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.
The Animal Care Team is currently full. Check back later for future openings!
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.
To learn more about our Youth Team, click here.
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 for at least 3 months.
Shifts take place at our hospital in Fort Collins between 7am-10pm.
There is a $25 fee to register for Orientation. This fee helps covers the cost of volunteer management software and volunteer apparel.
This fee does not apply to join the waitlist.
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.
Still have questions about volunteering? Click here.