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Southeast Missouri Pets coordinator seeks volunteers, highlights mobile adoption events in Cape Girardeau
Summary
Gina Roy, volunteer coordinator at Southeast Missouri Pets, told listeners the Cape Girardeau shelter takes in animals daily, provides spay/neuter and microchipping, and runs mobile adoptions; she asked residents to volunteer or adopt but did not provide specific adoption-rate figures or business hours in the transcript.
Gina Roy, volunteer coordinator at Southeast Missouri Pets, told attendees that the Cape Girardeau nonprofit shelter takes in cats and dogs "every single day" and runs a volunteer program to help care for animals.
Roy said the shelter is a no-kill facility that prepares animals for adoption by providing veterinary care on site. "We do spay and neuter and microchip and get everybody up to date on shots and fully vetted before they get adoption available and are able to go home," she said.
Roy described volunteer duties and recruitment needs, listing tasks such as "doing laundry, walking dogs, helping cute little puppies" and said she manages the volunteer program. She introduced a 2-month-old puppy named Val, saying, "Val is 2 months old and so happy and full of energy," as an example of animals the shelter places.
The shelter also runs mobile adoptions across the community at venues including Discovery Playhouse and Twisted Biscuit, Roy said, and encouraged local businesses and organizations to host events to help place animals.
Roy told listeners they can visit the shelter during its business hours or contact the organization to learn how to help; the transcript did not specify the shelter's hours or provide numerical adoption-rate figures. "We have a very high adoption rate," she said, without offering exact numbers.
The presentation was an on-the-record appeal for volunteers and hosts for mobile adoption events; no formal votes or policy actions were recorded in the transcript.
