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Sun Valley Animal Shelter, Inc. (Glendale)


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Sun Valley Animal Shelter, Inc., is an Arizona nonprofit corporation with 501 (c)3 status which operates a no-kill shelter in Glendale, Arizona, generally serving the western portion of the Phoenix metropolitan area. The organization was founded in 1991 by a group of Sun City area residents as a foster-based program to provide adoption opportunities for homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. The current facility was built in 1995 and can house 50+ dogs and 100+ cats. The organization receives no government funding and is supported by income from our thrift store profits, adoption fees, membership dues, donations and bequests. We recently received a grant to assist in the construction of a new medical/surgical center at the facility.

We obtain the majority of our animals through the New Hope Program at Maricopa County Animal Care and Control, which involves animals facing imminent euthanasia. The animals taken into our care are housed in a clean, secure environment and are spayed/neutered, microchipped, given all necessary shots and a physical exam. Dedicated volunteers are invaluable in assisting with the daily care and nurturing of our dogs and cats prior to finding a loving home. We are proud to note that in the last several years we have increased adoptions from approximately 300 animals per year to over 1000 animals per year.


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7150 N.110th Avenue
Glendale,AZ 85307

Call Us: 623-872-7941

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1. Feral Cat TNR Program

Many communities are embracing Trap, Neuter, Release programs (TNR) to improve animal welfare, reduce death rates, and meet obligations to public welfare.


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2. High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter

Low cost, high volume spay/neuter will quickly lead to fewer animals entering the shelter system, allowing more resources to be allocated toward saving lives.


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3. Rescue Groups

An adoption or transfer to a rescue group frees up scarce cage and kennel space, reduces expenses for feeding, cleaning, killing, and improves a community's rate of lifesaving. In an environment of millions of dogs and cats killed in shelters annually, rare is the circumstance in which a rescue group should be denied an animal.


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4. Foster Care

Volunteer foster care is crucial to No Kill. Without it, saving lives is compromised. It is a low cost, and often no cost, way of increasing a shelter's capacity, improving public relations, increasing a shelter's public image, rehabilitating sick and injured or behaviorally challenged animals, and saving lives.


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5. Comprehensive Adoption Programs

Adoptions are vital to an agency's lifesaving mission. The quantity and quality of shelter adoptions is in shelter management's hands, making lifesaving a direct function of shelter policies and practice. In fact, studies show people get their animals from shelters only 20% of the time. If shelters better promoted their animals and had adoption programs responsive to the needs of the community, including public access hours for working people, offsite adoptions, adoption incentives, and effective marketing, they could increase the number of homes available and replace killing with adoptions. Contrary to conventional wisdom, shelters can adopt their way out of killing.


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6. Pet Retention

While some of the reasons animals are surrendered to shelters are unavoidable, others can be prevented-but only if shelters are willing to work with people to help them solve their problems. Saving animals requires communities to develop innovative strategies for keeping people and their companion animals together. And the more a community sees its shelters as a place to turn for advice and assistance, the easier this job will be.


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7. Medical and Behavior Programs

In order to meet its commitment to a lifesaving guarantee for all savable animals, shelters need to keep animals happy and healthy and keep animals moving through the system. To do this, shelters must put in place comprehensive vaccination, handling, cleaning, socialization, and care policies before animals get sick and rehabilitative efforts for those who come in sick, injured, unweaned, or traumatized.


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8. Public Relations/Community Involvement

Increasing adoptions, maximizing donations, recruiting volunteers and partnering with community agencies comes down to one thing: increasing the shelter's exposure. And that means consistent marketing and public relations. Public relations and marketing are the foundation of all a shelter's activities and their success. To do all these things well, the shelter must be in the public eye.


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9. Volunteers

Volunteers are a dedicated "army of compassion" and the backbone of a successful No Kill effort. There is never enough staff, never enough dollars to hire more staff, and always more needs than paid human resources. That is where volunteers come in and make the difference between success and failure and, for the animals, life and death.


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10. Proactive Redemptions

One of the most overlooked areas for reducing killing in animal control shelters are lost animal reclaims. Sadly, besides having pet owners fill out a lost pet report, very little effort is made in this area of shelter operations. This is unfortunate because doing so-primarily shifting from passive to a more proactive approach-has proven to have a significant impact on lifesaving and allow shelters to return a large percentage of lost animals to their families.


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11. A Compassionate Director

The final element of the No Kill equation is the most important of all, without which all other elements are thwarted-a hard working, compassionate animal control or shelter director not content to regurgitate tired cliches or hide behind the myth of "too many animals, not enough homes." Unfortunately, this one is also oftentimes the hardest one to demand and find.


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Last year, my husband and I adopted a little dog at Sun Valley. We were first-time dog owners, and a bit unsure of what to expect. The staff at Sun Valley were so helpful and informative. They asked the right questions to guide us toward the right pup. We didn't want a puppy with no training or manners as we hadn't a clue as to how to train one, so adopted a one-year old, house-broken, adorable little girl. We couldn't be happier with her and so appreciate that Sun Valley didn't discourage us just because we were newbies (at age 70!). I would encourage anyone - young or old, experienced or not, to adopt from Sun Valley. They are very supportive. The dogs there all seemed well taken care of - very socialized and very affectionate with staff...a good sign!
posted by sfbroomstick, on 2018-10-23 00:01:35
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HOOOOOOOORRRIBLE! DONT WASTE YOU TIME! I honestly think they want to keep those poor babies forever! My husband and I wanted to adopt the cutest kitten with the best personality. After finding out that we are moving into a house with a doggy door, they rejected us saying the cat can escape and left. SO RUDE. I understand that the kitty can escape that's why they build doggy doors with a lock you idiot! We trained our puppy by ringing a bell on the door to go outside because we live in an apartment. But no its not good enough. DO NOT GET YOUR HOPES UP HERE. IF YOU ARE GOING TO ADOPT HERE THEN LIE. BUT EVEN THEN THEY WILL FIND SOMETHING TO REJECT YOU. I feel so bad for all the babies in there! They will never know what a loving family is!
posted by stinky.kitty08, on 2014-04-15 16:47:27
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