Roanoke Valley SPCA
Cause Area
Location
1340 Baldwin Ave NE ROANOKE, VA 24012
United States
Active Opportunities (4)
Dec 21
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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. You can email Katie Nichols at knichols@rvspca.org if you are interested in fostering a cat or kitten for Home for the Holidays. You can email Alexabelle Talbot at atalbot@rvspca.org if you are interested in fostering a dog or puppy for Home for the Holidays.
Date Posted: Dec 2, 2022
Flexible Schedule
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ROANOKE, VA 24012
What do our volunteers say about working on our cat rooms? We asked, and they replied! "At the end of every shift I tell the cats that I don’t want to see them next week, and I always say it with a smile, even if I’ll miss them." "I think back to [a specific cat named] Shadow and how scared and shut down he was... to him coming out and letting me love on him after [I spent] a while reading and talking to him. [That] gave me so much joy." "I really wish I had volunteered years ago to give back to our community and help these precious babies. I absolutely love working on the Cat [Condo Cleaning] Crew." You can join this awesome team and become our adoptable kitties' personal assistant, gourmet chef, maid, and best friend! We are in need of cat-tastic volunteers to join our Cat Condo Cleaning Crew. We have 1-2 Crew members at the shelter every day from approximately 8:30AM-10:30AM. The time commitment can vary based on the number of adoptable cats and if there is 1 or 2 volunteers that day. We try to have regularly scheduled weekly volunteers (i.e. every Monday is the same person), but often need alternates who can step in if someone is out. **We are in need of regular Saturday, Sunday, and Thursday morning volunteers!** Contact Erin Dams at edams@rvspca.org or 540-339-9503 to sign up today.
Date Posted: Dec 2, 2022
Flexible Schedule
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Roanoke, VA 24012
The Roanoke Valley SPCA's Visiting Pets program is a great opportunity to get involved in your community! Our Visiting Pets volunteers travel to Senior Care Centers around the Roanoke region with our Canine Ambassadors. The residents love the opportunity to snuggle a sweet pup and meet our awesome and outgoing volunteers! We have regularly scheduled monthly visits, and occasional special event dates as well. The regularly scheduled visits are: Independent Living facility on the 2nd Wednesday of the month from 1:00pm-3:30pm Adult Medical Daycare on the 3rd Tuesday of the month from 1:00pm-3:30pm Assisted living facility on the 3rd Wednesday of the month from 1:00pm-3:30pm Physical Rehab center on the 4th Wednesday of the month from 1:00pm-3:30pm Contact Erin Dams at edams@rvspca.org or 540-339-9503 to sign up for our Visiting Pets program today!
Date Posted: Oct 25, 2022
Flexible Schedule
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ROANOKE, VA 24012
Did you know that 80% of the kittens in animal shelters nation-wide come from outdoor roaming cats? OR that a female kitten can get pregnant at 4 months of age? We believe the key to lowering that number of unwanted cats is spaying and neutering. The Community Cat Crew is a group of a-meow-zing volunteers who use a process called Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) to bring outdoor cats who are feral - AKA unsocialized and uncomfortable with humans - to the vet so they can get spayed or neutered and vaccinated for rabies. Then, assuming the cat is healthy, they return them to their outdoor home. Most of these cats have a human caretaker who looks out for them and is very excited to have the cats go to the vet and come right back home! Some of these kitties even visit multiple houses and have multiple pet parents! We also need volunteers to help network with cat caretakers, explain TNR to neighbors at trapping locations, and help with other miscellaneous prep work for our cat crew. Contact Erin Dams at edams@rvspca.org or 540-339-9503 for more information and to get involved today!
Date Posted: Oct 25, 2022
Organization Information
Mission Statement
We’re working to create a community where there are no homeless cats or dogs through the power of adoption, prevention and intervention.
Description
The Roanoke Valley Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ("RVSPCA") limited intake, adoption and education center. We provide a safe and loving home for animals for as long as they need it. Only those animals suffering from conditions that are beyond help are ever euthanized.
The RVSPCA's is working to create a community where there are no homeless cats or dogs through the power of adoption, prevention and intervention.
ADOPTION
PREVENTION
INTERVENTION
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