Perla Cortez EDINBURG – The Palm Valley Animal Society-Laurie P. Andrew’s Center celebrated its 50th anniversary
Donations are the main source of income to maintain operations.
Jarod Muñoz, the donations relations manager at PVAS, explained how the donations make a difference.
“Donations are kind of our blood life here,” said Muñoz. “Those donations go to vaccines, and to dogfood and it keeps the lights on here at the facility. We use these donations to pay for vets since we do not have any onsite vet or anything like that.”
Although veterinarians are not available for medical services every day, Lizette Soria, a veterinary technician specialist, said that daily checkups on the animals are offered at the facility.
“Our day to day is just kind of coming in making sure that while they [animals] are in our care,” Soria said. “They get medicine that they need, that they are up to date with their vaccines and preventatives.”
Providing care for the animals with limited resources is not the only challenge for the facility.
According to the development team at PVAS there have been four hoarding cases back-to-back this year.
“It was quite the event to happen, it was pretty insane earlier this year, and thanks to our rescue groups and foster families, we were able to open up space here in the shelter,” Muñoz said.
Muñoz said the facility accepts multiple forms of donations. “If you can’t donate money, something was always looking for is dog food and cat food, right now we are in desperate need of dog food,” said Muñoz. “Any donation of any size of dog food will be greatly appreciated and you can donate those to our Trenton location in Edinburg.”
You can make donations to the PVAS facilities at pvastx.org.
