Roanoke Valley SPCA
Cause Area
Location
1340 Baldwin Ave NE ROANOKE, VA 24012
United States
Active Opportunities (3)
2024-12-20
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2025-01-03
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ROANOKE, VA 24012
One of the awesome programs the Roanoke Valley SPCA runs during Christmas and New Year’s is Home for the Holidays. Our goal is to get every single animal out of our shelter and into a family home for the last 2 weeks of the year. This can be through adoption or through fostering! Home for the Holidays is a great opportunity to try fostering and see if it is something you enjoy. Maybe your holiday visitors will even fall in love with your foster and adopt them! If you will be in town this holiday season, please consider opening your home to a temporary holiday foster. The Roanoke Valley SPCA provides supplies to their fosters including food, dishes, bedding, toys, litter for cats, and collar/harness/leash for dogs. Fostering pets is a great way to earn volunteer hours for school, clubs, or college applications! Foster families receive 7 hours of volunteer credit per week they have a foster pet(s). Learn more about fostering on our website at https://rvspca.org/foster/our-foster-program/ Or contact our foster coordinator at foster@rvspca.org to get started!
Date Posted: 2024-11-18
Flexible Schedule
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ROANOKE, VA 24012
We currently have a wonderful problem here at the Roanoke Valley SPCA! Our list of community partners and event invites keep growing and growing... but we do not currently have the manpower to participate in as many events as we’d like. To solve this problem, we are looking for dedicated people to join our exciting new volunteer committee: the Community Action and Planning Team (CAP Team)! The goal of this team is to work together to represent the Roanoke Valley SPCA at community events and activities. Commitee members are required to attend one meeting and volunteer at one event per quarter (3 month period). This is a great opportunity to help out if your schedule doesn’t accommodate the typical "4 hours per month" required of our regular volunteers, if you’re allergic to pets, or if you want to help out but aren’t comfortable entering our kennels. The Community Action and Planning Team is also a great opportunity to gain experience working with kids, public speaking, environmental activism, and more. You can contact Erin Dams at edams@rvspca.org or 540-339-9503 to learn more about this PAWsome new volunteer team.
Date Posted: 2024-11-18
Flexible Schedule
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ROANOKE, VA 24012
While our Adoption Center is a wonderful place for a dog or cat to find a new home, if an animal temporarily has special needs, we prefer they live in a foster home until they are ready for adoption. Usually these are short term situations, and a foster home is only needed for 2-4 weeks. That animal is then brought back into the Adoption Center and made available for adoption after being spayed or neutered. Fostering pets is a great way to earn volunteer hours for school, clubs, or college applications! Foster families receive 7 hours of volunteer credit per week they have a foster pet(s). Animals that are typically fostered are: Kittens-Kittens, in a litter or alone, are fostered until they are eight weeks old and weigh two pounds. Most kittens are fostered for 2-6 weeks. These litters may or may not have the mama cat with them. Mama gets spayed afterwards. Puppies-Puppies, in a litter or alone, are fostered until they are 8 weeks old and can be altered. These litters may or may not have the mama dog with them. Mama gets spayed afterwards. Sick animals--Occasionally we have a animal who suffers from a minor common ailment, such as an upper respiratory infection, who needs to recover outside of the shelter. These are usually minor cases, but it is recommended these animals be kept from resident dogs and cats to avoid spreading the disease. Animals recovering from surgery-If an animal has had surgery, we generally allow the animal to recover in a foster home instead of the shelter, to ensure that animal's needs are fully met. Undersocialized animals-If our staff determines that an animal in our facility is undersocialized, we will place that animal with a foster family to gain more socialization skills. This might be a shy animal, a young animal that is "mouthy" and needs to learn proper bite inhibition, etc. Learn more about fostering on our website at https://rvspca.org/foster/our-foster-program/ Or contact our foster coordinator at foster@rvspca.org to get started!
Date Posted: 2024-11-18
Organization Information
Mission Statement
We’re working to create a community where there are no homeless cats or dogs through the power of adoption, prevention and intervention.
Description
The Roanoke Valley Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ("RVSPCA") limited intake, adoption and education center. We provide a safe and loving home for animals for as long as they need it. Only those animals suffering from conditions that are beyond help are ever euthanized.
The RVSPCA's is working to create a community where there are no homeless cats or dogs through the power of adoption, prevention and intervention.
ADOPTION
PREVENTION
INTERVENTION
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