This rescue runs on volunteer hours. Every one of them.
Beauties of the Beasts is 100% volunteer-run — no paid staff, no overhead. Every hour someone gives goes straight into keeping an animal alive, keeping a family together, or getting the next one home. There's a real, concrete way to help here, whether you have five hours a month or fifty.
There is no staff. There is only us.
Every enclosure cleaned, every application reviewed, every reptile driven to a vet appointment — a volunteer did that. This isn't a mission-statement line: without volunteers, this rescue does not function. If you've been looking for a place where your time directly changes what happens to an animal, this is it.
Real roles, not busywork.
We're a small, home-based rescue, so every role here is work we need done right now — not a task invented to make volunteers feel included.
Animal Care Support
Feeding, enclosure cleaning, and husbandry support during intake and quarantine. Hands-on experience with reptiles, working alongside us in our space.
Transport & Pickup
Driving a surrendered or adopted reptile between Yuma-area locations. Flexible, occasional, and one of the most immediately useful things a volunteer can do.
Application Review
Helping evaluate adoption applications for enclosure readiness and species fit. Good for someone with reptile-keeping experience who wants to help from home.
Supply & Donation Support
Organizing donated supplies, picking up feeder and habitat donations, and helping stock what the Human Sanctuary hands out to families in need.
Outreach & Social Media
Helping tell the story of the animals in our care — photos, captions, community posts. No reptile experience required, just consistency.
Bunch a Bull Bulldog Rescue
Foster and transport support specifically for our bulldog program. Visit the Bulldog Rescue page for details.
Honest about what we need from you.
Reliability matters more than experience. A volunteer who shows up when they say they will is worth more to us than someone with years of reptile-keeping knowledge who flakes on commitments.
Roles that involve direct animal handling start with a short orientation in our space — no formal certification required, just our protocols learned before you handle an animal unsupervised.
We're a small operation without a formal HR process. If something isn't working, for you or for us, we'll tell you directly — and we'd want the same from you.
Tell us how you'd like to help.
Email us with your name, general availability, and which role from above interests you. We respond personally to every message, usually within a few days.
Can't volunteer your time right now? A donation still helps directly.