Volunteer | South East Animal Rescue

Foster an Animal

As we have no shelter or centre we depend on a network of foster families to look after animals that come into our care. Foster homes are always needed, the more we have the more animals we can save!

The animals are assessed by our team to decide which families they would suit i.e. if they can be around children, if they get on with other animals, if they need a quiet foster home to make them feel safe and secure due to being the victims of animal cruelty or neglect. Foster families look after the animals until they are placed into their new forever homes.

There is no cost in fostering and it is hugely rewarding knowing that you have helped to save and care for an animal in a practical way until a new happy, loving forever home is found.

If you would like to play a very important role in helping South East Animal Rescue to cater for the needs and welfare of animals then please join the fostering network by filling out the online fostering form here.

Once you have completed the foster form a member of our team will be contact with you as soon as possible to discuss and arrange a home-check.

Upon successful completion of a home-check our team member will discuss the most suitable animals for you that are currently in need of a foster home.

Please also check out our Facebook page to see some of the animals that are currently in need of fostering.

We decided to start helping South East Animal Rescue in January 2018 by fostering dogs. It was one of the best decisions ever. Our first foster dog was ‘Boxty’ a timid, shy Saluki girl who was initially very frightened of people. Seeing her gain confidence in our home each day with a little bit of patience and with the help of our own dogs was so rewarding. There was no better feeling than seeing how happy Boxty was a couple of months later in her forever home with her wonderful new family, she was like a totally new dog, no longer broken from cruelty and neglect but happy and wagging her tail doing ‘zoomies’ around the garden. We have fostered many more gorgeous dogs and puppies since then including Max, Holly, Cooper, and Lily. Of course we did also fail as foster parents once, we just fell too deeply in love and couldn’t let Luna go, or more accurately she wouldn’t let us go, and so we gave her a forever home with us.
Eimear O’Brien & Jamie Kent, Wexford, June 17, 2019.
We decided to start helping South East Animal Rescue in January 2018 by fostering dogs. It was one of the best decisions ever. Our first foster dog was ‘Boxty’ a timid, shy Saluki girl who was initially very frightened of people. Seeing her gain confidence in our home each day with a little bit of patience and with the help of our own dogs was so rewarding. There was no better feeling than seeing how happy Boxty was a couple of months later in her forever home with her wonderful new family, she was like a totally new dog, no longer broken from cruelty and neglect but happy and wagging her tail doing ‘zoomies’ around the garden. We have fostered many more gorgeous dogs and puppies since then including Max, Holly, Cooper, and Lily. Of course we did also fail as foster parents once, we just fell too deeply in love and couldn’t let Luna go, or more accurately she wouldn’t let us go, and so we gave her a forever home with us.
Eimear O’Brien & Jamie Kent, Wexford, June 17, 2019.
We decided to start helping South East Animal Rescue in January 2018 by fostering dogs. It was one of the best decisions ever. Our first foster dog was ‘Boxty’ a timid, shy Saluki girl who was initially very frightened of people. Seeing her gain confidence in our home each day with a little bit of patience and with the help of our own dogs was so rewarding. There was no better feeling than seeing how happy Boxty was a couple of months later in her forever home with her wonderful new family, she was like a totally new dog, no longer broken from cruelty and neglect but happy and wagging her tail doing ‘zoomies’ around the garden. We have fostered many more gorgeous dogs and puppies since then including Max, Holly, Cooper, and Lily. Of course we did also fail as foster parents once, we just fell too deeply in love and couldn’t let Luna go, or more accurately she wouldn’t let us go, and so we gave her a forever home with us.
Eimear O’Brien & Jamie Kent, Wexford, June 17, 2019.
We decided to start helping South East Animal Rescue in January 2018 by fostering dogs. It was one of the best decisions ever. Our first foster dog was ‘Boxty’ a timid, shy Saluki girl who was initially very frightened of people. Seeing her gain confidence in our home each day with a little bit of patience and with the help of our own dogs was so rewarding. There was no better feeling than seeing how happy Boxty was a couple of months later in her forever home with her wonderful new family, she was like a totally new dog, no longer broken from cruelty and neglect but happy and wagging her tail doing ‘zoomies’ around the garden. We have fostered many more gorgeous dogs and puppies since then including Max, Holly, Cooper, and Lily. Of course we did also fail as foster parents once, we just fell too deeply in love and couldn’t let Luna go, or more accurately she wouldn’t let us go, and so we gave her a forever home with us.
Eimear O’Brien & Jamie Kent, Wexford, June 17, 2019.
We decided to start helping South East Animal Rescue in January 2018 by fostering dogs. It was one of the best decisions ever. Our first foster dog was ‘Boxty’ a timid, shy Saluki girl who was initially very frightened of people. Seeing her gain confidence in our home each day with a little bit of patience and with the help of our own dogs was so rewarding. There was no better feeling than seeing how happy Boxty was a couple of months later in her forever home with her wonderful new family, she was like a totally new dog, no longer broken from cruelty and neglect but happy and wagging her tail doing ‘zoomies’ around the garden. We have fostered many more gorgeous dogs and puppies since then including Max, Holly, Cooper, and Lily. Of course we did also fail as foster parents once, we just fell too deeply in love and couldn’t let Luna go, or more accurately she wouldn’t let us go, and so we gave her a forever home with us.
Eimear O’Brien & Jamie Kent, Wexford, June 17, 2019.
Volunteering as a foster parent for South East Animal Rescue has been so rewarding, I have enjoyed every moment of it. Seeing dogs that have been mistreated and are fearful of people start to trust you and express love for you is amazing. It’s a great way for people who are not in a position to have their own dog full time, to still have a beautiful animal at times, and the reward is seeing them find their forever home. Everyone is so helpful, if you have any problems, like the dog not settling, they work with you to help resolve the issue. I can’t recommend fostering enough! It’s well worth a try!!
Catherine Barry, Wexford, October 02, 2019
Volunteering as a foster parent for South East Animal Rescue has been so rewarding, I have enjoyed every moment of it. Seeing dogs that have been mistreated and are fearful of people start to trust you and express love for you is amazing. It’s a great way for people who are not in a position to have their own dog full time, to still have a beautiful animal at times, and the reward is seeing them find their forever home. Everyone is so helpful, if you have any problems, like the dog not settling, they work with you to help resolve the issue. I can’t recommend fostering enough! It’s well worth a try!!
Catherine Barry, Wexford, October 02, 2019

Transport an Animal

We depend on volunteers to help with the transportation of our animals, this includes:

Transporting a stray animal from its finder to the veterinary clinic or foster family.
Transporting a surrendered animal from its owner to the veterinary clinic or foster family.
Transporting an animal to and from its foster home to the veterinary clinic for spaying/neutering, micro-chipping, vaccinating etc.
Transporting an animal from its foster home to its forever home.

If you would like to play a very important role in helping South East Animal Rescue to cater for the needs and welfare of animals then please join as a transport volunteer by filling out the online transport volunteer form here.

Once you have completed the transport volunteer form a member of our team will be contact with you as soon as possible to discuss.

Complete Home-Checks

We depend on volunteers to complete home-checks of potential forever homes for our animals, this includes:

Driving to and from the prospective adopter’s home
Ensuring that what the prospective adopter has said on their adoption questionnaire is accurate. For example, checking that they have a fully secure garden, checking to see if they have other pets and if they are well cared for, neutered/spayed/vaccinated etc.
Completing the home questionnaire see here

If you would like to play a very important role in helping South East Animal Rescue to cater for the needs and welfare of animals then please join as a home-checker volunteer by filling out the online home checker volunteer form here.

Once you have completed the home checker volunteer form a member of our team will be contact with you as soon as possible to discuss.

Assist in the Charity Shop

Do you have a few hours to spare?

We depend on volunteers to help run our charity shop in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford.

Volunteering is a great opportunity to meet people, have fun, and to help support our charity. Shop Volunteers can help in many different ways – organising the stock, dressing the window, preparing goods for sale, helping customers in the shop and helping at the till. They provide a friendly welcome to customers and help the shop to run smoothly.

If you have a few hours to spare each week and you would like to volunteer as a shop assistant then please fill out the online charity shop assistant form here.

Once you have completed the home charity shop assistant form a member of our team will be contact with you as soon as possible to discuss.

We look forward to hearing from you; together we can make a real difference to the lives of the animals in our care.

I would recommend South East Animal Rescue if you are looking for a dog or need to re-home your dog. When we decided to add a dog to the family we spoke to SEAR, they gave us a call when a suitable dog became available, we went to meet him to see if we all got along. Lucky for us we got our perfect new family member pretty quickly.The process was very efficient, and they were very friendly and knowledgeable. Bruno has been with us for a year now and we always keep in touch with SEAR to let them know how he is doing.

I can’t recommend South East Animal Rescue enough, having seen Willow on their page, we knew that she was the dog for us. From the moment of getting in touch with the rescue, they were so helpful, very honest and no pressure at all was put on us if Willow wasn’t for us, we sadly lost our little dog after 18 years and we were nervous taking on a new dog. Willow was well looked after by the Rescue and we are still in touch with them. For any after advice etc. they are so helpful.Willow has settled in great and is very happy as we are with her, she had a sad past but thanks to this Rescue and the care that they gave her, she is now a very happy little dog. Thank you so much South East Animal Rescue.