Our volunteers are very special people. They come from all walks of life ...
They are teachers, doctors, housewives, marketing and public relation experts, attorneys, secretaries, nurses, business owners. They put forth their highest quality work effort caring for the store and the cats, tending to over 150 cats' needs. They give up their personal time, asking nothing in return, only wishing to be a part of a solution and a need in their community. Our gratitude and love goes out to them for their kindness and dedication.
We could never do it without them! If you would like to become a House of Mews Volunteer, please sign in to this website by registering. Once you have your password, you can log in and fill out a volunteer form (look for the "User Menu" on the left side of the screen after you log in).
| Ginny Davis & Tom exhibit the VOLUNTEERS' MOTTO T-shirt. |  |
 | Inside the House of Mews |
| Check out the new tile floor Hands On Memphis Volunteers installed in our Back Room of our old store at 944 S. Cooper during their Servathon. 10 Volunteers from different corporate environments installed the floor in 4 hours. Servathon normally involves over 4,000 community volunteers donating their time for ONE 4 hour period on a special Servathon Project Day per year. That's over 16,000 hours of donated volunteer time in ONE DAY! Hands On Memphis Volunteers also volunteer a crew in our store one Saturday and one Sunday per month on a regular basis to help our morning Care Crews. |  |
 | BONNIE HAUB: Bonnie, pictured here with one of her favorite kitties, Elphaba, is a Lead Volunteer for our Sunday morning crew. In her professional life Bonnie is a First Vice President at Morgan Keegan. Bonnie, who is a vegan and her husband, Pete, who is a Captain at Pinnacle Airlines have one kitty, Rowan, who was adopted from The House of Mews. Bonnie is a highly energetic and enthusiastic volunteer and also helps with fundraisers for the store, photographs and updates our kitties on Petfinder.com, and has been our Meowathon 5K Race Director since 2007, during her tenure she has managed to significantly increase Meowathon donations and succes over previous years. |
LYNN SIMMONS - Lynn Simmons has been with us since March of 2002, and formerly she worked with an investment firm.....what a dynamic, energetic and vivacious woman.......Lynn helps with cleaning, vet runs and is willing to do just about anything to care for the kitties and the store........she puts in many hours showing her love. Lynn also works very hard on our 5K Meowathon signing up many sponsors/donators for our Silent Auction at the race. |  |
 | COURTNEY BECKETT: Courtney, pictured with favorite kitty, Sammy, has worked as a volunteer on our Sunday morning crew for several years and in her professional life has a masters degree in teaching. She is also talented in jewelry design. Courtney has a very outgoing and cheerful nature and is one of our most reliable volunteers, she always has a smile on her face and is a pleasure to work with and has been with us since 2002. |
| Ann Hightower with Macchiato Ann was formerly the Assistant Managing Director at The House of Mews. In the past she also worked as a Lead Volunteer heading out several weekday morning Care Crews and in addition, handling Retail/Adoption duties several days a week. In Ann's professional background she is retired from the University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences where she was Chair of the Department of Physical Therapy and later Assistant Dean of Student Affairs in the College of Allied Health Sciences at UT. Ann attended Duke University. Ann still donated time doing special projects for The House of Mews. |  |
 | AMANDA SMITH: Amanda is pictured with "Pork Chop" kitty & volunteers on our retail staff & in the past has also been on the morning crew at the store. Her gentle, kind nature and enthusiastic attitude make her a favorite among the volunteers and kitties too. Amanda is a mechanical engineering major at U of M, & a server at Amerigo Restaurant.Her favorite things are: tortoiseshells, snowboarding, her iPod, bookstores, Walter Anderson paintings, Italian food, theoretical physics, coffee, and naps with Ollie, one of her two Mews alumni, Oliver and Lily. She wanted to volunteer at Mews because her sweet kitty, Olivia was very sick with FIP and she couldn't do anything to make it better. So she gets to help the Mews cats, and she wound up falling in love with them and says she is very proud of what we do. |
| ANNE EMMERTH: Anne, pictured with favorite kitty, Peanut Butter who she fostered and also helped raise her kittens, has been volunteering on our Sunday morning crew for the past couple of years. Anne is always cooperative and ready to work hard and really enjoys a challenge. In her professional life she acts as a Executive Director for Chi Omega Fraternity (now that's gotta be a challenge!). She and her husband, Mike, enjoy traveling. |  |
 | MELISSA HANSON: Melissa Hanson has been volunteering on the Sunday morning crew since September 2008 and is a very caring volunteer, she even fosters our 3 legged kitty, Rock n Roll. She shares her life with her rescued cats. Melissa is the Director of Grants and Research for Christian Brothers University and a freelance theater lighting designer. She helped to coordinate the acting debut of House of Mews star, Hoss, pictured here & who appeared in DeSoto Family Theatre's production of "The Diary of Anne Frank."
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| Michelle Ross (right) and Rhianna Lee (left), both students of Memphis College of Art, have just recently joined the volunteer crew for the House of Mews and are now both part of Saturday’s squad. Michelle spends her time pretending she’s British and working on her animation major while Rhianna reads too many books for her own good and tries to decide between majoring in sculpture or illustration. Here Michelle is trying to hold Ebony, even the old ones need love too, and Rhianna is coaxing Poppy down from the back of her chair. |  |