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Fostering

You can provide the critical step for dogs and cats moving from the shelter environment to a permanent loving home. By opening your heart and home to a shelter animal, you prevent needless euthanasia due to a lack of space in shelters.

There is no special training needed. You simply need a desire to care for a dog or cat and the willingness to meet the animal’s needs by providing:

• a safe, healthy, clean environment
• healthy food (provided if needed and requested)
• medications (provided if prescribed)
• your own home or a landlord that will allow you to foster
• transportation to and from weekly adoption events

The overall mission of the OFOSA Foster Care Network is to give animals individualized care and the additional time they need to locate their “forever home.”

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Adoption Events

Without a shelter OFOSA depends on our partnerships within the community to introduce our wonderful animals to potential adopters. We are at 3 different Petsmart stores almost every Saturday afternoon from 12:00pm to 4:00pm (except for Holiday weekends). We are also in the Beaverton Petco store almost every weekend from 12:00pm to 4:00pm on Saturdays and from 1:00pm to 5:00pm on Sundays. We also have adoptable animals at Pet Pros occasionally and at some of our Special Events throughout the year.

We can always use volunteers to help with animal care during these events.

Special Events

Throughout the year OFOSA participates in various fundraising and friend-raising events. Available positions range from upper level business coordination, to transporting supplies, to set up and decorating, or running a booth. Contact Sylvia at volunteer@ofosa.org for further information regarding upcoming events or complete and return a volunteer application and someone will contact you.

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Clinic Volunteers

If you have clinic experience or are willing to learn AND are available during the day between 7:00am to 6:00pm any day of the week. We have several positions to support our Veterinarian and their staff.

• Clinic Aide
  Cleans counters, floors, instruments and laundry within the clinic. Prepares, wraps and sterilizes surgical packs.

• Surgical Aide
  (2nd position) prepares charts, weighs animals prior to surgery and helps vet with pre-op exams. Cares for animals in recovery, including clipping nails, cleaning ears and monitoring behaviors.

• Veterinary Technician (CVT) State certification required.
  Help in surgery and with examinations and animal health care.

Please contact Sylvia at volunteer@ofosa.org about becoming a clinic volunteer.

Transportation Volunteers

• Transportation Team (4 people) makes trips to rescue animals out of overcrowded shelters. Trips are scheduled multiple times during any given month and range from one-day to four–day trips
• Transportation of dogs and cats to medical appointments, and adoption venues as required
• Transportation to pick up food from donation center collections

We need people during weekday and weekend hours.

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