Getting Started:
Apply to become a Volunteer
How You Can Help:
- Fostering (Please complete a foster application)
- Fundraising
- Event Planner/Coordinator
- Event planning team
- Meet & Greets
- Home checks
FOSTER PROCESS
- Be at least 21 years of age
- Have the knowledge and consent of all adults living in the household
- Have approval from owner of residence (If renting, written in lease only. No verbal approval.)
- Be approved as a suitable foster home by Treasured Animal Rescue’s Board Members
- Be willing to foster the Treasured Animal Rescue cat/dog until he/she is adopted
- Provide structure, proper care (i.e. food, water, shelter) and basic needs while in foster care
- Transport to approved Treasured Animal Rescue vets
VOLUNTEER APPLICATION
Be at least 18 years of age, else must have a legal guardian/parent/adult at events
Volunteer Spotlight
Meet Our Treasure Hunter – Barb
Hometown: Native Chicagoan
How Many Fur-babies call you Mom: 4; 1 dog (Chloe) and 3 cats (Whisper, Elsa and Anna)
Volunteer Tasks: Fundraiser Coordinator, Meet & Greets, Transport and Home checks
Your 1st Rescue Experience: My 1st rescue experience started at CACC. I was transporting a dog to his foster home. It felt like I was relieving him from his death sentence. The pup I was transporting seemed to be saying, as I closed my car door and drove away, “Drive, Drive!”
What Makes Rescue So Rewarding to You: What makes rescue so rewarding to me is the effect I had on the dog or cat after they have been settled in their new home and they couldn’t be happier (and loved). From seeing just the physical appearance change from a simple groom and receiving proper vet care to the most important: the loving touch of a foster home. Knowing I had a part of that to help that dog/cat is what drives me to continue rescuing and being part of an Animal Rescue.
Meet Our Treasure Hunter – Robin
Hometown: Hanover Park
How Many Fur-babies call you Mom: 3 cats (Ginger, Bambi, Taffy)
Volunteer Tasks: Foster, Meet & Greets, Transport, Home Checks, Web Master
Your 1st Rescue Experience: My 1st rescue experience was with TAR. I thought we would want to foster older cats, but was convinced that young ones were the way to go. I never knew what “Kitten Season” was until becoming a foster. Kittens are a plenty during “Kitten Season”. I had 18 kittens/cats in my house at one point.
What Makes Rescue So Rewarding to You: What makes rescue so rewarding to me is the moment you see that young life so happy to see you walk through the door or be a lap they can curl up in. The first few adoptions were sad but happy moments. My family hated to see them leave us, but knew they were in good hands. Adoptions have become so much easier now after 80+ kittens/cats have been through our home since April 2020.