What Do Volunteers Do?

Hands On Work with Animals | Office/Technical Work | Coordination | Other

Provide foster homes for cats and kittens | Take care of feral cat colonies

Transport cats and kittens | Make Phone Calls | Help at Pet Adoption Days

Hands-on work with animals

• Cat care (feeding, cleaning, stocking supplies, etc.)

• Medical care (medicating, transporting to veterinarian facilities, stocking supplies, etc.)

• Foster care (fostering cats waiting for adoption or needing specialized attention)

• Feral/stray cat care (trapping, vetting, and returning)

Office/technical work

• General office administration (responding to phone calls/e-mails, filing, typing, mailing, etc.)

• Data entry (animal tracking, medical records, etc.)

• Website management (updates, improvements, etc.)

Coordination work

• Adoption coordination (tracking animal availability, placement opportunities, transports, etc.)

• Hotline coordination (monitoring hotline and routing requests)

• Volunteer coordination (recruiting, training, and scheduling volunteers)

Other

• Shelter improvements (building and/or enhancing physical facilities)

• Special events (supporting special events such as Spay/Neuter Day  on an as-needed basis)

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What is a foster home?

In general, foster homes provide food, water, litter and love. SpayMart provides any medical needs, and permanent supplies (litterbox, toys, food).

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. The following are categories from which to choose the type of kitty you want to foster:

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What do Feral Colony Caretakers Do?

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.

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What Do Cat Transporters Do?

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.

Call (504)838-9167 and leave your name and phone number and someone will contact you.

Email: volunteer@spaymart.org

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What If I Just Want to Make Phone Calls?

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.

Call (504)838-9167 and leave your name and phone number and someone will contact you.

Email: volunteer@spaymart.org

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Can I Help at the Pet Adoption Days?

Our Pet Adoption Days (PADs) are the best tool we have for getting our kittens and cats shown to the public for adoption. We hold PADs every weekend at the PetSmart in Elmwood from 10:00 to 6pm on Saturday and Sunday. We would like to expand our pet fair schedule and have PADs at other locations, but we need more volunteers to work the PADs in order to make this a reality.

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. Call (504) 838-9167 and leave your name and phone number and someone will contact you.

Email: volunteer@spaymart.org

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