Do you love cats? Would you like to help PALS?
We are always looking for compassionate people to donate their time to help us care for cats in need. Volunteers are critical to our success in ultimately finding loving homes for our felines. There are many ways to volunteer, from working in our Adoption Center feeding and cleaning, assisting with adoptions, fostering one of our cats in your home to assisting PALS with communications, marketing, social media and community events. Some of our volunteer opportunities are listed below. If you would like to be part of the PALS family, fill out and submit the Volunteer or Foster Applications on this page.
Adoption Counselor
Adoption Counselors interact directly with prospective adopters at the PALS Adoption Center, facilitating the adoption process. Their role is to create a positive experience, with the goal of finding the best match between our felines and their new families.
Adoption Assistant
An Adoption Assistant works with an Adoption Counselor to facilitate adoptions, and to create a positive experience for prospective adopters at the PALS Adoption Center.
Feeding, Cleaning and Socialization (FCS) Volunteer
Feeding, Cleaning and Socialization (FCS) Volunteers primary duties involve direct care of the cats in our Adoption Center. Tasks include sanitizing cages and litterboxes, feeding, cleaning floors, completing required logs, and basic socializing with our feline guests.
Other Opportunities
Don’t see any volunteer role listed that matches your interests or skills? There are many other ways you can volunteer to help PALS.
Foster
Fostering with PALS Animal Life Savers
When you foster, you agree to take a homeless cat into your home and give him or her love, care and attention, either for a predetermined period of time or until the cat is adopted.
There are many reasons a cat might need foster care. Some of the common ones include:
- A kitten may be too young to be adopted and needs a safe place to stay until he or she is old enough to go to a forever home.
- A rescue group doesn’t have a physical shelter and depends on foster homes to care for cats until suitable homes are found.
- A cat is recovering from surgery, illness or injury and needs a safe place to recuperate.
- A cat is showing signs of stress, such as pacing or hiding in the shelter.
- A cat has not lived in a home before or has not had much contact with people and needs to be socialized.
- The shelter is running out of room for adoptable cats.
Fostering a cat is one of the most rewarding experiences you can have (other than adopting, of course). By taking an animal in need temporarily into your home, you’re:
- Freeing up a spot so the shelter or rescue can take in another cat.
- Give your foster cat the time he needs to be ready for adoption.
- Helping the shelter or rescue learn more about the cat so he can end up in the best home possible.
- Socializing the cat with a home environment and possibly getting him used to being around other pets and different types of people.
Complete our Foster Application If you are approved, we will work with you to figure out the right foster cat for your household. You can also contact [email protected] with questions.
