Joy Wegner and Mera Laureys It’s a shorter name, with an expanded focus! Friends of Pinal County Animal Shelter and Rescues has evolved to Friends of Pinal Pets, Inc. The new name reflects an added mission: preventing pets from even entering a shelter. Pinal County Animal Care & Control (PCACC), located near Casa Grande, is…
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May 2024, Generals
Healthy Dogs, Thanks to Friends of Pinal
Joy Wegner and Mera Laureys Theodore is one very lucky dog! When Theodore was just six months old, he arrived at Pinal County Animal Care and Control (PCACC) with a deformed back leg caused by a broken pelvis and leg at a very young age. It was difficult for him to walk normally, but the…
March 2024, Generals
It’s a Double Win-Win
Joy Wegner and Mera Laureys The animal shelter in our county, Pinal County Animal Care and Control (PCACC), has created a double win-win, and you could be one of the winners! PCACC, like many shelters, has been experiencing a tremendous intake of dogs and cats in the last months. To add to this stressful situation,…
Generals, March 2023
Fostering Is the Future
With good reason, traditional orphanages are extinct in the U.S. today. Rather, children are placed with other family members, privately adopted, or placed with foster parents. We’ve learned over time that institutionalized care isn’t the best option for children. How long will it be before we, as a society, come to this conclusion for animals…
Generals, February 2023
Because … They Are Counting on Us!
Linda Lyon Friends of Pinal Animal Shelter and Rescues is a 501(c)(3) that assists Pinal County Animal Care and Control (PCACC) and their supporting rescue organizations by funding lifesaving veterinary care, training, and supplies necessary to enhance quality of life and adoptability. Established in early 2020 by SaddleBrooke resident Mera Laureys, Friends of Pinal (FoP)…
Generals, February 2023
New Beds Go to Pinal County’s Shelter Dogs
Joy Wegner, PCACC Volunteer It sometimes takes a community of committed volunteers to make things happen. In January, 2023, just such a group came together in SaddleBrooke to build 125 customized dog beds for our county’s animal shelter, Pinal County Animal Care and Control (PCACC). It sometimes takes a spark of imagination to begin such…
Generals, November 2022
Dog Bed Project Success Will Continue
Joy Wegner One hundred new dog beds! That’s the ambitious goal for volunteers committed to helping the Pinal County Animal Care and Control (PCACC) shelter provide healthy kennel environments for dogs at the county’s shelter. In 2018, more than 30 donors funded materials to build custom dog beds for the shelter’s kennels. Bud Wegner, a…
Generals, April 2019
Seeking summer substitutes
A special opportunity exists for two or more people that would like to contribute time and talent to support the dogs at the Pinal County Animal Care and Control Shelter (PCACC) without having to interact directly with the shelter’s dogs. Residents of SaddleBrooke, which is located in Pinal County, successfully funded and built nearly 90…
Front Page, December 2018
Generosity helps shelter dogs rest comfortably
Laurel Parrott This is a story about how regular people can make a huge difference for a great cause. When you look after dogs as pets in your home, you make sure they have nice, comfortable beds to sleep on every night, somewhere warm and dry like in outdoor dog kennels, but last spring, SaddleBrooke…