The Forever Friends Animal Rescue shelter has launched a new initiative highlighting the diverse range of people needed to save an animal.
The Gladysdale-based shelter started the campaign on 11 December where volunteers dressed up to represent the amount of roles at the shelter.
Forever Friends Animal Rescue (FFAR) volunteer Meaghan Adams said there was a vast amount of roles needed, spanning from dog walkers to administrative persons to lawyers.
“We now rely on so many different people with so many different roles, so the team that makes a dog or a cat able to find a home, you’re probably talking about 20 different roles,” Ms Adams said.
She listed a litany of roles that the shelter could have a hand in, including many one wouldn’t think of for an animal shelter.
“We need dog walkers, we need cat carers, we need trades people, we need people who can shear sheep, we need people who can create gardens with vegetables that we can feed the farm animals with.
“We need administration people that keep on top of the huge amount of admin that a non-profit has to has to do, we need everyone to clean – my god, the cleaning, can you imagine the cleaning,” she said.
But Ms Adams also wanted to recognise the amount of support already shown by the shelter’s volunteers.
“It actually is so heart warming and it broadens your perspective on the kindness and the goodness in our community.
“We are so touched by what people will do. Some people will arrive at midnight with an animal that’s been abused and they’ll have driven 100 kilometres to get here,” she said.
But the shelter needed more stronger and physically capable volunteers specifically to handle larger animals.
“A lot of the dogs here are larger dogs and they often need stronger people and they’re also going to be ideal for men to adopt because a tradesman might take the dog to work,” Ms Adams said.
Those interested in signing up are encouraged to visit their website: foreverfriends.org.au.
