VOLUNTEERING WITH OUR HORSE PROGRAM
Utah Animal Adoption Center does not have a central facility for our horses, so our volunteer opportunities are limited to the following: hauling hay, transporting horses to vet appointments and foster homes; training our horses with natural horsemanship methods, volunteering in our booth and representing our horses at the Horse Expo and various community events. Volunteers must be at least 16 years old and have experience working with and handling horses.

Utah Animal Adoption Center currently has 40 horses in our program awaiting adoption, all living in volunteer foster homes.  UAAC provides or reimburses our foster homes for hay, any supplements, all vet and farrier care.  The foster  home is responsible for daily feeding, exercise, watering, and regular brushing, gentling if you feel confident, and of course TLC.  Of course, if the foster home
ends up falling in love with their fosterling, they have the first dibs to adopt at a reduced fee.

Because horses are such gregarious, herd animals (a necessity for survival), we've found that people who have only one horse love to foster for us, because it gives their single horse the companionship they crave.

For our foster and adoptive homes, our requirements are:  safe fencing (no barbed wire to avoid  preventable tragedies we've seen too much of); basic shelter; constant access to fresh water.

With rising hay and gasoline prices, and over-development of horse property, there are more horses needing our help all the time.  But we can only save horses if we have  available foster homes.  We do our best to match you up with a horse that meets your expectations, level of experience, preferences etc.

We post all our horses on our website, will screen prospective adopters, and only refer them to you to meet the horse once we feel it may be a good home.  The foster homes have input on the potential new home.  The adoption fee for pasture pals (horses that  cannot be ridden due to age or injury) is $300.  The adoption fee for sound horses is $750.  Please complete and mail or email 1 copy each of the volunteer application and foster agreement; keep one set for your records.  When we receive the forms, we will contact you to set up an appointment to meet you and do a facility visit.  We look forward to working with you and having your help…for the love of horses!