Sweet Little Girl Looking for a Home
This young gal was roughing it on her own until she showed up at someone’s home asking for help. We’re not sure if she was lost or abandoned, but she was clearly tame and craving attention and food. She’s recovering from a recent spay and is looking for a home. She’s litter box trained. $20 adoption fee. If you’d like to meet her, call 435-491-2050.
Volunteers Needed
CCAW depends on our fine community to be a part of its success. We need you! If you love animals and have some time to spare, we will provide you with training and a rewarding volunteer experience. The greatest need we have is for fosters, cleaning and maintenance, and personal attention to our resident cats and dogs.
For more information visit our website at:
www.colorcountryanimalwelfare.org
Brandy and Jackson Found their Forever Homes!
Sometimes it takes a really long time to find the perfect fit and forever homes for our dogs. Brandy and Jackson were both with us for many months, but the waiting paid off for them and they both found their perfect homes and humans. While saying goodbye is never easy, we couldn’t be happier for them and their new families 🐾
Give Wayne County
Our Give Wayne County on-line campaign will be April 1st thru April 10th this year. This annual event provides much needed funding for our Operations. We will be sending announcements of the event as we get closer. Please stay tuned.
New Facility Opening Soon
It’s so close, right around the corners! The first corner is Highway 24 and 1200 West in Torrey, Utah, and the second corner is April 1st, no joke! That’s the where and when for the public opening of CCAW’s Animal Care Facility as the first and only rescue and adoption site for dogs and cats in Wayne County. While we’ll still rely on our amazing foster families to acclimate adoptable pets to home life, the facility now provides temporary shelter, including isolation rooms for health safety and an exam room for our local vet, Dr. Jake Van Dyke, to visit animals on-site, thereby reducing the stress of the animals and in line with our Fear Free, animal-centered approach to the overall design.
The facility will also serve to board pets for a fee, both day and overnight. In this way, our animal-based mission as a non-profit organization is advanced by the support generated from an animal-based service that both tourists and locals have been clamoring for, especially since the national parks and most hotels don’t permits pets.
Although we had hoped to open last year, progress was delayed in fits and starts as supply-chain and labor issues permitted. But the building is now 99% done, and we’re just finishing up the exterior fencing and some last-minute adjustments. Crucial to the progress has been our facilities manager, Mel Perc, whom we hired last spring and who has tirelessly attended meetings, wrangled contractors, painted walls, envisioned solutions, assembled cat houses, and herded volunteers.
As we’re set to open the facility in just a few weeks, we recently posted two new job positions, one for a full-time assistant manager, and another part-time animal care support position. All signs point to another busy tourist season this year, which means more abandoned or lost animals brought to us, and more need for pet boarding.
Stay tuned for news of a grand opening celebration later this spring once our staff and volunteers get into the groove. Speaking of volunteers, if you’d like to help, please contact:
volunteer@colorcountryanimalwelfare.org.
Job Opportunities
Animal Care Assistant Manager
Job Status: Full-time, Exempt
Overview: The new Fear-Free Animal Care Facility in Torrey, Utah provides temporary shelter for found, abandoned, and surrendered dogs and cats with an aim toward suitable adoption, and it also provides pet boarding and dog care services to the public for a fee.
Job Summary: This position reports to the Facility Manager and includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
- Helps oversee general operations of the Facility. Shelter operations include intake and assessment of animals, data collection, working with a veterinarian when needed, providing temporary care, and finding an adopter. Boarding operations include maintaining a client schedule, conducting intake and data collection, and ensuring proper animal care.
- Supervises on-site staff and volunteers.
- Works with CCAW’s Operations Committee and the Animal Services Committee, which oversees foster, TNR, and spay/neuter programs.
- Operates shelter and boarding software; ensures records and activities are in compliance with applicable ordinances, procedures, and policies.
The following skills and qualifications are preferred:
- Managerial experience.
- Familiarity with the humane handling of dogs and cats; dog training skills.
- Familiarity with business software and applications, website, and social media maintenance.
- Ability to communicate clearly both orally and in writing in a consistent, positive manner.
- Experience with public outreach.
- Friendliness and strong customer relations skills.
- Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, to remain flexible and creative, and to exercise initiative and good judgment, including handling problems of a sensitive nature.
- Experience with database management, bookkeeping, and record keeping.
Salary range: $37,000 to $40,000, depending on experience
Comments: This position involves lifting, bending, cleaning, and occasional carrying of items. Must be willing and able to work flexible hours, weekends, holidays, early and late hours, promotional events, and other necessary times as needed. This is a year-round salaried position, with shorter off-season hours.
To apply: Send a letter of application and your resume to info@colorcountryanimalwelfare.org by February 28, 2022.
Animal Care Support
Job Status: Part-time, Non-exempt
Overview: The new Fear-Free Animal Care Facility in Torrey, Utah provides temporary shelter for found, abandoned, and surrendered dogs and cats with an aim toward suitable adoption, and it also provides pet boarding and dog care services to the public for a fee.
Job Summary: This position reports to the Facility Manager and includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
- Helps check boarded animals in and out and assists with the care of rescued animals.
- Animal care including feeding, cleaning enclosures, overseeing play time, careful monitoring of animals.
- Operating shelter and boarding software and record keeping.
- Training will be provided on animal behavior assessment, daily animal care and cleaning procedures.
The following skills and qualifications are preferred:
- Familiarity with the humane handling of dogs and cats; dog training skills.
- Friendliness and strong customer relations skills.
- This position involves lifting, bending, cleaning, and occasional carrying of items. Must be willing and able to work flexible hours, weekends, holidays, early and late hours.
- Computer skills.
Salary range: $17.00 to $19.00 per hour. We have openings for year-round and seasonal work between 20 and 30 hours per week.
To apply: Send a letter of application and your resume to info@colorcountryanimalwelfare.org by February 28, 2022.
Donate to CCAW
https://colorcountryanimalwelfare.org/donate
or
Mail in a check to
CCAW
P.O. Box 750404
Torrey, UT 84775-0404
