Second Chance of Orangeburg Animal Rescue Coalition

Feel free to ask us your question and we will get back to you as soon as possible!

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1. How can I help?
There are different ways to help out; from fostering to volunteering. You can even help by donating and spreading the word!

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2. How does Fostering help?

Fostering a dog or cat takes them out of a shelter or bad situation and it gives them a temporary home until a forever home can be found. This is also a great way to show them love, care, compassion, and kindness, something that many may not have known before.

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3. What do Volunteers do?

Volunteers can help walk, feed, bathe, play with, and care for the animals. You can use your skills to help build fences and dog houses all the way to web design, marketing, promotion, fundraising, organization, and much more.

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4. What can be Donated?

You can donate funds, food, treats, household items, fencing materials, your time, toys, bedding, or just about anything you can think of that can help us a great deal.

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5. How does spreading the word help?

It helps us get our mission and information out to more people in our communities. By liking us on Facebook and Instagram, you can share our posts and talk to others about our mission.

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6. Why does it cost so much to adopt?

 It really doesn't. The actual cost of a rescue dog can go from $600 to $900 dollars, sometimes even more! Reason? Because kenneling, transport, dental, grooming, individual medical care, and what is covered by fee all come into play.

 

7. What is covered in the adoption fee?

The adoption fee is $200. All dogs in our care are spayed or neutered, microchipped, vaccinated, tested for heartworms, and either treated for heartworms or put on heartworm preventatives, this is what the fee covers. 

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8. How do these pets get to your rescue?

They were abandoned, strayed, surrendered by their original owner, lost and no one came to claim them, seized from a hoarding situation, came from a breeder that was shut down, rescued from a dog fighting operation, and the list can go on and on.

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9. Where do you go to get your animals fixed?

We go through Fido Fixers. They're a low-cost spay and neuter mobile clinic that travels to different areas. Check them out on Facebook for more information

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10. Why is there an adoption process? Can't I just go and see the pet I want to adopt?

We do not have a physical location where we keep the pets. They are kept in individual foster homes, sometimes very far away. There is a screening process, a potential adopter must fill out an application to meet the animal, once we receive the application, we will set up a meet and greet. We do have adoption events in public locations where fosters and volunteers will bring the pets for the public to meet them.

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11. Why do you have a blog?

We use the blog to post tips, tricks, and healthy and safe recipes for your pet to have! Careful though, you and your pet may get hooked on those yummy recipes!

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12. What Social Media do you have?

We currently have two Facebook pages and an Instagram!

Please, check them out!

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13. How does shopping at Amazon Smile help you?

By using smile.amazon.com a % of what you buy is donated to us by Amazon themselves.

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14. Why do you have two Facebook accounts?

One is our main page, you can get updates, stories, events, and posts about adopting or fostering on this page.

The other is our Auction and Sales page, we put items on the page to help us raise money.  
Be sure to visit both pages!

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15. Do you work with other Rescues?

Yes! We try our best to work with other rescues, whether it is us taking in one of theirs or vice versa. We want to make sure the animals' best interests are met. Sometimes means finding a rescue best suited to their means, breed, and even species.