Meet Linda Christopher: Cat Volunteer

Meet Linda! With over 1,000 volunteer hours, she has been involved with just about every cat volunteer opportunity we have to offer: kitty cuddler, foster mom to kittens, cat photo pack member, crafty critter, and lead volunteer and trainer. Linda loves getting to know the cats and celebrating when they are adopted. She remembers one […]

Volunteer Spotlight: Meet Debbie

Meet Debbie Earley, a dedicated dog massage therapist and Pet Alliance volunteer. Debbie has been volunteering in animal welfare for twelve years, three of them with the Pet Alliance.  A long-time lover of dogs, Debbie started volunteering with animals with her sons when they were in high school to spend quality family time together. When […]

Volunteer Spotlight: Rachel Gosselin

Meet Rachel Gosselin, a Pet Alliance Volunteer and soon-to-be student at Harvard University. Rachel got involved with the organization as a summer camper when she was in middle school. Her experience at summer camp led her to start volunteering with her mom. Always an animal lover, Rachel loves the feeling of helping a dog or […]

Local Teens Helping Animals

By Nicolle Taylor, Volunteer Coordinator Every Fall and Spring a new session of Junior Club begins. Junior Club allows teens ages 13-15 to gain hands-on experience in our shelter by volunteering their time to help make our animals’ lives a little brighter. One Saturday a month for 4 months, our Junior Volunteers meet to learn […]

Top 10 Reasons to Volunteer

By Nicolle Taylor, Volunteer Coordinator Whenever guests come through our shelter doors, or see us at an off-site event, we always hear “I could never volunteer at an animal shelter, it’s so sad and I’d want to take all the animals home.” But our animals are given the utmost care during their stay with us […]

Meet Volunteer Megan Oates

Meet Megan! She’s been a volunteer here at the Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando for more than a year. Having fostered animals, helped at offsite adoptions, special events, animal receiving, guest greeting, and many other areas of the organization, we consider her one of our superstars. Her first interaction with us was when she accompanied […]