I’d love to see even a 0.1% uptick in volunteers for all the folks here that love the bats/opossums/fox/squirrel/rabbit/capybara communities to volunteer or otherwise support their local rescue! There’s a bit of unpleasant stuff, but other than the equivalent of cleaning a litter box or bagging dog poo, most of the icky or gory stuff is handled by the actual rehabbers.
To volunteer, there aren’t any prequalifications other than we need to pass a background check since we have children on site for educational programs, so we mostly just feed baby animals all day and do basic housekeeping. I forget out end total, but we usually do 4000-5000 animals a year, so all the animal lovers here have the opportunity to spend hands on time with them and make some good friends. I wish I would have started sooner. It’s so nice, especially in tough times to spend time with caring, like-minded people and to do something you can see makes a positive change in your community.
I’d also like to check out the Food, Not Bombs near me in the future as well if I can get some health things of my own taken care of. That also sounds like fun and increasingly important as food and housing prices shoot up.
I’d love to see even a 0.1% uptick in volunteers for all the folks here that love the bats/opossums/fox/squirrel/rabbit/capybara communities to volunteer or otherwise support their local rescue! There’s a bit of unpleasant stuff, but other than the equivalent of cleaning a litter box or bagging dog poo, most of the icky or gory stuff is handled by the actual rehabbers.
To volunteer, there aren’t any prequalifications other than we need to pass a background check since we have children on site for educational programs, so we mostly just feed baby animals all day and do basic housekeeping. I forget out end total, but we usually do 4000-5000 animals a year, so all the animal lovers here have the opportunity to spend hands on time with them and make some good friends. I wish I would have started sooner. It’s so nice, especially in tough times to spend time with caring, like-minded people and to do something you can see makes a positive change in your community.
I’d also like to check out the Food, Not Bombs near me in the future as well if I can get some health things of my own taken care of. That also sounds like fun and increasingly important as food and housing prices shoot up.