Wish Listings of Golden Bone Rescue and Rehab

Golden Bone Rescue needs a volunteer to do occasional home visits in the Sedona and Village of Oak Creek area. A home visit is conducted after an individual submits an adoption application for one of our dogs. We follow a standard form to assure that the home is a safe and healthy environment for a pet. This helps us make sure our dogs will be in a happy home upon approval of adoption.

Golden Bone Rescue and Rehab recently took in four dogs that need shots and spay/neuter and agreed to provide the same veterinary expenses to the remaining three dogs in the household. We are in desperate need of funds to address this group of dogs along with all the others which continue to gallop through our gates. No donation is too small.

Golden Bone Rescue and Rehab helps dogs throughout the Verde Valley and beyond. We do not have a facility, so all of our dogs are in foster homes, spread out from Flagstaff to Phoenix. Next to veterinary expenses, transportation is where a large percentage of our money goes. We would love to have a donated vehicle that gets good gas mileage to help us with our transports from city to city, our vet runs, and our trips to various adoption events.

Spring has sprung! Golden Bone Rescue Rehab is having a sale/adoption event/get to know us party at Windmill Park in Cornville. We are currently accepting donations for our sale which will be held Saturday, April 13, 10 to 3. All proceeds will benefit our current and future dogs' veterinary and transport needs. Individuals who have anything they are willing to part with to help our sale can call 928-567-8994 or email cisrael@npgcable.com; we can arrange for pickup.

Golden Bone Rescue and Rehab is seeking a volunteer to help sort through the organization's emails and get them into files. Location of store is on Main Street in Camp Verde.

Golden Bone Rescue and Rehab desperately needs donations to cover the cost of spay/neuter. We have depleted our funds taking care of numerous dogs in the past few months. Any amount is greatly appreciated.

Golden Bone Rescue and Rehab has recently acquired six dogs and a parrot whose owners recently died. These animals need veterinary care including spay/neuter and immunizations. Any donations to help defray our costs will be greatly appreciated.

In the past year, Golden Bone Rescue has saved scores of dogs. The organization relies heavily on foster families to help house the dogs that come into their care until the dogs can be adopted out to their forever homes. Fosters are always needed. Golden Bone provides food, bedding and advice.

Wishes Fulfilled: Golden Bone Rescue and Rehab received a generous and much-appreciated donation to help with the blind shepherd mix pup's training.

Golden Bone Rescue and Rehab is currently spending hundreds of dollars a week transporting abandoned or relinquished pets to facilities that have room for them. Any donations to help defray these costs would be greatly appreciated and beneficial to numerous dogs and their future families.

Golden Bone Rescue and Rehab needs some large, plastic storage containers, big enough to put blankets and towels in. The rescue maintains a supply of bedding items to distribute to those in need and to give to foster parents and some new adoptive parents. Having them folded in watertight containers would be very beneficial when locating specific items.

Golden Bone Rescue and Rehab needs $100 gift certificates which will be used as awards for the winners of an upcoming essay contest among area schoolchildren.

Golden Bone is trying to get a lab mix named Jasper’s emaciated siblings who are living in awful conditions. Jasper is doing great but his 2 siblings need out. We desperately need a foster home; if we have a place to take them we can get them. If anyone is able to take this on, or just wants more info, please go to the Golden Bone website and fill out a foster application as soon as possible: http://www.dogadoptionrescue.com/forms.html

Golden Bone Rescue received two exercise pens and a donation for a doggie playpen with a raised floor.

Please help Golden Bone Rescue find a dog that has been in their care since April. Her name is Phoenix. She is a black pit mix, white chest and white feet. She is about a year old, 60 pounds, very sweet and submissive.
She is believed to be in the Verde Villages area, somewhere off of Fir Street, where she was “lost” June 18. Golden Bone Rescue is offering a $250 reward for her safe return. Call 399-0902.
This dog was saved from a junkyard where she’d been abandoned and left for four months. She stayed with one of the Golden Bone volunteers for eight weeks while an adoptive home was sought. During that time, she grew from frightened and neglected to a magnificent, confident, loving, trusting dog. Please help Golden Bone recover her.

We would love to have a doggie playpen for our fosters to use and to take to adoption events. Ideally, it would have a floor so that they aren’t in direct contact with the ground. It would be great to have a pen big enough for two or three large breed puppies or one 15-25 lb adult dog.

Golden Bone Rescue needs donated storage space, ideally in Sedona. The organization is also looking for helpers with some renovation skills in order to get a U-haul ‘egg’ in shape so it too can be used for storage. It needs flooring, water sealing at windows, dome vent, etc, some shelving/enclosed storage and wood-work. Materials supplied.

Golden Bone Rescue and Rehab is seeking donations of items for a silent auction/fundraiser June 10. Items and services include massage, recreational opportunities, dining at area restaurants, artwork and more. Anything donors think might be appropriate will be considered.

Golden Bone Rescue needs donated storage space, ideally in Sedona. The organization is also looking for helpers with some renovation skills in order to get a U-haul ‘egg’ in shape so it too can be used for storage. It needs flooring, water sealing at windows, dome vent, etc, some shelving/enclosed storage and wood-work. Materials supplied.

Phoenix is about a year-and-a-half-old pit mix with a very loving disposition. Her owner dropped her off at a junkyard for what was supposed to be a few days while she moved into a new home. That was four months ago. Golden Bone Rescue has Phoenix in very temporary foster and needs to find her a stable foster or forever home. She loves people and other dogs. She is playful, exuberant, and very willing to please. She has been spayed and is up-to-date on shots. Please help Golden Bone find this sweet, powerful pup a stable environment where she can learn all the things it takes to be a good dog.

Golden Bone Rescue needs donated storage space, ideally in Sedona. The organization is also looking for helpers with some renovation skills in order to get a U-haul ‘egg’ in shape so it too can be used for storage. It needs flooring, water sealing at windows, dome vent, etc, some shelving/enclosed storage and wood-work. Materials supplied.

Golden Bone Rescue recently took on a Jack Russell pup who was reported to have suffered a recent broken leg. It turned out the leg had been broken for some time, complicating matters. Golden Bone is trying to save the leg surgically vs. amputating, at an expense of about $700. Please donate on the Golden Bone Rescue website.

Golden Bone is in urgent need of foster homes. The rescue group currently need a foster home for a 2-year-old pit bull whose time is running out where he's being boarded. Also needed is a foster for a Chihuahua who is somewhat slow to warm up to new people and who may or may not be pregnant. She should be an only dog, if possible, until she is spayed. Puppy fosters are urgently needed in a few short weeks for a litter of shepherd mixes. Golden Bone supplies food and medical attention.

We currently need a foster home for a 2-year-old pit bull whose time is running out where he's being boarded. We need a foster for a Chihuahua who is somewhat slow to warm up to new people and who may or may not be pregnant. She should be an only dog, if possible, until she is spayed. We urgently need puppy fosters, most immediately for an 8-week-old litter of border collie pups. Golden Bone supplies food and medical attention.

Petapalooza, the big adoption event, is being held at the Camp Verde Soccer Field on Saturday, March 31. Golden Bone Rescue will be there with dogs who are looking for their new, forever homes. Volunteers are needed for a variety of tasks including transporting dogs to and from the event, handling dogs during the event, and breaking down the tables and returning supplies to proper places after the event.

Creative volunteers are needed to help make flyers and marketing materials.

Golden Bone received a large supply of blankets and towels as requested. We have been able to use them with foster puppies, and dogs, and we donated some of the surplus to a dog hospice organization.

Exercise pens
Clean dog toys
Medium and large wire crates

Grant writing is an important source of funds. Join the team at Golden Bone Rescue & Rehab and get a thrill when the grant you write pays off.

Every animal who is fostered is immediately out of harm’s way and is one step closer to finding its loving forever home. Golden Bone pays for all necessary shots and spaying and neutering. We can provide transport and food as well as behavioral assistance if needed.