The July 4 vacation is across the nook, and which means the busiest week of the 12 months for animal shelters. Pima Animal Care Middle is making ready by internet hosting a free microchip clinic for canine this Saturday and Sunday.

Going down at Kino Sports activities Advanced, 2500 E. Ajo Approach, this Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m to midday, the occasion might be performed as a drive-thru so that folks and their pups can keep comfy of their air-conditioned vehicles.

“PACC sometimes sees about 250 canine come into the shelter within the days
after the vacation,” mentioned PACC’s Director of Animal Companies Monica Dangler.

“We hope to get forward of that by
offering free microchips to Pima County residents this weekend that
will enable them to rapidly reunite with pets who could run away throughout
noisy fireworks celebrations,” she mentioned.

This particularly essential as over the past 12 months PACC, 4000 N. Silverbell Rd., has steadily housed extra canine than they’ve kennels.

“We want people now as a lot as ever, each to undertake and foster and to maintain their pets at house secure,” Dangler mentioned. All PACC pets at the moment are free to undertake, with a $20 licensing charge for grownup canine.