Thank you for helping us help the animals! Forms for volunteering can be picked up at the clinic or emailed to you. Please contact cgarrett@allaboutanimalsrescue.org with your forms and available time commitments.

Fostering

We always need people to temporarily take care of pets while we look for their forever home. All of our pets stay in foster homes where they can be looked after individually and receive all the love and care they deserve. All medical care is provided.

The Pet Support Line

The Pet Support Line needs committed volunteers to give 10 hours a month to help man this new program. The Pet Support line’s mission is to create, foster and preserve the human–pet bond by helping families who might otherwise feel compelled to give up their pets and by facilitating adoptions from rescue groups and shelters to individuals needing help finding the perfect new addition to their family.  Specific objectives are to increase adoptions and decrease pet abandonment. The Pet Support Line will offer a dedicated toll-free phone number to allow people to speak with a knowledgeable and compassionate “Pet Advisor”.

Volunteers will return phone calls, update databases, transport pets from shelters to the Pet Support Line’s adoption center room at the Warren building and assist with researching information.

Trap-Neuter-Return Training Classes and Shelter Building Workshop

The second Sunday of every month:
10:30 – 2:30pm. Volunteers will help set up the room, sign participants in, distribute handbooks and handouts, assign TNR cards, check and handout traps/forks to participants.

Volunteer from home

Want to volunteer from home? Write feature stories, design flyers, edit documents, research information. Are you a sewer? We need ‘Adopt Me’ vests, feral cat trap covers and polar fleece kennel blankets.

Distribute literature

Need some exercise? How about joining our Walking for Wellness street marketing team? Pairs campus neighborhoods and talk to local stores about displaying our clinic material.

Want to help animals in your area? Help us get the word out that affordable pet preventive care is available!

Dog training

Do you have an exceptionally talented dog that you’d like to visit schools with to show off their tricks? Come with us to educate children on dog safety and the importance of spay and neuter.

Surgery Pack Technician

Skills needed – able to wash instruments (similar to washing dishes at home) and able to follow directions.
Site location – Warren Location.
Job Description – Prepare surgery packs according to the charts.  Each surgery pack contains 8 instruments and must be double wrapped, taped using proper techniques.   Once the packs are wrapped, they autoclaved.  Autoclaved must be properly filled with water before starting, see chart onsite to determine proper fill level.
Frequency – 5-7 times per week, approximately 3-4 hours

Kennel Attendant

Skills needed – ability to wash cages.  Bending, kneeling and standing on a step stool are required.
Site location – Warren Location.
Job Description – Prepare the cleaning solution according to directions and fill sprayer.  Completely spray cages and let stand for 10 minutes. Clean each cage with a new cloth (to prevent transmission of disease).
Frequency – 5-7 times per week, approximately 2-3 hours.

Laundry Attendant

Skills needed – ability to operate a washing machine and dryer (instructions will be provided for the particular brand of laundry machine).  Bending  and carrying are required.
Site location – Warren Location.
Job Description – Shake out laundry to ensure that all debris is removed.  Load laundry washing machines to full, ensure that items are of approximate equal weight (for example, thick heavy blankets should be washed by themselves or with another thick heavy blanket).  Add appropriate amount of detergent, bleach and start machine.  When the cycle finishes , move to the dryer and start cycle.  NOTE:  surgery drapes (blue/blue green) MUST be washed separately from towels, blankets and other items.  Once items are dry, fold towels by rolling them, smaller items and blankets can be folded in squares.  Surgery drapes should be folded as instructed (rectangle for pack wraps and fan fold for drapes with a hole).
Frequency – 5-7 times per week, approximately 3-4 hours.

Data Input

Skills needed – ability to use Access and/or Excel and read hand written documents.
Site location – Warren Location
Job Description – Varies, but normally involves entering Trap loan information, microchip, surgery record information- like name, address, pet’s name, weight, etc. and updating the email newsletter list.
Frequency – once per week, Time - approximately 3-4 hours.

Angel Outreach Coordinator

Skills Needed -  Able to use computer, interact with people, detail oriented
Site Location -  Oakland County Location
Job Description -   Distribute and record who receives food from the Pet Food Pantry, coordinate getting food donations or buying food in bulk, filing, cleaning, compiling spay/neuter lists, fill out Wellness Clinic and Spay/Neuter Paperwork, help at fundraising and clinic events.
Frequency - Varies
Time -  Varies

Angel Outreach Spay/Neuter Coordinator

Skills Needed – Be able to follow direction, interact with people
Site Location - Oakland County Location
Job Description -  Sign people up and coordinate spay/neuter appointments, fill out paperwork and file.
Frequency - 2 days per week

Special Event Coordinator Assistant

Skills Needed – Be able to follow direction, interact with people
Site Location - Varies
Job Description -  Assist with event, assist public.
Frequency – Special events, varies.
Time -  Varies

Fundraising Marketing Committee Member

Skills Needed – Be able to follow direction, interact/communicate well with people, strategic planning and implementation
Site Location – Varies
Job Description -  Assist with research and contacting individuals and companies, organize special events, perform assigned tasks
Frequency -  Once a week - flexible
Time -  3+ hours

Veterinarian Surgeon

Skills Needed – Veterinary license in the State of Michigan, ability to handle spay/neuter complications, surgery experience.
Site Location - Warren
Job Description -  Perform physical exams and spay/neuter surgeries on dogs and cats.  Patients can be as young as 8 weeks/2 pounds and may be in heat.  Prep work is done by veterinary assistants.
Frequency - Varies
Time -  Flexible, weekends are available.

Surgery Veterinarian Technician

Skills Needed – Veterinary Technician experience. Be able to follow direction, prepare animals for surgery, monitor patients while in recovery.   Not required, but helpful to have experience with anesthesia and inserting trech tubes.
Site Location - Warren
Job Description -  Sign people up and coordinate spay/neuter appointments, fill out paperwork and file.
Frequency - 1 day per week --Saturday
Time -  Flexible

Wellness Veterinarian

Skills Needed – Veterinary license in the State of Michigan, ability to work quickly and interact with the public.
Site Location – Warren and Oakland County
Job Description -  Perform physical exams and spay/neuter surgeries on dogs and cats.  Patients can be as young as 8 weeks/2 pounds and may be in heat.  Prep work is done by veterinary assistants.
Frequency - Varies
Time -  Flexible, Saturday is available

Wellness Veterinarian Technician

Skills Needed – Veterinary Technician experience. Be able to follow direction, work quickly and interact with the public.
Site Location - Warren and Oakland County
Job Description -  Prepare vaccines, fill out paperwork, weigh patients, assist Veterinarian with procedures.
Frequency - Varies
Time -  Flexible, Saturday is available

Photographer

Skills needed – able to use a camera and email pictures
Site location – Warren location.
Job Description – Take pictures of foster pets and send pictures to Petfinder Coordinator.
Frequency – 2-4 times per month, approximately 1-3 hours
Time - Flexible

Certified Pet Behaviorist

Assist with problem solving and training.

Petfinder Coordinator

Skills needed – able to use a computer and follow direction.
Site location – can be done offsite or onsite at our Warren Location.
Job Description – Write up descriptions of adoptable pets based on input from foster families so that the pets are appealing to the general public but still accurately represented.   Volunteer will talk or email foster family, obtain information about the pet.  Volunteer will obtain a picture, either themselves or from the photographer and add the description and picture to Petfinder, along with some standard identifier information.
Frequency – 1-2 times per week, approximately 1-3 hours
Time - Flexible

Making Cat Nip Toys/Crafts

We need people to make simple cat nip toys and blankets for the cats and dogs.