Volunteers set tails Wagging: County animal control makes adoption top priority 
By Bill Coates
Published: July 24, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Here's a bit of dog-pound math. Maricopa County Animal Care and Control has two shelters - one in west Phoenix and one in Mesa. Both rely on a total of some 400 volunteers to help care for and find homes for the nearly 56,000 dogs and cats taken in every year.
The volunteers, in turn, are ...