Volunteer Opportunities

Trap/Neuter/Return Assistance

Currently, we need volunteers to assist our trained TNR coordinators in the Rhinebeck and Beacon areas. You can help in many ways:

• Assist with the actual trapping (training will be provided)

• Assist with caring for cat the day before their spay/neuter appointment or during the recuperation period immediately following. (training provided)

• Assist the general public who wish to borrow traps

• Assist transporting cats to and from their spay/neuter appointments

• Provide cats a warm, safe place to recuperate from spay/neuter surgery – approximately 2-3 days.

Interested? Please complete our online volunteer form and someone will be in touch to answer your questions.

Fundraising Assistance

P.A.N.T. needs the financial resources necessary to help stray and feral cats. You can help by:

• Assisting with collecting can donations. At this time we are working in Beacon and Rhinebeck.

• Recruiting new businesses who will promote our cause via donation cans or other venues

• Assisting at our fundraising events

• Writing grants if you have grant writing experience.

• Organizing a small yard or bake sale.

• Organizing a fundraising event at your school.

• Helping with membership campaigns, mailings, etc.

Interested? Please complete our online volunteer form and someone will be in touch to answer your questions.

Events

These are fun to work. We have at least one yearly large fundraising event held in Rhinebeck in the spring sponsored by our friends at Pre-furred Petsitters

We also have monthly adoption outreach events held at Petco on the first Saturday of the month from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Interested? Please complete our online volunteer form and someone will be in touch to answer your questions.

Administrative Activities

P.A.N.T. administrative volunteers perform all work in their own homes. (We would rather spend our funds on the cats than paying rent for office space). P.A.N.T. needs help in the following areas:

• Grant writing

• Volunteer Coordination – help solicit new volunteers, contact existing volunteers, provide new volunteers with information about P.A.N.T. Assist with annual volunteer event.

• Assistance with placing our adoptable cats on the web site – basic computer knowledge necessary.

• Helping with our annual newsletter (Microsoft Publisher) or our brochures and educational material.

• Marketing, writing newspaper articles, public speaking to educate the public on the plight of stray and feral cats, etc.

• Taking professional-looking pictures of our adoptable cats and events.

• Conducting home inspections for new foster parent applicants.

Interested? Please complete our online volunteer form and someone will be in touch to answer your questions.

Become a Foster Parent

There is nothing more rewarding than helping an animal in need! PANT relies on their foster homes to provide love and care for animals in ransition. Without our foster homes, we would not be able to find new, forever homes for the animals we serve. P.A.N.T.’s animals come from areas where we are performing TNR work as our goal is to remove homeless, friendly strays and young kittens from the streets and provide them with a safe, loving foster home until they are adopted.

As a foster parent, you will be providing a caring, nuturing environment for a pet awaiting permanent placement.

Once an animal is placed in foster home, PANT will provide food and any necessary medications. PANT will pay for any medical care that the pet needs. The only responsiblities of the foster home are to provide a lot of TLC, and occasional transportation for medical care or so they can attend an adoption outreach event. In the event you are going on vacation or will otherwise be unable to care for your foster pet, we will make necessary arrangements if given sufficient notice.

Most kittens are adopted by the time they are 12 weeks old. The amount an adult cat spends in a foster home varies from one week to six months.

Interested? Please complete our Foster Parent Application and someone will contact you to answer your questions.

Become a Caretaker

As P.A.N.T. controls the population of feral cat colonies through TNR, it is important to have one or more dedicated caretakers to ensure that these cats have food, water and shelter.

Caretakers also maintain accurate records of the cats. Of particular importance is identifying any additional cats that may enter the colony. These cats needs to be identified so they can be spayed/nutered, rabies vaccinated and returned to the colony.

Interested? Please complete our online volunteer form and someone will be in touch to answer your questions.

Transporting Cats

We must transport our cats to spay/neuter appointments, veterinary appointments and to our adoption outreach events.

If you have a car, SUV, van or station wagon, we can use your help.

Hours vary:

Spay/Neuter appointments usually require transporting around 8:00 a.m. and again in the late afternoon.

Veterinary appointments can occur at various times of the day

Adoption outreach events are generally held from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Saturdays at Petco in Poughkeepsie. Transports are sometimes needed before or after the event.

Interested? Please complete our online volunteer form and someone will be in touch to answer your questions.