Volunteer Opportunities
Animal Adoptions
Help pets find new homes by answering potential adopters' questions at the Shelter and offsite adoption events. Adoption counseling can be one of the most rewarding volunteer opportunities because you help potential adopters find a pet that matches their personality and lifestyle, thus ensuring the pet has a permanent, loving home.
Special Events
Lend a helping hand at fun community outreach events. This is a wonderful way to increase awareness. We would like to promote our adoptable pets at local area events and places of business. Here is a brief list of ideas so far:
- PetSmart Adoption Days
- Horse Shows & Clinics
- Tack Stores
- Veterinarians
- Other Community Events
If you have a place or event in mind that will help promote adoptions for the pets of Aiken County Animal Shelter please email us with the details.
Dog Walking
Daily walks provide dogs with mental stimulation, socialization, exercise, training, and the opportunity to relieve themselves outside of the kennels. It is rewarding to see how enthusiastically the dogs respond to their walker companions and how calm and well behaved they are when perspective adopters come to visit.
Education
Strike at the root of the animal-welfare and over-population problems in our area by educating our community. Your time and energy can help foster a sense of empathy for pets and other animals through information booths, pet-adoption flyers, media outreach and public events.
Cat Care
Volunteer to spend time petting and grooming cats that are waiting to be adopted. Daily attention and tender loving care helps to keep cats friendly and relieves the stress from living in a cage. Cat volunteers help the cats look and feel better, and a well socialized animal is much more like to be adopted than a timid one.
Fundraising & Office Help
Volunteer to help raise funds to support FOTAS' lifesaving programs and services. Volunteers help at fundraising events, participate in bake and craft sales, help coordinate holiday-themed pet photos, silent auctions and much more.
Some volunteer opportunities do not involve working hands-on with the animals. We sometimes need volunteers with clerical, reception, and secretarial skills to assist with office duties and special projects.
