Kennel Assistant
SUDBURY
Kennel Assistant
Part Time • SUDBURY
Benefits:
- Bonus based on performance
- Employee discounts
- Free uniforms
- Paid time off
Save A Dog is looking for a kennel assistant to join our Shelter Team. The job entails cleaning kennels, feeding the dogs, supervising outside play groups, administering meds, and maintaining a safe environment for the animals and the humans.
You will work also work as part of the Shelter team, which includes volunteers, hence we’re looking for someone who can work as part of a team. You will provide enrichment for the dogs as well as preparing them for adoption, using reward-based training.
The hours are noon to 5 Mon-Friday and some Saturdays. Some knowledge of office software is a plus. Dog handling experience is a must and reward-based, dog training experience is desired. You must be comfortable handling all sizes and breeds of dogs. The ability to work as part of a team and to communicate effectively and professionally with co-workers is required for this job. Send resume to contact@saveadog.org. Some heavy lifting is required such as carrying 30 lb. bags of food or carrying an occasional large dog.
Save A Dog is private, non-profit 501c3 humane society dedicated to rescuing, sheltering, and rehoming abandoned dogs. We work entirely for the good of each dog and are committed to find the most appropriate home for each dog. Save A Dog uses a holistic protocol, including homeopathic remedies, and we feed our rescued dogs a nutritious diet. We sell supplies and supplements in our shelter store. Our shelter located in Sudbury, MA. Visit us on the Web at saveadog.org.
Compensation: $17.00 - $21.00 per hour
About Us
Save A Dog is a humane society whose primary focus is rescuing and rehoming abandoned dogs. We began in 1999 as an all-breed, all-volunteer dog rescue group and ran out of our founder's home for nine years. Finally we have a lovely facility and kennel which we are renting to own in Sudbury, Mass. Save A Dog is a privately funded 501(c)3 organization. Our Tax ID number is 04-3476937.
Save A Dog was founded by husband and wife team, Shirley Moore and David Bernier, of Wayland, Mass. After volunteering at local shelters and seeing the detrimental effect that kennel life had on some dogs, they decided to begin fostering and to build a foster network for the dogs they took in from local and remote dog pounds. They targeted many of the big city shelters and would load up their vans with many adoptable dogs, foster them, provide medical care and a holistic protocol, and put them up for adoption to approved homes. Save A Dog has grown over the years and now we have over 100 volunteers who help on an as-needed basis, and approximately 25-30 volunteers who help on a weekly basis.
With millions of pets being euthanized annually, our goal is to save as many lives as we can even though we are a relatively small humane society. One way to maximize the number of lives we can save at one time is to bring in groups of a dozen or so dogs at one time. In rural West Virginia and Tennessee, the plight of dogs is heart-breaking. Puppies are thrown in dumpsters, drowned, or left in a box in the woods to die. We work with several humane societies in the south who are overwhelmed with dogs. They foster the dogs for us prior to sending them up for adoption. The dogs we receive from rural humane societies all would otherwise have been put to sleep. We also take in local dogs who are in need on a regular basis.
One of our primary goals is to educate people in our community about pet overpopulation and the need to "adopt" rather than "buy". In doing so, we provide friendly, good-natured, dogs for adoption. There is no need to go to a breeder when one out of every three dogs who end up in a shelter is purebred. In some cities, 60% of the dogs are purebred, including "designer dogs".
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