As an all-volunteer organization, Alley Cat Angels is always looking for fresh faces and fresh ideas!

While volunteering with Alley Cat Angels can include an assortment of tasks both big and small, our activities can essentially be broken down into three different categories:

In addition to our very important and very appreciated volunteer veterinarians who perform the actual spay and castration surgeries on the cats, our Monday surgery nights and Saturday Spay-a-thons require the time and dedication of many other volunteers with various skills and backgrounds.

Managing “The List”: A volunteer or two is always needed to handle the voicemail messages left at 877-MEOW-NOW, respond to our callers, and maintain a list with pertinent information for those caregivers in need of spay/neuter assistance.

Trapping: First-time trappers or those unable to trap the cats themselves welcome the help and advice of our veterans.  Don’t know how to trap?  Don’t worry, we’ll show you how!

Transporting: While in an ideal world everyone would be able to bring their feral cats directly to the clinic, we realize that circumstances don’t always allow this.  Volunteers are thus often needed to get the cats from Point A to Point B (and usually back again).  A recent grant has even enabled us to buy a hitch-trailer, capable of transporting up to 25 cats in traps at a time.

Helping at the clinic: Volunteers helping at the clinic are also asked to assist with set up and clean up.  The more people we have, the less time it will all take.

As a non-profit organization funded only through the donations of generous individuals and businesses, the importance of fundraising cannot be stressed enough.  Volunteers are always needed to help with various fundraising activities and projects which include, but are certainly not limited to:

• Helping put together and mail our quarterly newsletter
• Representing ACA at PETCO events (Battle Creek location, dates TBA)
• Donating items to our next garage sale (date TBA)
• Helping set up and run our next garage sale (date TBA)
• Selling candy bars
• Donating items to sell through our E-bay Store
• Managing our E-bay GivingWorks account
• Selling ACA calendars (2009 calendars ETA 11/2008)
• Finding new businesses/locations for donation canisters
• Manning a booth at the Calhoun County Fair in Marshall (August 2-9, 2008)

And, of course, we’re always looking for new ideas - after all, the more money we can raise, the more cats we can spay and neuter!

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As we work tirelessly to Trap-Neuter-Return feral cat colonies in Calhoun County, we inevitably come across an assortment of young litters of kittens or friendly adult cats who—unlike their feral counterparts—would happily thrive as companion cats in a human home.  Because Alley Cat Angels does not have a shelter, these cats are taken in and fostered by compassionate and dedicated volunteer foster parents.  To learn more about becoming a foster parent with Alley Cat Angels, please contact us at 1-877-MEOW-NOW or E-mail us. 

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