Interested in Volunteering?
Volunteers are an invaluable part of our organization. Our volunteers assist us with maintaining the highest level of care for our animals. If you can’t financially afford to support a local rescue organization, volunteering your time is just as valuable.
We ask our volunteers to commit to a 2hour time slot each week, for a minimum of 3 months (ex: every Monday from 2pm-4pm).
Volunteering is open to people aged 17 and older.
All volunteers start out as Shelter Support, where you will directly assist the Animal Care Technicians, who manage all kennel cleaning, feeding, and medicating of the animals. Tasks of the Shelter Support volunteer include dishes, laundry, housekeeping, organizing donations and bagging food for our Pet Pantry. While this work is the least glamorous, it is the fastest, and easiest, way to familiarize yourself with shelter operations, the staff, and your fellow volunteers!!
Want to socialize with the animals? Don't worry! After an initial 30day introductory period, you will qualify for additional training opportunities into new areas of the shelter, such as Cat Socializing or Dog Handling.
Volunteers play a critical role within the shelter, allowing us to provide our animals with the highest level of care. All volunteers are first trained to assist in and around the building. Common tasks include dishes, laundry, housekeeping, organizing donations and bagging food for our Pet Pantry. Following an initial 30day introductory period, volunteers will qualify to be trained into other areas of the shelter. For example, Animal Socializing, Office & Reception, Open House Tour Guides, etc.
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Animal Transport - While we are able to do transport within the FM area, sometimes we need to bring animals to vet clinics out of town to save costs or get them in immediately. We also work with animal rescues an hour or two outside of town to transfer animals to our shelter from county pounds where they'd be euthanized. Interested volunteers would need to provide their own vehicle and gas. We would provide any kennels or things required for transport. Experience with dogs is helpful but not required - these transports are for both dogs and cats so if you prefer to be on the list and only want to transport cats we can make that work.
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Current Volunteers Can Sign In to Their VIC Account Here:
