Tag: Palm Valley Animal Society

During the past 18 years, I’ve had a front-row seat to the horrors and the vast improvements in the treatment of the Valley’s stray animals. To watch Hidalgo County officials seriously investigate building and running their own large-intake facility means going back in time, back to some dark days and backward thinking when animal control officers were referred to as “dog catchers” and the “dog pound” was where animals went to die.

Hidalgo County leaders moved one step closer to potentially severing the county’s decades-long relationship with Palm Valley Animal Society by approving an amendment to an animal control center feasibility study.

Running an animal shelter the size of Palm Valley Animal Society is dangerous and messy and heartbreaking, and the cost of doing it right is high. Whenever public entities decide that saving money is more important than saving lives, bad things happen. Hidalgo County’s recent exploration into building and running its own intake facility potentially puts it on the path to a worst-case scenario. Meanwhile, McAllen’s recent reinvention of its animal welfare approach shows that smarter strategies can accomplish both goals.

Palm Valley Animal Society representatives said they were shocked when they learned that Hidalgo County leaders were considering severing ties with the shelter in favor of potentially creating a county-owned animal control center.

EDINBURG — As the costs of dealing with stray and lost animals continue to rise, Hidalgo County officials are considering cutting ties with the nonprofit organization that has run animal control services here for decades.

After the havoc caused by the weekend’s storm, the Palm Valley Animal Society is asking the community for help in providing funds to repair its Trenton shelter.

After Animal Control rescued 90 dogs from a hoarder, Palm Valley Animal Society is asking for the community’s help in providing care for two of the female dogs and their puppies, who suffer from various illnesses and infections.

Palm Valley Animal Society is once again in need of help, having reached capacity and hoping to offer ways the public can help them alleviate crowding.

EDINBURG — Palm Valley Animal Society is once again in need of help, having reached capacity and hoping to offer ways the public can...

Best Friends Animal Society is teaming up with more than 400 shelter and rescue partners across the country including 44 across Texas for its third nationwide adoption campaign in six months to encourage people to choose to adopt, not buy, their next pet.