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How can a 12 year old volunteer with animals?

Posted in Animal Volunteer Work 4 months ago, 14 replies

How can a 12 year old volunteer with animals?
I love animals and I want to work with them, but everyone seems to want to hire just older teens. I am responsible and I have had training experience with animals, but no shelter is letting a 12 year old working with their animals! Does anyone know a place where I could do some volunteer work?
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Well,I had the same question and my friend worked at a animal shelter.All you need to do is open the yellow pages and then call each animal shelter in your area.Also ask them if you could walk the dogs and change the animals water.Make sure you tell them that all you want to do is work for just a couple hours and with NO pay!They'd most likely say that it isn't okay unless you bring an adult.But try and see what happens.If you don't happen to find a place to work at,then ask your parents if you can walk neighbors dogs or just take care of their animals while they are in vacation and maybe you could find yourself more responsible and then actually work at a animal shelter.
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well, i volunteer at a local farm brushing the horses and giving them food and water and stuff so maybe u could try that. good luck finding an answer!! i could use a little help too!
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srry, i misspelled my name in the last comment its Evie not Evue srry again!!
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i was asking the same question and i have been every where looking for a job and they only want old teenagers why cant we work in a rspca shop or work with animals like i said we all want to and noone can stop us really (ive been to my local council and they recomend working in a charaty shop)!!
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12 is the best age to volunteer becasue your younger and younger is better
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im 11 going on 12 and im in a club called dfyit(drug free use int town),and it requires i do 10 hours of community service,and each website that i go tosays you have to be 18 or older
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Im just starting volunteer work and i was wondering the same thing. Every web sight i go to say you must be like 16 or 18. I really want to volunteer for animals!
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Many non profit horse barns will let anyone over the age of ten work, and once you turn 13 they should let you work on your own!
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I am 12 also and I was thinking of fostering a liter of puppies or kittens.
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i rang my local RSPCA and they are gonna send me some info bout' it
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I am ten an have spent countles hours looking for volunteer opportunities but everyone says that I have to be 18 I am geting so frustrated
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oooh I'm 15.
and I can't find anywhere either
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i want to work with animals aswell and im 12 and i keep asking local farms and rspcas if i could do volenter work but they all say i have to be over 14 its s annoying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I would like to earn some mony so l can get all my little cosins and familly presents and i have like four difrent family sids and i know almost evry thing about animals and i'd rilly rilly like to work with them but its hat because of my age and i think walking dogs would be good because its geting colder and peaple are not going to want to walk thar dog thats whar I come in.
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