All volunteer must be 18 years or older. Younger volunteers must be accompanied by a parent.
Please click the Volunteer link at the top menu of this website to review Paw Placement's volunteer roles. We always needs volunteers and welcome you to fill out the form associated with the role of your choosing. A volunteer will contact you within 48 hours.
Paw Placement has no central location outside of our PetSmart locations on our adoption days. The best way to quickly arrange to meet an animal is to fill out the online adoption form.
No. For every adoption Paw Placement does, we are able to return to kill-shelters to save lives. Holding an animal means that we cannot rescue animals on death row. Please make sure you are ready to adopt when you submit your Online Adoption Application. We request that all applicants apply with serious intent to adopt.
Paw Placement makes very little profit from our adoption fees. Vet treatment for our dogs cost us roughly $235 per dog (our adoption fee is $250) and vet treatment for our cats is approximately $80 (our adoption fees are $85 and $100). We are lucky that our vet partners give us discounts for medical care and we pass this discount to adopters. Full retail vet work would run between $350 to $450 for all that Paw Placement provides our animals.
Paw Placement appreciates it when owners responsibly attempt to find alternate safe placement for their pets when they cannot keep them. However, there are more people giving away their animals than there are adoptive homes available. If we do not have immediate space available or are low on resources, we ask that:
Paw Placement is always in need of foster homes and donations to sustain operations. If you are able to help us, either by fostering your stray until we can find alternate placement, or are able to help us cover the cost of some vetwork, we will be able to work with you to save lives.