Lazin Animal Foundation
Trauma Hospital™

Our Bottle Baby ICU cares for orphaned kittens and puppies who are too young to survive on their own. Our incredible volunteers hand-feed them until they’re eating on their own. And when a kitten moves to the Kitten Nursery, they’ll continue to receive loving care and vital socialization until they’re old enough to find their forever home.

Both of these facilities are overflowing during the summer months — or as we call it, “kitten season!” Between staffing, medical care, vaccinations, toys, litter, food and other supplies, it costs more than $500,000 a year to operate the Bottle Baby ICU and Kitten Nursery. Last year, we were able to care for more than 3,000 kittens thanks to our community’s support.

Although the Valley has come a long way in spay and neuter surgeries, the reality is that we take in hundreds of pregnant pets and their babies every year.

First opened in 2017, our Mutternity Suites provide a quiet, contained place for dog moms to give birth with medical supervision. When we opened our Papago Park Campus in 2024, we made sure to launch a similar unit but for feline moms now known as our Meowternity Suites. Our goal is to then move these little families into Foster Hero homes, where they can receive more individualized attention until the babies are weaned and they’re all ready to find their forever homes.

Canine parvovirus, or parvo, is a highly contagious and often fatal disease found in puppies and unvaccinated adult dogs. It’s long been considered untreatable, and because it can spread quickly from kennel to kennel, shelters throughout the country often must make the difficult decision to euthanize dogs who test positive for the virus.

But at the Arizona Humane Society, we’re changing that. Although there is no medical cure for parvo, many dogs are able to recover when they receive supportive care for their symptoms. With our trauma hospital’s isolation ward, we’re able to care for parvo-positive dogs without risk to the healthy ones. In 2023, our Parvo ICU saved the lives of 325 dogs and puppies.

One of the most important ways we can ensure pets are able to find loving homes is to decrease the number of unwanted pet pregnancies. We spay or neuter every homeless pet who comes through our doors, and we offer affordable alteration surgeries to pet owners in our community through our public veterinary clinics.

Our trauma hospital’s spay and neuter unit is among our proudest innovations within our Papago Park Campus. The suite serves as a window into the work we do each day to combat pet overpopulation, complete with a viewing area that allows aspiring veterinary students from local schools to observe the hundreds of procedures our staff accomplishes each week. The numbers say it all — last year, our veterinarians performed more than 17,000 spay and neuter surgeries, meaning there are far fewer unwanted pets on the streets.