An update from Steve Kozachik, PACC Interim Director
Vol. 1, No. 7 - Jan. 27, 2025
Offering a helping hand ... or paw
These weekly Scoops are all about good news – so why am I opening with a photo of the L.A. fires?
Over the past week-plus, our PACC intake team, led by manager Kaitlyn Pappas, has been working with Petco Love Lost on getting animals out of shelters in the Los Angeles area. As the week progressed, the number of animals involved bounced around, but in the end, we joined the Arizona Humane Society and the local HSSA team in receiving a total of 70 dogs. PACC received 12, although we had originally said we could take up to 30. The participation of multiple shelters made it so the numbers were spread among us.
Petco Love worked with Wings of Rescue to load a plane in L.A., fly first to Phoenix to drop the Phoenix Humane dogs, and then onto Tucson for ours and those bound for HSSA.
Sidebar – we have a census in our kennels at PACC that is above our capacity. So why would we agree to take on more dogs? Look back up at the photo of what they’re going through in L.A., and you see why the answer could only be yes.
In the week running up to our receiving the California dogs, Kaitlyn worked the phones and by Saturday, ahead of their arrival, all of the dogs coming to PACC had been snapped up by rescues. We are grateful to Fedwell Farms, Benson Rescue, West Valley Rescue, Southwest Animal Rescue and Ironwood Pig Sanctuary for stepping up and each taking some of those animals headed for our kennels.
Here’s a photo of the dogs being unloaded at Tucson International on Saturday afternoon. You can see all of the staff wearing their Petco Love Lost T-Shirts honoring the sponsoring agency.
Nobody hopes for a repeat – nobody hopes for tragedies such as the one we continue to watch unfold in California. And yet it is indeed good news to know the Arizona shelter community and the Arizona rescue community sent a very clear message that we’ve got their backs. And now we’ve got some of their dogs.
While the California dogs were successfully diverted to our rescue partners, we still have a large number of highly adoptable dogs and cats at PACC. Please stop by – your adopting or fostering today will make it less stressful if we’re asked to do our part in alleviating tragic conditions in other locations in the days ahead.
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With thanks,
Steve Kozachik, PACC Interim Director
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