Free customized pet ID tags

PIMA COUNTY: – Pima Animal Care Center’s nonprofit partner, Friends of PACC, in partnership with Central Pet is offering free customized ID tags bearing the pet’s name and phone number for their owner, to help keep pets with the families who love them. Available all year round for anyone, there is no required purchase or limitation on the number of tags an individual can claim. Interested folks should come to PACC’s on-campus Central Pet store any time during PACC’s operating hours.

Monica Dangler, PACC’s Director of Animal Services, said getting pets back home without coming to the shelter is the best way to impact the number of pets at PACC.

“The quickest and easiest way to get a pet back home is by having a visible ID tag on them,” said Dangler. “By putting more tags into the community and continuing to expand PACC’s lost and found programming, we’re hopeful that finders will be able to reunite pets quickly with their families without using shelter resources.” PACC commonly houses around 500 dogs. 60-70% of the dogs that arrive at PACC arrive as strays and have only a 15% and 20% chance of being claimed by their families. Laura O’Brien, board president of Friends of PACC, said the organization hopes this will ease the shelter’s burden. “An ID tag indicates that a found pet has a family; which gets you home as quickly as possible, O’Brien said. “Partnering with Central Pet is an incredible opportunity that we’re excited about, and we thank our Giving Tuesday donors for bringing this idea to fruition.”

To learn more, please go to www.pima.gov/animalcare  To donate to Friends of Pima Animal Care Center in support of their life-saving work on behalf of PACC pets, please visit : www.friendsofpacc.org.