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Please note that we do not offer court ordered community service.
The staff at Union County Animal Services would like to thank you for your interest in volunteering with us. We are a busy shelter, which strives to provide the best possible services to our animals and customers. We use volunteers on a daily basis, year round. To volunteer at the Union County Animal Shelter, you must be at least 15 years old and complete a volunteer application. Background checks are also completed on all applicants.
Volunteer jobs include assisting in the adoption office, animal interactions, exercising and socializing animals, basic obedience training, bathing and grooming animals, cleaning and sanitizing kennels and cages, off site and assisting with rabies vaccination clinics.
Our shelter volunteers assist adoption staff by introducing animals to potential adopters. Volunteers will also speak to potential adopters about the adoption process and answer questions.
The dogs, cats, puppies and kittens spend most of their time here in assigned kennels. Volunteers are essential in giving the animals the attention they need and deserve. The volunteers exercise the animals by taking them on walks and out on the play yard in order to meet their physical and emotional needs.
Shelter animals are very eager to learn and please. Animals with basic obedience training (sit, down, shake, walk on a leash) are adopted at a faster rate. We encourage volunteers to work with adoption animals on basic manners.
Upon entrance to adoption, we want to make sure our animals are clean and healthy. Volunteers may be asked to help bathe and brush animals.
Multiple daily cleanings and sanitizing of the shelter's kennels are time consuming and are a necessity in preventing the spread of animal diseases. Oftentimes, volunteers assist Animal Shelter staff in cleaning and sanitizing the kennels. This is priority in taking care of our animals.
Every spring Union County Animal Services holds low-cost rabies clinics at various locations throughout the county. Volunteers are needed to assist staff with location set up, issuance of rabies certificates and tags.
If you are interested in volunteering or have any questions, please contact the Union County Animal Shelter at 704-283-3865 or ucadopt@unioncountync.gov.