Shelter Volunteers

Many of our dogs live in foster care. However, one of the foster homes is the licensed shelter for Forgotten Paws and houses most of the dogs. Volunteers in the shelter location assist the foster mom with day-to-day activities:

We are in the process of trying to set up this foster home as a place where people can come to meet the dogs. We want to be able to set weekend appointments instead of carting the poor animals all over town on weekends.

• Cleaning is a very important part and a constant struggle. Most of the day is consumed by it, leaving little time for other needs. For years we have struggled with getting help b/c the shelter is an actual home. Other groups have main foster homes and they have volunteers but they have gotten past the "its my house" odd feeling. Finally, the main foster home has forced herself to get past this! <smile>Daily cleaning of floors and cages are needed. Washing of food bowls, laundry washing of towels and blankets, etc. If you can donate an hour it is a huge help!
• Pooper Scooping the yard - we need people to commit an hour (usually less) a week to pooper scoop the play area's. If we can get several poeple scheduled to do this on different days, then it won't be a tough job!

• "A trained dog get adopted more quickly and has a better chance of working out. "
• "A tired dog is a good happy dog"
• Those are our two phylosophies for K9 support volunteers
• A K9 support volunteer walks dogs and works on thier training. Simple things like leash manners and sitting and coming on command make a huge difference in a dogs chances.
• If you have the ability to handle a dog on leash, this is a great way to help out. Some of our dogs spend months staring at the back of a 6 foot privacy fence and would love to get out and just go around the block a couple of times!

Do you belong to a group that would like to do a community service project fundraiser?

We would love for your group to hold a bake sale, car wash, book sale, or anything you want to do to help the homeless pets get the needed supplies and veterinary care. Without money, we can't save more dogs and cats. We don't want to be one of those groups who only saves the perfect dogs who won't cost much but we can't continue without money coming in and as of now everything is going out. For example: We recently took in a dog who needed a $991 surgery. He got it and athough listed on our site for donation help, we recieved $75 from one lady and that was all! Without us, Tipper would be dead at the shelter but we can't continue this way.