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Volunteering
Would You Like to Be
a Save-A-Dog Scheme Volunteer?
As an organisation that relies on volunteers
for its very existence, your input as a
potential volunteer is much needed. Volunteers
assist with many tasks including:
• Cleaning the kennels and cattery
• Feeding
• Grooming
• Helping in the office
• Helping with laundry and dishes
• Handy-person jobs
Some volunteers may progress to walking
dogs and hands-on care of the animals.
Some volunteers come for a three-hour session
in the morning or afternoon. We endeavour
to have a roster for volunteers to make
sure we don’t have too many one day
and not enough the next.
If you are over 18 years old (see age requirement
explanation below) and would like to learn
more, please phone the shelter on (03)
9824 7928. Volunteers need a current
tetanus vaccination before starting with
Save-A-Dog-Scheme.
Age Requirement for Volunteering
Unfortunately, due to reasons beyond our
control, Save-A-Dog Scheme is unable to
accept voluntary work at the pound and shelter
premises from people under 18 years of age.
By definition this means we are unable
to take people under 18 years who may be
undertaking community service, work experience,
Duke of Edinburgh Award or similar projects.
Save-A-Dog Scheme does however wish to
encourage, as much as possible, the interest
and support of this age group; to this end,
projects which do not involve direct participation
at the shelter are appreciated but do need
to be discussed, and permission must be
sought for any project involving the use
of our name.
If you would like to discuss how people
under 18 (or indeed any age) can help our
work, please phone us on (03) 9885 1188,
leave a message with your phone number said
clearly and repeated and briefly state your
reason for phoning and we will return your
call.
The New "Gippsland
Network Group" — Can you Spare
Some Time, Any Time?
Save-A-Dog Scheme is an incorporated, non-profit,
community-based organisation controlled
and operated by volunteers with the help
of paid staff. It operates as a registered
animal shelter in Glen Iris, Melbourne and
combines this with foster care in the community.
Save-A-Dog scheme has a no-kill philosophy
and is a “coal-face” organisation
that saves hundreds of dogs each year and
seeks, by example, to provide a better way
of treating animals.
Save-A-Dog Scheme works closely with the
Latrobe community and local council to re-home
stray and unwanted dogs from the Gippsland
area. Given the partnership between Save-A-Dog
scheme and the Gippsland region, we are
looking for volunteers to join a local network
group based in the Latrobe Valley. The purpose
of the network group is to support the work
of Save-A-Dog Scheme in the Latrobe Valley.
We’re looking for volunteers who can
assist in some or all of the following areas:
• Providing short-term foster homes
for dogs. You will need to be able to provide
a safe and loving environment for a foster
dog for a temporary period of time.
• Providing transport for dogs from
the pound to possibly the local vet, foster
homes and on occasion to Melbourne.
• Working with the Save-A-Dog Scheme
network group to assist in developing and
implementing processes that help to re-home
as many dogs as possible
• Assisting in raising community awareness
in the Gippsland region about Save-A-Dog
Scheme’s mission and about responsible
dog ownership
• Assisting in establishing and developing
networks of communication for people involved
in foster care and re-homing of dogs.
We’re looking for people who are
passionate about the welfare of dogs and
who want to assist in providing them with
a second chance to be part of a loving home.
If you can spare a few hours each week
or perhaps just once a month and you share
a passion for helping to rescue and re-home
dogs, we’d love to hear from you!
For more information or to let us know you're
interested, please phone or email Pam or
Margie at Save-A-Dog Scheme on (03) 9824
7928 or
admin@saveadog.org.au.
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