HELPING WITH INTAKE
We are not accepting intake volunteers at the moment.
We are now accepting volunteers to work alongside us and help us with intake. Intake is when we get new cats in from county shelters and have to do exams, medications, and get them ready to head to their foster home. Sometimes this may just be 1 cat or as many as 20 cats at once.
This is something that includes but is not limited to: assisting with giving cats oral medications, such as pills and liquid meds, injectable medications, subq fluids, trimming nails, holding cats, and giving them baths. Helping with intake is unpredictable and can sometimes take just one hour or up to four hours. You will likely touch cat excrement, potentially get scratched, work with cats who may have fleas, work around disinfectants and other chemicals, and otherwise see cats who are not in their best health. If you are squeamish, this is not for you. These are not adoption ready cats and are just entering our program for the first time.
Intake is not glamorous. It is the back end side of what we do, the actual cat rescue side of things. This is not about petting cats so if you just want to pet cats, that’s great but it would be more helpful if you just paid for a visit to our lounge.