By Adam Ophus

ANIMAL SHELTER

ROAR seeking animal lovers who want to help

Aug 29, 2019 | 12:40 PM

The Rocky Organization for Animal Rescue (ROAR) continues to seek help with fundraising, adoption, and most of all, volunteers.

“For the most part we’re volunteer-run and we are a no-kill society, so we depend a lot on the community and our volunteer staff to get the funds to help animals that are in need for those found surrendered or abandoned and injured animals within the Clearwater County, and we extend to Caroline and within the town of Rocky Mountain House,” explains Shelter Manager Kalyn Salmon.

One of the new kittens available for adoption from ROAR.

She says the process to sign up is quite easy. Anyone looking to help just needs to go to their Facebook page, website or just show up to the shelter and get the form in person.

“It requires you filling it out and bringing it to me, I review it and I send it to the volunteer coordinator, she will then get in contact with you, then send you a welcome letter and your orientation, it does require training depending on what position you’re comfortable with,” Salmon expressed.

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When choosing to volunteer ROAR will allow an individual to pick what exactly they want to do, whether it’s a cat cuddler, dog walker, shelter cleaner or someone willing to help with doing fundraising for the organization.

“You can come anywhere from 15 minutes, to 2 hours, to 10 hours, whatever you want to do to just help us, if you only have 15 minutes a day to come in and mop the floors that helps us a lot,” Salmon describes of how flexible the organization can be.

One of the older possible adoptions from ROAR

“It’s really important if you’re wanting to take on an animal to always look into animal rescues, there are a lot of great animals that come in here and that they do deserve homes.”

Salmon finished by saying that it’s a good reminder to always spay and neuter your pets to keep the stray animal population under control.