Greetings Humane Ohio Volunteers!
It's been a busy summer at Humane Ohio, as we do all we can to keep up with the huge demand for affordable s/n. We've also been working on additional outreach by having a presence at a number of summer festivals. We'll be at the Birmingham Fest in a couple of weeks and need a few more volunteers to help with that. Please see below for details on the festivals and everything else going on.

For the animals,
Christina

Please Consider Volunteering in the Clinic
If you're a seasoned and trained surgery volunteer, or even if you're not, please help us in the clinic late this month.

Help is needed the following dates/times:
Tuesday, August 26, 7:30am-11:30am or 11:30am-3:30pm
Wednesday, August 27, 7:30am-11:30am or 11:30am-3:30pm
Thursday, August 28, 11:30am-3:30pm

Volunteers will help to wrap surgical packs, clean instruments, do laundry, pop syringes out of their packaging, clean cages, feed animals, sweep and mop floors.

This is very important and rewarding work, so please help us if you can!

Network Server Needed
Humane Ohio is enjoying a lot of growth and to keep up, we really need to upgrade our technology. We need to install a server and wondered if anyone has an extra one sitting around. Maybe you've recently upgraded to a new one and could donate your old one? Maybe you'd like to sponsor a server as a donation to Humane Ohio? The one we need costs about $1,000.

Let us know if you might be able to help us take this important step that will help us to reach our vision of a community with no more homeless pets and where everyone has access to affordable spay/neuter.

Represent Humane Ohio at the Upcoming Events
Volunteers are needed to distribute literature and spread the word about Humane Ohio at the following community festival. Email volunteer@humaneohio.org to sign up to help.

Birmingham Ethnic Festival
Sunday, August 17 - Noon - 4:30 or 4:30 - 9pm

Dog Days of September - at the Shops at Fallen Timber
Saturday, September 13 - 10am-4pm
(can break this into two shifts if necessary)

Thank you!

Volunteers needed Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Clinic!
We are doing a large number of surgeries each day in the clinic and need volunteers to help as clerical assistants.

What: Checking clients in/out, making calls, answering phones, other clerical tasks as they arise

When: Commit to every (or every other) Tuesday or Thursday from 7:30-11:30 am or 11:30am-3:30 pm

Who: Any adult volunteer trained or willing to be trained as a surgery assistant

Email volunteer@humaneohio.org if you can help.

Transport Volunteers Needed
Can you ride along and help our driver? We work to provide spay/neuter services for other organizations that do not have their own s/n programs. In an effort to make spaying and neutering as effortless as possible for our partner organizations, we operate a transport van to pick up animals for surgery and return them after surgery. One volunteer is needed each day we transport, to assist our staff driver with loading and unloading animals, completing paperwork, accepting payments, etc.

The schedule varies, but transports usually take place between 6am and 9am on weekdays.

Please contact Christina at volunteer@humaneohio.orgif you would like to be contacted to help with future transports.

Two Paws Up to Sally Stuckey!
Sally Stuckey is one of our best "go to" volunteers. She is trained in nearly every area and always come through when we're in a pinch. Our clinic staff absolutely adores her. Sally has helped us with the East Toledo cat s/n program by going out to the East Toledo Family Center and assisting with checking in clients. She is also in the clinic two days each and every week. One day she works as a clerical assistant helping with check in, check out, answering phones, scheduling appointments and pretty much anything else that needs to be done. The other day, she works as a surgery assistant doing laundry, wrapping surgical packs, cleaning instruments, and cleaning cages. Our clinic director, Lisa, says, "She is a GREAT asset to Humane Ohio. We all love her."

Quote of the Month:
      "Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." ~ Edmond Burke

Thanks for all you do!

Christina Weyrick-Cooper
Outreach Manager
Humane Ohio
volunteer@humaneohio.org