An update from Steve Kozachik, PACC Director
Vol. 1, No. 24 - June 2, 2025
Helping pet parents access veterinary care key focus of PACC outreach efforts
Our clinic staff does a ton of medical work right here in the PACC clinic. But we recognize there’s a huge unmet need out in the community for spay/neuter, vaccinations, microchipping, licensing and more that exists. Thanks to Friends of PACC, we have a mobile medical unit that is out chipping away at those needs on a regular basis.
Recently the PACC clinic team made the trip out to Quincie Douglas – a community center located on Tucson’s southwest side. When the mobile medical unit goes out, the PACC clinicians can perform 40 spay/neuter surgeries in a day. Those appointments were filled at the Quincie Douglas event by 6 a.m. And here’s what the line for the other important services looked like hours after the event began.
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Amid all of that, there were lots of vaccinations, microchips, and giveaways taking place.
The PACC medical family loves these outreach events. And all of us at PACC recognize the tremendous need that exists.
Pups show up by the bucket full – along with the moms who need to be spayed. We do not need more litters in this community.
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 Our clinic’s ability to conduct these important outreach events is only constrained by our staffing and financial resources. Setting those factors aside, we could be doing these events every day of the week in an effort to get our arms around the overpopulation of dogs in Pima County. So thanks are due to our medical team, to the many other PACC staff and volunteers who support these events, to Friends of PACC for their financial support, and to the members of the public who show up at these events taking the responsible step of altering their animals, getting them vaccinated and getting them microchipped so if they go missing and end up with us we can find their rightful owners.
With thanks,
Steve Kozachik, PACC Director
Want to help? Here's how:
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