Want to make a life-saving difference for homeless cats and dogs? Consider volunteering at PAWS Chicago, the city’s largest No Kill animal shelter!

PAWS Chicago is a national model in sheltering, committed to bringing an end to the killing of homeless cats and dogs in our community, and volunteers play an invaluable role in nearly every aspect of our life-saving efforts. PAWS Chicago offers a wide variety of volunteer opportunities within each of our programs and volunteers can train for any role or program they are interested in! This enables our volunteers to bring personal expertise from their own backgrounds to enable us to save more lives.

We also have strong COVID-19 protocols in place to ensure the safety of our volunteers and staff members! We have been working diligently to sanitize all common area surfaces multiple times per day. There are a variety of social distancing guidelines in place including limiting the number of volunteers in the building as well as limiting the amount of people in one room at any given time. Face coverings are also to be worn at all times while within the shelter!

Our Medical Center is the first stop for all our PAWS animals! While some animals may be sick and need medical attention, many of our animals are perfectly healthy and are waiting for volunteers like you to come say hi!

We are especially looking for volunteers with weekday availability. If you have weekday availability, please email volunteers@pawschicago.org for an expedited on-boarding process! For more information about specific opportunities available, or to sign up to become a volunteer, please visit www.pawschicago.org/volunteer.