Donations Welcome

We always appreciate and welcome your help at the Animal Center! Volunteers are the heart and soul of CTSAC. We have a wide variety of volunteer opportunities for all ages from working directly with the animals at the shelter, to providing essential support for our many new and upcoming programs. Volunteers who put in twenty hours or more get a volunteer t-shirt. Stylin! If you are volunteering in the office, possible hours are 8am - 5pm on weekdays, and 8am to 4pm on Saturdays. All other volunteer work would be done between 1pm and 5pm weekdays, and 1pm to 4pm on Saturdays. To join our volunteers, come any Thursday afternoon at 2pm for a short interview and new volunteer orientation. Volunteers must be at least 18 years old.

We need volunteers to walk and socialize the shelter dogs. Spending time with the animals helps them become more adoptable. If you have experience training dogs, all the better. Dogs that know sit, stay, and come commands are easier to adopt, and dogs that know how to let us (and their future adopters) know they have to go to the bathroom are wonderful to have! We have leashes on hand for volunteers who want to walk the dogs.

The dogs don't groom themselves, and they tend to get pretty dirty playing in their pens and being walked around the shelter, especially in the rainy months. If you have experience grooming dogs, or even just brushing dogs, please come on by and help out our staff.

Cats and kittens need socialization, too. We'd love it if you would come down and spend some time with our kitties. They need to be pet, groomed, and given the opportunity to play. Cats that shy away from humans are not likely to ever leave the shelter. The best way to give cats the confidence to approach visitors to the shelter is for our volunteers to play with them, letting them know people are a-okay.

There are two cat rooms in our new building. The first one is our Cat Playroom. The playroom is the one in the lobby, with big windows so visitors can watch our young cats play on the towers. The second is the Cat Room, where cats are in condos with separate food, water, and bedding.

CTSAC participates in many areas of the community. We are able to do this because of the time our volunteers commit to our programs. Volunteers interested in participating in the greater community can ask us about shelter programs or about our upcoming events.

If you are a student, at least 18 years old, you should know that volunteer work of any kind looks great on applications and resumes. If you are interested in working with animals, it looks all the better to volunteer with an animal shelter. We challenge the young adults of Brownwood to put in their hours working with CTSAC. The benefits go way beyond looking good on paper!

A volunteer made this website. Volunteers help us answer phones and file paperwork. They greet our visitors. They design our applications and worksheets. If you have any type of office experience, or even if you want some to put on a resume, we would really appreciate your help. We really just can't survive without our volunteers!

If you want to get down and dirty, there's always tons of cleaning to be done, and laundry runs almost all day! That's not to mention all the animals in need of a good bath. No pooper-scooper experience required!

If you would like to join our volunteers, the next volunteer sign-up and orientation is Thursday at 2pm.