You Can Make a Difference by Volunteering or Joining the Foster Care Program

We have a multi-faceted volunteer program that will give you a number of options to help us provide a healthy short term environment for Mesa County displaced animals and assist us with finding loving long term homes for our adoption pets. For instance, we have an adoption follow up program and we need volunteers to help make calls to adopters at 3-7 days, 3 weeks, and 3 months after adoption. If you like to talk to people and assist them with questions, concerns, and behavioral solutions, then become a volunteer with us.

If you are interested in finding out more information about our volunteer program, click here to view our orientation booklet.

Please click here to download our application. After you complete the application you can mail it to P.O. Box 20,000
Grand Junction, CO 81502-5002 or bring it to us at 971A Coffman Road, Whitewater, CO 81527 or call our volunteer coordinator at 255-5005 to set up time for an appointment.

As a volunteer, you could foster a puppy or ensure that each animal at the shelter has a good Christmas morning through the Angel Tree Program

In addition, we have a foster care program that will enable you to provide temporary care to an animal who needs a little time to become adoptable. It may be a puppy or kitten who needs a couple of weeks to reach the legal age to adopt (8 weeks), an animal who has been hit by a car and needs a couple of weeks for a broken leg to heal, or a momma with a litter of pups whose chance of remaining healthy in a foster care environment is much increased. If you are interested in our foster care program, please click here to download the foster care application and click here for a foster care agreement sheet.