Volunteers

Volunteers are the heart and soul of our ADOPTION OUTREACH program that saves the lives of hundreds of pets in our shelter every year.

The paid staff of the Animal Shelter is able to meet the physical needs of the pets in the shelter, but little time is available for individual attention to the pets and for adoption outreach work. The outreach work includes working as adoption guides at the shelter, assisting visitors with counseling and answering questions about the pets, and in off-site adoption work at places like Petsmart and taking our mobile adoption trailer out with pets for adoption to different locations around the town and county.

Without volunteers, the quality of life of pets in the animal shelter is much lower. They are seldom taken out for walks, bathed, or just socialized in general, without volunteers. Our volunteers provide most of this sort of care.

The Animal Shelter has need of help in too many ways to mention them all here. If you wish to give some of yourself to the homeless cats and dogs of your community, please contact us at (512) 930-3592. Jackie Carey is the Shelter’s Volunteer Coordinator.

Without volunteers hundreds more cats and dogs in the Animal Shelter will die. The paid staff only has so much time to devote to adoption work. The problem of pet overpopulation belongs to the community as a whole, not just to the people paid to work at the Animal Shelter.

With a tear of gratitude in my eye, I send out a heartfelt thank you to all who have in the past, do currently, or will in the future give something of themselves to the homeless pets of this community by working as a volunteer at the Georgetown Animal Shelter.

Examples of volunteer activities:

Walking dogs (we are adjacent to a large park with miles of walking paths and sidewalks)

• Leash training of dogs
• Socializing puppies and kittens
• Bathing pets
• Adoption work
• Cleaning cages and kennels
• Landscape work
• Carpentry or minor construction
• Repairs and maintenance
• Special event planning
• Rabies vaccination clinics

If you’re interested in volunteering and would like to learn more call (512) 930-3592 to learn when the next volunteer orientation will be held.

Georgetown Animal Outreach, www.georgetownanimaloutreach.org, is an organization of volunteers from all walks of life united by one common goal: the welfare of animals. Their mission is to support and enhance services provided by the Georgetown Animal Shelter and other local organizations dedicated to the welfare of animals.