Friends of Pinal Pets 501c3
Friends of Pinal County Animal Shelter and Rescues has changed their name to, Friends of Pinal Pets, Inc.
It's a shorter name, with an expanded focus!
The new name reflects an added mission, preventing pets from even entering a shelter. Pinal County Animal Care and Control (PCACC), located near Casa Grande, is running at or above 150% of capacity. There are simply more dogs and cats needing homes than ever!
Processes that will prevent dogs and cats from even entering a shelter is an immediate and a long-term goal to address the overcrowding. Placing more animals in a facility not designed for the current demand PCACC is seeing, creates issues with staffing, volunteer efforts and daily management of a safe housing place for animals.
An overcrowded shelter environment can be detrimental to the behavioral health of some pets, making adoptions challenging.
Friends of Pinal Pets will focus on creating and funding processes, such as assistance with spay/neuter programs, that will ultimately reduce the number of dogs and cats needing temporary shelter. The non-profit organization will also pursue additional methods, focused on preventing animals from coming into the shelter.
The volunteer-run Friends of Pinal Pets will continue with their original goals as well. A primary goal is financial support for shelter dogs and cats that have medical needs beyond the financial resources of the county shelter, as well as funding medical equipment and services at the PCACC facility. The groups second goal is to provide resource support to local animal rescue groups working with PCACC.
Request for Support
Although we are focused on supporting Pinal County Animal Care & Control, we very much appreciate the rescue organizations that assist PCACC by pulling animals to get them adopted.
Where we can, we try to help smaller rescue organizations that don't have sufficient resources to provide medical care to the animals they pull from the shelter. This medical care should be that which is life-saving and/or improves adoptability.
If your rescue organization needs help, please complete the form to the left to ask us for help. We will have additional questions for you, but this will get the ball rolling.
Requirements for Funding
Please note that although we want to help everyone who asks, we do not have limitless resources and rely on our donors to support our efforts. To that end, the more information you provide us, the better. Photos of the animal pre- and post-medical care are helpful, as are vet bills.
If we fund your request, we will also ask that you provide us information about how our funding made a difference. We'd also really appreciate your providing us any additional information on the animal as you receive it.
Thanks!