During the week

We need volunteers at the Trenton Shelter to help socialize the cats, keep them clean and happy, trim nails, keep the cages clean, and basically look after their daily needs.  You can start immediately with no orientation - we just chat with you and send you our "During the Week procedures" document and you're off! 

 

We also desperately need people to help clean and feed the cats on Saturdays and Sundays from either 8am - 10am or 9am until 11am.  It's fast, fun and easy!!!!

And then the rest of your weekend is yours!  Let us know! 

 

At the shelter:

• Donate 1 day a week to come in: do laundry, clean shelves, organize things
• Walk dogs
• Socialize with some cats

 

On your own:

• Put out the words to friends, neighbors and others as to supplies we need
• Spread the word any way you like that we always really need foster homes and permanent homes
• Set up a collection bin at work for donations
• Set up a coin collection cup at work - it all adds up!!!!!
• Take home kittens to bottle feed, or nurse a baby back to health so they can be adopted
• Make copies of paperwork, feed our file box at adoption days.  Pre-approve people for adoptions, make follow up phone calls.

 

Adoption days

• Help us at adoption days - Sundays at Langhorne, PA PetSmart 12 noon - 4pm
• Spend one hour (4pm to 5pm on Sundays) breaking down our adoption set up and putting it away at PetSmart Langhorne
• Spend one hour on Friday nights at PetSmart Langhorne setting up our tables
• Cleaning cages on a week night at PetSmart Delran, NJ (call Michele DeCarr at 856-906-0771)
• Volunteer at adoption days (Saturdays from 1pm until 5pm) at PetSmart Delran, NJ (call Michele DeCarr at 856-906-0771)
• Transporting animals to foster homes or spay/neuter clinics - you may sign up to be "on call" for this activity

 

Supplies and things the shelter ALWAYS needs:

-Cat toys

A)  Collect plastic bottle caps from work and home

B)  Pipe cleaners pushed into funny shapes - a super project for kids!

C)  Ping pong balls, and wiffle balls - these are easily bleached and re-used

D)  Take the cardboard from the inside of paper towels and toilet paper rolls, cut into one inch pieces and bring these in - the cats LOVE to bat them around!)

E)  Thick ribbon to tie to the cat cages

F)   Plastic straws

G)  Regular cat toys if you choose

H)  Donate shoe boxes!!!  We cut holes in them and put them in with kittens to play in and hide!

-Leashes and collars

-Brushes and pans

-Rags, bath towels, hand towels, baby blankets (no big blankets or comforters please)

-Brooms

-"Fabulouso" purple antiseptic cleaner (available at Dollar Stores)

-Pens, magic markers, index cards

-Standard sized litter boxes (12 - 14 in by 8 or 9 inches)

-Wet and dry cat and dog food

-KMR Mother's replacement milk for kittens

-Gerber baby food (for sick cats) turkey, veal, beef, ham, chicken

-Lamisil cream (for cats and dogs that get ringworm). You may use the generic brand.

-Screw on cage bowls (bigger for dogs - the steel ones) and the small plastic ones for cats (we presently use these at the shelter, they have about a 3 in diameter).

-Forks, spoons

-Steel bowls of all sizes for the dogs - ones that can't tip over

 

Sponsoring an animal

 

• You can also spread the word about "sponsoring" the animal of your choice, which can include:

-Paying for a low cost spay or neuter

-Mending of a broken leg

-Paying for an adoption fee

-Helping with the cost of fostering an animal, such as food, litter, toys

 

• Sponsor and animal to get spayed or neutered by writing a check to "Forgotten Cats" in $25 increments and hand it to one of our volunteers.
• Sponsor an animal's medical care by writing a check to our vet "Ewing Vet Hospital" 38 Scotch Road, Ewing, NJ 08628