Partners in Animal Care & Compassion

We are an all volunteer organization dedicated to creating a better life for animals at risk of euthanasia through care, compassion, play and loving forever families!

PACC Priorities

Our priorities are informed by over four decades of combined volunteering in the trenches, and rescuing dogs from CA public shelters, including our local shelter Peninsula Humane Society. We have witnessed first hand the behemoth that is CA's public sheltering system, trying to keep up with the unrelenting flow of unplanned and unwanted animals entering what are too often, essentially animal prisons, ill equipped to adequately care for such sentient and social beings. PACC is actively working to support the day where the number of animals entering our shelters is small, manageable, and those animals experience the care, compassion, and yes PLAY we would all hope for, from our local shelters. For these reasons, we are laser focused on the 3 priorities below...

Rescue and Rehome Local Dogs at Risk of Euthanasia

Shelter dogs are our passion. We identify shelter dogs at risk of euthanasia, match them with suitable foster homes, ready them for adoption and then find loving forever families to provide the life every companion animal deserves. We likewise help with rehoming dogs at risk of landing in a shelter as a result of individual or family crisis, trauma, or poverty. Below are just a few of the beautiful lives we have saved!

Bring Playgroups to CA Shelters

CA is behind the curve in committing to the national best practice, highly respected, Dogs Playing for Life playgroup model, that commits to Every Dog, Out to Play, Every Day. Instead animals in many, if not most, CA public shelters languish, isolated in kennels where they suffer terribly, rapidly deteriorate and are subsequently, quietly euthanized (Peninsula Humane Society, we're looking at you). PACC successfully brought playgroups to both the San José and Contra Costa shelters, transforming the quality of life for those dogs literally overnight.

Legislate a CA Spay Neuter Fund

Tragically, California has the second highest shelter animal kill rate in the nation, behind Texas. PACC is calling for a CA Spay Neuter Fund to stop the endless flow of unwanted dogs, cats and feral (community cats) entering, suffering, and dying in our shelters. Spaying and neutering saves money. It simultaneously increases community safety and is a humane alternative to animals entering, suffering, and dying in shelters. California taxpayers are funding ~153 public shelters to the tune of ~$400M annually to control, shelter, vet, adopt out and euthanize animals with less than 1% of that going to preventative spay neuter. This is inhumane, fiscally irresponsible and must change.