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Animal handling and Foster Care
- Provide temporary care in your home for a shelter animal in need
- Transport animals in your care or from the shelter to local adoption events
- Assist at local adoption events
- Walking and exercising animals
- Feeding and watering animals
- Grooming animals (bathing and brushing)
- Cleaning cages, dishes and bedding
- Assisting patrons visiting animals
- Assisting staff with medical care of animals
- Training animals
- Providing foster care for special needs
- Assisting in the spay and neuter clinic
- Serving as photographer's assistant
- Transporting animals to adoption fairs
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Office & general assistance
- Answering phones
- Filing contracts and animal records
- Taking lost and found reports
- Following up on adoptions
- Updating Petfinder pet information
- Delivering posters and flyers to local businesses to display adoptable pets
Adoptions (class required)
- Adoption visits (supervising interaction with available animals)
- Adoption Counseling (helping families choose pets)
- Intake desk (accepting animals into the shelter and collecting pet bio details)
Humane education
- Speaking engagements
- Writing pet bios for animal cages
- Attending fairs and festivals
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