Welcome to Abandoned Pet Rescue! We appreciate your interest in volunteering your time and energy to help us advance animal welfare at APR.
We respect your time and skills and strive to make your experience with us productive and rewarding. Although we require a small time-commitment, we encourage regular participation and value dependability in all our volunteers. Helping animals in our care is challenging and rewarding.
You can truly make a difference.
If you would like to volunteer to help our CAT population simply fill out our application and let us know your interest is CATS.
VOLUNTEER APPLICATION
We will reach our to you and invite you to an orientation so we can get you placed where you can do the most good.
DAILY ROUTINE
8am – 12pm Cats are fed and cat rooms and cages are cleaned.
12 – 5pm Cat enrichment, training, brushing and socialization.
* Laundry, dishes, sweeping and mopping are done throughout the day.
Like home, there is always laundry to be folded and dirty linens to wash!
CAT VOLUNTEER ROLES
FELINE HOUSEKEEPING— Cleaning rooms, cages, litter boxes, washing dishes, laundry, feeding, and other general housekeeping tasks.
FELINE ENRICHMENT/SOCIALIZATION SPECIALISTS— Socialization and enrichment to promote confidence and trust in humans through positive interactive play, tricks, voice interaction, handling and grooming. They need your help, love, and patience to find a happy furrever home. Socialization is extremely important to the “adoptability” of APR cats and helps to make their stay at the shelter more comfortable.
PET SUPERMARKET VOLUNTEER —
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Picking up materials and animals and transporting them to the location.
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Setting up prior to an event/ cleaning up after the event and returning materials or animals to the shelter.
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Promoting APR during the event
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It is always important to remember volunteers represent the organization and it’s important to have a helpful, positive attitude when dealing with or answering questions.
SPECIAL EVENTS SUPPORT— An “Event” can be any public appearance that we attend, ranging from a large fundraiser or a small booth. We go to many events throughout the year and we depend on volunteers to help us.
Some examples:
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Picking up materials and animals and transporting them to the location.
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Setting up prior to an event/ cleaning up after the event and returning materials or animals to the shelter.
