Animal Care Team
Animal Care Volunteers play a crucial role in our facility by ensuring that our patients receive the highest standard of care. Their efforts encompass a wide range of responsibilities, including the daily husbandry care, administration of essential medical treatments, and meticulous upkeep of enclosures. They work to create a safe recovery environment for our wild patients.
Things to Know Before Volunteering
Our patients are wild animals, and we need it to stay that way! Patients are not pet, talked to, or played with by humans. Human interaction with patients is for medically significant purposes only.
Animal Care Volunteers must be at least 18 years of age or older.
As an Animal Care Volunteer, you may be exposed to blood, feces, urine, zoonotic disease, euthanasia, etc. You may also be at a higher risk of bites and scratches.
Animal Care Volunteers must commit to a scheduled, 2 hour shift each week. We ask that Animal Care Volunteers remain committed for a minimum of 3 months!
Shifts take place at our hospital in Fort Collins between 7am-5pm.
There is no previous animal care experience or minimum schooling required to apply as an Animal Care Volunteer!
We do not accept volunteers that have prior wildlife-related legal violations or convictions.
So, are you ready to join the Animal Care Team?
Our Animal Care Team is currently full. If you’d like to be placed on the waitlist, please fill out the form. We onboard new team members on an as-needed basis.
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