Grant of $15,000 will help save more pet lives in Northern Colorado
Animal Friends Alliance announced today a $15,000 grant investment from the newly named, Petco Love, to support their lifesaving work for animals in Northern Colorado.
Petco Love is a nonprofit leading change for pets nationally by harnessing the power of love to make communities and pet families closer, stronger, and healthier. Since their founding in 1999 as the Petco Foundation, they’ve empowered organizations with $300 million invested to date in adoption and other lifesaving efforts. And, they’ve helped find loving homes for more than 6.5 million pets in partnership with Petco and more than 4,000 organizations, like Animal Friends Alliance, nationwide.
“Today Petco Love announces an investment in Animal Friends Alliance and hundreds of other organizations as part of our commitment to create a future in which no pet is unnecessarily euthanized,” said Susanne Kogut, President of Petco Love. “Our local investments are only one component. This month, we also launched the first of our national tools to empower all animal lovers to drive lifesaving change right alongside us.”
“Every pet deserves a loving and healthy home,” said Sarah Swanty, Executive Director of Animal Friends Alliance. “We’re so grateful to Petco Love for this grant that will help us prepare cats and dogs to find families who will cherish them. This investment brings us one step closer to a future where all companion animals are wanted, cared for, and loved.”
Animal Friends Alliance is a nonprofit organization operating a limited-admission shelter for cats and dogs, subsidized spay/neuter and vaccine clinic, and community pet resources programs serving Northern Colorado and Southeast Wyoming. Since 2006, Animal Friends Alliance has made preventing pet homelessness a part of its mission and has found homes for over 32,000 cats and dogs. Each animal has been spayed or neutered, microchipped, and has received age-appropriate vaccines prior to adoption. Spaying and neutering animals prior to adoption reduces pet overpopulation and breaks the cycle of pet homelessness by preventing unplanned litters and keeping animals out of shelters.
For more information about Animal Friends Alliance, visit SavingAnimalsToday.org. To learn more about Petco Love, visit petcolove.org.
About Animal Friends Alliance
Animal Friends Alliance is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing comprehensive companion animal resources, services, and education to the community to prevent pet homelessness and promote the human-animal bond. Animal Friends Alliance’s services include a limited-admission, adoption-guarantee shelter for cats and dogs, subsidized sterilization and vaccination clinic, grooming salon, and kibble pantry for pet guardians in need. Since its founding in 2006, Animal Friends Alliance has found homes for more than 32,000 cats and dogs and the clinic has performed over 75,000 spay/neuter surgeries. More information can be found at SavingAnimalsToday.org.
About Petco Love (Formerly Petco Foundation)
Petco Love is a nonprofit changing lives by making communities and pet families closer, stronger, and healthier. Since our founding in 1999 as the Petco Foundation, we’ve empowered animal welfare organizations by investing $300 million in adoption and other lifesaving efforts. We’ve helped find loving homes for more than 6.5 million pets in partnership with Petco and organizations nationwide. Today, our love for pets drives us to lead with innovation, creating tools animal lovers need to reunite lost pets, and lead with passion, inspiring and mobilizing communities and our more than 4,000 animal welfare partners to drive lifesaving change alongside us. Is love calling you? Visit petcolove.org or follow at Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn to be part of the lifesaving work we’re leading every day.