After you have filled out a volunteer application, you can complete your orientation online.
Volunteer Application Volunteer Application Youth
Foster Application
For more information please contact our Volunteer Coordinator at [email protected], or by phone at 707.442.1782.
Volunteer Opportunities:
- Dog Walkers - Provide the all-important exercise and socialization our shelter dogs need in order to remain healthy, people-friendly and adoptable. Dog walkers must be knowledgeable about dogs and able to handle medium and large-size breeds.
- Kitty Companions - Help our adoptable cats and kittens stay sociable by playing with them, grooming them, and providing them with love and attention. ">Dog Behavior and Socialization - Work with our Kennel Attendants to increase the adoptability of our dogs by teaching them manners through positive reinforcement training techniques. Volunteers are trained to encourage the dogs to focus, sit, and walk on a leash. This rewarding job is very physical and may involve working with dogs that are large and untrained. Experience in training dogs is desirable.
- Foster Care Providers - Open your heart and home to provide temporary care for kittens and puppies too young to be adopted, or older dogs and cats needing health care or socialization before they can be adopted. Animals are typically in foster care for 2-6 weeks. Foster care requires lots of humane contact and a safe, warm place away from other household pets.
- Tailwaggers Thrift Shop Helpers - Help animals without getting hair on your clothes! Helpers sort, price, and sell gently used merchandise in our Henderson Center thrift store. All proceeds benefit the animals!
- Special Events Assistants -Assist with planning and staffing a variety of public events, fundraisers, and exhibits, usually at off-site locations. Join staff and other volunteers to deliver the Humane Society message to the community and raise money to support our programs.
- Catnip Pillow Project - Don't have the time to volunteer, but still want to help the animals? Catnip pillows are small fabric pillows stuffed with a decent amount of Catnip and some filler fluff (used in pillows). Cats and kittens enjoy playing with them and lying on them. You can help the animals by making these pillows in your home and donating them to us. You can make Catnip Pillows to fulfill community service requirements, as a youth group project, or as a personal project!