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07 Feb 2012

February is the Month of Love at Animal Care & Control Changes to Office Hours & Adoption Fees for February Only

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by: Heather Murphy

For the entire month of February, Pinal County Animal Care & Control is dropping the fee to adopt a dog to $55 and dropping the cat adoption fee to just $20.

“The decision to add a pet to your household should be carefully thought out but our shelter pets have so much love to share, we wanted to try a month long promotion,” said Animal Care & Control Director Kaye Dickson.  “We also have to make temporary changes to our hours and days of operation, due to other outreach events and an injured staff person who required emergency surgery.” 

The shelter will not be open on Saturdays in February but will instead stay open an extra hour each weekday.  Pinal County Animal Care & Control will be open from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Monday through Friday.

“Our kennel technicians will tend to the animals in the shelter throughout the weekend but sufficient staffing will not be available to open for the public,” Dickson said.

“I want people to know that we can make arrangements for lost or stray animals to be returned to their owners on the weekend,” Dickson emphasized.  “All they need to do is call us on Friday and we’ll make a weekend appointment for a staff person to reunite them with their lost pet.”

Pinal County’s Adoption Center and Animal Control offices are at 1150 South Eleven Mile Corner.

Animal Control officers will host a rabies vaccination/licensing clinic in February in Florence on February 25 from 9 AM to 11 AM at the Florence Dog Park Mutt Show.  The dog park is located at 200 East 8th Street.

Calls for Animal Care & Control services are handled at 520-509-3555 or toll free at 888-431-1311.  For information about lost or found pets or to see information on animals for adoption at the shelter, go to Animal Control on www.pinalcountyaz.gov or use this shortened URL:  http://goo.gl/LqALP.  Lost and Found is in red near the bottom of the page.  PetHarbor is the website used to list adoptable animals at the shelter.

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Heather Murphy

Heather Murphy

Heather Murphy joined the Pinal County staff in September 2007 as Director of Communications and Public Affairs. Previously, she served nearly eight years managing communications for the Arizona Corporation Commission, a state regulatory agency. Her professional career has involved work with corporations, non-profits and government. She holds several professional certifications in emergency response and recovery. Following Hurricane Katrina, she took a brief leave of absence from the state to assist FEMA and the state of Louisiana with the launch of the Find Family National Call Center. There she gained valuable real-world crisis communications experience. Murphy is a graduate of the national Emergency Management Institute’s Advanced Public Information Officer training and is certified instructor for the basic PIO course offered by the Arizona Division of Emergency Management. In her leisure time, she is an avid photographer and serves on the board of a statewide pet rescue organization.

Website: pinalcountyaz.gov/Departments/NewsInformation/Pages/Home.aspx

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  • Address
    31 N Pinal Street
  • City
    Florence
  • State or Province
    AZ
  • Zip Code
    85132
  • Country
    United States
  • Telephone
    520-866-6057

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