Receives and shelters lost, unwanted, and owner-released animals. Offers those animals for adoption. Website provides list and photos of available animals. Also offers pet euthanasia and cremation. Maintains pet food pantry for owners in need. Sells pet supplies.

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Organizations that are actively seeking individuals with the requisite skills and experience who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to shampoo, clip, brush and otherwise groom dogs, cats and other animals kept in temporary confinement by the organization or pets owned by the people it serves.

Animal Grooming Volunteer Opportunities

Animal control agencies, animal shelters, foster-based animal rescue programs and other organizations that accept animals whose owners can no longer care for them and are unable to find good homes for the animal themselves. Owners are asked to provide as much information as possible regarding the animal including vaccinations, spay/neuter status, behavior, training, likes and dislikes, and other information that might help the agency rehome the pet appropriately. Animal surrender services are an important part of the animal protective services network in that they prevent unwanted pets from being dumped on the streets or subjected to neglect or abuse, and give them a chance for adoption.

Animal Surrender Services

Programs that accept pet food, water and food dishes, leashes, crates and other pet-related supplies, and keep them for use in their own program or donate them to other nonprofit organizations for their own use or for distribution to the people they serve.

Animal Food/Supplies Donation Programs

Gift shops, retail stores or other enterprises whose revenues benefit one or more nonprofit organizations.

Nonprofit Retail Stores

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to decorate or otherwise prepare a facility for a special event e.g., set up tables and chairs or put up/take down a tent; help with participant registration; staff an information booth, manage a silent auction table or do other work during the event; and clean up afterwards.

Event Setup/Cleanup Volunteer Opportunities

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration,  to walk, play with or otherwise exercise animals kept in temporary confinement by the organization or pets owned by the people it serves.

Animal Exercise Volunteer Opportunities

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals with the requisite skills who are willing to do general office work on a voluntary basis without remuneration.

Clerical Volunteer Opportunities

Programs that supply dried or canned dog or cat food, bird seed, fodder or other types of sustenance for animals and other creatures that people keep as pets. Also included are programs that provide financial assistance that enables owners to purchase food for their pets.

Pet Food

Programs that provide protection and care for unwanted pets or stray animals, and hold them for a specified period of time to provide an opportunity for owners to claim them prior to offering them for adoption. Included are shelters that euthanize the animals if not adopted within a specified amount of time, as well as "no kill" shelters that will keep the animals until they are adopted.

 

Animal Shelters

Programs that assist people who have lost their pets to obtain information, if available, about the pet's location. These programs may provide registration services and identification tags which inform people who find a lost pet about who to call, and/or may maintain an information network to match details on lost pets with details about those people have found.

Animal Lost and Found

Programs that place stray and homeless domestic pets with people who are willing to provide for their care; find homes for wild burros, horses or other animals who are being removed from their natural environment; or place retired race horses, show horses, greyhounds and other animals when their racing or show careers have come to an end. Included are websites where animals available for adoption can be listed.

Animal Adoption

Programs that humanely put to death animals who are suffering from incurable injuries or diseases or stray animals who have not been claimed by their owners or adopted.

Animal Euthanasia Services

Animal shelter dedicated to finding committed homes for cats and dogs whose owners can no longer provide quality care due to unforeseen circumstances. Also offers pets for adoption. May also offer pet food to owners in need. Also offers low cost vaccine clinics, low cost euthanasia services, and low cost spay and neuter services.

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Programs that inoculate animals to prevent them from contracting rabies, an acute viral disease that attacks the nervous system of warm-blooded animals, is uniformly fatal when untreated, and can be transmitted with infected saliva, usually through the bite of a rabid animal.

Rabies Vaccinations

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals with the requisite skills who are willing to help them raise money to support their services (or to distribute to other groups) on a voluntary basis without remuneration.

Fundraising Volunteer Opportunities

Divisions of businesses or nonprofit agencies that are responsible for developing products or delivering designated services to the public. Departments of NGOs are generally led by a manager, supervisor, director or vice president.

Nongovernmental Agency Departments

Animal shelters that are actively seeking individuals to provide transportation for accompanied or unaccompanied pets or other animals to veterinary offices, clinics, animal grooming facilities or other needed animal-related services on a voluntary basis without remuneration. The service may be provided for animals kept in temporary confinement by the organization itself or pets owned by the people it serves.

Animal Transportation Volunteer Opportunities

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to provide a temporary home for animals who are abandoned or lost or come to the aid of animals in hazardous situations.

Animal Foster Care/Rescue Volunteer Opportunities

Animal rights groups and other similar organizations that are actively seeking individuals who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to work for the passage and enforcement of laws and other measures that protect domestic and wild animals from cruelty or neglect or seek to limit or prevent the use of animals for experimental purposes.

Animal Advocacy Volunteer Opportunities

Animal shelters that are actively seeking individuals who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to provide care for impounded animals (feeding, watering, bathing, grooming, exercising, socializing, cleaning cages), reunite lost pets with their owners and/or help find homes for unwanted animals who have been abandoned.

Animal Shelter Attendant Volunteer Opportunities

Programs that surgically alter animals to prevent them from reproducing. "Spay" refers to the surgical removal of the ovaries, uterus and fallopian tubes of a female animal; "neuter" refers to the surgical removal of the testes of a male animal.