Volunteering With Us

Interested In Helping Animals? 

Learn Hands-0n Veterinary Assistant Skills

Foster A Rescue Animal In Your Home

Handle the Phones and Become Our Rescue Coordinator  

We All Can Grow To Make A Big Difference!  

 

Community Animal Network

LEARN HANDS-0N VETERINARY ASSISTANT SKILLS

 

**Satisfies Hands-On experience for "Pre-Vet" students that need to get a job in a vet office prior to applying to veterinary school.

Open to Animal Lovers, Pre-Vet Students and those considering a career working in a vet hospital and also those that missed their calling to work in the veterinary world.

Volunteers are accepted into Community Animal Network’s "Veterinary Medical Program" based on a serious interest in felines, learning about cats and/or advancing into veterinary medicine.

*Students, discuss your school schedule with the director!

Community Animal Network treats geriatric cats and those with treatable diseases and conditions managed with medications. C.A.N. has a "Pets For Seniors Program" that provides senior people with cats and pays for the veterinary costs of treatment for the lifetime of the cats in our program.

Interns can assists with veterinary transports and be a part of the veterinary visits. Excursions are available to internship participants; observations of veterinary procedures, surgeries, visiting vet hospitals and the crematorium. However, not all interns can join us based on the days of the week scheduled.

The day shift opportunity is 10 am - 2pm, Monday - Friday. We Do Try to Accommodate Chosen Shift Days of the Week and Flexible Shift Hours May Be Discussed With The Director.

WE DO HAVE NIGHT SHIFTS! - Just "1 ˝ Hours" - Flexible Starting Hours - Start 5pm or 6pm.

Dr. Elaine Wexler-Mitchell is a board certified feline specialist that oversees the animal organizations cat’s care. (In 2016 - Only 150 vets are certified feline specialists in the U.S.).

This non-paid internship teaches students to administer pills and medication that manages pain associated with chronic conditions. Interns cut pills, manage the inventory of the pharmacy of medications, and restocking food and litter. Must Be Able to Lift and Carry Supplies.

Interns learn to groom cats, scruff to trim nails. The shaving tool is used to shave any treatment areas, sanitary clips or to practice shaving whole body.

Part of the internship program may also include, injections, drawing blood to check glucose levels. Critical-care management: force feeding, IV line subcutaneous fluid therapy is all part of assisting an animal as they age or an animal that is sick.

Students are responsible for kennel duties and feeding, rotating playtime, cleaning urine marking areas, extraction of urine as needed, pet laundry, vacuuming and mopping, disinfecting.

May include; summarizing veterinary treatment plans for the pets health records, vet visits with feline patients.

C.A.N. is a veterinary medical rescue that raises money to provide veterinary care for local animals and treats animals that other rescues could turn away because of costs.

What We Are Looking For; Seeking individuals that are caring and committed to a future in the veterinary industry, or those committed to gain experience with felines. MUST HAVE OWN TRANSPORTATION.

We Welcome You Growing Your Skills To Help Local Animals!

Sincerely,

DiAnna Pfaff-Martin

Founder, Director And Internship Manager

email: community@animalnetwork.org

We Are Located In Newport Beach, California

949.759.3646 

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Community Animal Network

Foster A Rescue Animal In Your Home

 Volunteering For Adults and Families

Veterinary Medical Is Provided!  

 

We have a tremendous need for families to welcome rescue animals into their home.

Middle school children through college as well as adults help Community Animal Network by fostering adult cats and dogs in their homes.

We have had children as young as seven years old and seniors helping as animal caregivers. 

Community Animal Network offers community service programs that give students school credits for service. 

Volunteer experience helps to individuals learn responsibility and some become role models and leaders in life.

Taking a homeless animal or an animal that needs a place to stay while waiting for a new home is life-saving work.

Approximately 70 to 90% of all cats entering the shelters in the United States are put to death because people seek out to adopt the young and kittens.

This program is approximately 6 months or more than a year of service.  

Small dogs are the most highly sought after for adoption these days. Even large purebred dogs and large mixed breeds have trouble finding new homes and can be short on time at a municipal animal shelter.

 Why Rescue Organizations Need Help...

The most frequent reasons why people give up there pets are death, divorce, the loss of the family home and moving to no-pet housing. There are not enough homes and the public favors to adopt the little ones causing the municipal shelters to have to euthanize 50% of all dogs and 75% of cats that enter the shelter system. Giving your time and sharing your home can save lives. Fostering animals in-home can satisfy “community service hours” by months served, not hours, as it becomes a family experience.

To Inquire Please Email:

email: community@animalnetwork.org

We Are Located In Newport Beach, California

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949.759.3646 

 

 

 

 

 

FREE FUN!!!

PLAY WITH CATS & HELP CLEAN UP!

"Opp's, I Missed the Box!"

 

To Inquire Please Email:

email: community@animalnetwork.org

We Are Located In Newport Beach, California

949.759.3646 

 

 

 

 

Community Animal Network

HANDLE OUR PHONES & BECOME THE RESCUE COORDINATOR 

You Are Perfect With These Skills!

A Strong Customer Service Background

A Solution Seeking Attitude 

Lot's of Patience

Not for the faint-hearted! Train with the founder DiAnna Pfaff-Martin. Retrieve or answer our rescue phone lines voicemails three times a day. To avoid phone tag we provide you with the organization's mobile phones to receive and return calls.

Consult with DiAnna Pfaff-Martin on a daily basis. Scan to email and return the phone logs.

To Inquire Please Email:

email: community@animalnetwork.org

We Are Located In Newport Beach, California

949.759.3646 

 

 

VOLUNTEER TESTIMONIAL

 

 

Volunteer Whitney Fredrick  

April 22, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

It Was A Lot Of Fun At Our Previous Location At Our Fashion island Adoption Event!

Our Adoption Event at the Shopping Center Event Closed In Late

June 2016.

We Haven't Stopped Helping Local Animals. We Just Aren't As Visible Every Weekend!

Kids Raised Money For Animals That Need Expensive Surgeries!

Once Upon A time There Was Lot's Of Fun!

Volunteers and Shoppers Found Someone to Love!

There Were Lot's of Smiles!

Volunteers Loved Sharing Their Weekends!

You C.A.N.

Still Make a Difference

In the Life Of An Animal!
 

There Is Lots To Still Do!

Volunteer To Become a Foster Parent to an

Animal in Need!

 

The Fashion Island Pet Adoption Event Closed In Late June Of 2016

 

One day I was walking by the pet store at Fashion Island shopping Center in Newport Beach and saw an older girl from school who was volunteering there.

 

I asked her what she was doing there and she said she was volunteering. After I heard that, I wanted to work there too. So I asked my mom to sign me up.

 

When I first started working at Community Animal Network when I was 8 years old and in 2nd grade. I have been working on and off for 3 years helping cats get adopted. I am now 11 years old and in 5th grade.

 

I feel like I have always been the youngest person volunteering, but I wanted to spend every weekend there when I first started in August of 2006. By December, I had put in over 100 hours of volunteer time and I asked my parents if I could please adopt a cat. There was a mom cat and her baby who no one wanted to adopt for a long time. So I decided that I wanted them. After Christmas my mom and dad said I could pick one of them. So they came to my work and ended up adopting both of them. They are the cutest, most loving cats ever. They love to be loved and have their tummies rubbed by me. I feed them every night, clean their litter box and they sleep on my bed every night.

 

When I first started, I helped DiAnna by warming the vaccines by rubbing the bottles in my hands and then I’d hold the cats to help DiAnna give the vaccine injections to the cats and put the stickers on the health record.

 

I learned the names of all the cats each week, because they change all the time when new cats come in.
 

I learned how much they cost to adopt and how to care for them and how to find a good person to adopt a cat. I know the best brands of cat food and cat litter to use. With an older helper

 

I can take the cats from the foster parents and put them in adoption cages. I put food, water, a litter box and a bed in all the cages to prepare them for the cats coming in the morning.
 

We set up the cages in the morning and at night we clean and disinfect them and put them away in the pet store.

 

I like having a key to the cages and being responsible for keeping the cages closed. I also love playing with the cats who seem so sad and lonely to be there.

 

I have told a lot of friends to come and volunteer. Two of my friends joined and are volunteering now.

I also brought friends to help wear the Life-Saver costume that we have to attract attention to our cat cages.

 

I have made a lot of friends and now I can help the new kids learn what to do. I love volunteering and hope I can help lots more animals get adopted into great homes.

 

Volunteer Whitney Fredrick

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Community Animal Network

Newport Beach, CA

Founder

DiAnna Pfaff-Martin

 

I know.....

"It only takes one person to make a difference in an animals life!"

DiAnna Pfaff-Martin

Dear Adults and Families with Children, 

Thank your for your interest in our helping Community Animal Network.

It has been more than twenty years and the organization has grown to need all kinds of help! If you have a professional skill or a talent to share please just let us know.

Community Animal Network was founded by DiAnna Pfaff-Martin in 1996 as a vet medical rescue for dogs and cats needing to find new homes.

Along with with the help of local veterinarians that performed life-saving surgeries, I have dedicated my time for more than two decades.

Community Animal Network has  made a difference in the lives of thousands and thousands of local Orange County, California, dogs and cats!

We Appreciate You Helping!

DiAnna Pfaff-Martin

 

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Founded In 1996

COMMUNITY  ANIMAL  NETWORK 

P.O. Box 8662

Newport Beach, California 92658

Email:

community@animalnetwork.org

949-759-3646

A vet medical rescue for animals needing new homes.

 

 

 
Always spay, neuter, microchip, collar and tag your pets.