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Welcome and thank you for your interest in the Michigan Animal Adoption Network (MAAN)! All of our operations can only be successful through volunteer efforts and donations. We are always looking for both.

The Animal Care Network

The Animal Care Network, also known as the "Doghouse Project", is an endeavor consisting of teams of volunteers who visit low income areas in suburban Wayne and Oakland counties each weekend to provide supplies and attention to strictly outdoor animals who have been neglected. We are looking for volunteers able to cope with the often harsh conditions we see.

These animals spend their entire lives outside, often under miserable conditions. ACN volunteers visit approximately 10 to 30 locations each weekend and are there to provide doghouses, clean straw, fresh food and water in clean bowls, tie-out chains, collars, and a little attention to animals and owners in need of assistance. ACN runs are not always pretty and volunteers have encountered some awful situations. But knowing that we are easing an animal's suffering is all we need to keep us going. We also work to educate owners about proper pet care and have developed an aggressive spay/neuter campaign in these areas. If you have a few hours each week or each month, this program could be right up your alley!

IMPORTANT: Only our weekly team activities in Pontiac and Inkster, our participation in Protect-A-Pet Low Cost vaccination clinics, and other specifically designated ACN activities will be considered authorized ACN activities. Unauthorized ACN activities will result in immediate dismissal of the volunteer from both the ACN and MAAN.

Established ACN volunteers only! Please contact Marie Skladd to sign up for ACN runs in either Pontiac or Inkster.

Fostering Animals

Fostering animals entails bringing unknown animals into your home, maintaining all medical care, working hard on socialization and training, and generally treating them as your own pets so that they are ready to be pets in someone else's home. Most animals available for adoption in our Adopt-A-Pet program are housed in our foster care system. Foster caregivers are encouraged to maintain a relationship with adopters. After all, you've put a lot of work into making these animals ready for placement into permanent homes. Foster caregivers must also agree to take the animal back into foster care should the placement not work out. Fostering an animal can be a most rewarding endeavor. If you feel you can offer an animal a temporary home, please contact the Network office at 248 545-5055 for more details.

Please consider offering your volunteer services. We always need your assistance and you'll be incredibly rewarded for your efforts. Please read over our Volunteer Liability Waiver. Print then complete the form and mail it. The return of the completed waiver is required in order to volunteer for us. If you have any questions, please feel free to call the Network office at 248 545-5055. We know we can't save them all, but we can make a difference for the animals that do touch our lives each day.

The Michigan Animal Adoption Network has scheduled several free Protect-A-Pet shot clinics this year. If you are able to volunteer for one or more of them, please contact us to sign up! We are looking for 20-30 volunteers to assist at each clinic.

Protect-A-Pet

The Michigan Animal Adoption Network schedules several Low Cost Protect-A-Pet shot clinics each year. If you are able to volunteer, please contact us to sign up! We are looking for 20-30 volunteers to assist us.

Low Cost Spay or Neuter Clinics

The Michigan Animal Adoption Network schedules several Low Cost Spay/Neuter Clinics every year. Please consult the events page for the next scheduled clinic.