Volunteer High Fives – March, April & May 2019

| By Candace Alexander
Categories: Other, Volunteer High Five, Volunteers
High Five to Gordon Robinson! A huge shout out and High Five to our awesome volunteer Gordon for going above and beyond to help the Animal Services Division with training our four new officers! Training and scheduling activities for four trainees is a daunting task, to say the least. For the past 5 weeks, Gordon …

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Greetings from the Volunteer Appreciation Party

| By Candace Alexander
Categories: Blog, Other, Volunteers

On Sunday, June 2nd, we welcomed over 150 volunteers and staff to our campus to celebrate YOU! It was a beautifully sunny afternoon – a perfect setting for the afternoon program and celebration. The program began with a fun video you can view here. We hope this makes you feel as happy as we do …

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Featured Volunteers – Woofstock Volunteers

| By Shilo Landis
Categories: Other, Volunteers
It’s safe to say that this year’s Woofstock was unlike any other. All week we monitored the weather forecast. We all had our favorite app – the one that forecasted a clear day. On Saturday, around 11:15am, after seeing that thundershowers were predicted, we knew we needed to make some major adjustments to, well, everything. …

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Featured Volunteers – Compassion Corner Volunteers

| By Candace Alexander
Categories: Blog, Other, Volunteers
At Marin Humane, we help transform lives, especially when it comes to the bond between animals and people. At Compassion Corner, we welcome people with physical or cognitive limitations to come to our Novato campus to visit with specially-trained Animal-Assisted Therapy volunteers and their dogs, as well as kitties and small critters like rabbits. Hosted …

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Gulliver’s story of survival

| By Neil Lurssen
Categories: Blog, Other, Volunteers
This is the kind of story we really like to tell – a story of survival, of skill in animal care, of compassion for an animal in distress, of all these things and more. It is the story of this little fellow, Gulliver, and how very different he was when he came to the Marin …

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