PHOENIX — The Arizona Humane Society (AHS) is celebrating its first 100 days at its new five-acre Rob & Melani Walton Papago Park campus, which opened in Phoenix earlier this year.
The new 72,000-square-foot facility, which opened in March, specializes in caring for especially vulnerable pets and has treated 7,200 animals to date.
After the Arizona Humane Society’s Sunnyslope campus closed in February, a new campus opened in Phoenix at 5501 E. Van Buren St. AHS broke ground on construction of the new facility in 2021.
Opening the new facility has allowed AHS to increase trauma care capacity by 25%.
Additionally, the larger space has allowed AHS to find homes for 24% more dogs and cats. The “Mutternity Suites” have provided space for 125 mother dogs and puppies since opening, and the “Meowternity Suites” have provided space for 272 mother cats and kittens.
Additionally, approximately 1,300 underage orphaned kittens and puppies were treated in AHS’s expanded Bottle Baby ICU and kitten nursery.
Not only is the new campus home to an expanded Lazin Animal Foundation Trauma Hospital to help pets in the ICU (6,143 pets have been treated there), but it also has hundreds of windows that let in natural light and five “catios” where cats can spend time outdoors.
The Arizona Humane Society began serving local animals in 1957 and will celebrate its 67th anniversary on Thursday.
