Volunteering

Volunteer opportunities include but are not limited to: scheduling vet appointments, transporting animals to vet appointments and to foster homes, cleaning the shelter and providing basic animal care, dog walking, screening potential new adopters by making vet reference checks for us, delivery and/or pick up of donated or needed supplies.

If you are interested in volunteering for Second Chance for Pets, please fill out this short application and a Second Chance member will get back to you.

Fostering

Do you have a fenced-in yard? Do you have spare time and love animals? Do you want to play an important part in placing a pet in its forever home? If so, please fill out this short application and we will get back to you to discuss our foster care program and its requirements

Foster home testimonials:

"Fostering dogs for Second Chance for Pets is a wonderful, rewarding experience. Very few things in life make me as happy as placing dogs in their forever homes, knowing that they will be well cared for and loved. Sharing much of my free time caring for and training foster dogs has taught me so much about the joys and sacrifices of animal rescue. I wouldn't trade my experiences for anything, and I will be fostering with Second Chance for Pets for a long, long time!" Leeann Stallman - Volunteer, Webmaster, and Foster Mom

"Opening my home and heart to a pet in need has been a wonderful experience. You cannot replace the joy and fulfillment you get when you have saved a pet from euthanasia and then seeing them happy, healthy in their new loving forever homes. Knowing that I had a major part in the pets' happiness and helping to complete families is a great way to spend the little bit of extra time I do have. Saving just one really does make a difference. I highly recommend the experience and know that it can change your life." Heather - Volunteer and Foster Mom

"My name is Cathy, and I foster animals for Second Chance for Pets. Prior to being involved with the group, I took in strays and had them vetted and placed them in loving homes. I always checked up on the animals I placed. Taking animals into my home has taught my children and now my grandchildren many things, They have learned to be responsible because animals require care. They learned respect because nobody wants someone pulling on their tails or ears. I think the most important thing that we have all learned is that an animal gives you unconditional love. There is nothing more fulfilling than getting that phone call or letter with pictures of the animals you have loved and cared for and now passed on to their permanent home. I will probably go to my grave being known as the crazy animal lady, and that's okay because I love saving them." Cathy - Volunteer and Foster Mom