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How You Can Help
There are many ways to help!
- Volunteers: We always need an extra pair of hands working with the animals.
- Wish list donations: Caring for the injured, ill, and displaced animals that come through our door involves various supplies, many of which you probably use in your own home.
- Monetary donations: Although all services we provide are free of charge to those who bring animals in need of care, we greatly appreciate donations. Any donation made to the Wildlife Center is tax deductible.
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Friend to animals: This job can be done on your own time and in your own backyard! For tips on ways to help wildlife, visit our About Wildlife page.
Volunteers
Do you love animals? Would you like to know more about caring for our injured and displaced local wildlife? Are you calm, patient, willing to take direction, and age 18 or older? We need dependable, compassionate people to help feed, administer medications to, and create a temporary shelter for local wildlife such as owls, hawks, songbirds, raccoons, opossums, bats, foxes, beavers, skunks, and squirrels.
Our busy season is from April to October. During this time, we are busy caring for injured and displaced animals 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. To help us in this important work, we ask you to commit to a four-hour shift once a week (8 a.m. to noon, noon to 4 p.m., or 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.). No experience is necessary—we offer an orientation at the beginning of the year right before our busy season starts. Just bring your enthusiasm and dedication!
Orientation/training dates for the 2008 season are Sunday Feb. 24 and Saturday, March 1 from 10:00am - 12:00pm. (Attendance at only one session is needed.) For more information about volunteering or to sign up for an orientation session, please contact our Volunteer Coordinator at (609) 397-8435.
Our busy season is from April to October. During this time, we are busy caring for injured and displaced animals 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. To help us in this important work, we ask you to commit to a four-hour shift once a week (8 a.m. to noon, noon to 4 p.m., or 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.). No experience is necessary—we offer an orientation at the beginning of the year right before our busy season starts. Just bring your enthusiasm and dedication!
Orientation/training dates for the 2008 season are Sunday Feb. 24 and Saturday, March 1 from 10:00am - 12:00pm. (Attendance at only one session is needed.) For more information about volunteering or to sign up for an orientation session, please contact our Volunteer Coordinator at (609) 397-8435.
Are you handy with tools? Love working outside? Or just love to clean? We also need people who are interested in helping to clean and maintain our outdoor cages.
Call our Volunteer Coordinator at (609) 397-8435 to sign up today!
