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CLAWS, Inc. is currently accepting apprentice wildlife rehabilitators. If this is something that interests you and you would like to learn how to do it first hand, under the supervision of licensed, experienced wildlife rehabilitators, please contact us. You will be required to commit to a certain number of hours per week. With this program, you will learn how to deal with intakes, feed, assess medical conditions, treat many medical conditions, and care for animals from intake to release. This program does not include fawn rehabilitation.

We are, part of the Carrboro/Chapel Hill School District's Service Learning Hours program. So hours spent helping us with certain projects can count toward these hours and help you toward graduation.

You can see some of the fun that some of our volunteers have had here though.

For safety reasons, all animal care and habitat cleaning must be done strictly by us. This is an ongoing, every day process.

There are other ways you can volunteer to help these animals however.

Additions to the perimeter fence building. This does not require individuals to be in where the animals are, so it is an acceptable way to volunteer here without risking any injury to or by the animals.
Building enrichment for the animals. This entails researching the animals' natural behavior, in order to build things that would "entertain" them in their current environment.
Building den boxes and other such structures.
Building our outdoor, climate controlled building.
Help at booths. We do booths at many of the local fairs and festivals. While we cannot have volunteers handling the animals, we can have them helping to talk to people, hand out literature, and help to educate people about the plight of these animals as well as responsible pet ownership. In order to help with this activity, you will need an understanding of these things, which we are happy to help with.
Helping with fundraising. We are in constant need of funds and are planning some great fundraisers soon that we would love help in carrying through.
We need people who are willing to help with artwork for our programs or donate artwork for an auction we are planning.
Helping with research. Though we know the animals who live here pretty well, there is such a variety of them, and new things coming to light every day, that we always welcome anybody who wants to help us research about the animals, including, but not limited to, dietary needs as well as cage enrichment.

If you are interested in helping with any of these things, please email us.

Also, anybody who has experience writing for grants or finding grants to apply, your services are greatly needed.

CLAWS, Inc. a Non-profit Corporation

Contact Information

Location: CLAWS, Inc is located just outside of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.; We are happy to do programs anywhere within an hour and a half radius of our location.

Credentials: You may see our permits on our permit page.

Electronic mail: General Information: mrsclaws@nc-claws.org; Phone Number: 919-619-0776 (please do not call after 6PM unless it is an emergency)

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CLAWS, Inc. carries full liability insurance. We have never had an incident.
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