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May 2023

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May is 'Chip Your Pet Month'

Microchips are tiny, grain-of-rice-sized devices implanted under a pet's skin to help professionals identify the pet and reunite them with their loved ones.

That's what happened to this lucky pup, Halo! Halo was only a year old when he was stolen from his owner's yard 10 years ago. He was recently found as a stray and picked up by a Pinal County Animal Care & Control Protection Officer. The officer found Halo had a microchip, and after some research, they discovered Halo was stolen almost nine years ago! We are still determining what Halo has been up to this past decade, but his owner quickly drove down from Glendale to pick him up.

Getting your pet's microchip; it's even more important to keep your contact information updated with the microchip company. In honor of 'Chip Your Pet Month,' Pinal County Animal Care and Control will offer $5 microchips for the month of May; call 520-509-3555 to schedule your pet's microchip appointment.

Pinal County Animal Care and Control is happy to be selected to participate in another Bissell Pet Foundation-sponsored event. In partnership with Dogtopia, Bissell Pet Foundation has selected shelters nationwide to join in waived or reduced-fee adoptions to help more animals find homes. Both organizations are sponsoring the adoption fees for the chosen shelters.

Pinal County is one of the selected shelters and will be doing waived adoptions from May 1st - May 15th. The shelter hopes to have at least 150 adoptions during this two-week event. The Empty, the Shelters event will help clear some kennel space at the shelter, which has been critically full as of late.

Last Friday, Animal Protection Officers (APOs), Murphy, Rodriguez, Johnson, and McGuckin set up in an empty lot in Casa Grande to give out free microchips to pets, offered free dog houses to owners, and information on Pinal County Animal Care & Control's community outreach programs.

Majority of citizens are unaware that PCACC offers free dog houses to those in need. Additionally, officers will do what they can to help with fixing pet owner's fences if their dogs are repeatedly escaping. The shelter also has a Food Bank Program for those that are in need of help purchasing dog or cat food.

The PCACC Animal Protection Officers are constantly striving to keep pets safe and with their owners.

Baker was abandoned on a property with another dog in the middle of the summer of 2022. Baker's owners were renters. When they moved, they left behind two dogs, a male, and a female. The landlord signed both dogs over to Pinal County Animal Care & Control.

The female was quickly adopted, but month after month, Baker seemed to go unnoticed by potential adopters. Very rarely did anybody ever ask to meet Baker, possibly due to him being large but still very puppy-like.

In March of 2023, a local family was gearing up to make a big move to Tennessee and looking for a companion to take with them. Their eyes fell on Baker, and they immediately fell in love! While getting their final moving preparations in place, the family would visit Baker constantly at the shelter until the big moving day!

Baker has kissed the deserts of Arizona goodbye and is now living the dream in Tennessee!

Pinal Pet of the Month

Meet Kolden

May is National Pet Cancer Awareness Month! Kolden is a very special boy who, shortly after arriving at the shelter, was diagnosed with a Transmissible Venereal Tumor (TVT). TVT is a type of cancer that spreads from dog to dog, causing painful lesions and tumors.

Despite the discomfort from this type of cancer, Kolden has never been anything other than a sweetheart to everyone he meets. He is preparing to start his chemotherapy treatment in the next coming weeks. He is currently in a foster home. His foster has expressed how good of a boy Kolden is and will be caring for him while he undergoes treatment.

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