Welcome to the Feb. 24 issue of Shelter Scoop - news from Pima Animal Care Center

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An update from Steve Kozachik, PACC Director

Vol. 1, No. 11 - Feb. 24, 2025

Volunteers change and save lives every day

at PACC

At PACC, we are immensely grateful for and proud of our large community volunteer support team. Our volunteers are an integral part of making PACC a successful operation. They’re here at all hours of the day and night, seven days per week, on holidays – without our volunteers we would not be able to run the shelter in the ways that we do.

Think of how you keep your pets occupied at home. Clearly here at the shelter we can’t provide big screens and ‘relevant’ programming for our critters the way many of us can do at home. Our volunteers find other ways to nurture, enrich and decompress our animals.

One of the most popular volunteer tasks is simply dog walking. To the immediate north of the shelter, we’ve got large water features that serve as an attractive place for walking. Here’s Anita with one of our pooches. She’s one of roughly 1,200 active volunteers who help keep the dogs and cats comfortable.

And just giving some TLC to our pups is a daily part of what the volunteers do.

Dog and cat handling are just a couple of the many ways people volunteer at PACC. A few weeks ago, I shared the Paws and Pages program where people come and read to the animals. There’s also work in our clinic, helping prep for and staff outside events, and plenty more here on site at the shelter.

If you’d like to volunteer, please learn more on our website. There’s a short on-boarding exercise you’ll be asked to complete and then it’s honing in on getting you trained up for the areas you’re most interested in helping with.

PACC’s a great place to do community service. You’re helping us decompress the animals, which in turn makes them more adoptable. And that’s our ultimate goal: Get them out of the shelter and into homes. Thanks are due to all of our volunteers. PACC and the animals in our care are in a better place due to your work.

With thanks,

Steve Kozachik, PACC Director

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Pima Animal Care Center is Southern Arizona’s largest animal services agency and only open-admission animal welfare facility. PACC serves the unincorporated County, the cities of Tucson and South Tucson, and the town of Oro Valley. It has hundreds of pets available for adoption and foster, including puppies, kittens, dogs, cats and small animals.