We are always looking for a few good people!
It takes many community members working together to help reduce suffering. Catlink has many volunteer opportunities, ranging from hands-on care for cats at the shelter, to making cat blankets. We have tasks for all abilities and level of time commitments.
Please read through some of the ongoing and special event needs that enable our operation.
Volunteers are always needed for things as simple as keeping a clean, healthy environment to veterinary assistants. We do a large amount of trapping for spay/neuter throughout the Columbia River Gorge and can always use trappers and transporters. Pictures are taken for all the cats and need to be updated. Basic medical care needs to be provided by compassionate understanding volunteers. Want to help? Please email us!
Please read through some of the ongoing and special event needs that enable our operation.
Volunteers are always needed for things as simple as keeping a clean, healthy environment to veterinary assistants. We do a large amount of trapping for spay/neuter throughout the Columbia River Gorge and can always use trappers and transporters. Pictures are taken for all the cats and need to be updated. Basic medical care needs to be provided by compassionate understanding volunteers. Want to help? Please email us!
The possibilities are endless... some ideas
- Cat care: One morning a week, 3-4 hours
- Cat trapping and transporting
- Vet techs to help our volunteer veterinarians during the spay/neuter clinics, typically held weekday late afternoons
- Cleaning the surgery room, assembling and sterilizing spay packs, about 3 hours
- Facilities maintenance and improvement: outside yard clean-up and fence repair, inside painting, replacing trim
- Cleaning the garage which is used an entrance and supply storage, monthly
- Weekly cleaning of used carriers and cat dishes
- Help maintain the web site
- Distribute newsletters to veterinarian clinics and pet supply stores
- Educating people about humane treatment of feral and homeless cats and promoting spay/neuter of pets by making presentations and community council meetings, schools, churches and other civic groups
- Coordinating adoptions
- Writing cat descriptions and posting adoptable cats to Petfinder
