Feline Volunteer Opportunities for Children

Volunteering provides children with a wide variety of benefits they can carry through life. Donating time to a worthwhile cause will help children improve the community, facilitate a lifelong service ethic, enhance social development and promote healthy lifestyle choices. Volunteering with felines provides a necessary service. Children will love helping other living creatures thrive, find loving homes and get needed medical care. Help your child find the right opportunity to improve the lives of cats in your community.

  1. Shelters

    • Take children to animal shelters to volunteer on a regular basis. Shelters rely on volunteers for many day-to-day activities. Children can help feed the cats or just give the felines some much-needed affection. Volunteering at an animal shelter can help teach kids compassion for other living creatures and the importance of giving back to the community.

    Food Drive

    • Children can manage a pet food drive to help out cats in need. Cat food can get expensive when you're trying to feed the many animals in need. Ask for donations from other kids from school or from families in the neighborhood. The food collected can be donated to pet shelters, animal welfare organizations or to groups that feed stray cats.

    Foster Parents

    • Many animal-related organizations do not have the resources needed to care for all the cats in need. Open up your home to cats that need loving attention and shelter until a permanent home is found. Allow children to feed the cats daily, and if they are old enough, they can also help clean the litter box.

    Raising Money

    • Many cats have loving homes, but pet owners cannot always afford the medical costs. Help owners in need of money get medical care for their cats. Work with local animal hospitals to host fundraisers. Social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, are also effective ways to network and raise money for sick felines. Kids can raise the money for a specific cat, or donate it to an animal hospital to allocate the funds to needy clients.