unnecessary suffering.
8. Have a meaningful Christmas when you buy our calendars to give it to your friends.
9. Buy our calendars simply because you love dogs.
10. The next time you see us blogging about yet another rescued dog, you know we wouldn’t have done it without you! 

Furthermore, for orders of 10 and above you get free delivery!

To buy our calendars, please download and print the order form. Then mail out the form along with your cheque (payable to "Hope Dog Rescue") to:

Whiteclip / HOPE Dog Rescue

28 Maxwell Road

Red Dot Traffic Building

#03-11

Singapore 069120

Alternatively, you may email fiona@hopedogrescue.org and make a fund transfer.

If you wish to save on postage fees, you may purchase our calendars from these places:

Bark & Bubbles Pet Grooming Studio
37 Jalan Rumah Tinggi, Singapore 150037
Contact: 6474 3115

Big O Café & Restaurant
Wheelock Place, 501 Orchard Road, #02-04/05, Orchard, 238880
Contact: 67378472
 
CakeWalk
Blk 63B Lengkok Bahru #01-362, Singapore 152063
Contact: 6472 1107

Cecilia Westberry Beauty Spa
Blk 6 Holland Close #01-20, Singapore 271006
Contact: 6774 0449

Cinq Studio @ Scotts Square
6 Scotts Road #03-16 Singapore 228209
Contact: 6636 0100

Colbar (dog-friendly cafe!)
9A Whitchurch Road, Singapore 138839 
Contact: 6779 4859

Dog Haven
5 Jasmine Rd, Singapore 576580
Contact: 6100 9663

Doggiestyle Cafe
23 Serangoon Central, NEX #04R-72, Singapore 556083
Contact: 6648 5485

Drips Bakery Cafe
82 Tiong Poh Road, #01-05, Singapore 160082
Contact: 6222 0400

House for Pets
5 Stagmont Ring, Singapore 688241
Contact: 6367 1753

Joie The Makeup Bar
119A East Coast Road, Singapore 428806
Contact: 9385 7769

Juz Purrfect
9 One-North Gateway #01-46, One North Residence, Singapore 138643
Contact: 8418 0486

Kool Pawz (HOPE shirts and car decals also available here!)
Blk 2, Everton Park, 01-57, Singapore 081002
Contact: 6223 8309 / 96894307

Mount Pleasant Animal Medical Centre (Bedok)
Blk 158 Bedok South Ave 3, Singapore 460158
Contact: 6444 3561

Mount Pleasant Animal Medical Centre (Redhill)
Blk 113 Bukit Merah View #01-520, Singapore 150113
Contact: 6271 1132

Mount Pleasant Veterinary Centre (MPVC)
232 Whitley Road, Singapore 297824
Contact:  6251 7666
** Note: MPVC is moving soon, do call/check their website for updates!

Owls Brew
146 Mackenzie Road, Singapore 228723
Contact: 6333 3440

Paradise Pet Shop
232 Whitley Road (Mount Pleasant Veterinary Centre), Singapore City 297824
Contact: 62565525 / 62562500

Pet HQ
221 Boonlay Place, #02-112 Boonlay Shopping Centre, Singapore 640221
Contact: 6463 9177

Pets Instinct
34 Jalan Bukit Ho Swee, #01-866, Singapore 160034
Contact: 6274 0226

Polypets
109 Clementi St 11 #01-27/29, Singapore 120109
Contact: 6779 5309

Scent Discovery
221 Balestier Rd, Singapore 329928
Contact: 6256 5288

Songbitz
Holland Road Shopping Centre #03-03, 211 Holland Avenue, Singapore 278967
Contact: 64661229 (Wenna Song)

The Pet Doctors
3 Pandan Valley, Pandan Valley Condominium, 1-311 Chempaka Blk, Singapore 597627
Contact: 6438 7779

Town Vets Animal Clinic
22 Havelock Road #01-687, Singapore 160022
Contact: 6276 7026

Whiteclip
Red Dot Traffic Building, 28 Maxwell Road, Unit 03-11, Singapore 069120
Contact: 90477225 (by appointment only)

Yvonne's Creative Bridal & Photo Studio
75 Tanjong Pagar Road, Singapore 088496
Contact: 6327 8331 / 6227 8830

Last but not least, if you know of any shops, offices, vets, cafes or any others that would help sell our calendars, please do let us know too! That would be awesome!

Thank you from HOPE Dog Rescue.