Help brighten the lives of senior citizens and patients in rehab facilities by bringing furry friends for a fun visit! During the week, volunteers bring A&F adoptable dogs or their own alumnis to spread love to the residents at senior homes around the city.
Thursday 8/25 at 3:00 PM, Colonial Oaks Spring Hill
Friday 9/2 at 2:00 PM, Colonial Oaks Leawood
Thursday 9/8 at 3:00 PM, Colonial Oaks Spring Hill
Wednesday 9/14 at 10:30 AM, Spring Hill Rehab
Friday 9/16 at 2:00 PM, Colonial Oaks Leawood
Thursday 9/22 at 3:00 PM, Colonial Oaks Spring Hill
Wednesday 9/28 at 10:30 AM, Spring Hill Rehab
Please arrive at the barn early enough to pick up a pup and drive to the facility. We often carpool to the Spring Hill facilities and meet up at the Leawood facility.
Most visits last about 30 minutes.
Masks and COVID vaccination required per the facility’s requirement
Upcoming Events
The list below will be updated regularly with upcoming events that we need volunteers to help with! If you’d like to receive notifications every time an event is added, follow our Event Volunteers Facebook Page!
This rescue is inviting all rescues out for a joint adoption event! We are limited to 5 dogs so sign up early to help bring a pup to this event.
Roots Festival
Friday August 26th – Saturday August 27th from 12 pm – 9 pm
Paola Town Square
The festival donated a booth space to us so we can spread the word about the Osawatomie pound! Please help man the booth and/or bring an adoptable pup by for a bit.
5K-9 at De Soto Days
Sunday September 4th at 7 am
De Soto, KS
Help A&F put on it’s first 5k ever! We are partnering with the historic De Soto Days Festival and will need volunteers to help check in guests, run the stop clock, play music, man water stations, and assist runners. Volunteer tshirts available for $10.
Labor Day Parade
Monday September 5th (morning)
Louisburg
Volunteers needed to walk pups through the parade, grab a pup from the barn, Oz, Greely, or your foster pup!
Open Hangar Days Adoption Event
Saturday September 10 from 10-3 pm
New Century Airport
Lunch provided for volunteers
Grab a pup from the barn and bring them to this adoption event! The event will be held inside the airplane hangar, we will have an info table with a spot for the dogs to hang out all day long!
Dog Days – Adoption Event
Friday September 16th from 5-7 pm
Downtown OP
The folks at Downtown OP are having a Dog Days event and invited us to partner with them by bringing some adoptable pups out! Please help bring a pup to our adoption tent there.
Spring Hill Fall Festival & Parade
Parade – Saturaday Sept 24th at 10 am (line up at 8 am)
Festival – all day Saturday the 24th & Sunday the 25th
Spring Hill City Park
Volunteers needed to walk pups through the parade and also bring pups to our merch tent during the festival!
Tee Up for Tails Golf Tournament
Friday September 30th from 9 am – 2 pm
Fred Arbanas Golf Course, Lee’s Summit
Volunteers needed all hands on deck for this event! Stay tuned to see how you can help. We will need people to run the check in table, monitor the silent auction, deliver refreshments to golfers, and more!
CROP Walk
Saturday October 8th
Kansas City
The CROP organization is seeking new ways to fundraiser for their cause relating to world hunger. A&F is partnering with them to bring some of our adoptable dogs out! We will either have them help out at water stations or find volunteers to have them actually walk through the course.
Parades!
Adoption Events!
Finding Families!
Spreading happiness!
Vet Drivers
All our pups have medical issues and are always needing transport from different locations to the vets we use around the metro!
Vets we commonly use:
Gardner Animal Hospital
Red Oak in Bucyrus
Dearborn Animal Clinic in Mission
Blue Spring Animal Hospital
Heritage Animal Hospital in Spring Hill
Blue Pearl Pet Hospital of Overland Park, Lee’s Summit, and KCMO
Wellspring Animal Hosptial of Wichita
VESH – Veterinary Emergency & Specialty Hospital of Wichita
We rescue pups from all over the country and always need more drivers to help pick up these poor pups from the kill shelters and help deliver them to the barn or a foster home, you get to be the first bit of A&F love these pups receive!
We need help everywhere, but mostly pull our animals from Wichita, Oklahoma City, rural Oklahoma, Eastern Kansas, Northern Arkansas, and St. Louis
Around Town
Senior Home Visits
Help brighten the lives of senior citizens and patients in rehab facilities by bringing furry friends for a fun visit! During the week, volunteers bring A&F adoptable dogs or their own alumnis to spread love to the residents at senior homes around the city.
Upcoming Events
The list below will be updated regularly with upcoming events that we need volunteers to help with! If you’d like to receive notifications every time an event is added, follow our Event Volunteers Facebook Page!
Vet Drivers
All our pups have medical issues and are always needing transport from different locations to the vets we use around the metro!
Freedom Drivers
We rescue pups from all over the country and always need more drivers to help pick up these poor pups from the kill shelters and help deliver them to the barn or a foster home, you get to be the first bit of A&F love these pups receive!