In fact, as we've so painfully seen, the quality of a shelter dog's life is directly proportional to the number
of volunteers at a shelter.
For example, a reporter for a college newspaper can point to interviewing and writing skills; a history
of volunteering at a shelter can provide an example of strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
And, most importantly,
as volunteers at the shelter play with the pooches and cuddle with the kitties, it is truly the pets and their future families who are the biggest winners.
Derek and his mom, Susan Walker,
volunteer at the shelter twice a week and help socialize shelter animals like Miss Kitty, a 2 - year - old tuxedo cat who needs a home.
A long -
time volunteer at shelters in New Orleans, New York, Austin, and Los Angeles, Megan saw LARPBO as a way to help people improve their relationships with their dogs and thereby keep pit bulls in homes and out of shelters.
In order to pursue her dream of working with shelter dogs, Lindsey left San Francisco to spend a year studying dog behavior and animal learning
while volunteering at shelters across the country.
She soon
began volunteering at the shelter's medical clinic, and by sophomore year of high school Rachel knew that the veterinary profession was the only path for her!
Her eyes welled with tears because I'd had the simple decency to tell her that she was not a bad person for having sought out a hypoallergenic dog and
then volunteered at a shelter.
Dr. McDonnell
volunteers at shelters including BARCS (Baltimore Animal Rescue & Care Shelter, Inc.), GRREAT (Golden Retriever Rescue Education and Training), and MAGAR (Mid-Atlantic German Shepherd Rescue).
Seider writes, «The Harvard
students volunteering at the shelter utilize the shelter as a mechanism for identity exploration and as a «shelter» from some of the academic, social, and personal pressures that are a part of the college years and young adulthood.»
Now
Holt volunteers at the shelter by walking the dogs and spending time with the felines in the cat facility, and every Saturday evening she takes care of the ACAS cats being showcased at the Aiken PetSmart Store on Whiskey Road.
The volunteer and foster care program was formalized and Hopalong Animal Rescue began to partner with the Oakland Animal Shelter by placing its
own volunteers at the shelter to facilitate adoptions, help with animal care and evaluation, and run weekly mobile adoptions in the community.
The staff, teachers and students at the Academy have become active supporters of FOTAS and the Shelter: homework assignments to write essays on the FOTAS mission, contributions to FOTAS fundraisers, teachers and their
children volunteering at the Shelter.
These are only a few of the many
FOTAS volunteers at the shelter that made it possible to save approximately 2950 animals this year: that's more than 164 % increase from 2011 and 10 times more animals saved than in the pre-FOTAS years.
Aside from her duties at MSU, Jan is the Advisor to the Oktibbeha County Humane Society Student Chapter (OCHSSC) and is an
active volunteer at the shelter.
If you really
love volunteering at your shelter, you might consider a permanent paid position there, in which case you'd have a strong advantage over outside competitors who don't know the staff or the shelter's inner workings.
Volunteers at the shelter like Susan Sullivan work at the facility from noon to 3 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays so staff members can take a lunch break and work with the on - site veterinarian.
Some of the ways that you can help are by donating money or supplies,
volunteering at the shelter regularly or at special events throughout the year, and advocating for our shelter pets in the community.