Staff at the state’s largest “no-kill” animal shelter were left scrambling Sunday to care for their animal patients and maintain normal operations after a burglary at their Wahiawa clinic.

Sometime between 5:30 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. Sunday, someone broke through the front door of the Oahu Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 823 Olive Ave., and went through the nonprofit’s clinic taking electronics, animal medication and a car, said Rachel Zinkus, the shelter’s adoptions coordinator.

Zinkus said the staff was tallying the loss Sunday afternoon, but an early estimate was at least $20,000.

She said staff members had to use personal cellphones Sunday to contact customers and reschedule appointments because the shelter’s main phone, an iPhone, was taken in the burglary. Also swiped were two additional phones, two tablets, one or two laptops, about $300 cash from a donation jar, and a small safe containing shelter funds and a key to a compact 2013 Kia Rio that had been donated to the shelter and was taken in the burglary. Zinkus valued the car at about $7,000.

Also taken were a large assortment of antibiotics and over-the-counter animal products, such as ear washing solution and animal shampoo.

She said the community’s response after news of the burglary got out was overwhelming.

“We expected a response, but we did not expect anything to this degree,” she said. “It’s been humbling.”

She said someone donated a computer, and another person bought a tablet for the shelter, which has a staff of about 15 people.

“It’s been a roller coaster, the last few hours,” she said by phone. “The support from the community is really going to be what helps us rebound from this.”

But Zinkus said the shelter was most grateful that none of the roughly two dozen cats and dogs being housed in the clinic were harmed. Another 30 dogs and cats being sheltered in a separate building were also unharmed.

Staff called police Sunday morning after discovering the burglary and made a report before cleaning up to open the clinic later that morning.

A GoFundMe page has been set up to help the shelter and had received more than $3,500 in donations by Sunday night.