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BC SPCA - 100 Mile House
Volunteer Opportunities
100 Mile House and Area Animal Fostering - Foster Care Volunteer
We are currently looking for foster application from people who reside in the area of 100 Mile House, who can support BC SPCA locations such as Williams Lake, Quesnel, and Kamloops (or beyond) with fostering animals in need. If you are able to visit these locations and support the adoption process please apply today.
Foster Care volunteers are guardian angels to thousands of BC SPCA animals in need. Whether an animal is injured, abandoned, or underage, foster care saves lives. Many animals needing remediation or a space to stay if the shelter is full benefit from a foster home.
BC SPCA - Alberni-Clayoquot
Volunteer Opportunities
Animal Centre - Garden Care
Join our team of like-minded individuals as a Garden Care volunteer with the BC SPCA! Work in partnership with staff and volunteers to provide regular landscaping and care of the lawns, gardens and walkways of the animal care centre in your community. Your support will ensure the health and safety for all animals and people at the facility.
Animal Centre - Maintenance
Join our team of like-minded individuals as a Maintenance volunteer with the BC SPCA! Work in partnership with staff and volunteers to provide regular maintenance and cleaning of the animal care centre in your community. Your support will ensure the health and safety for all pets and people at the facility.
Animal Fostering - Foster Care Volunteer
Foster Care volunteers are guardian angels to thousands of BC SPCA animals in need. Whether an animal is injured, abandoned, or underage, foster care saves lives. Many animals needing remediation or a space to stay if the shelter is full benefit from a foster home.
Community Initiatives - Community Cat Support - Field Work
If you would like an active opportunity to directly be involved with addressing cat overpopulation in your community, this position is for you. Trap-neuter-return (TNR) has proven to be the only long-term solution to humanely control feral cat populations. Your support will ensure cats in your community are healthier and not creating greater population concern.
BC SPCA - Campbell River
Volunteer Opportunities
Animal Centre - Maintenance
Join our team of like-minded individuals as a Maintenance volunteer with the BC SPCA! Work in partnership with staff and volunteers to provide regular maintenance and cleaning of the animal care centre in your community. Your support will ensure the health and safety for all pets and people at the facility.
Animal Centre - Garden Care
Join our team of like-minded individuals as a Garden Care volunteer with the BC SPCA! Work in partnership with staff and volunteers to provide regular landscaping and care of the lawns, gardens and walkways of the animal care centre in your community. Your support will ensure the health and safety for all animals and people at the facility.
BC SPCA - Comox Valley & District
The Comox Valley and District Branch BCSPCA is currently accepting volunteer applications only for the activities shown below. Thank you for your interest, and please check back later.
Current Volunteer Opportunities
Animal Fostering - Foster Care Volunteer
Foster Care volunteers are guardian angels to thousands of BC SPCA animals in need. Whether an animal is injured, abandoned, or underage, foster care saves lives. Many animals needing remediation or a space to stay if the shelter is full benefit from a foster home.
Animal Centre - Garden Care
Join our team of like-minded individuals as a Garden Care volunteer with the BC SPCA! Work in partnership with staff and volunteers to provide regular landscaping and care of the lawns, gardens and walkways of the animal care centre in your community. Your support will ensure the health and safety for all animals and people at the facility.
BC SPCA - East Kootenay
The BC SPCA is a non-profit organization funded primarily by public donations. Our mission is to prevent cruelty and to promote the welfare of animals through a wide range of services, including cruelty investigations, emergency rescue and treatment, sheltering and adoption of homeless and abused animals, humane education, advocacy, farm animal welfare, spay/neuter programs, and wildlife rescue and rehabilitation.
Volunteer Opportunities
Community Initiatives - Community Cat Support - Field Work
If you would like an active opportunity to directly be involved with addressing cat overpopulation in your community, this position is for you. Trap-neuter-return (TNR) has proven to be the only long-term solution to humanely control feral cat populations. Your support will ensure cats in your community are healthier and not creating greater population concern.
BC SPCA - Haida Gwaii
Volunteer Opportunities
Animal Centre - Community Services Volunteer
Join our team of like-minded individuals as a Community Services volunteer with the BC SPCA! Work directly with staff & volunteers to provide a variety of great experiences for members of the public who are interested in learning about and supporting the BC SPCA.
Animal Fostering - Foster Care Volunteer
Foster Care volunteers are guardian angels to thousands of BC SPCA animals in need. Whether an animal is injured, abandoned, or underage, foster care saves lives. Many animals needing remediation or a space to stay if the shelter is full benefit from a foster home.
BC SPCA - Kamloops
General Interests
Foster Care Volunteer - Cat/Kitten
At this time, we are seeking fosters who can care for adult cats and/or kittens. This kind of fostering requires a room specifically set aside for the animal with access to natural light and hard flooring.
Whether an animal is injured, abandoned, or underage, foster care saves lives. Many animals needing remediation or a space to stay if the shelter is full benefit from a foster home.
Foster Care volunteers are guardian angels to thousands of BC SPCA animals in need. Whether an animal is injured, abandoned, or underage, foster care saves lives. Many animals needing remediation or a space to stay if the shelter is full benefit from a foster home.
BC SPCA - Nelson
Volunteer Opportunities
Animal Centre - Maintenance Volunteer
Join our team of like-minded individuals as a Maintenance volunteer with the BC SPCA! Work in partnership with staff and volunteers to provide regular maintenance and cleaning of the animal care centre in your community. Your support will ensure the health and safety for all pets and people at the facility.
BC SPCA - North Cariboo (Prince George)
Volunteer Opportunities
Animal Fostering - Foster Care Volunteer
Foster Care volunteers are guardian angels to thousands of BC SPCA animals in need. Whether an animal is injured, abandoned, or underage, foster care saves lives. Many animals needing remediation or a space to stay if the shelter is full benefit from a foster home.
Animal Centre - Garden Care
Join our team of like-minded individuals as a Garden Care volunteer with the BC SPCA! Work in partnership with staff and volunteers to provide regular landscaping and care of the lawns, gardens and walkways of the animal care centre in your community. Your support will ensure the health and safety for all animals and people at the facility.
Animal Centre - Maintenance Volunteer
Join our team of like-minded individuals as a Maintenance volunteer with the BC SPCA! Work in partnership with staff and volunteers to provide regular maintenance and cleaning of the animal care centre in your community. Your support will ensure the health and safety for all pets and people at the facility.
BC SPCA - North Peace
Volunteer Opportunities
Animal Fostering - Foster Care Volunteer
Foster Care volunteers are guardian angels to thousands of BC SPCA animals in need. Whether an animal is injured, abandoned, or underage, foster care saves lives. Many animals needing remediation or a space to stay if the shelter is full benefit from a foster home.
Community Initiatives - Community Cat Support - Field Work
If you would like an active opportunity to directly be involved with addressing cat overpopulation in your community, this position is for you. Trap-neuter-return (TNR) has proven to be the only long-term solution to humanely control feral cat populations. Your support will ensure cats in your community are healthier and not creating greater population concern.
BC SPCA - Powell River
Volunteer Opportunities
Animal Fostering - Foster Care Volunteer
Foster Care volunteers are guardian angels to thousands of BC SPCA animals in need. Whether an animal is injured, abandoned, or underage, foster care saves lives. Many animals needing remediation or a space to stay if the shelter is full benefit from a foster home.
Animal Centre - Maintenance
Join our team of like-minded individuals as a Maintenance volunteer with the BC SPCA! Work in partnership with staff and volunteers to provide regular maintenance and cleaning of the animal care centre in your community. Your support will ensure the health and safety for all pets and people at the facility.
BC SPCA - Prince Rupert
Volunteer Opportunities
Animal Fostering - Foster Care Volunteer
Foster Care volunteers are guardian angels to thousands of BC SPCA animals in need. Whether an animal is injured, abandoned, or underage, foster care saves lives. Many animals needing remediation or a space to stay if the shelter is full benefit from a foster home.
BC SPCA - Provincial Opportunities
General Interests
BC SPCA - Quesnel
Volunteer Opportunities
Animal Fostering - Foster Care Volunteer
Foster Care volunteers are guardian angels to thousands of BC SPCA animals in need. Whether an animal is injured, abandoned, or underage, foster care saves lives. Many animals needing remediation or a space to stay if the shelter is full benefit from a foster home.
BC SPCA - Salt Spring Island
Volunteer Opportunities
Animal Fostering - Foster Care Volunteer
Foster Care volunteers are guardian angels to thousands of BC SPCA animals in need. Whether an animal is injured, abandoned, or underage, foster care saves lives. Many animals needing remediation or a space to stay if the shelter is full benefit from a foster home.
Community Initiatives - Community Cat Support - Field Work
If you would like an active opportunity to directly be involved with addressing cat overpopulation in your community, this position is for you. Trap-neuter-return (TNR) has proven to be the only long-term solution to humanely control feral cat populations. Your support will ensure cats in your community are healthier and not creating greater population concern.
BC SPCA - Sea to Sky
We need special foster homes for animals with special care needs!
The Sea to Sky BC SPCA shelter is seeking special foster homes for the animals that come into our care.
The special care needs we frequently encounter include:
- Animals that are undergoing diagnostics or treatment for possibly contagious diseases (such as ringworm or parvovirus).
- These animals require the wearing of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) (gowns, gloves, masks, and shoe coverings) while caring for them.
- *We provide all the PPE equipment, supplies, training, and cleaning materials for this care.
- This sort of fostering may take two weeks or longer before PPE requirements are lifted.
- Animals with behavioral issues;
- This could present as fear, anxiety, stress, or frustration behaviors. Reactive, under-socialized dogs or cats are examples.
- These animals are given specific, positive reinforcement, evidence-based behavior modification (BMOD) plans by our team of experts which must be followed to ensure the animal’s success.
- Medical-needs animals;
- Those animals who may have recently undergone surgery, are receiving medication to manage non-contagious health issues, and/or may need other medical support.
- This could include cleaning, changing dressings, working with incontinent animals, taking the animal to and from veterinary appointments, or checkups at the shelter.
- Pregnant animals, nursing animals with litters, or orphaned infant animals;
- This could include monitoring temperatures, bottle-feeding every 2 hours, administering medication, weighing the animals, and regular trips to veterinary appointments or checkups at the shelter.
- Pregnant and nursing animals may require fostering until the infants are 8 weeks old.
- We would like to find foster homes with experience and/or training with these sorts of animals and circumstances.
- We will provide additional training for volunteers who wish to support this endeavor.
What will you need? In all of the above circumstances, you will need to have a completely separate, secure space in your home. This space must include natural light, a cleanable nonporous floor, and other surfaces.
- A secure space is a separate room with a closable door.
- A baby/pet gate, partition, or exercise pen does not meet the requirements.
- These foster animals must always be kept separate from any other pets in your home.
- We ask foster applicants to commit to a minimum of 6 months in the program. This does not mean you will have the same animal for 6 months, nor have foster animals continuously for 6 months.
We ask that our existing foster volunteers consider pursuing training and opening their homes to the care of these sorts of special needs animals in 2022.
The Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley BC SPCA shelters’ foster recruitment focus in 2022 will be almost exclusively aimed at finding and training these sorts of foster volunteers.
Volunteer Opportunities
Animal Fostering - Foster Care Volunteer
Foster Care volunteers are guardian angels to thousands of BC SPCA animals in need. Whether an animal is injured, abandoned, or underage, foster care saves lives. Many animals needing remediation or a space to stay if the shelter is full benefit from a foster home.
BC SPCA - South Okanagan/Similkameen
Volunteer Opportunities
Animal Centre - Maintenance & Yardwork Volunteer
Join our team of like-minded individuals as a Maintenance volunteer with the BC SPCA! Work in partnership with staff and volunteers to provide regular maintenance and cleaning of the animal care centre in your community. Your support will ensure the health and safety for all pets and people at the facility.
BC SPCA - South Peace
Volunteer Opportunities
Animal Fostering - Foster Care Volunteer
Foster Care volunteers are guardian angels to thousands of BC SPCA animals in need. Whether an animal is injured, abandoned, or underage, foster care saves lives. Many animals needing remediation or a space to stay if the shelter is full benefit from a foster home.
Driving - Animal Transport Volunteer
Join our team of like-minded individuals as a Animal Transport volunteer with the BC SPCA! Animal Transport Volunteers play a critical role in transporting both animals and supplies. Combine your passions and do both by applying to become a volunteer driver! !
Click here to review the role description for this position!
Animal Centre - Garden Care Volunteer
Join our team of like-minded individuals as a Garden Care volunteer with the BC SPCA! Work in partnership with staff and volunteers to provide regular landscaping and care of the lawns, gardens and walkways of the animal care centre in your community. Your support will ensure the health and safety for all animals and people at the facility.
BC SPCA - Sunshine Coast
Volunteer Opportunities
Animal Centre - Garden Care
Join our team of like-minded individuals as a Garden Care volunteer with the BC SPCA! Work in partnership with staff and volunteers to provide regular landscaping and care of the lawns, gardens and walkways of the animal care centre in your community. Your support will ensure the health and safety for all animals and people at the facility.
Animal Fostering - Foster Care Volunteer
Foster Care volunteers are guardian angels to thousands of BC SPCA animals in need. Whether an animal is injured, abandoned, or underage, foster care saves lives. Many animals needing remediation or a space to stay if the shelter is full benefit from a foster home.
BC SPCA - Surrey
We need special foster homes for animals with special care needs!
The Surrey BC SPCA shelter is seeking special foster homes for the animals that come into our care.
The special care needs we frequently encounter include:
- Animals that are undergoing diagnostics or treatment for possibly contagious diseases (such as ringworm or parvovirus).
- These animals require the wearing of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) (gowns, gloves, masks, and shoe coverings) while caring for them.
- *We provide all the PPE equipment, supplies, training, and cleaning materials for this care.
- This sort of fostering may take two weeks or longer before PPE requirements are lifted.
- Animals with behavioral issues;
- This could present as fear, anxiety, stress, or frustration behaviors. Reactive, under-socialized dogs or cats are examples.
- These animals are given specific, positive reinforcement, evidence-based behavior modification (BMOD) plans by our team of experts which must be followed to ensure the animal’s success.
- Medical-needs animals;
- Those animals who may have recently undergone surgery, are receiving medication to manage non-contagious health issues, and/or may need other medical support.
- This could include cleaning, changing dressings, working with incontinent animals, taking the animal to and from veterinary appointments, or checkups at the shelter.
- Pregnant animals, nursing animals with litters, or orphaned infant animals;
- This could include monitoring temperatures, bottle-feeding every 2 hours, administering medication, weighing the animals, and regular trips to veterinary appointments or checkups at the shelter.
- Pregnant and nursing animals may require fostering until the infants are 8 weeks old.
- We would like to find foster homes with experience and/or training with these sorts of animals and circumstances.
- We will provide additional training for volunteers who wish to support this endeavor.
What will you need? In all of the above circumstances, you will need to have a completely separate, secure space in your home. This space must include natural light, a cleanable nonporous floor, and other surfaces.
- A secure space is a separate room with a closable door.
- A baby/pet gate, partition, or exercise pen does not meet the requirements.
- These foster animals must always be kept separate from any other pets in your home.
- We ask foster applicants to commit to a minimum of 6 months in the program. This does not mean you will have the same animal for 6 months, nor have foster animals continuously for 6 months.
We ask that our existing foster volunteers consider pursuing training and opening their homes to the care of these sorts of special needs animals in 2022.
The Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley BC SPCA shelters’ foster recruitment focus in 2022 will be almost exclusively aimed at finding and training these sorts of foster volunteers.
Volunteer Opportunities
Animal Fostering - Foster Care Volunteer
Foster Care volunteers are guardian angels to thousands of BC SPCA animals in need. Whether an animal is injured, abandoned, or underage, foster care saves lives. Many animals needing remediation or a space to stay if the shelter is full benefit from a foster home.
BC SPCA - Vernon
Volunteer Opportunities
Animal Centre - Maintenance
Join our team of like-minded individuals as a Maintenance volunteer with the BC SPCA! Work in partnership with staff and volunteers to provide regular maintenance and cleaning of the animal care centre in your community. Your support will ensure the health and safety for all pets and people at the facility.
Animal Fostering - Foster Care
Foster Care volunteers are guardian angels to thousands of BC SPCA animals in need. Whether an animal is injured, abandoned, or underage, foster care saves lives. Many animals needing remediation or a space to stay if the shelter is full benefit from a foster home.
BC SPCA - West Kootenay Community Animal Centre
General Interests
Animal Fostering - Foster Care Volunteer
Foster Care volunteers are guardian angels to thousands of BC SPCA animals in need. Whether an animal is injured, abandoned, or underage, foster care saves lives. Many animals needing remediation or a space to stay if the shelter is full benefit from a foster home.
BC SPCA - Williams Lake
Volunteer Opportunities
Animal Fostering - Foster Care Volunteer
Foster Care volunteers are guardian angels to thousands of BC SPCA animals in need. Whether an animal is injured, abandoned, or underage, foster care saves lives. Many animals needing remediation or a space to stay if the shelter is full benefit from a foster home.
