- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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30 people are interested
Adoption Center Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: CASTAWAY ANIMALS RESCUE EFFORT
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
-
30 people are interested
Function/impact
Volunteers at C.A.R.E.’s Adoption Center are integral to providing love, socialization, and quality care to our adoptable dogs and cats, while serving our customers to ensure a top-notch in-store experience. Our volunteers are a major component of our operations, and ultimately have a major impact on our ability to put animals in homes.
Core responsibilities
- Socialization and enrichment with dogs and/or cats
- Including sitting, cuddling, playing with, grooming, and brushing dogs
- Including sitting, cuddling, playing with, and brushing cats
- Walk dogs according to procedure covered in orientation
- Clean animal rooms, lobbies, and hallways, including but not limited to sweeping/mopping, picking up waste, replacing dirty towels/bedding, picking up excess toys, and dusting
- Ensure each room has water and that all animals have collars/tags
- Be a friendly face for our guests and provide excellent customer service
- Help Adoption Counselors with other tasks and projects as needed, such as folding newspaper and laundry
More opportunities with CASTAWAY ANIMALS RESCUE EFFORT
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About CASTAWAY ANIMALS RESCUE EFFORT
Location:
1328 W Battlefield Rd, Springfield, MO 65807, US
Mission Statement
To rescue as many adoptable animals from death row as we can properly provide and care for. To provide medical treatment for sick and injured stray animals. To combine an aggressive spay and neuter program with a high-volume adoption program while providing quality lifetime care for unadoptable pets. To network and provide a rescue service for other shelters, ultimately reducing the kill rate in Southwest Missouri.
Description
Castaway Animals Rescue Effort, otherwise known as C.A.R.E., is a charitable 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals. Established in 1992, C.A.R.E. has saved over 25,000 lives and counting. We have grown into southwest Missouri's largest no-kill shelter.
Everyday we strive to ease the pain that victims of neglect and abuse endure, offering safety and hope, and finding them the homes they so richly deserve. We are proud to work alongside government agencies and other nonprofits making a difference in the lives of the animals we care so deeply about. Together we serve as a voice for those who cannot speak.
The C.A.R.E. shelter houses hundreds of homeless animals. We have our Adoption Center in Springfield, open seven days a week, which house our current adoptable pets. Our sanctuary near Aurora is reserved for animals who may need some extra time to fully recover and become ready for adoption. We also house our rescued farm animals at this location. Our unadoptable animals reside at our sanctuary as well, each spending their days with cageless freedom, their nights in warm beds, and receiving lots of love and individual attention.
We rescue approximately 1,000 animals a year, including dogs, cats, small mammals, horses, pigs and more. Your time change the lives of so many animals who would otherwise not have a chance.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
1328 W Battlefield RdSpringfield, MO 65807
DATE POSTED
August 13, 2019
SKILLS
- Customer Service
- Animal Care / Handling
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- 2 to 4 hours per week at the C.A.R.E. Animal Rescue Adoption Center in Springfield, MO; maximum of 4 hours
- • Attend volunteer orientation, complete application, sign waivers • Volunteers 12-17 are welcome if accompanied by a parent/guardian volunteer