Targeting 30 adoptions in 30 days throughout all shops nationwide March 18-24
PHOENIX, March 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — To have a good time 30 years of serving to adoptable pets discover loving households, PetSmart Charities® – the main funder of animal welfare within the U.S. – challenged all PetGood U.S. shops and their native shelter/rescue companions to every discover new properties for 30 pets in 30 days throughout National Adoption Week (March 18-24, 2024) alongside Hill’s Pet Nutrition.
As PetGood Charities inches nearer to its 11 millionth in-store pet adoption, Hill’s Pet Nutrition has joined forces to sponsor PetGood Charities National Adoption Week this 12 months. In addition to sponsoring this occasion, Hill’s can also be the official feeding sponsor of PetGood Charities, offering meals to all of the Adoption Centers in PetGood shops throughout the United States. These partnerships carefully align with Hill’s 22-year mission to assist animal welfare via the Hill’s Food, Shelter & Love program, which supplies science-led vitamin to greater than 900 shelters throughout North America. Hill’s and PetGood Charities share a dedication to serving to pets discover loving households and to strengthening the bond between pets and their folks.
“Shelters throughout the nation are full, and pets of all ages, breeds and temperaments are searching for their households,” mentioned Heidi Marston, director of pet placement at PetGood Charities. “For 30 years now, PetGood Charities has been a frontrunner in working with native shelter companions to assist join adoptable pets with their endlessly households. We’re grateful to Hill’s for sharing our ardour for pets in want, and for this sturdy assist throughout National Adoption Week. Pets carry a lot pleasure to their folks, serving to them to reside more healthy lives, too. If you’ve room in your coronary heart and home, we strongly encourage you to contemplate fostering or adopting!”
“Ending pet homelessness is barely a pursuit that may be achieved by working collectively, which is why Hill’s Pet Nutrition is proud to build on our present assist of the good work of PetGood Charities in championing shelters and pet adoption,” mentioned Caroline Chulick, senior vice chairman of promoting at Hill’s Pet Nutrition U.S. “We hope the National Adoption Week occasions will assist jumpstart matching potential pet homeowners with unimaginable pets awaiting a second probability.”
During PetGood Charities National Adoption Week, potential pet mother and father could have the possibility to work together with adoptable pets from native shelters, together with cats, kittens, dogs, puppies and small pets at PetSmart shops. Staff and volunteers shall be readily available to assist educate potential adopters on the pets they’re curious about and their care wants.
Those who aren’t fairly able to increase their household can nonetheless make a big effect by donating funds to assist pets in want at petsmartcharities.org. They can also discover their match when the time is true by visiting petsmartcharities.org/adopt-a-pet for adoptable pets, adoption facilities and occasions.
PetGood Charities National Adoption Week Details:
Thousands of native shelters will carry a number of adoptable shelter pets together with dogs, cats, kittens and puppies into almost each PetGood retailer throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
Dates: March 18-24, 2024
Locations: Nearly each one in every of PetGood shops throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Visit petsmart.com to discover a retailer close to you.
ABOUT PETSMART CHARITIES
PetGood Charities is dedicated to creating the world a greater place for pets and all who love them. Through its in-store adoption program in all PetGood® shops throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, PetGood Charities has helped 10 million pets join with loving properties. PetGood Charities additionally supplies grant funding to assist organizations that advocate and look after the well-being of all pets and their households. PetGood Charities’ grants and efforts join pets with loving properties via adoption, enhance access to inexpensive veterinary care and assist households in instances of disaster with access to meals, shelter and catastrophe aid. Each 12 months, thousands and thousands of beneficiant supporters assist pets in want by donating to PetGood Charities straight at PetGoodCharities.org, whereas buying at PetGood.com, and through the use of the PIN pads at checkout registers inside PetGood shops. In flip, PetGood Charities effectively makes use of greater than 90 cents of each greenback donated to satisfy its function because the main funder of animal welfare in North America, granting greater than $500 million since its inception in 1994. Independent from PetGood LLC, PetGood Charities is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that has acquired the Four-Star Rating from Charity Navigator for the previous 18 years in a row – inserting it among the many high one % of rated charities. To study extra, go to www.PetSmartCharities.org.
ABOUT HILL’S PET NUTRITION
Founded 75 years in the past with an unwavering dedication to science-led pet vitamin, Hill’s Pet Nutrition is on a mission to assist enrich and lengthen the particular relationships between folks and their pets. Hill’s is devoted to pioneering analysis for dogs and cats utilizing a scientific understanding of their particular wants. As a number one veterinarian advisable pet meals model, data is our first ingredient with 220+ veterinarians, PhD nutritionists and meals scientists working to develop breakthrough improvements in pet well being. Hill’s Prescription Diet therapeutic vitamin plus our on a regular basis wellness product line, Hill’s Science Diet, are offered at vet clinics and pet specialty retailers worldwide. For extra details about our merchandise and dietary philosophy, go to HillsPet.com.
ABOUT PETSMART
PetGood LLC is the main pet retailer providing merchandise, companies and options for the lifetime wants of pets. At PetGood, we love pets and we consider pets make us higher folks. Every day with each connection, PetGood’s passionate associates assist carry pet mother and father nearer to their pets so collectively they’ll reside extra fulfilled lives. This imaginative and prescient impacts every part we do for our prospects, the best way we assist our associates and the way we give again to our communities.
PetGood operates roughly 1,660 pet shops in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, in addition to greater than 200 in-store PetGood PetsResort® canine and cat boarding services. PetGood supplies a broad vary of competitively priced pet meals and merchandise, in addition to companies corresponding to canine coaching, pet grooming, pet boarding, PetGood Doggie Day Camp™ and pet adoption.
PetGood, PetGood Charities® and PetGood Charities® of Canada work with almost 4,000 animal welfare organizations to carry adoptable pets into shops in order that they have one of the best probability doable of discovering a endlessly home.
Through this in-store adoption program and different signature occasions, PetGood has facilitated over 10 million adoptions, greater than some other brick-and-mortar organization.
Media Contact:
Lauren Munsey: 352-398-2574
Porter Novelli for PetGood Charities
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SOURCE PetGood Charities, Inc.
