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Description of volunteer opportunity:

Saving Shelter Pets, Inc is searching for 3-4 individuals to help the our Puppy Promises Director and the Animal Control Officer at Murray County Animal Shelter in Chatsworth, Georgia with our Puppy Promises Program.

This is not a virtual opportunity. The individual(s) will need to be able to visit the puppies in their home environment at least once during the course of their 14-day quarantine.

Responsibilities:

• work closely with the ACO to make sure the puppies have: been given their required vaccinations, have had their photos taken, their contracts completed and faxed to our Puppy Promises Committee

• be completely honest about the health of all the puppies they are visiting and be willing to pass all information to Saving Shelter Pets Puppy Promises Committee and Transport Committee

• be available to go to the Murray County Animal Shelter and the homes of the puppies

• able to organize paperwork for health certificates and/or Puppy Promises Contracts

Requirements:

• Internet access
• phone access
• a reliable car
• hands-on individual who is not afraid to get their hands dirty (payment in the form of puppy kisses!) :)
• Excellent organizational skills
• Motivated, hard-working individual who is not afraid to ask for help when they need it

About Saving Shelter Pets:

Saving Shelter Pets (SSP) strives to eliminate euthanasia as a method of population control for homeless companion animals, by providing no-kill alternative solutions and proactively addressing the problem of pet overpopulation.

SSP is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization with volunteers nationwide, bound together by our online forum and website: www.savingshelterpets.com

About our Puppy Promises program:

Puppy Promises is an intervention program created to save puppies before they ever enter the shelter environment (where they will be exposed to disease). Since foster homes are difficult to find, this program contracts with the owner to quarantine the pups at their home for 14 more days. At the end of this quarantine, the pups are turned over to Saving Shelter Pets to be transported to no-kill sanctuaries. Once the owner signs a contract, the pups are given vaccinations and de-wormed at no charge to the owner.

The Puppy Promises contract also stipulates that the mother of these puppies must be spayed at the expense of Saving Shelter Pets. Therefore, Puppy Promises not only saves puppies from the high threat of parvo in shelters; it eliminates future litters from the mother as well.

Puppy Promises focuses on pet over population one litter at a time.