Website: Best Friends Animal Society

Activity types: Peaceful Puppy Mill Protests, Adopt a Pet, Foster a Pet, Help out at DogTown.

Time Required: A couple of hours on the weekend for protests, foster for a few weeks, adopt a pet for a lifetime of fun, or volunteer at the sanctuary if you live near Kanab, Utah for  a few hours each week.

Skills Required: Love of animals.

Attire: Anything you want, though if your going to be playing with animals jeans are usually the best bet. During a tabling event (i.e. table protest) you want to look approachable.

The Goods: Best Friends is the organization who is featured on the Animal Planet show DogTown.  They helped treat and rehab some of the dogs abused by Michael Vick and associates.

My Volunteer Journal:

Protesting Puppy Mills

Activity types: Walking dogs, Brushing cats, Playing with cute animals, Fostering dogs and cats

Time Required: You can visit during your lunch break to walk the dogs, spend a few hours one afternoon playing with the animals, or you can be a foster parent for days, weeks or months.

Skills Required: Love of animals, it’s best to not have severe pet dander allergies.

Attire: Jeans and tennis shoes if your staying to play, if your just coming in to walk the dogs during lunch business clothes are fine.

The Goods: Spending time with any animal is a great way to de-stress. Fostering is a great way to find a new pet because as a foster parent you get first dibs on the animal you have been keeping.

My Volunteer Journal:

Fostering Six Tiny Kittens Day 1

Fostering Day 2

Fostering Day 3

No Kill Animal Shelter