It's Simple... Without Our Volunteers We Couldn't Do What We Do.
It's Hard Work. It's Dirty Work. It Can Be Emotionally Hard At Times.
Volunteering at our main rescue facility is an amazing experience. Many of our dogs have minimal contact with people and the importance of having volunteers coming out to walk them and play with them or simply sitting with them cannot be understated.
A Cortez Rescue and Outreach van is generally availabe and carpooling is encouraged. Come walk dogs, help move them from their kennels to the larger yards and back OR come for puppy snuggles in our air-conditioned casita where puppies can enjoy supervised playtime.
You'll get dusty and dirty but have a lot of fun and feel great about giving your time.
Our Volunteer Coordinator will gather your information and help to get you set up on our schedule.
Please click the link below and fill out our Volunteer application.
Fostering is the loving act of bringing a rescue dog into your home to help socialize, train, provide a break from our shelter environment, or recover from a medical procedure.
Fostering a Cortez Rescue and Outreach dog is a great way to get involved in our community. Many people who are "part timers" in the East Cape area, foster dogs from our rescue while they are here. Those who vacation here will often step up and take one of our pups to foster short term. You might be surprised by how much YOUR life is enhanced by your foster dog. The positive effects of fostering can not be over stated -
FOSTERING SAVES LIVES!
Please click the link below and fill our our Dog Foster application.
Airport Volunteer Drivers are needed when one of our lucky pups is adopted and gets to fly out.
It's all pretty simple... One of our volunteers will pick up the dog at the Cortez Rescue and Outreach facility in Las Cuevas along with their kennel & completed paperwork and meets the flight angel/escort at the San Jose del Cabo Airport. (Complete details are provided when you sign up).
The Vanimal is the Cortez Transport Van that serves the purpose of moving dogs around typically further distances. We frequently need drivers to take a load of dogs from the rescue to the US border as they travel north to their forever homes. If you like dogs and driving, this may the perfect job for you!
Please click the link below and fill out our Volunteer application.
We have fantastic opportunities available to be an escort for one of our adopted Cortez Rescue and Ouchreach dogs... at no cost to you!
We make it super easy for you to help save dogs lives. We meet you at the airport with the lucky dog and all necessary paperwork. If the dog is larger than 20 pounds, it will go in cargo and if less than 20 pounds, it may qualify to go with you "in cabin". You can tell us if you have a preference, but most of our dogs do go in cargo. A porter handles the crate and brings the dog to check in with you.
When you arrive at your destination, if the dog traveled in the hold, you will go through customs as usual then to pick up the dog in the oversize luggage area, which is typically where the adopter, foster or driver will meet you to pick up the lucky dog.
If the dog traveled with you then you both go through customs and meet at a predetermined spot.
It's that easy and is such an important piece to giving our rescue dogs a new life! The joy and satisfaction is such a rewarding experience shared by all of our Flight Angel Escorts. Thank you!
Please Contact Us and put the word ESCORT in the subject line. That's it! We'll be in Touch!
The Los Barriles Saturday Market, although seasonal, is a great opportunity for Cortez Rescue and Outreach to showcase ourselves as well as our swag and also to spread the word to our local community market attendees about what we do. It's another fantastic opportunity to collect donations and sell our logo merchandise which all goes to help fund our rescue and save more dogs.
In sync with the Los Barriles Saturday Markets we hold Cortez Rescue and Outreach PupUps at Mini Cortez a short walk from the market. There we have a rotating selection of our available dogs along with several of our volunteers available to answer any questions you may have. It's a great way to meet some pups, maybe take one for a leash walk and who knows, you may even find your new best friend!
Cortez Rescue and Outreach is in constant need of volunteers to work our PopUp table at the market AND at our PupUps at Mini Cortez.
If you have an interest in promoting the great work of Cortez Rescue and Outreach, maybe selling dog supplies and accepting donations, or just hanging out and helping with the dogs, please Contact Us.
Our facilities need regular maintenance to keep them in optimal condition. The harsh Baja sun, blowing wind and occasional hurricane can be hard on most everything here and at times destructive.
Keeping our facility in shape requires a lot of work and volunteer hours. Cortez Rescue and Outreach periodically needs new fencing, shade covers, painting, general maintenance, the list goes on.
If you'd like to join us with your skills OR muscle for one of our Project Events like our Fan Installations, where a cooling fan was installed in every dog kennel, we can sure use it!
Contact Us with a short message of what your skills or interests are and we will be in touch.
Of Course, If You Prefer To Support Us Through A Donation for Supplies and Materials, we are always grateful for that too!
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