Welcome to the Jan. 5 issue of Shelter Scoop - news from Pima Animal Care Center

I’m close friends with the founder and executive administrator from the Kaimas Foundation. It’s a local group that has worked on a wide variety of issues with me over the past 15 years. Some of those include human trafficking, support for Afghan refugees, transitional housing for homeless women, and they stepped up to support the Friends of PACC clinic when they opened.

Kaimas has been working on some of those same issues in Hawaii. Recently they also began to address the issue of cat colonies and the local inability to manage them. Hold that thought.

In the PACC clinic our veterinarians, vet techs and the rest of the top-notch staff perform 40-50 spay/neuter surgeries every day in addition to dozens of other emergency surgeries. When out in the field with the mobile medical unit they do similar numbers, in addition to vaccinations, microchipping and wellness exams. Our clinic doesn’t take a back seat to anybody when it comes to high volume surgeries.

Ok, back to Kaimas and Hawaii. As a way of helping their local veterinary community address the significant cat issue they’re facing, Kaimas flew several of our clinic leadership over for a week during which they trained Hawaiian vets how to safely and humanely conduct high volume surgeries.

(The photo above is our head vet counseling some of the people they worked alongside throughout that week.)

And here are two of our supervisors who made the trip and took part in the whole affair.

You can see the trip was lots of work, with some mixed in downtime.

Most of the general public is unaware of the significant medical work we do at PACC literally every day. It was our pleasure to send our team to assist another community in getting their own animal population under control. Huge thanks to Kaimas for making it possible – and for the important work they’re doing both within and outside of the animal welfare world.