Get a new best buddy to beat the summertime blues by heading to Pima Animal Care Center’s special late-night Friday events throughout June. The shelter will be open from noon to 8:15 p.m to end each week, and will also host a different adoption event every week, which will announced on PACC’s Facebook and Instagram.
Because PACC is far above capacity — with 500 dogs and 128 cats at the shelter, and hundreds in foster homes due to an increase in animal intakes and a slowdown in foster and adoption rates — this Friday, June 7, all adoptions are free.
“Shelters typically see lower adoption and foster rates in the summer months, as college students head home, snowbirds head north, and vacation season begins,” PACC official said in a press release.
Fees are waived for most dogs and puppies, and they are also microchipped, spayed or neutered, with up-to-date on vaccinations. A $20 licensing fee may apply to some adult dogs on days when adoptions are not entirely free.
Free chips & tags
To help stem the number of dogs who end up stray after being scared by July 4 fireworks, PACC is providing free ID tags and microchip services on Wednesdays through July 3.
About 65% of the dogs who come into the overcrowded Pima Animal Care
Center are strays, and most don’t have any form of identification, said
Monica Dangler, PACC’s director of Animal Services.
Only about a third of stray dogs are reunited with their owners.
“We see pets come into PACC every day that are clearly loved and
well-cared for,”” said Dangler. “By hosting these clinics, we’re hoping
to help pet owners get the tools they need to make sure that their pets
can make it home if they’re lost.”
Dogs are often frightened by the booms and flashes of fireworks displays
around July 4, and end up escaping from their homes and backyards.
The
shelter “typically sees its busiest week of the year” at that time
because there are so many Independence Day strays, officials said.
The free drive-through microchip clinics will take place every Wednesday
from May 29 through July 3 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the West Side shelter.
PACC will be offering free customized ID tags to all attendees. If
owners need collars for their dogs, they will be available for $3
through Friends of PACC.
PACC, 4000 N. Silverbell Rd., is also open on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon to 7 p.m., on Wednesdays from 1:30 – 7 p.m., and on weekends from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more info: http://www.pima.gov/animalcare
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