Austin Pets Alive! would love to have you as a volunteer! We have many different types of volunteer opportunities. If you haven't already, be sure to check out www.austinpetsalive.org/volunteer.
On-site TLAC volunteers are most needed daily from 8am-11am and 5pm-9pm.
Animal Transport is one of the most rewarding ways to volunteer! We typically utilize volunteers to pick-up urgent medical cases from Austin Animal Center and bring them to our clinic. In these cases time is of the essence and typically occur between the hours 11am-3pm.
These opportunities pop-up, typically unexpectedly. Join our APA! Transport Request Facebook group to see needs as they arise and volunteer for them!
ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:
Adoption Follow Up- A remote position that assists adoptive parents with their questions after adopting from APA!
Adoptline- A remote position that helps answer inquiries from the public regarding an animal they are interested in adopting.
Cat Foster Team- Volunteer remotely and help process foster applications, assist our foster parents, send out foster pleas, and much more!
Dog Foster Team- Volunteer remotely and help process foster applications, assist our foster parents, send out foster pleas, and much more!
Cat Care- TLAC Cattery houses up to 60 cats awaiting their forever homes! Several volunteers are needed each day to keep the cattery clean, keep the residents happy, and to facilitate adoptions.
Help our PASS program! (Positive Alternative to Shelter Essentials) This program provides resources and services to Texas residents who are experiencing challenges to keeping their pet(s) with an overall goal of keeping pets out of the sheltering system and providing a safe, judgment-free zone for anyone in need. Our team can provide emergency pet food, pet resource assistance, and referrals to outside social service and animal welfare agencies.
Want to really move the needle in helping our dogs and cats find their forever home? The APA! Marketing team may be right for you!
Marketing is crucial in helping the wonderful dogs and cats of Austin Pets Alive! shine and stand out to potential adopters. Most positions allow you to choose your own schedule and how much you'd like to volunteer, too. Our primary goal is to present every adoptable animal individually on the APA! website, so each one is irresistible to their perfect adopter. Our website is our number one tool in finding our shelter/foster pets their forever homes. Together we can make this happen!
Dog Enrichment- Join our Dog Enrichment Team to help us provide daily in-kennel enrichment to our dogs at TLAC! Enrichment helps stimulate the mind and can reduce stress and boredom of the shelter environment. Our enrichment volunteer team help clean, stuff, or distribute frozen treats daily!
Dog Walking- Ensure APA! dogs get the walks, exercise and TLC they need (and deserve) every day. Walkers are most needed before 11am and after 5pm to meet our dogs basic needs, but trained walkers are welcome all day long. *Additional training is required. Must be at least 16 years of age.
Do enjoy helping and interacting with people? Do you like advocating for a cause? Promote APA!’s mission, raise donations, and recruit volunteers, fosters, adopters, and donors at special events around town. Work at info tables and booths, and hang out with adoptable animals while representing Austin Pets Alive!.
Assist with things like monthly campus clean up, large repair projects, general maintenance, and yard work and gardening.
Help APA!'s marketing department to the masses with projects and ongoing assistance.
Our clinic sees hundreds of our foster pets and on-site animals each week. Volunteer opportunities range from helping with surgery check in and check out to surgery recovery. It is not open to the public.
Human Animal Support Services (HASS) is a national coalition of animal services leaders and more than 30 pilot organizations transforming the traditional sheltering system to serve the entire community in supporting the human animal bond. From Los Angeles to Washington DC, and El Paso to Atlanta, these large US cities are serving as models, embracing key strategies for making positive, immediate change. The work of the coalition team focuses on keeping animals in their homes and communities, building foster-centric animal services agencies, and empowering animal lovers to find solutions for common human-animal challenges.
ACTIVITES INCLUDE:
Neonatal Foster Team- Volunteer remotely and help process foster applications, support our foster parents, send out foster pleas, and much more!
Neonatal Kitten Nursery- Feed and care for neonatal kittens in the on-site neonatal ICU. Ensure sanitation of ward, all equipment, and supplies. Shifts available around the clock; volunteers must be able to commit to regular 3 hour shifts during kitten season.
Help save dogs and puppies infected with the parvo virus. Parvo is a contagious disease that can be cured with treatment. Help care for puppies that have parvovirus in our isolated intensive care unit. You don't need any previous medical experience, but if you have human or animal medical experience that's great too!
You don't need any previous medical experience, but if you have human or animal medical experience that's great too! You do need to be 18 years old or older.
Essential Shelter Help activities consist of activities like dog feeding, laundry, bowl washing for dogs and cats, crate cleaning, and more. These tasks are vital to the smooth operation of APA!
CURRENTLY NOT ACCEPTING VOLUNTEERS
Tarrytown Dog Program- Provide support to our Tarrytown dog adoption location. This can include monitoring play yard and walks, providing socialization, greeting the public and directing to adoption staff and keep a high standard of cleanliness.
APA! Thrift stores are boutique-style, selling high quality new and gently used items for very low prices. All net proceeds directly support the innovative life-saving programs of Austin Pets Alive!. We utilize volunteers in every aspect of store operations, this helps to keep our overhead low and means that more money goes to the animals.
Volunteers help with sorting clothes and other donations, pricing items, and organizing the store. We would love to have you as part of one of our Thrift store teams.
Our 5 Thrift Store locations:
APA! Thrift- Oltorf, 1409 W. Oltorf St, Austin, TX 78704
APA! Thrift- Burnet, 5801 Burnet Rd, Austin, TX 78756
APA! Thrift- 51st, 5102 Clarkson Ave, Austin, TX 78751
APA! Thrift- Pflugerville, 15803 Windermere Dr, Suite 603, Pflugerville, TX 78660
APA! Thrift- Round Rock, 913 N IH-35, Round Rock, TX 78664
Support the Volunteer Staff with some at-home tasks such as: responding to emails, data entry and regular correspondence. We also need help planning our annual celebration for our Fosters and Volunteers starting in the first part of the year.
We envision an organization where volunteers and staff (people) are integrated at all levels of the organization based on organizational needs, individual commitment level and aptitude to further the mission of ending the killing of pets.
In order to do this successfully and with structure, APA! commits to provide documented role descriptions and expectations as well as provide support and oversight for all people so together we can build for sustainability.
APA! is committed to nurturing and protecting a culture where all people embody the organization’s Core Values:
Innovation, Inclusivity, Drive, Resourcefulness and Respect
