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Dec 20
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Jan 3
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ROANOKE, VA 24012
One of the awesome programs the Roanoke Valley SPCA runs during Christmas and New Year’s is Home for the Holidays. Our goal is to get every single animal out of our shelter and into a family home for the last 2 weeks of the year. This can be through adoption or through fostering! Home for the Holidays is a great opportunity to try fostering and see if it is something you enjoy. Maybe your holiday visitors will even fall in love with your foster and adopt them! If you will be in town this holiday season, please consider opening your home to a temporary holiday foster. The Roanoke Valley SPCA provides supplies to their fosters including food, dishes, bedding, toys, litter for cats, and collar/harness/leash for dogs. Fostering pets is a great way to earn volunteer hours for school, clubs, or college applications! Foster families receive 7 hours of volunteer credit per week they have a foster pet(s). Learn more about fostering on our website at https://rvspca.org/foster/our-foster-program/ Or contact our foster coordinator at foster@rvspca.org to get started!
Date Posted: Nov 18, 2024
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Flexible Schedule
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ROANOKE, VA 24012
Looking for an oPURRtunity to give back to your community? We have good MEWS! The Roanoke Valley SPCA is currently looking for dedicated individuals to join our volunteer Cat Condo Cleaning Crew! This FURbulous group of volunteers donate their time to make sure our adoptable kitties are fed, watered, happy, healthy, and loved. Crew members volunteer from approximately 8:00AM-10:00AM. You can sign up for weekly, biweekly, or monthly shifts. We are most in need of volunteers on Mondays! Whether you can cover 1 shift or several, this is a great opportunity to get involved! In the words of one of our aMEOWzing team members: "At the end of every shift I tell the cats that I don’t want to see them next week [because they got adopted], and I always say it with a smile, even if I’ll miss them." Contact Erin Dams at edams@rvspca.org or 540-339-9503 to sign up today.
Date Posted: Nov 18, 2024
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Flexible Schedule
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ROANOKE, VA 24012
While our Adoption Center is a wonderful place for a dog or cat to find a new home, if an animal temporarily has special needs, we prefer they live in a foster home until they are ready for adoption. Usually these are short term situations, and a foster home is only needed for 2-4 weeks. That animal is then brought back into the Adoption Center and made available for adoption after being spayed or neutered. Fostering pets is a great way to earn volunteer hours for school, clubs, or college applications! Foster families receive 7 hours of volunteer credit per week they have a foster pet(s). Animals that are typically fostered are: Kittens-Kittens, in a litter or alone, are fostered until they are eight weeks old and weigh two pounds. Most kittens are fostered for 2-6 weeks. These litters may or may not have the mama cat with them. Mama gets spayed afterwards. Puppies-Puppies, in a litter or alone, are fostered until they are 8 weeks old and can be altered. These litters may or may not have the mama dog with them. Mama gets spayed afterwards. Sick animals--Occasionally we have a animal who suffers from a minor common ailment, such as an upper respiratory infection, who needs to recover outside of the shelter. These are usually minor cases, but it is recommended these animals be kept from resident dogs and cats to avoid spreading the disease. Animals recovering from surgery-If an animal has had surgery, we generally allow the animal to recover in a foster home instead of the shelter, to ensure that animal's needs are fully met. Undersocialized animals-If our staff determines that an animal in our facility is undersocialized, we will place that animal with a foster family to gain more socialization skills. This might be a shy animal, a young animal that is "mouthy" and needs to learn proper bite inhibition, etc. Learn more about fostering on our website at https://rvspca.org/foster/our-foster-program/ Or contact our foster coordinator at foster@rvspca.org to get started!
Date Posted: Nov 18, 2024
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Dec 13
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Dec 13
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05:00 PM
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10:00 PM
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Roanoke, VA 24016
Hop onto our Santa Paws parade float for a magical evening downtown! The Dickens of a Christmas holiday parade in Roanoke is a great opportunity to celebrate the bond between pets and people, and gain a few volunteer hours too. The parade begins on Jefferson Street at Elm Avenue, turns onto Campbell Avenue, goes past Market Square, and ends at Williamson Road. This year’s parade will start at 6:30pm, but the floats and poeple walking in the parade are typically asked to arrive around 5:00pm! Parade ends at 10:00pm but volunteer shifts may end earlier than that depending on if we are located in the beginning, middle, or end of the float lineup! The parade is rain or shine. Contact Erin Dams at edams@rvspca.org to sign up for this fun and festive volunteer opportunity.
Date Posted: Nov 24, 2024
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Flexible Schedule
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ROANOKE, VA 24012
We currently have a wonderful problem here at the Roanoke Valley SPCA! Our list of community partners and event invites keep growing and growing... but we do not currently have the manpower to participate in as many events as we’d like. To solve this problem, we are looking for dedicated people to join our exciting new volunteer committee: the Community Action and Planning Team (CAP Team)! The goal of this team is to work together to represent the Roanoke Valley SPCA at community events and activities. Commitee members are required to attend one meeting and volunteer at one event per quarter (3 month period). This is a great opportunity to help out if your schedule doesn’t accommodate the typical "4 hours per month" required of our regular volunteers, if you’re allergic to pets, or if you want to help out but aren’t comfortable entering our kennels. The Community Action and Planning Team is also a great opportunity to gain experience working with kids, public speaking, environmental activism, and more. You can contact Erin Dams at edams@rvspca.org or 540-339-9503 to learn more about this PAWsome new volunteer team.
Date Posted: Nov 18, 2024
