Spaymart needs volunteers for all sorts of things. It can be as little as transporting a cat to and from a vet to helping with fundraising.
No matter what skill or expertise you have, all volunteers share one thing – the desire to make a difference.
We have many volunteer opportunities, making it easy for groups and individuals to get involved.
Please contact us to let us know what you can do.
Hands-on work with animals
* Cat care (feeding, cleaning, stocking supplies, etc.)
* Medical care (medicating, transporting to veterinarian facilities, stocking supplies, etc.)
* Adoption Day Assistants
Assistants at the PADs help with cage maintenance (providing food/water/litter for the cats up for adoption), talk to potential adopters about the cats up for adoption, answer questions about SpayMart and cats in general, and pass out literature as needed to visitors to the Adoption Day. New volunteers are always paired with more experienced pet fair volunteers until they are comfortable dealing with the cats and potential adopters alone.
* Foster care (fostering cats waiting for adoption or needing specialized attention)
Foster homes are always desperately needed to provide housing, food and love for the hundreds of cats that come through SpayMart each year.
With kitten season every spring and summer, the need is greater than ever, especially if you can care for preweans.
* Feral/stray cat care (trapping, vetting, and returning)
* Colony Caretaker
Feral colony caretakers are responsible for traveling to feral cat colony locations and providing food, clean water and protection from bad weather for the cats that live in the colony.
Some caretakers build elaborate shelters for their feral cats to live in, while others use a discarded board to protect the food/water station. Some colonies are fed every day, while others only need to be checked twice a week. Caretakers are also asked to keep a log of the cats that are a part of their colony, and assist in the trapping, neutering and re-releasing of the cats to their colony.
Some friendly colony members will be placed in permanent homes through our adoption program.
* Transport
Do you enjoy driving and meeting new people? Then this may be the position for you. We currently need people in the Metro Area who are able to transport cats from private homes to veterinary offices for spay/neuter surgeries. We provide this as a service to those people who are unable to take their cats into the veterinary office themselves, but who wish to have them fixed.
Office/technical work
* General office administration (responding to phone calls/e-mails, filing, typing, mailing, etc.)
* Data entry (animal tracking, medical records, etc.)
Coordination work
* Adoption coordination (tracking animal availability, placement opportunities, transports, etc.)
We are currently looking for people who have good phone skills to contact adopters and check on how the cats and their new families are getting along.
* Volunteer coordination (recruiting, training, and scheduling volunteers)
Other
* Special events (supporting special events such as Spay/Neuter Day on an as-needed basis)
If you are interested in any of these or have something else you can offer please click the online volunteer application form to get started! The cats are waiting for you!
