Featured Volunteers – Animal Care Volunteers

| By Candace Alexander
Categories: Blog, Other, Volunteers
Have you ever wondered what happens “behind the scenes” at Marin Humane? Well, if you have, you’d discover our Animal Care Department is at the heart of it. And within this department you’ll find a wonderful group of volunteers – the Animal Care Volunteers (ACVs). The ACVs are dedicated to making sure our animals reside …

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Volunteer High Fives for May 2018

| By Candace Alexander
Categories: Blog, Other, Volunteer High Five, Volunteers
High Five to Jill Fugaro! Jill Fugaro is a volunteer mentor extraordinaire! One of the homework assignments for our Your Dog to Share class, the training to become an animal assisted therapy team for Marin Humane, is to observe a current volunteer and their dog. We have a few teams who help us and the …

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Think Re-Sale, not Re-Tail! Shop at the Marin Humane Thrift Shop!

| By Candace Alexander
Categories: Blog, Other, Volunteers
Who knew that shopping at the Marin Humane Thrift Shop could help animal overpopulation in Marin? In 1961, the Marin Humane Society Auxiliary opened the Thrift Shop in downtown San Anselmo. The Thrift Shop’s success was key to the construction and operation of the first subsidized spay and neuter clinic in California, which opened at …

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Compassion Corner – A Place of Acceptance

| 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 visit with specially-trained volunteers and their dogs, as well as kitties and small critters like rabbits.     Hosted twice monthly at Marin Humane’s …

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Volunteer High Fives for April 2018

| By Candace Alexander
Categories: Blog, Other, Volunteer High Five, Volunteers
High Five to Dawn Landes! Dawn Landes is stellar Medical Assistant Volunteer! In addition to her existing superior experience from volunteering at the Marine Mammal Center, she has gained significant knowledge about the many odd things that happen around the shelter. Dawn is also a cat evaluator, which definitely came in handy the day before …

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