Arizona Animal Welfare League and Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (AAWL & SPCA) will try to place all of its adoptable animals in new homes during a one-day event from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 30 at 30 N. 40th Place in Phoenix to "empty the shelter." Adoption fees will be lowered to enable more people to adopt homeless pets, making room for AAWL & SPCA to save more lives.

Arizona Animal Welfare League and Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (AAWL & SPCA) will try to place all of its adoptable animals in new homes during a one-day event from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 30 at 30 N. 40th Place in Phoenix to "empty the shelter." Adoption fees will be lowered to enable more people to adopt homeless pets, making room for AAWL & SPCA to save more lives.

Gilbert’s Friends for Life no-kill animal sanctuary found homes for 13 cats and dogs following the annual New Year, New Home campaign to find homes for pets who’d been with the shelter a year or more.

A generous donation from a man who wishes to remain anonymous has allowed Arizona's oldest and largest no-kill animal shelter to expand.

A generous donation from a man who wishes to remain anonymous has allowed Arizona's oldest and largest no-kill animal shelter to expand.

Bitsy is rehabing from knee surgery, B.B. is no longer behind bars and Flint is off the streets.

The Arizona Animal Welfare League and Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (AAWL & SPCA) is looking for your vote to be chosen for a life-saving competition.

In the last decade and a half, animal shelters in numerous communities have implemented a bold series of programs and services to reduce birthrates, increase adoptions, and keep animals with their responsible caretakers. As a result, they are achieving unprecedented results, saving upwards of 95 percent of all impounded animals in their animal control facilities. These communities share very little demographically. What they do share is leadership at their shelters with a passion for lifesaving and who have comprehensively implemented a key series of programs and services, collectively referred to as the “No Kill Equation.”

Friends for Life Animal Rescue will host and be the beneficiary of an annual special dinner and silent auction called Furry Tails Can Come True, from 6 to 10 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 25 at The Buttes, 2000 Westcourt Way in Tempe.

The Arizona Animal Welfare League and Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (AAWL & SPCA) and HALO (Helping Animals Live On) Animal Rescue will host the "Empty the Shelter" 12-hour Adopt-a-thon Challenge from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 21, at the AAWL & SPCA shelter at 30 N. 40th Place, (just north of Washington Street and east of 40th Street). Public parking will be available on the northeast and northwest corners of 40th and Washington streets.

The Arizona Animal Welfare League and Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (AAWL & SPCA) and HALO (Helping Animals Live On) Animal Rescue will host the "Empty the Shelter" 12-hour Adopt-a-thon Challenge from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 21, at the AAWL & SPCA shelter at 30 N. 40th Place, (just north of Washington Street and east of 40th Street). Public parking will be available on the northeast and northwest corners of 40th and Washington streets.

A sign outside the Arizona Humane Society says the cat you are about to surrender will most likely be put to death. Yet still the public swamps the Humane Society with more than 700 cats a week, nearly twice as many as their two shelters can handle. The intake numbers are equally as startling at Maricopa County Animal Care and Control. Even though cats are now America's No. 1 pet, they perish at an alarming rate in Maricopa County.

As people have suffered in a dire economy, so have pets, and shelters are struggling with a supply that far outstrips demand.

Caught in a feline frenzy, pet shelters across the Valley and even a Mesa couple are hoping to find the “purr-fect” home for cats and kittens at affordable rates as the amount of homeless cats continues to increase.

Cindy, a rambunctious 10-year-old Maine coon cat, is expected to get a home soon — after being taken in by a Gilbert animal shelter more than a year ago. If adopted, she’ll leave behind 17 other cats and dogs that have been at the Friends for Life shelter for more than a year.

April 16, 2005

Caught in a feline frenzy, pet shelters across the Valley are hoping to find the "purr-fect" home for cats and kittens at affordable rates as the amount of homeless cats continues to increase.

Caught in a feline frenzy, pet shelters across the Valley are hoping to find the "purr-fect" home for cats and kittens at affordable rates as the amount of homeless cats continues to increase.

The Gilbert Police Department is looking for two women who reportedly asked for fraudulent HALO Animal Rescue donations from a citizen in Gilbert during a door-to-door solicitation.