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~i four to six volunteer "Team Leaders". These team leaders are the primary interface with the Victual volunteers working in the shelter at any given time. There is monthly rientation held on the second Saturday and occasionally during the week. ,here is also a volunteer handbook that answers volunteers' questions as they prise, Volunteers water, ~xercise and groom dogs and provide "customer service", which, in this case, means helping potential adopters with the dogs they are interested in by g 'tting the dogs out of their runs and helping to manage the interaction. A few~yeteran volunteers help with administrative tasks such as phoning, filing, typ~ng and photographing dogs. Chatham Countiy Animal Shelter (Chatham County Health Department, Animal Control Division) The only anima( shelter in the county, it is an open door shelter. A program that draws volunteers rom the local humane society, Chatham Animal Rescue and Education (CARE has been in place for awhile, This yields about 20 to 28 service hours per eek, approximately divided between weekdays and Saturdays, perforrped by five to eight regulars. Weekend volunteers often do "deep cleaning". Special events, such as a holiday weekend adopt-a-thon can yield 64 hours of volunteer service. Anew program, called Friends of Chatham Animal Shelter (FOCAS), is being developed. The participants will be independent of CARE and will be coordinated largely by a volunteer who answers to the Animal Control Supervisor. So far there are five sucf~ committed FOC:AS volunteers. One will be assigned to be the adoption ccordina or. Hours are not yet being tracked, Both programs require that volunteer hours be scheduled. Volunteers bathe end exercise dogs, take photos of dogs/cats, assist potential adopters, update eb pages and do filing, as well as some cleaning. They recently lost a vet tech who was giving 20 hours a week doing vaccinations, fecals, tests, wor ings and adoption assistance and "greeting" the public. i