Animal Rescue Centre Assistant
Animal Rescue Centre Assistant
The Helping Paws Charitable Trust
Estimated Time: 52 - 156 Hours Over 1 - 1 Years
Do you LOVE animals? Imagine spending your time volunteering in a rescue centre that is home to over 80 cats and kittens, and giving them a chance at life when they would otherwise have been put to sleep. Helping Paws needs volunteers to help out at our Rescue Centre in Mangawhai. We are looking for people who have time to help out either in the morning, or in the afternoon. The Morning Shift The morning shift requires you to be available for approximately two hours, either weekly, fortnightly, monthly or on an ad-hoc basis. You will be changing litter trays, food and water bowls and undertaking light cleaning of our cages and our open catio area. The Afternoon Shift The afternoon shift requires you to be available for at least one hour, also on a weekly, fortnightly, monthly or an ad-hoc basis. You will be scooping litter trays, topping up food and water bowls, and giving our non-cat areas a bit of a spruce up.
Working location
Mangawhai
The Helping Paws Charitable Trust
Animals
Northland
Mission
To give unwanted cats and kittens a better chance at life by rescuing them off the streets, desexing, vaccinating, microchipping, registering and insuring each of them before adopting them into amazing forever homes.
What we Do
Helping Paws operates the only Animal Rescue Centre in Mangawhai. We focus primarily on rescuing, rehabilitating, desexing and rehoming 600 cats and kittens annually. We rescue little ones from across Auckland and Northland, and run an extensive foster network across both regions.
Our Rescue Centre is home to approximately 80 adult cats at any one time. Adult cats take longer to find their forever families, so our commitment to these adults is they will remain with us until their new family eventually comes in to meet them and take them home. Our Rescue Centre also houses a maternity suite for mother cats with newborns, and isolation facilities for little ones with cat flu.
While cats and kittens are at the heart of our operation, Helping Paws is also home to a wide variety of rescued animals, including miniature horses, alpacas, sheep and goats who pop over to spend time with our cats.