Volunteers are always needed!
The Southside SPCA has approximately 50 committed volunteers who spend time on a regular basis working with the Southside SPCA in many different ways. Since the Southside SPCA opened, euthanasia rates in county pounds within the service area have fallen from nearly 100% in 1975 to roughly 58% currently - due almost exclusively to the work of the Southside SPCA. While this sounds like a large number of volunteers, our service area includes 12 Counties, some of which have few or no volunteers.
Plenty of ways to help
No special skills, or large blocks of time are necessary. Call Sandy Wyatt at the shelter if you would like to help. Or email the shelter and include Volunteer in the subject note.
- Volunteer to plan and implement fundraising activities.
- Plan a food drive for dog, puppy, and cat food.
- Volunteer on our Speaker Bureau! Help make presentations about the Southside SPCA in your county.
- Volunteer to serve on our Board of Directors or one of our committees.
- Help write or take photos for our newsletter.
- Take photos of new animals at the shelter.
- Foster dogs, puppies or kittens when we are overcrowded.
- Set-up at our adoption site at PetsMart on Saturday mornings.
- Transport animals to/from appointments.
- Transport animals to/from adoptions.
- Transport cats to/from Pet Club.
- Transport donated goods to the shelter / Tail Waggers Thrift Store.
- Socialize dogs/cats at the new shelter.
- Gardening/grass cutting/grounds keeping at the shelter.
- Volunteer with adoptions at PETsMART (dogs) or Pet Club (cats) in Richmond.
- Volunteer with adoptions at the shelter (coming soon!).
- Conduct home checks/screen potential adopters.
- Help develop Community Awareness initiatives / literature
- Help develop Spay/Neuter education initiatives / literature
- Other volunteer ideas - be creative!
DogWalkingSPCA.pdf (15kb)
CatSocializationGuidelines.pdf (21kb)
SPCAVolunteerApplication.pdf (24kb)
