No-Kill Shelter give animals a second chance

Animals in need of a home need a warm and wonderful place to stay without being mistreated or euthanized. Well, there is such a place that helps give those animals the love and care they need.

The Valley Animal Center is a no-kill shelter for cats and dogs that have been abandoned or neglected.

Community Relations Coordinator, Devon Prendergast says, “We try harder and harder each day to get more adoptions, to get more awareness out there, to help solve the problem of over-population of way too many pets just roaming the streets.”  

When there are animals in need of a loving home, Valley Animal Center takes them in for as long as possible until they get adopted.

“Everyday working here is not rainbows and butterflies. We definitely have our down days, but when we come in and see another adoption has been made, it brings us right back up,” Prendergast said happily.

At the Valley Animal Center, animals like dogs and cats who don’t have a home, are well treated and are welcomed by the people of this facility and the volunteers, but there’s something that makes this place special that stands out from the rest.

Ruben Cantu, Valley Animal Center’s Animal Care Associate, loves working at the shelter saying “With VAC, one of the biggest things is we’re a place of second chances, you know, a lot of the animals that come into our facility are literally on their last chance, whether that be in their family’s home or in an animal control facility where they are on a literal time frame.”

Animals like these are not only given a home, but they make the place wonderful for everyone to work, at the Valley Animal Center. “Every single day these guys are our inspiration of why we come to work every single day, why we choose to work at Valley Animal Center,” Prendergast expressed.

For more information about the Valley Animal Center and how you could get involved, you can call their local office or like them on Facebook at Valley Animal Center.