Opportunities: The UCHS offers a wide variety of opportunities to get involved. If you love animals, this is the place for you! Everything from socializing dogs and cats, cleaning, assisting with adoptions, walking dogs, bottle feeding orphaned animals, joining a Board committee, helping out at adoption events and more--all waiting for you at the UCHS! The Trick Is in The Training: All volunteers must complete a volunteer training session. (Don’t worry, they’re fun and exciting!) Sessions are held once a month. All sessions require pre-registration. You can view our calendar by clicking here to see when the next session is scheduled. Call the shelter to schedule your session today-- sessions fill very quickly! Top Dog Volunteers:UCHS Top Dogs are volunteers with a minimum of 25 hours of hands-on volunteer experience with our shelter dogs. Top Dogs participate in monthly training and update sessions which take place one Saturday a month. This program teaches volunteers to train shelter dogs and increase adoptable behaviors such as “sit,” “down,” and walking nicely on a leash. Top Dogs can also participate in off-site adoption events, Friday night “Walks in the Park” with shelter dogs, and even training our dogs to run agility! Ready to join the team? Contact Kym at (937) 642-6716. Fostering:Our shelter operates between 145-150% capacity daily. That means we don’t have enough physical space or resources to care for all the animals that need our help. Our foster process is simple--just complete an application and we’ll schedule a time to visit your home and talk with you about the kinds of animals you can help. Our foster parents are required to attend adoption events with the foster dog or cat in order to help him/her find a forever home. If you have room in your heart and in your home to temporarily house a shelter dog or cat, please contact us for more information. (937) 642-6716. |
